No Peanut Butter
Update: The Houston Chronicle has a report on more products being recalled.
Here’s the deal, we know that some peanut butter is contaminated, but it comes from a bulk supplier whose smallest container is 5 pounds. You can’t buy it in a supermarket.
The FDA has finally admitted that it doesn’t know which companies and products are using the tainted peanut butter, other than Kellogg which instituted it’s own recall.
The result is that, while the standard brands [Jif, Skippy, and Peter Pan] on shelves are alright, every product that contains peanut butter or peanut paste is suspect. Don’t eat anything, cookies, cakes, crackers, ice cream, candy, or anything else that contains peanut butter.
If you have children, make sure they know not to eat peanut butter at school, or in restaurants. Those are the locations of the first reported cases.
Salmonella is not a lot of fun, and I speak from experience. If you have other health problems it can definitely kill you. You will not enjoy sitting on the “throne” with a bucket in your lap as your entire digestive system rebels. You will not enjoy the extreme dehydration that follows, when you have to drink a lot of fluids but your system is saying “no way, not going to happen” [store brand Pedialyte slightly chilled worked best for me].
If you see peanut butter, or peanut paste in the list of ingredients, don’t eat it.
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Oh no! Last week I ordered two boxes of Peanut Butter Patties from the Girl Scouts. My favorite. 🙁
All you can do is seal them up and throw them in the freezer until they can identify who used the tainted peanut products.
The worst part is going to be all of the people who start imagining that they have a problem. If they get a dose, there won’t be any doubt.
PB snacks from Little Debbie…
This one time… won’t make you hebbie.
Eat contaminated matter?
Guaranteed: you won’t get fatter.
Great new dieting sensation:
Lighten up by dehydration.
Take a chance… but if you try it,
You may find the “die” in diet.
– SB the YDD
I have seldom been food poisoned in my life, and even more seldom since I became a sprout-eater, but I cannot think of anything worse than the few times I’ve emptied out both ends at once. As much as I love PB, and snacks and sweets made with PB, it’s just not worth the risk.
It was unbelievable for me as I have eaten street food all over the world, and while I’ve had indigestion a few times, I was almost never affected.
I’m back here in the US at potluck gathering of friends and am floored by it. Apparently some of the chicken wasn’t cooked long enough or was otherwise contaminated, because three of us were knocked for a loop, and the chicken was the only thing we had in common.
There was a point when I felt sure that dying was a better option.
Over 400 cases all over the country, so a lot of the product was contaminated. It has to be a manufacturing problem at a processing plant.
If it was anything like the last case of bad peanut butter it was contaminated during the packing process by leaking water or something similar. Peanuts are cooked to a high enough temperature in the peanut butter making process that the only time contamination could occur would be post roasting.
I’ve been poisoned twice and both times by seafood. Once by fried shrimp and once by oysters. Both times I was traveling and by myself in a hotel. Nightmare experience.
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That was the ConAgra-Peter Pan case, and it was a roof and/or sprinkler leak, according to the Chronicle article which was updated this morning.
People who have never been hit with a dose, have no idea how truly miserable you can be. It’s the world’s worst hangover without even the memory of a buzz.
Oh, Man, if you have ever had food poisoning, you DEFINITELY do NOT want to try it. Bad Eggs in a breakfast sandwich from Roy Rogers. Bad Clams from spaghetti sauce in a restaurant in Maine (which is now closed).
I also am sensitive to bacteria in lettuce and *especially* sprouts. Those things get contaminated just sitting in the produce section. Ugh.
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I can tell you that I am extra careful with food preparation after that bout. I love fried chicken, but I wash and parboil it first, to ensure it’s done. I even gave up my maple cutting board, because I couldn’t be sure it was cleaned well enough.
Once was more than enough.
I’ve had food poisoning 3 times in my life. The worst meant I had to spend 22 hours in Emergency on morphine after having my stomach pumped and given an assortment of drugs. (I loooove morphine!) After all that, they said I had to eat breakfast, and my tummy did a flip-flop and I said “You must be bloody joking!” And they said no. Anyway, we argued and I settled on jello as I figured that would be the easiest to get down and easier when it came back up, which it did very quickly. Sometimes, Hospitals are stupid really. anyway, I was too weak to leave, so they had to put me on an IV glucose drip for a few hours before I could leave.
That sounds more like botulism than salmonella, Kryten. That is some really bad crap, which makes one wonder why “beautiful people” allow doctors to inject them with it to cosmetic reasons.
For whatever reason, morphine does nothing for me, as far as pain or anything else goes. I apparently don’t process it like most people. Aspirin is the most effective relief for pain available to me. It makes dental work a real thrill.
Whoo hoo… I found a bag of peanut butter cups in the fridge. They date back to Halloween so they are presumably safe and peanut butter snack withdrawl has stopped. (I always hide the Halloween candy from myself … this bag got tucked away in one of the drawers.)
My current supply of peanut butter snacks are on hold. There is no way I would chance food poisoning. I had it once 30 years ago and the memory is still vivid.
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There shouldn’t be a problem with those, and they were probably still made in the US.
It only takes once to make you a firm believer in food safety.
Yep. 🙂 The first time was in Cambodia, and was quite common there. 2nd was a restaurant in Sydney, 3rd was Sydney too after one of those 1 day business trips. I flew back here right after dinner, and wasn’t feeling very good by the time I got home. I collapsed in the lounge and my housemate called an ambulance because i was white and breathing very erratically.
Two ambulances actually showed up (must have been a quit night), and one of the Paramedics began asking me stupid questions! I could hardly breathe let all one answer questions! It felt like I was being gutted with a rusty knife. My heart rate was through the roof, and breathing was very difficult. Then they gave me an anginine pill (which is SOP apparently for anyone with any kind of chest pain). You have to keep it under your tongue, difficult when one is barely conscious! I manages to gasp out “NO!” when the paramedic asked if I was allergic to morphine (at that point, I would have said no even if I was allergic! Luckily, I’m not.) In the hospital, every couple hours they’d pop another anginine under my tongue. They feel like little thumb tacks! Every half hour the nurse would ask (on the usual scale of 1 to 10) how the pain was, and I’d get a morphine boost until it was zero.
Yeah, they thought it was botulism. I know they called investigators to the restuarant the next day. I heard that 4 others had been hospitalized also.
Now, if I ever have to go to Sydney, I take my own food! At least, I’ll never eat seafood or chicken there! 🙂
Lady Min is like a Squirrel… She has secret stashes of stuff she discovers all over the place. LOL Whenever she does a *Spring clean* she’ll usually say she found something with a use-by date a year or so ago! LOL
They have first responders so hyped over heart attacks, that they waste a lot of time on it, no matter what you tell them. It drives my Mother to distraction, because her heart is one of the few areas that she has never had a problem with, but they persist.
I ate in some pretty dodgy places in Southeast Asia, but never had a problem. Lucky, I guess. To get a dose from good Southern home cooking was a part of the pain. When you work in small units your choices are local or field rations, and the rations were from the Korean War, if not before. We learned to hit a grocery store before deploying.
Everyone should stash emergency rations, and chocolate is a high energy food. Of course there is a lot of protein in peanut butter. Sounds like a good choice for survival.