Don't Eat That Sandwich!

[yavaniel]

So, what brand of peanut butter is lurking in your pantry right now? The following made the news here in the states yesterday:

THURSDAY, Feb. 15 (HealthDay News) -- Consumers should not eat certain jars of Peter Pan peanut butter or Great Value peanut butter because they may be contaminated with Salmonella Tennessee, a bacterium that causes food-

Comments

[insomniatrix]

I only buy JIF. Choosy moms choose JIF.

[lil2yng]

lol, we had a bottle of jif so my mom was like HA! and then she opened up the other side of the cabinet and there was a new jar that was peter pan. i told her she wasn't choosy enough.

[insomniatrix]

I swear that ad campaign worked on the minds of mothers. I'm 38 so I was a kid when I saw the commercials. The mothers who bought JIF were better mothers than the ones who bought Peter Pan.

I was never a fan of Peter Pan.

(I'm a poet and I know it.)

:)

[kitchenwitch]

Hey, I was gonna say that.

Also: IS NOTHING SACRED? Poor peanut butter!

[lil2yng]

i had a jar of this in my cabinet but people on my flist have been posting things saying oh my gosh i had three/five jars in my cabinet oh my gosh!
who eats that much peanut butter!

[offonthehorizon]

My BF. We have the HUGE jars. I think it's skippy. The one with the blue lid.

[abitofglitter]

I do, but my son won't eat meat or at least on very rare occasions will eat some meat. So, I tend to stock up on peanut butter because that's where he gets most of his protein intake.

I grew up with the JIF commercial though. XD This choosey mom chooses JIF.

[antikythera]

That stuff doesn't spoil. :P When it's on sale, you buy tons of it, and you're set for a year.

I haven't bought peanut butter in a long time, but when I was little we bought the natural bulk stuff from the health food store... it didn't keep and had to be eaten up fairly fast, but it was tasty.

[krasota]

Sometimes food allergies are a boon.

[youandmachinery]

Haha, same here. I've been eating it for like 3 weeks though, so I'm not too worried about it.

[donnanoble]

Yeah, we heard this on the news last night, checked our jar of Peter Pan PB, and its product code began with 2111! My mom and sister had been eating it too, and so far they're okay, so hopefully we got a lucky, bacteria-free jar! We still threw it out of course.

[yavaniel]

ConAgra says they've tested all their equipment and not found the source - it all checked out clean. However, since their product appears to be the culprit they are pulling it anyway. With that in mind, I doubt your family has much to worry about.