Skip the Skippy
 

Low-fat Skippy peanut butter has been recalled due to contamination from salmonella: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._n_831896.html

I looked it up, and salmonella is mostly transfered by the "fecal/oral route." How disgusting is that? Someone has been shitting on the peanuts which end up in your pb and j sandwich. Really. Skippy says the contamination was due to the fertilizer used on its peanut crops. What the hell kind of fertilizer are they using? The Skippy people aren't saying. Too much information I guess.

But not to worry. Salmonella mostly only kills small children and the elderly. So go ahead, give the neighbor's bratty 2 year old a nice piece of bread slathered with Skippy. Grandpa showing signs of Alzheimer's? Pile on the PB and save thousands in nursing home bills.

I bet on top of everything else, those peanuts are genetically engineered mutant clones. Where's Jimmy Carter when we need him? :eyebrow:

Choosy mothers choose JIF.

who eats low fat peanut butter? I didn't even know they make such a thing.

Good thing the repubicans want to cut funding for FDA inspectors.:rolleyes:

Do not eat the Blue Legumes!

Speaking of legumes, my mom likes to say: Eat every bean and pea on your plate. (Come on, say it out loud.) :lol:

That's what happens when your ass gets close to your nuts.

PB & J=PoopButter & Jelly

So it IS poopeater! :lol:

Probably not people poop, but rat or mouse.

Surely the idea of fecal matter in fertilizer isn't surprising to you? Salmonella isn't restricted to human feces. I'd say it's more of a washing problem than a fertilizer problem.

BTW, I've had salmonella. It wasn't fun.

Way back in the 70s there was a Blondie strip on Sunday with Dagwood and Herb waiting out front of an Italian restaurant for their wives. The strip itself wasn't very funny, but I did laugh when I noticed that the name of the restaurant was Sal Monella's.

I always read it as Sam and Ella after an Only Fools and Horses episode. In a broad Saaarf London accent it is pretty much interchangeable.

In the same episode Del tells Uncle Arthur that he has to go into hospital.
"I know you don't want to have an operation, nobody wants to have an operation, but everyone at some time in their lives has to have one. And today it's your turn" which made perfect sense to me as a child.

If I haven't worked out how to only show a certain part I'm sorry.
Feel free to forward to 8.30 for the clip I intended you to see.
ETA - nope, whole (part) of the episode.
Can anyone help me with this?


(Don't worry, he doesn't have to have one. He doesn't even have Sam and Ella.)

Sam and Janet Evening used to go there a lot when they were in the South Pacific. ;)

Yeah but the place was crowded and they didn't know anyone there

So, they ordered a Bloody Mary.

I love those!

I would suggest you wash her right out of your hair.

FTFY:p:

It got so popular that no one ever goes there anymore.

And there's dear ole Spexx's answer --the statist answer -- to all ills: more, and more, and yet more officialdom. Unproductive of wealth, eating-up of society's substance -- gee, what a racket it is.

Are there other people here who agree with such a stupidity? Shame on them too. Like 14 trillion shames and counting.

Oh, UG, get over it! If you think big agra or any other multi-billion industry cares about the best interest of the consumer, you've been smoking too much crack (again). Corporations care about the bottom line. Period. If it weren't for government watch dogs, the wolves would be picking off the sheep to an even greater extent than they do now.

(Crawls under desk and covers eyes to avoid reading UG's virulent reply) :p:

Sam, you're being lame. I, on the other hand, am a nonsmoker of any substance.

Get over it? Not on your life, Sam. I have values and get grief from people who don't.

Don't trust statism. It'll fuck ya. And no kisses.

Surely all wisdom will die with you.

haggis

No, Pete. A bit will, though.

Unless of course mine spreads to you.

:p:

That's what's known as oral transmission.

Here's another transmission: Sam thinks corporations have to be evil and unethical to survive well enough to profit. I know better than that. Sam is old enough to -- and I am not so frightfully much older than SamIam.

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Geez, UG, you're older than dirt! :eek:

And stop twisting my words. I wrote "Corporations care about the bottom line. Period." I feel that corporations could probably make profits just fine even if they were run with some integrity. Unfortunately, integrity is a quality that all too often seems to be shed at the boardroom door. If you don't think most CEO's worship profits to the exclusion of anything else, you must be entering your second childhood, in addition to being slightly older than me. :p:

Subtle strawman.

It isn't about "making profit". It is about maximising profit. And very often - but not always - the most effective way to do that involves screwing the workers, the competition, the customers, the general public, the IRS, etc, it ways that are indeed unethical.

Keep your hands to yourself. I don't swing that way.

We must have different ideas about what wisdom means.