It should be one of the seven pleasures

I just can’t catch a break when it comes to food. I was listening to the news today when I heard a brief bit about ConAgra recalling certain jars of Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter. You can find almost anything you want to know with Google. What I found was this from the FDA

FDA Warns Consumers Not to Eat Certain Jars of Peter Pan Peanut Butter and Great Value Peanut Butter Product May be Contaminated With Salmonella

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning consumers not to eat certain jars of Peter Pan peanut butter or Great Value peanut butter due to risk of contamination with Salmonella Tennessee (a bacterium that causes foodborne illness). The affected jars of Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter have a product code located on the lid of the jar that begins with the number “2111.” Both the Peter Pan and Great Value brands are manufactured in a single facility in Georgia by ConAgra. Great Value peanut butter made by other manufacturers is not affected.

If consumers have any of this Peter Pan or Great Value brand peanut butter in their home that has been purchased since May 2006, they should discard it.

Read the full notice…

May 2006…just how many tens of thousands of jars of peanut butter is that, exactly?

So I hustled my butt downstairs to check the now two-thirds empty jar of Peter Pan crunchy (there is none but crunchy!) I bought last month. Sure enough…stamped right there on the top of the lid was a product code beginning with 2111.

It’s really too bad food is necessary to survive. If it wasn’t we could just skip it altogether and make do with the six other pleasures of life.