Peter Pan Peanut Butter Salmonella Recall
 

I figured I'd post this here since peanut butter is a very common household staple and I imagine many forumgoers in North America and Canada eat "Peter Pan" brand.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,252127,00.html

If the serial number on your jar begins with 2111, then your batch could be tainted with hazardous salmonella bacteria. Unfortunately, I happen to possess one of these jars. I purchased it Monday afternoon, one day before the recall announcement. Luckily, it's still unopened.

Most stores are offering complete refunds or free exchanges for another brand of equal size.

So if you eat Peter Pan peanut butter, you may wish to check the lid.

That's why choosy moms choose Jif.

I haven't bought a jar of peanut butter in many, many years, but the last one I did was Peter Pan brand. It's a little surprising that these infected jars have been around since August, yet a warning has just now been issued. 288 people across 38 states in 6.5 months isn't as bad as this could have been though.

Having a potentially fatal peanut allergy you cannot begin to imagine the hilarity I'm finding in the idea that other people could die because of peanut butter.

I TOLD YOU IT WAS GOING TO KILL US ALL

It's the terrorists. First they go after the peanut butter, then the jelly. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.

I knew there's something fishy about Peter Pan.

I'm in the same boat right here. Why can't these side-splittingly hilarious food contaminations crop up in the UK every now and then? People need to feel MY misery for once.

I still love peanut butter, but now it's like a forbidden fruit.

SKIPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPY (CHUNKY)

I've been eating out of one of the recalled jars all month. :psyduck:

Well, if you have a healthy immune system, the worst you'll experience is diarrhea, cramps, headache, and fever.

Or, your face might melt off :gonkmelt:

Well, I shop at Albertsons so we always get the 'Great Value' brand Peanut butter. So yes, we have the one with 2111. Going to return it tomorrow. Worried though because someone in this house has already eatin out of it.

We actually had two jars of this stuff, one practically empty, and one unopened. The store still gave us a full refund for both jars, though.

I've probably been the main one eating out of it, and luckily I never got sick. It's still bad to hear that I could have been, though.

owned like hell.

Clearly Kraft is the best chunky on the market. There are little teddy bears on the cans.


tastes pretty good too

I've never even heard of this brand of peanut butter. Is it fairly popular in the U.S.?

Peter Pan? Yeah, it's what we used to buy when I was a kid. Too bad I don't eat peanut butter now, or maybe I'd have a lawsuit on my hands.

I heard this on the local news this morning so I just put a post-it on our peanut-butter because it has that 2111 number and put, "Don't eat....has salmonella......End." I havn't eaten from it, but the rest of my family has eaten like half of it.

Likewise. I've already eaten half the jar over the past week. Heh.

Guess I'll be picking up a jar of JIF on my run through Walmart tomorrow.

That name is a mouthful.

Same here with milk. I'm lactose intolerant, but I still fucking love milk.

Btw, love the sig. Arsis is amazing.

I haven't really had peanut butter in quite some time, and I think the last jar my mom bought was generic brand so I think I'm safe. :)

Still good to know about though.

So, on my cruise through Walmart buying various things, I picked up a jar of crunchy JIF as planned. It happened to be one of about ten jars left on the shelf. There was no other peanut butter in sight.

Ha, looks like my brand loyalty to JIF has paid off . . .

Well, yeah.

Everyone who had Peter Pan was encouraged to either return or dispose of their product. Seeing as stores were made to remove the tainted supply from shelves, customers seeking replacement jars had to buy another brand. Normally sales are steady, but a recall like this creates a surge in demand. So naturally the shelves will be bare, as most stores don't carry excesses of peanut butter in case of salmonella scares.

Supply. Demand. Basic economics here.

Incidentally, this was a very good time to own stock in J.M. Smucker, the company that makes Jif and several lesser-known peanut butter brands. The swell in demand created an unexpected profit surge for Smucker's and the stock has risen significantly in the short-term. First quarter earnings should be above projections due to this event. Still, I'd sell the stock at this point, since it's not likely to remain so high once Peter Pan gets back on track.

Just saying.

Uh, thanks? I merely posted an observation on my trip through Walmart. I don't see why the "basic economics here" feedback was necessary, as if it was important to drive the point home.

WHAT UP PARNS YO SAMBERG WHATS CRACKIN