• @rockSlayer
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    612 months ago

    Jesus, how much of our food supply is tainted with listeria?

    • @Ledivin
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      It turns out that lowering safety standards across the board isn’t good for our health. Who could have possibly seen this coming? Why, oh why did we lower standards on these enormous corporations that fuel our entire lives?!?

      Oh yeah, money 🤑 I’ve made like $12 from investing in their stock, so everything’s fine.

      • @Yawweee877h444
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        172 months ago

        No safety standards. Need tax breaks. Billionaires bank accounts go brrrrrrr

    • @return2ozmaOP
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      382 months ago

      When everything gets deregulated…

    • FenrirIII
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      82 months ago

      Consider the groups most likely impacted by a compromised food safety standard and decreased regulation. The rich aren’t out buying Walmart brand waffles.

      • @Alexstarfire
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        62 months ago

        Wasn’t Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s hit by the chicken one too?

        • FenrirIII
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          42 months ago

          Do you think Elon Musk or Bill Gates shops at either of those?

  • ditty
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    252 months ago

    FYI It’s the vendor that target and Walmart use for their house brands, same with Aldi, not Eggo, for example

  • @Skanky
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    162 months ago

    Ooof. TreeHouse foods is in a world of hurt. Listeria is incredibly hard to get rid of in a factory. It usually means shutting down the entire operation until everything is thoroughly steam -cleaned and sanitized. Then, an inspection team will go through the entire factory and swab everything with a q-tip. And I mean everything. Every little nook and cranny. If any of these samples comes back positive, the whole routine starts over again. It can take weeks.

    I’ve known factories that literally choose to shut the entire plant down and build a new one rather than try to sanitize the one they had.

    Listeria is no joke

  • @Alexstarfire
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    162 months ago

    Should I just stop buying food for the rest of the year? Just recall after recall.

  • @Rekhyt
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    Eggo brand were not affected. Here’s the list of store brands that are:

    • Aldi’s (Breakfast Best brand)
    • Dollar General (Clover Valley brand)
    • Food Lion
    • Giant Eagle
    • Hannaford
    • Harris Teeter
    • H-E-B
    • PriceChopper (PICS brand)
    • Publix
    • Schnucks
    • Southeastern Grocers
    • Target (Good & Gather brand)
    • Tops
    • Walmart (Great Value brand)

    Also these brands:

    • Foodhold
    • Kodiak Cakes (I’ve seen these at Stop & Shop)
    • Simple Truth
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      52 months ago

      Simple Truth is a Kroger brand.

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    • @[email protected]
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      Not going Eggo was their first mistake. In my experience, when it comes to frozen waffles, there is no room to fuck around.

      • @Pacattack57
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        22 months ago

        Agreed 100%. There is no replacement for Eggos

  • Chozo
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    132 months ago

    I think at this point it’s probably easier to just list which foods don’t have listeria these days.

  • Flying Squid
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    102 months ago

    Okay, I’ll let you have my Eggo after all.

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      As someone who recently bought Eggo waffles and was worriedly reading the article: you can keep your hands off my Eggo, it was store brand stuff that was affected.

      • Flying Squid
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        32 months ago

        You have an Ayn Rand view of breakfast. Be altruistic with your Eggo.

        • @Rekhyt
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          22 months ago

          I’m just trying to provide more information for people who, like me, may have thought that their family might have been at risk because I bought freezer waffles.

            • @Rekhyt
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              32 months ago

              I was trying to nicely tell you I did not appreciate it.

  • @jordanlund
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    WTF? Not even WAFFLES are safe now?

  • lettruthout
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    32 months ago

    Yeah, because of this I’ll lego my Eggos.

  • @PugJesus
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    32 months ago

    Fuck me, I just bought some blueberry waffles.

  • @taxon
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    32 months ago

    Eh, probably needed to cut back on monocalcium phosphate, sodium aluminium phosphate, and mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids anyhow.