You'd think with all the blogging Fat City's done about the peanut butter scare, I'd be smart enough to avoid tainted products.
I'm not.
In a combination of irony and schadenfreude, I clicked on Slate's article about what to do if you've eaten a salmonella-tainted product only to see a picture of a Clif bar, something I eat nearly daily.
Clif Bars make excellent meal replacements or afternoon snacks. I particularly like the chocolate chip peanut crunch which just happens to be one of the Clif bars recalled. (Others include crunchy peanut butter and peanut toffee buzz.)
I never thoroughly checked the recall list since it seemed inconsequential to my diet. I don't eat peanut butter crackers and while I do love a good pb&j, every article said that store-bought peanut butter was OK.
I also don't feel that bad (yet!) because the recall didn't go into effect until Saturday and it's a voluntary recall meaning nobody's gotten sick from Clif bars yet but the company's trying to cover its ass. The list currently stands at more than 500 products. Other items you might not have thought about include Hy-Vee bakery products:
Hy-Vee Inc. is voluntarily recallingthe following products made in its bakery departments because they contain
peanut butter that has the potential to be contaminated with salmonella:
Peanut Butter Cookies, Monster Cookies, Peanut Butter Reese's Pieces
Cookies, Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies, Lunchbox Reese's Pieces
Cookies, Lunchbox Peanut Butter Cookies, People Chow Party Mix and Assorted
Truffle Fudge.
Bass-Pro:
Bass Pro Shops is voluntarily recalling the following UncleBuck's® Candy products as a precautionary measure because these
products were received from a supplier that used peanuts from Peanut
Corporation of America in Blakely, Georgia, which has been linked to a
national outbreak of Salmonella. Burnt Peanut 12oz. Bag, Burnt Peanut
3.8oz. Bag, No Sugar Added Peanut Cluster 10oz. Bag,No Sugar Added
Chocolate Peanuts 13oz. Bag.
a Clif bar and if I had salmonella, symptoms like "diarrhea, fever, and
abdominal cramps" should have appeared. So far, so good.
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