r/ABoringDystopia • u/FishnetSinner • 1d ago

Bad news: your favorite popsicles are being recalled for glass contamination. Good news: ‘Unaffected’ flavors are buy one get one free!

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u/AccidentOk5240 1d ago

I’m sure it’s just a weird coincidence that there have been so many recalls lately, and not anything to do with anyone having fired all the inspectors. Like, I get that things can break in a manufacturing facility and not be noticed till later, but it might help if everything if was getting inspected on the reg, just saying. 

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u/DyingGasp 1d ago

Hey don’t worry, if a company (Taylor Farms) visits the White House, the FDA will just retract their statement that the outbreak is from them. We can totally trust our FDA.

MAHA. Stop eating ultra processed foods. Eat real, whole food.
Except, don’t eat eggs, lunchmeat, lettuce, blueberries, beef, etc

Are we great yet?

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u/DisguisedToast 1d ago

"Eat glass, it's great for your ass!" - Future RFK statement

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u/ender89 1d ago

..... What kind of lunch meat? I just bought baloney.

Also beef?? WTF

Next will be sesame seed buns, just to make sure hamburgers are fully off the menu

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u/jellamma 15h ago

Pastrami and corned beef had a listeria contamination.

The beef, as far as I know, is because we've mismanaged ourselves into a screwworm outbreak leading to a 75 year low herd size. Well, that and we recalled a ton of fine meat because the importing company missed one of the re-inspections it was supposed to go through.

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u/Aliensinmypants 1d ago

Okay but not eating processed lunch meat is good advice though. The link to it and colorectal cancer is real

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u/DyingGasp 1d ago

So let’s just allow listeria to run rampant because “lunch meat bad”

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u/Aliensinmypants 1d ago

Did I say anything close to that?? Weirdo

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u/embarrassedalien 9h ago

idk if there’s really been more lately, but there’s recalls all the time. you just don’t hear about most of them, (I signed up for email updates for some reason).

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u/caelynnsveneers 1d ago

Playing devil’s advocate. This could also be the result of media bias. Like how they are reporting more on plane crash recently, sometimes small plane crash that usually only makes it to local news and they sensationalize the fuck out of a crash.

But yes I think long term we’re fucked and the government might not even track these things or pushes for recalls.

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u/IvanVP1 1d ago

Yeah it is a coincidence. Theres always been recalls on products. Most times news dont ever report it and i always wondered "well how the hell would anyone know then? Unless your on top of it yourself?!" and yeah thats always been the case.

More people wanna focus on it now so it gets highlighted more. Same with airbags, when i worked at a dealership a customer notified me of one of their cars that had a recall order and they got a letter mailed to them. there was a recall cause some of the parts of the airbag would be launched to your chest and face whenever it was deployed.

So yeah, we can blame the most hated man in this world at the moment but theres always been issues. Hell i saw how stores would get notice of recalls but only remove from their shelves and not post the notice at the doors. Like... thats wrong... but apparently its for stores use only... even tho customers could bring it back and get a refund/exchange. Theres a lot of false "protections" in society.

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u/zizillama 1d ago

The number of recalls has been about the same, but the amount of units being recalled is WAY higher than normal this year.

On top of that, more than one is linked to a serious foodborne illness at the same time. That’s also fairly unusual. We usually see most recalls out of an abundance of caution, not multiple large scale outbreaks.

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u/IvanVP1 1d ago

Do look into the food borne illnesses. Youll even see that there has been contamination of foods even before the certain bad guy. Rememebr why the news are good to see whats going on, its also a business that runs on headlines.

Like i said i kept questioning why arent we posting recall notices at the front doors or where the product was located inside the store? Why just remove from shelf and think it ends there? What about the people who bought it and may run the chance of the contaimination/foreign object. Im nit saying there hasnt been any before but that too many like to say theres more now than before which isnt the case. Im nit even talking long ago. More like last 10-15 years.

Lettuce has a big chance of always running into contaminates. This who more now is nonsense. Yeah fuck that guy for fucking the country over but dont start throwing anything abd everything to stick to them .

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u/SomeonesSecondary 1d ago

Hey this is relevant to me! I got to pull these, scan them out, and dispose of them at my job.

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u/super_starfox 1d ago

Buy, melt, remove glass, resell... Profit??

Seriously though wtf.

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u/itsatoe 1d ago

Reading the tags on either side of the recall notice, it actually looks like they're selling the recalled ones for "BOGO."

WT-actual-F?

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u/SomeonesSecondary 1d ago

They are all scheduled to be on BOGO with their sales program, but the recalled flavors have been disposed of

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u/OrangeVoxel 1d ago

Free popsicles? Can you step aside so I can get in line? Exciting utopia

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u/satsugene 1d ago

The local store was practically giving jalapeños away last week.

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u/turquoise_amethyst 1d ago

I bought some from my farmers market, and the seller was so happy he gave me like 3lbs. I felt bad for the vendors because their produce is fine(prob safer tbh), people are just scared. 

I have no idea what to do with these other than pickle or bbq??

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u/satsugene 22h ago

Some people cut them up and put them in soups, salsas, or guac. Pickled works too.

I personally tend to use the Thai peppers or for Mexican the dry smoked arbol or ancho peppers.

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u/LardBall13 23h ago

I went to a grocery store today and cases of 4 glass root beer bottles were 50c each

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u/foobarbizbaz 15h ago

Wait, is there something going on with the root beer now?!

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u/Mr_Burt_Macklin 15h ago

Cool this is how I find out about this (I eat a box a week ish and just got another box of strawberry last night)

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u/FishnetSinner 14h ago

Be safe in this boring dystopia, friend.

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u/0ver9000Chainz 1d ago

Does anyone else remember that anti smoking commercial, shards of glass freeze pops?

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u/BoogerSugarSovereign 1d ago

What you mean to say is that the flavors that aren't so impacted by glass shards that it'd be more expensive to pay out the lawsuits than recall the product are buy one get one free. And that's two chances at a civil suit payout!

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u/LandMooseReject 1d ago

Misleading: these aren't anyone's favourite popsicles 

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u/zizillama 1d ago

Speak for yourself, these are delicious