I have my unopened box in the pantry.
Honey Nut Cheerios.
I not gluten intolerant, so I ain’t turning it in.
http://www.wxyz.com/news/national/cheerios-recall-what-to-know
From the link.
You can tell if you have the affected cereal by the floral notes.
That makes General Mills guilty of one of the 7 deadly sins - gluteny
Now, how many people will retroactively get reactions to this stuff?
I was at a craft fair, and saw a booth selling “Gluten Free Soap”. I shit you not.
I asked them if their sign was a joke. They assured me it was not. I asked them if they knew what gluten was. They did not. But they knew it was bad, and that they would NEVER add any to their line of soaps.
The Real Scam:
1 Finish most of the box.
2 Take it back to the store, get a new box.
3 Profit.
General Mills is going to go bankrupt because of this.
(Note: I won’t be doing this. The fact that my box is after the date range has nothing to do with my choice.:rolleyes:)
You should have encouraged them to add, “Now with Polonium for that GLOW of Heath!”
We have a box in the recall range, but we LIKE gluten so it’s not a problem.
TIL that Cheerios had gone gluten free.
Got a robo-call from the grocery store today with info about the recall. If we had a box in the right date range we could have returned it for a refund, not a replacement. Even better!
I got to thinking that we had bought a box several weeks earlier. That one might have been in the recall. My intestines must be half dead from it.
I’m going to make a whole wheat sandwich to calm my nerves.
It is very creepy to know that a supermarket chains keeps track of what we buy and it’s all tied into our phone number, etc. I never give out real phone numbers for loyalty cards and such but Mrs. FtG is incredibly lax about these things.
Makes me sick to think of all this food going to waste. Because gasp, it has wheat flour in it. Can’t they just advise people that are allergic not to eat it? Instead of removing it from the shelves and throwing it away? There’s people out there starving and we just kick food to the curb because of labeling.
heck, print up some stickers. Product Has gluten in it. slap them on the boxes in the store. end of problem.
Great solution!
Cheerios is one of the three cereals the husband will eat…he is soooo fussy sometimes
We dont care one way or another gluten or not.
When I drive thru the drive thru at certain restaurants now, I see all kinds of signs warning that peanuts are served here and are often on prep surfaces, dairy is served here and may get in your food, the buns aren’t gluten free, yadda yadda yadda…
…and I find myself wondering how many people died, keeled over, went into seizures, or spontaneously combusted at McD’s, Dairy Queen, or Carl’s Jr. because they got a peanut in their shake or there was gluten in the buns…
Some people can’t eat wheat and that is way they brought the cereal , people had allergy reaction from eating it.
The only cold cereal I’ll eat is Crunchberry knock-offs. (I’m not paying for the Cap’n’s National Advertising Campaign.) Tried some of my SO’s Raisin Bran not too long ago. How do they get all those wrinkled little bastards in there? (Darn it, no barfing smiley?) Guess I’d best stick to grits and poached eggs.
That is what is bothering me. Perfectly good food (albeit a breakfast food) being dumped into landfills, swamps, and feeding all the critters who are gluten intolerant also.
I kind of understand the recall, and know folks that have sensitivities to gluten products, but come on. Re-label, and save the earth and gluten sensitive turtles, frogs, and goldfish.
This.
I’ve told the story several times on this board of stores dumping their unsold hot baked chickens at the end of each day.
Why did you quote me for this???
Anyway … This has got me thinking. Why did it take so long for there to be an announcement? What sort of chain of events led to them discovering this now? Most of the product has probably already been eaten by now.
If this was discovered internally, … how? How could 2.5 months go by before Something Happened? It would seem that the error would have been noticed within days and then an announcement very shortly after that.
Was it an external discovery? Someone had a bad reaction. Reported it to GM. GM ignored it because we know all those gluten-sensitive people are “whack jobs” :dubious:, then another report or two came in, etc. But still, what did GM have to go on to determine what happened, where and when that should have triggered red flags internally much earlier.
It sure seems odd. The long delay is very suspicious.
I like Crunchberry knockoffs just fine, but my baby says they turn her poop teal.
Mrs. J. called me at work yesterday to let me know that we had a box of frozen stuffed/breaded chicken that had been recalled due to possible Salmonella contamination. She was going to throw it out but wondered about another box from the same company that wasn’t in the recall window. I suggested tossing the recall box, but going ahead and eating the other one, provided it was sufficiently nuked and that any surfaces it touched before being heated were properly cleaned.
Should be perfectly safe, but maybe I’m nuts for not just throwing out this other box too. Seems like an unnecessary waste.