How about this joke?
“Skippy Peanut Butter recalled! Millions of lonely people with large dogs in a panic!”
I’ve eaten over half a jar that is on the list. In fact, I had some on my toast this morning. I’ve had no symptoms so I don’t think I’m going to give it one more worry.
I had what I think is likely coincidence happen, but: on Friday we went to lunch after playing bridge at the senior center, and then on the way home in the afternoon I was hit with cramps, nausea and diarrhea, enough that I sought refuge at a BJs until I felt well enough to head home. (sorry, BJ’s, but you do tout all the amazing benefits of your membership card) I then slept for a few hours. No fever, though, I don’t think.
We cast around trying to figure out what I’d eaten - the lamb-burgers the night before? Everyone had them. For breakfast I’d just had my usual bridge-day breakfast, a big smear of peanut butter on wheat bread. So, then I read this thread, and then I check the jar, and of course it’s a 40-oz 425. Did it make me sick? I don’t thiiiink so…the symptoms were relatively mild, and according to the internets they last for a week or so. I still have some diarrhea (TMI, for those of you who know me IRL), but I also worked in the yard this morning, so I’m not feeling that bad.
Who knows.
Yeah, I had a close call myself. I just got Jiffy Peanut Butter yesterday, when I heard about the recall when I got home.
Anyways, I checked the code on the back, like they said to do on TV, and my peanut butter had that code!
Naturally I threw it out right away. But what if I ate that? I do enjoy peanut butter, so I probably was going to eat it soon…
FYI, although all the advisories from Smucker and the government say to throw it out, I returned two large unopened jars and one small, 1/4 eaten jar to my supermarket and got a refund, no questions asked, except for checking that they were on the recall list. $17.50 not thrown in the trash.
Some of the linked articles give a range of lot numbers and at least one said the product being recalled had to be in the range AND have 425 in positions 5-7.
Double check before you pitch it. The jar I have is in the range but not with 425.
Me: sees this thread
-has a moment out of the movie Airplane where I look over at the discarded Jif to go tub I just finished
-checks UPC code and lot numbers
-goes to research how long salmonella symptoms take to develop
Fingers crossed for you.
I just discovered I have the tail end of a 40-oz jar of extra-crunchy Jif which is on the recall list. It came as part of a 2-pack from Costco. This means I get to return it for a new, full 2-pack.
Usually Costco contacts me if I’ve purchased something which was later recalled. I’ll have to ask them what’s up with that.
Just got an email from Target about the recall stating that apparently I bought the peanut butter there. Took them long enough.
I did finally check mine, and it was on the list, so I threw it out , half empty.
I’m starting to get he idea that it may have been a damn large percentage of the stuff they sold the last few months.
Probably absolutely nothing would happen except you’d have “enjoyed” the nasty sickly sweet flavor of sugar syrup thickened with peanuts mislabeled as “peanut butter”.
But for some unknown but probably tiny fraction of those milions of recalled jars, the person eating from it would have gotten sick. Most likely not more than an upset tummy for a couple days, but some extra unlucky souls would have become seriously ill. It’d suck if that extra unlucky soul turns out to be you. See here for more about the potential illness
That’s what would have (maybe) happened.
My local food pantry had 310 jars of Jif they had to toss. This isn’t a huge food pantry, either. But the USPS just had their national donation day on May 14, where people can leave bags of food by their mailboxes and mail carriers pick them up and deliver to local food banks. So the pantry was stocked quite well.
They posted their disappointment and dozens of people “helpfully” suggested that they ask Smucker’s for replacement/compensation. I wanted to slap each and every one of them. Of COURSE that’s what the food pantry did! But also, Smucker’s got the same request from thousands of food pantries! So they are all in IMMEDIATE need of peanut butter, which is one of their staples to give to clients.
Anyway, I actually gave a HELPFUL suggestion that people donate Skippy to the food bank. I humbly submit that any Dopers with local food banks do the same. This 8-pack of Skippy on Amazon is cheaper per ounce than all the Skippy (and Jif) around here.
Hopefully the food banks will get their replacements from Smucker’s some time this year, and they will be delightfully over-stocked. Until then, they need a little help.
I wouldn’t hold my breath. The plant involved in the recall was responsible for the great majority of the product, and it won’t be able to resume production until it’s been cleaned, sanitized and inspected.
(According to my daughter, there’s another plant which produces the smaller [16 oz] jars which isn’t implicated and has a great deal ready to ship — but it can’t until it’s been cleared by the FDA. Understandable, but frustrating.)
The ripple effect:
The supermarket today has Jif on sale 2/5$ (I’m guessing not the tainted ones). But still…
The Walgreens around the corner has Skippy on sale also 2/5$–so I went with the Skippy.
Last week I noticed Jif on the shelves of one of my local grocery stores. I checked the label, and both the UPC code and the date matched the recall. As in, they were selling jars that should have been recalled.
I showed it to the manager, both the bottle and the list on the Jif site, and he shrugged and said his supplier checked them out this morning and said they were good.
I have switched to Peter Pan for the time being.
This is a really stellar reason not to keep shopping at Sam & Ella’s 
Our local store had shelf tags about the recall. And some limited supply of Jif that was not recalled. Not that I eat that garbage, but my new wife loves it.
It is confusing as I mentioned earlier with news reports being inconsistent. In the ones I’ve seen it is not the UPC and date but the product code that identifies the recalled items. It has to have 425 as the 5-7 digits.