Alright, so I go to make my day’s sandwiches and I root through the cabinet to find a container of Peter Pan peanut butter - awesome. So I open it up and remove the interior seal. As I’m doing so, my finger touches the peanut butter slightly. Without thinking I take a lick of the peanut butter on my finger.
Then I stop and remember the news story about the Peter Pan Salmonella. I turn over the cap and note the batch number then hit the internet. Sure enough the container I found is part of the contaminated batch and I’ve taken a small taste of it.
When I say small, I mean small. It was smaller than the circumference of a pencil eraser, but it was some none the less.
I’ve sealed the jars back up, I don’t know where the parents got them - but do I need to worry. Is a possible salmonella source that small going to hurt me? What do I do?
You’ll be fine. Even in the highly unlikely event that you do contract a case of salmonella, it is unpleasant, but rarely severe enough to warrant hospitalization. Most people who contract it recover without treatment.
I have 5 jars upstairs right now that have pretty much been eaten and I’ve not been affected. No worries, just go take it back to the store for a refund. I need to take mine or send them in. Bastards! I only eat Peter Pan and I’m craving one right now.
Not going to disagree with anything that’s already been said.
From what I remember of various diarrhoeal diseases salmonella takes a rather large dose to actually cause illness, unlike say Shigella which can cause illness with a dose of as few as 100 bacteria.
Have they said how the peanut butter got contaminated? Over here we had a recent scare with salmonella contaminated Cadbury’s chocolate, the recall cost the company millions and was down to a leaky pipe.
