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Chow It Really Does Taste Like Plastic
Posted by Dominic Holden on Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 3:25 PM
Nestle Prepared Foods Company is recalling 900,000 pounds of Lean Cuisine after boxes of frozen chicken meals turned up pieces of hard, blue plastic.
The USDA considered the blue plastic a potential health threat and has ranked the recall as Class I — a "health hazard situation where there is a reasonable probability that the use of the product will cause serious, adverse health consequences or death.
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Ugh. Stories like this make me thankful that my fiance knocked me off of the processed food wagon.
And how the fuck does something like this happen? Someone accidentally pressed the "insert blue plastic" button while the chicken parmesean dinners were still on the conveyor? Why are TV dinners and hard blue plastic bits being cranked out at the same factory? Gross.
And how the fuck does something like this happen? Someone accidentally pressed the "insert blue plastic" button while the chicken parmesean dinners were still on the conveyor? Why are TV dinners and hard blue plastic bits being cranked out at the same factory? Gross.
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Those of us who have worked in industrial food processing plants aren't suprised at all. Sounds like the maintenance crew wasn't paying much attention to safety guards or some such plastic equipment that was probably being slowly pulverized by a passing conveyor chain. Or something like that. That said, it's easier to see blue plastic in your frozen tv dinner than it is to see the gob of spit in the mayo on your local bistro sandwich.
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The good news about Lean Cuisine is the "hard blue plastic" once eaten, will travel to your breasts, giving you both a trim figure and a nice rack.
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With the abundance of Lean Cuisine in that freezer it explains why the hamburger is freezer burnt. Gross. This will not stop me from consuming my frozen pot pies.
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I work at a grocery store, and I am not fibbing when i say this: we have four huge pallets of lean cuisine in our freezer. they were "plussed" out to us at a bargain. Um....yeah. Now what?
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