Peanut butter gone horribly wrong…
Recently, a friend on LP’s Thorntree told me he wouldn’t be bringing me Peter Pan peanut butter as previously requested - because apparently it’s been causing illness. This morning, I was reading through Morocco blogs and discovered this entry on the blog of DRiVER, a Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco - apparently PCVs were issued a note letting them know that, if they had received peanut butter in care packages, to be cautious.
This article states that all Peter Pan or Great Value peanut butter (they’re produced in the same Georgia plant) produced since 2004 with the code “2111″ should be discarded, as it is at risk of containing salmonella.
Yikes! Less than a year ago, a friend sent a jar of Peter Pan and I devoured it. It’s gone now - but all I can do is wonder if that was the mystery cause of so many stomach troubles here! Or perhaps it was just the kefta…
March 15th, 2007 at 11:24 pm
Of course Dutch peanut-butter is the best!
*typing with my left hand and sticking my right hand in a big jar of Panda Peanutbutter*
Seriously, american peanutbutter is way too sweet!
(the british ones are even worse, its just brown sticky, butter with no pieces of peanut)
March 16th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
Really? I want some!
March 16th, 2007 at 8:31 pm
Don’t worry. I had a whole jar, along with my grandfather and we’re still kickin’. It was a certain kind with a certain number. Also, if you had Salmonella, you would more than likely be hospitalized. Just a nursing judgement.
March 16th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
Phew, Rachel! I’ve been really sick quite a few times but in Morocco, it’s so hard to figure out the cause.
It was delicious, anyway - thank you
March 22nd, 2007 at 7:23 pm
after i posted that, i joined some other expats in quickly finishing our last reserves of suspicious P.P.P.B.. Happily, we weren’t any sicker than before we started!
P.S. i really like you blog!
March 22nd, 2007 at 7:55 pm
Thanks! Glad to hear you’re ok - I’d probably still eat it if it were around - it’s creamy, man! We can’t get that stuff here!