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And that’s basically it!
A recall that 99% won't be claimed since if you are buying butter you know it contains milk. Gotta be real dumb to think the butter is milk free.
You do realize we're talking about the same society that requires a warning label to not eat the shampoo?
What?! You can eat the shampoo? No dog food for Victor tonight!
It's the same society that just elected a fascist dictator-wannabe. No matter how many intelligent people you know, there's enough to do that.
Maybe warning labels were a mistake...
Gotta be real dumb
Well based on last Tuesday, this is a shockingly large number of people.
They’ll just put a sticker on it that says “contains milk”. This is like one of those Tesla recalls that is really just a software update done to meet federal or state requirements.
The US is the most litigious country in the world. They’re likely making sure all bases are covered just in case.
This is America.
Gotta be real dumb to think the butter is milk free.
So like 50% of people then?
I understand the "slippery slope" issue but what an insane waste of food just over liability and pointing out the obvious.
It's not as bad as you think. Grocery stores will just send it back to the manufacturer and re-sticker it.
What about putting a sticker over it?
As a person with allergies to specific foods, then don't make this mistake. Measure twice, cut once. These rules were written in blood, and tiniest violin for companies who fail it.
If I were a customer who purchased this, I would just ignore it. I assume many will do the same. It isn't worth dealing with if it isn't an issue for you.
The recall is redundant, it should just be a notice that butter contains milk, and stickers for any leftover inventory.
Collecting it and destroying it like it's poison is silly. If your allergic to milk, you probably should not be buying butter.
There’s an enforcement component. It’s designed to punish the producer so it hurts so it won’t do it again.
Yup. If you are sensitive to a food product you should be aware already of basic products that by definition contain them. Like telling me yogurt is dairy based.
I'll start the bidding for 24lb at $0.10/lb
lol, right! I’ll take all of it for pennie’s.
Weird, is there a crackdown on this sort of thing or did someone really mess up big? I was actually called by my foodstore today to let me know that liptons French onion soup mix was recalled because it didn't list that it has egg in it and my records show that I had purchased this. I don't know if I ever saw this kind of recall before let alone twice in the same day.
I subscribed to FSIS updates and this happens pretty often. Allergen labels are taken pretty seriously. And they send out notifications when they come across one. 🤷🏼♀️
You have an intimate relationship with your grocer.
Automated message based off rewards card info. Still it's the first time I ever got that and thought it was odd. At least you get something for giving away all your info to everyone.
80,000 pounds is slightly over two tractor trailers' worth. For the whole country, that's not a big deal.
And that small batch had a label with a different list of ingredients/allergens somehow? I'm curious how that happened.
Printer stopped working, or it got misaligned to the paper, and just the allergen message was cut off. Perhaps.
Since we're on the topic: do people refrigerate their butter? Those who do, what's your process for getting it on toast smoothly?
I refrigerate my butter and don't make toast very often. When I do make toast, I cut off the appropriate amount of butter and place it on the warm toast and let it sit to acclimate. After a moment, I spread it with a knife.
No, the spread is not amazing and creamy. It is still a little cold and chunky. But I don't care leaving your butter out is weird.
Join the butter dish supremacy. I promise, you’ll like your life more
Also use the salted butter to leave out. It keeps better and tastes better too.
A type 1 phaser set to the lowest stun setting will melt butter patties if you just flash it on and off quickly.
Oh! Lowest setting! That explains what happened...
Butter is tasty but annoying, so I switched to those butter-vegetable oil hybrids.
They taste a bit like butter but spread like margarine.
Salted can be left out but not unsalted. I buy salted anyway, and it comes 4 bars to a pack, so I'll take out a bar, cut it in half, put half back in the fridge and leave half in a butter dish, replace as needed.
Until recently, I had some butter on a butter plate with a lid, and would take it to room temperature in advance of wanting to use it. Not the best method, but better than only having fridge temperature butter. A few weeks ago I got a French butter dish after being introduced to the concept. You can keep a good dose of butter in room temperature, with water making it airtight so the butter stays fresh. So far very much liking it.
We just plonk it in the microwave till it slightly melts.
If I'm desperate I'll microwave it on 20% for 20 seconds or so. But these days I always leave a bit out.
Salted butter stays good for longer when unrefrigerated
Yup, keep it in the fridge. I just slice it up into thin patties while I wait for the toast to finish then I put it on the hot toast and it melts quickly.
The problem is when they bring out room temp toast and ice cold patties in restaurants. One thing I do is knead the patties in their wrappers a bit to soften them up.
Yes. Take an appropriate chunk for your needs and nuke it for 5 seconds.
I don't really eat toast. If it's on popcorn I'll melt it then pour it on, but that makes the popcorn soggy. I need to find a better solution for popcorn tbh
Not sure that butter can be said to contain milk by the FDA's definition of milk. So they'll need to recall it again after adding that label.
They should have waited a Couple Months! This type of thing will NEVER happen under Trump! He's Protecting us (from accidentally ingesting a potential Poison depending on the Person!)!
and it probably gets thrown out then the price jacked up on the next batch
High chance a sticker is placed on them that addresses the issue.
