Who Doesn't Like Peanut Butter?

[icyfroth]

Costco to dump $2.6m of peanut butter in New Mexico landfill

The final resting place for 950,000 jars of peanut butter will be a landfill in Clovis, New Mexico. Photograph: D Hurst/Alamy

Nearly a million jars of peanut butter are to be dumped at a New Mexico landfill to speed up the sale of a bankrupt peanut-processing plant that was at the heart of a salmonella outbreak in  2012.

The retailer Costco refused to take shipment of the peanut butter and declined requests to let it be donated to food banks or repackaged or sold to brokers who provide food to institutions like prisons.

Costco officials did not return telephone calls seeking comment. But court filings indicate the product, made by Sunland Inc, which filed for bankruptcy last year, was made with $2.8m worth of Valencia peanuts owned by Costco and had been sitting in a warehouse since Sunland shut down.

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I've grown out of peanut butter, I never eat it...but...that peanut butter could have been used in so many different ways!

 Trust those mongrel uber-corporations! I never shop at Costco anyway.

They just dumped the whole load still in jars!

That will be an interesting find for future archeologists lol.

[i-need-a-martini]

I buy Dick Smiths peanut butter.

All Aussie made.

[boris1gary]

who doesn't like peanut butter? icyfroth.

[tasfleur]

Love it ...  , but we make our own in very small batches.

What a dreadful waste.  All they had to do was some lab tests to make sure there were no contaminants and then donate the lot to the needy.  Why dump it if there is nothing wrong with it.

[polksaladallie]

I like peanut paste, on bread with cheese and tomato.  Or with plum jam (that is called jelly in USA)

[icyfroth]

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@tasfleur wrote:

Love it ...  , but we make our own in very small batches.

What a dreadful waste.  All they had to do was some lab tests to make sure there were no contaminants and then donate the lot to the needy.  Why dump it if there is nothing wrong with it.

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they'd established there was nothing wrong with it.

[kyliecrv]

I hate peanut butter!!
Don't eat peanuts, but enjoy any other type of nuts!
Regularly use almond spread, and cashew butter!

[tasfleur]

Yes I know they had established that, but it needed to be verified and then distributed ... 

[icyfroth]

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@tasfleur wrote:

Yes I know they had established that, but it needed to be verified and then distributed ... 

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ok 🙂

[i-need-a-martini]

I suspect the cost of testing every single jar would have far outweighed the dumping cost.

And then, once a jar is opened it has to be thrown away.