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.

[icyfroth]

But it was established to be edible and ok.

[tasfleur]

I don't think they needed to test every jar, just each batch which is probably what they did if it was done correctly.

Personally though, and in my opinion, as it had already been tested for safety, then to just dump it to get rid of it is a shocking waste of food that would have been welcomed as a gift by anyone who likes it.  Very sad ...    I hate seeing food being treated like that.

[daydream**believer]

cant stand the stuff. Hate the taste, smell and texture.

I heave while i spreading it on the kids sandwiches

[silverfaun]

That has to be enviromentally bad surely? all the peanut oil leaching into the earth. I used to like it when I was a child but I put away childish things when I attained adulthood....lol

[icyfroth]

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@silverfaun wrote:

That has to be enviromentally bad surely? all the peanut oil leaching into the earth.

probably wouldn't be bad compost, Faun, but they should've takent it out of the jars first. Who knows how long they will take to biodegrade.

I used to like it when I was a child but I put away childish things when I attained adulthood....lol

same here...

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[tasfleur]

Well there you go, you learn something new every day about a culture ... ... I had no idea that Australians thought peanut butter was a childhood only food that they grew out of when reaching adulthood ... I've never encountered that here before, how very interesting ... 

[katymatey*]

I do like it, but very rarely eat it. Tas, do you make your own in a food processor?

[twyngwyn]

I use it for making satay sauce...yum

[tasfleur]

Katy xxx   I use a high powered blender now.  Used to use the processor but this way I can just make small amounts when we need it.  I make peanut butter chocolate cups sometimes as special treats for friends, they love them.

[tasfleur]

I like that too, very nice.