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.

[jimmy*part4]

I liked post # 9.

I'd say it was probably a liability issue and just because one jar tested ok doesn't mean another isn't contaminated.

If you were shopping and wanted PB would you buy one from that batch or a different brand? I wouldn't take a chance.

How funny (but not funny...a little funny) would it have been to give it to prisoners and they all got sick from it, lol. 

Edit: I'd say it's more of a kids lunch here too, but probably because it's cheap and easy to make, plus it's good for you. I almost bought some for myself friday....next week, and some strawberry jam.

[icyfroth]

No the whole batch was tested and found to be ok, they didn't test just a few jars:

"After extensive testing, Costco agreed to a court order authorizing a bankruptcy trustee to sell it the peanut butter. But after getting eight loads, Costco rejected it as "not merchantable" because of leaky peanut oil.

The trustee, Clarke Coll, said "all parties agreed there's nothing wrong with the peanut butter from a health and safety issue," but court records show that on a 19 March conference call Costco said "it would not agree to any disposition ... other than destruction."

So instead of selling or donating the peanut butter, with a value estimated at $2.6m, the estate is paying about $60,000 to transport 950,000 jars – or about 25 tons – to the Curry County landfill in Clovis, where public works director Clint Bunch says it "will go in with our regular waste and covered with dirt"."

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[vampire-teddy]

luv peanut butter.  had it on toast for tea some plain and some with jam.  i don't care it is plain or crunchy or whipped it is all yum.  My sister can't stand it, even the smell makes her sick.  what I can't stand is nutella on bread  - just don't get it. 

[polksaladallie]

Must be nice to be rich.

[tasfleur]

I don't eat Nutella that way either VTeddy, but I've found it great in baking for various special cakes and pastries when having to cater for a little crowd with a sweet tooth.

Once, when desperate, I used it straight from the jar as frosting/icing for cupcakes, went down a treat .... 

[tasfleur]

*WAVING TO JIMMY* ....

[icyfroth]

nutella's nice in pastries and ice-cream.

peanut butter's nice in baking and ice-cream, as long as it's not the crunchy variety.

[debra9275]

I don't eat Nutella, but my kids will if i buy it

if you're making chocolates, it makes a great filling for them, straight from the jar

[polksaladallie]

Doesn't nutella have a lot of trans fat? 

http://mylifeinapyramid.com/2012/05/why-nutella-is-not-healthy-a-recipe-for-better-than-nutella-crea...

[icyfroth]

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@polksaladallie wrote:

Doesn't nutella have a lot of trans fat? 

http://mylifeinapyramid.com/2012/05/why-nutella-is-not-healthy-a-recipe-for-better-than-nutella-crea...

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Probably. Seeing I never eat it in large enough amounts to worry about it, I don't.

I get enough transfats eating chips and bikkies.