Chef Boyardee Canned Rat
fishmongerfunk
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i just threw out the two cans of mini ravioli i was keeping in case of an emergency. i promise you will never eat anything by that company after you see that video (warning the video is extremely unappetizing). 
An Ohio women who opened a can of Chef Boyardee spaghetti and meatballs for her daughter claims to have found not spaghetti and meatballs: "I opened it up and my face was very close to it and immediately you could tell there was a dead rodent on top, in fact you couldn't even see the spaghetti and meatballs at all," said Jennifer Aker.Jennifer contacted ConAgra, the manufacturer of the product, who asked for a photo of the tainted goods. Instead, Aker's nephew shot a video of the can and its contents and put it on YouTube. The video is below.ConAgra, who is reportedly sending a courier to retrieve the product to conduct tests on it, has asked Aker to freeze the contents of the can in the meantime.Con Agra has released the following statement in response to the potential time bomb of a dead rodent in its canned food: "We take all consumer inquires seriously, and when a consumer has a bad experience, we work with them to determine the source of the problem and correct it. We also work with them to make up for their experience as best as we are able." Said Jennifer Aker: "I'm not looking for money, I'm just looking to let people be aware of this. It's just really gross."
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C'mon son......you never saw that TV commercial where the family brings their grandfather from Italy to Olive Garden and he says it's better than the food back in the "old country"?
Unfortunately they never aired the follow-up ad where Grandpa goes back to Sicily and puts a hit out on his whole damn family with some dude named "Joe Bag Of Donuts" for feeding him that swill.
Was she from Northern Italy??
My second generation Italian wife thinks it's the most disgusting "Italian" food around.
Nope, she's from da souf.
And for me, all-you-can-eat salad and breadsticks alone =
That's gross, but you threw out two completely unrelated cans because of the video? So in the literally millions of cans this company makes one error occurs and somehow everything is tainted? What's that, an error rate of .000000000001%?
If that's the case, you might as well stop eating at restaurants as well - I'm sure you've ingested non-food matter there too. Or fruits and vegetables (you know those grow in the open outside, right?) - etc.
I've had mice eating food in my own kitchen, and I can assure you I have not hit the million mark for articles of food passing through it.
Use your noggin, dude.
Not a single person who worked their would even consider eating that canned salmon.
Over the years I've noticed that anyone who works in a processed food plant will refuse to eat that product.
People are far too prissy these days.
Jurgis Rudkus would be laughing right now.
my noggin and my stomache tell me i never want to ever eat anything coming out of can that company produces. i have had mice before, i think i know where food comes from (we wash it before eating it) and i am no germophobe but a moist dead rat packed inside a can of prepared food is pretty darn revolting.
btw, the jungle by upton sinclair is fantastic. the meat packing plant description is harrowing. incidentally, it is because of that book and the attendant outcry it produced that the federal government adopted laws in relation to health and safety standards for food etc...
My German grandmother used to have a saying about picking up food from the floor and eating it......maybe Frank can help out on the translation but it supposedly meant something like "dirt equals fat"???....something like "Dreck mon speck"??
For sure. But all I'm saying is that in large processed food plants eventually some error will occur. You pitch the offending can and move on.
I'm fairly certain there is some sort of allowable threshold for stuff like that - like in processed cereal isn't there a certain expectation of rodent droppings and bugs because it is impossible to eradicate there entirely from huge lots of grain?
The more amusing part of The Jungle is that Upton Sinclair wasn't even shooting for food regulation; he wanted labor regulation. Whoops.
"In case you?re curious: you?re probably ingesting one to two pounds of flies, maggots and mites each year without knowing it, a quantity of insects that clearly does not cut the mustard, even as insects may well be in the mustard."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/opinion/13levy.html
Cigarette butts... that I wouldn't have thought of.
Probably "Dreck Am Stecken", which means something like:
If you wipe off the dirt, it doesn't mean it's clean. Correct me if I'm wrong, I don't use my German every day.
haha... my own grandmother used to love to say this. The OG is "Dreck macht Speck".
Literally translated "dirt makes bacon" meaning "eating what others won't will put more fat on your ribs".
People who had experienced times of real hunger would often be offended if you'd throw away food that had fallen off the table. Or if someone would discard a jar or preserves just because there was a bit of mold on top...
People who'd be picky about food would often hear remarks like "You've never been to war, you've never experienced hunger".
My nazi grandfather was a master at sayings like this and endlessly recount about his times in a Russian POW camp and how he had eaten leather from the shoes of the dead or made soup from grass... as hit my teens and started to know what's what, I couldn't help but think "that's what you got for being a nazi piece of shit".
He would have picked out the rat particles and eaten the spaghetti, no doubt.
"Dreck am Stecken" is something entirely different.
To have "dreck am Stecken" means to have a skeleton in the closet or to be "dirty" as in having a dirty secret.
It was more than just the 10+ pgs in The Jungle that led to the Pure Food and Drug Act. Patent meds, rancid army food rations, and the improving quality of chemical analysis made the calls for the P F&DA too much to ignore.
Quality control is just that, it controls quality, it is not "zero tolerance." If it was "zero tolerance," no one would eat anything from a commercial food processing/packing business. There should be some quality control analyst inspecting cans before they get sealed up, at the very least visually, and that is on Chef Boyardee. One thing not mentioned in this discussion on here is fungal contaminants. The amounts of fungal contamination estimated to be ingested by populations that eat processed foods worldwide is astronomical.
I have read somewhere that consuming a large amount of store bought truly whole wheat or rye bread in one sitting can be the equivalent to a tiny dose of lsd. Albert Hoffmann synthesized LSD from ergot alkaloids.
The best question on here though that was posed is who the fusk still eats Chef Boyardee beyond the age of 5?
what about "kostenlose Fleischzulage"?
Vielen dank!
It's time to pick up a German book again and start reading.
Ergot poisoning is also one of the proposed explanations for the hallucinations suffered by the Salem children that propelled the Salem witch trials forward.