Salmonella scare: a personal story

You’d think with all the blogging Fat City’s done about the peanut butter scare, I’d be smart enough to avoid tainted products.

I’m not.

In a combination of irony and schadenfreude, I clicked on Slate’s article about what to do if you’ve eaten a salmonella-tainted product only to see a picture of a Clif bar, something I eat nearly daily.

Clif Bars make excellent meal replacements or afternoon snacks. I particularly like the chocolate chip peanut crunch which just happens to be one of the Clif bars recalled. (Others include crunchy peanut butter and peanut toffee buzz.)

I never thoroughly checked the recall list since it seemed inconsequential to my diet. I don’t eat peanut butter crackers and while I do love a good pb&j, every article said that store-bought peanut butter was OK.

I also don’t feel that bad (yet!) because the recall didn’t go into effect until Saturday and it’s a voluntary recall meaning nobody’s gotten sick from Clif bars yet but the company’s trying to cover its ass. The list currently stands at more than 500 products. Other items you might not have thought about include Hy-Vee bakery products: