A peanut sat on a railroad track...
His heart was all a'flutter
Round the bend came number ten--
Toot-toot! Peanut Butter!
Would you eat a mashed peanut off of a railroad track? Mmmm, I suppose that depends on how hungry you are. In some ways, we have become much more germophobic than we need to be, I suspect. (I've long been a 5-second rule person, depending on where the offending ground is... kitchen, maybe; zoo, no way!) My husband's grandpa (who lived well into his 80's) used to say that if you haven't eaten a bushel of dirt before you die, you haven't lived. Mice and ants are a fact of life (that's why God invented cats and bug spray).
Before the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 food manufacturers could and did put non-food extenders into goods sold to the public, to increase their profitability. As the ever-more-urban public became increasingly dependent on mass marketed ingredients and food stuffs, they had less knowledge of the processes and sources providing their edibles, and thus more vulnerable to such cheats and shortcuts. The laws imposing hygienic regulations are meant to be eyes where we cannot personally see, which allow us to at least pretend our food is wholesome for us. Which is why I guess we tend to worry so much when something so taken for granted as peanut butter may be contaminated.
I didn't find any products that our family uses on the list, but you can check for yourself.
FDA Product Recall List
Round the bend came number ten--
Toot-toot! Peanut Butter!
Would you eat a mashed peanut off of a railroad track? Mmmm, I suppose that depends on how hungry you are. In some ways, we have become much more germophobic than we need to be, I suspect. (I've long been a 5-second rule person, depending on where the offending ground is... kitchen, maybe; zoo, no way!) My husband's grandpa (who lived well into his 80's) used to say that if you haven't eaten a bushel of dirt before you die, you haven't lived. Mice and ants are a fact of life (that's why God invented cats and bug spray).
Before the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 food manufacturers could and did put non-food extenders into goods sold to the public, to increase their profitability. As the ever-more-urban public became increasingly dependent on mass marketed ingredients and food stuffs, they had less knowledge of the processes and sources providing their edibles, and thus more vulnerable to such cheats and shortcuts. The laws imposing hygienic regulations are meant to be eyes where we cannot personally see, which allow us to at least pretend our food is wholesome for us. Which is why I guess we tend to worry so much when something so taken for granted as peanut butter may be contaminated.
I didn't find any products that our family uses on the list, but you can check for yourself.
FDA Product Recall List
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And yet I wonder if my kitchen/house would pass a food service inspection. We battle mice here too sometimes.