August 11, 2008
Whole Foods Ground Beef Recalled
In case you missed it over the weekend, Whole Foods Market announced a ground beef recall that affects D.C., Maryland and Virginia. The beef has been recalled due to concerns about E. coli contamination. If you have ground beef in your freezer from Whole Foods that was purchased between June 2 and Aug. 6, you should chuck it and bring a receipt or just the packaging to a store for a refund.
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Yeah, but the E. coli was organic, free-range, cruelty-free, and locally-grown. You're paying a premium for quality contamination and violent explosive diarrhea.
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monkey the meat was not locally grown. It is from the CornHusker State. FREDTERP
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Suck it, yuppies!
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Might want to add the cockroach from Overheard in the new Whole Foods Crunchy Organic Beef "Surprise".
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Now, now, no wishing potentially fatal infections on people just because they're yuppies.
Pointing and laughing at sunburns in the shape of a popped collar is acceptable.
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E. coli aside it’s the complacency in the cow world that makes me sick. We’ve been eating beef for thousands of years and what have they done about it? Nothing.
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Cows had it comin'
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Damn E. coli ... bring back my Mad Cow disease!!
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I actually tried to do this over the weekend, at a couple of stops. The P Street Whole Foods flat out refused, they said it was for a more restrictive set of dates. The Georgetown WF said the recall only really applied to one store in Massachusetts, but that they'd honor the refund if I had the beef (I didn't). I was armed with the press release by this time, and insisted, and they gave me my refund, mostly to make me go away.
They also didn't seem to have seen the WF press release or be aware of its instructions (dispose of product, present receipt or packaging for refund).
Luckily for me, they were helpless before my yuppie super-powers of Whining, Showing the Press Release, and Passive-aggressive Polite Persistence.
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Oh god, it's funny cuz it's true. Yuppie super powers indeed.