Posted on 02/18/2006 4:30:38 AM PST by Aussie Dasher
CHICAGO - A northern Illinois resident reported finding a bird’s head in a can of pinto beans, prompting a Chicago-based food company to announce a voluntary recall on Friday..
La Preferida Inc. said in a statement that it was recalling a limited number of its cans as a precaution. The company says the beans were canned by New Meridian Inc. in Eaton, Ind.
“There are still many unanswered questions, but we have decided to err on the side of safety,” said David Brand, La Preferida’s director of quality assurance.
The company is investigating to determine how the bird head got into the 15-ounce can, he said. The Illinois Department of Public Health and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are also investigating.
Luz Marrufo, a 28-year-old nurse’s assistant, told the Daily Chronicle in DeKalb that she found the bird’s head Thursday while preparing breakfast for her three sons. She said she purchased the can at a grocery store in Aurora.
“I don’t think we’ll be eating beans for a long time, unless I make them,” Marrufo told the newspaper.
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"High praise coming from you! Hope you won't be veery bittern about it."
No, no, it's owl part of the thread. I B is fine with that pun as any other.
BTW did you get the terrible, TREBLE pun?
"That was truly a histork ally bad pun."
Beans for breakfast? UGHH
They can tell if the bird's head was really in the can prior to it being opened!
If the head was part of the beans it will be saturated with the fliuds in the beans, not just coated with the fluids.
I'm surprised so few have ducked in, but I have to check out myself, heron the call of nature. And you know, wren nature calls...
Just the ones with bird heads in them?
I just saw the one pun--and it's driving me raven mad that you are calling it a treble pun. Please explain.
historically
hysterically
his stork ally
I'll bet she's looking for the goose that lays the golden eggs.
I find this whole story hard to swallow.
Am I the only one without a pun?
I found a needle in candy one time.
My uncle was grinding hamburger and the pencil he kept behind his ear fell into the meat grinder. He kept right on grinding the HB.
Sure, I got it, Blur. Very coot.
oh my you are witty today! well, I guess you always are!
Really, it's nothing to grouse about.
I once found a bean in my can of birdheads
Senor Blur say, Free Frijole Beek Mistake.
I bet she wonders why her kids are unpopular in school, and nobody wants to sit near them. Beans and eggs, that will produce some ripe ones...
Nope. I just try not to think about it. I sat on a combine plenty in my day and saw all sorts of critters being swallowed along with the swath. Grasshoppers (plenty of those) field mice, goose poo, small birds, left over kill from owls and hawks etc. Most of it gets blown out the other end of the combine, small bits get stuck to the kernel though.
It gets screened several times before it gets turned into your favorite cereal, so what's left is microscopic, Then it's mashed up, cooked and processed so there really nothing to worry about.
That jar of spagetti sauce, ketchup, or tomato juice has way more bug juice in it. V8 vegetable juice probably has the widest variety of bug juice of all. It's all good protien.
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