Costco Butter Recall

[John105]

The 19 ingredients in McDonald’s French fries are:
1. Potatoes
2. Vegetable oil (canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil)
3. Natural beef flavor
4. Dextrose
5. Sodium acid pyrophosphate
6. Salt
7. Corn oil
8. Citric acid
9. Dimethylpolysiloxane
10. Hydrogenated soybean oil
11. TBHQ
12. Water
13. TBHQ
14. Citric acid
15. Dimethylpolysiloxane
16. Hydrogenated soybean oil
17. Canola oil
18. Soybean oil
19. Natural beef flavor

In that order, or in reverse order?

 

[Pablo]

Point is don't eat that junk.

Butter is fine, despite all the ranting and raving by the multitudes of people hired to watch out for us.

 

[Hall]

The 19 ingredients in McDonald’s French fries are:

(10) ingredients, not (19) (not that that makes it any better).

 

[SC Maintenance]

German McDonald’s French fry. 3.

 

[Pablo]

(10) ingredients, not (19) (not that that makes it any better).

I didn't even read down the list, yeah multiple repeats. Silly. I just dogdogged, copied, pasted.

 

[loneryder]

No lie Costco is strange in moving products all the time. Finding the Hawaiian bread is like, “The Amazing Race.” It could literally be anywhere in the store.

Last week when I bought 4lbs of butter, I could not find salted and was going to go with unsalted. They were placed in completely different refrigerator case aisles.

You are correct. they move stuff around so you have to search. Many times I have to ask the service desk. Gets frustrating when you buy the same stuff regularly.

 

[loneryder]

The 19 ingredients in McDonald’s French fries are:
1. Potatoes
2. Vegetable oil (canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil)
3. Natural beef flavor
4. Dextrose
5. Sodium acid pyrophosphate
6. Salt
7. Corn oil
8. Citric acid
9. Dimethylpolysiloxane
10. Hydrogenated soybean oil
11. TBHQ
12. Water
13. TBHQ
14. Citric acid
15. Dimethylpolysiloxane
16. Hydrogenated soybean oil
17. Canola oil
18. Soybean oil
19. Natural beef flavor

Thanks! Now I'll never eat them again. How do they make those chemicals taste so good??

 

[ripcord]

Thanks! Now I'll never eat them again. How do they make those chemicals taste so good??

An unfortunate fact of life is that things tasting good is the first clue that it's bad for you.

 

[Pablo]

An unfortunate fact of life is that things tasting good is the first clue that it's bad for you.

That's why our boy @vavavroom exists - to solve this conundrum.

 

[Audiman]

Surely a sticker saying contains milk could have been stuck onto the butter packet?

 

[Hall]

Surely a sticker saying contains milk could have been stuck onto the butter packet?

Not practical to do. This involves almost 20,000 packages of product. Plus, and I understand you might not be familiar with Costco (or Sam's Club, etc) but they typically sell everything in larger packaging or pieces "bundled" together. We buy this same item from Sam's Club and I'm sure it's the same - it's (4) boxes made up of (4) sticks of butter in each box, all then shrink-wrapped into a single "package". They'd have to tear the wrapping off each and apply (4) stickers. Each store probably has a pallet full of this product.

https://www.samsclub.com/p/members-...lgin-style-16ct/prod3990032?xid=plp_product_3

 

[Fa24wrx]

Yea this is a good thing. Imagine having a deadly milk allergy and thinking this is a "vegan"/milk-less "butter"

 

[Hall]

I have some Costco butter, and not having "milk" on the label concerns me not.

We have the same stuff from Sam's Club. Looking at ours, this isn't as much an ingredient issue, but it's an allergen concern. Still dumb, I agree, but it must be a USDA or FDA requirement, same reason that various products tell you "this product is produced in a facility that processes nuts", etc, etc. Our butter from Sam's Club reads:

Ingredients: Pasteurized cream, salt
Contains: Milk

It's that 2nd line that's allergy related, I'm certain.

 

[Hall]

Yea this is a good thing. Imagine having a deadly milk allergy and thinking this is a "vegan"/milk-less "butter"

Yeah, to some people, butter, margarine, spread, etc are all the same thing. I suspect that margarine or spread contain zero milk though so someone with dairy allergies uses them with no concern but if they get butter instead and don't realize the difference, it could be a problem.

 

[Pablo]

Yea this is a good thing. Imagine having a deadly milk allergy and thinking this is a "vegan"/milk-less "butter"

Why would you think that? Nothing else on the label even indicates/hints at that.

Yeah, to some people, butter, margarine, spread, etc are all the same thing. I suspect that margarine or spread contain zero milk though so someone with dairy allergies uses them with no concern but if they get butter instead and don't realize the difference, it could be a problem.

It says BUTTER, but nothing else. There are already labeling laws about calling something straight butter without modifying words.

Then it says cream, not nut cream, monkey pod cream, not cashew cream. Not plant based.

I get the allergy thing but still.

 

[Fa24wrx]

Why would you think that? Nothing else on the label even indicates/hints at that.



It says BUTTER, but nothing else. There are already labeling laws about calling something straight butter without modifying words.

Then it says cream, not nut cream, monkey pod cream, not cashew cream. Not plant based.

I get the allergy thing but still.

From a liability stand point, better to over communicate than under communicate.

 

[Pablo]

From a liability stand point, better to over communicate than under communicate.

Yes. But a recall?

Some nice HUGE signs on each pallet = more than enough.

 

[ripcord]

From a liability stand point, better to over communicate than under communicate.

But think of all those poor cows who's hard work is being cast aside for no good reason.

 

[tcp71]

German McDonald’s French fry. 3.

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Potatoes, RapeSeed Oil, Iodized tablesalt.

 

[Audiman]

Not practical to do. This involves almost 20,000 packages of product. Plus, and I understand you might not be familiar with Costco (or Sam's Club, etc) but they typically sell everything in larger packaging or pieces "bundled" together. We buy this same item from Sam's Club and I'm sure it's the same - it's (4) boxes made up of (4) sticks of butter in each box, all then shrink-wrapped into a single "package". They'd have to tear the wrapping off each and apply (4) stickers. Each store probably has a pallet full of this product.

https://www.samsclub.com/p/members-...lgin-style-16ct/prod3990032?xid=plp_product_3

The UK has Costco but not Sam’s Club, it’s got to be cheaper and less waste to have a employee apply a sticker to the product, if that means taking a 4 pack wrapped in plastic and removing the wrapping and putting a sticker on it, then selling it at 1/4 the original 4 pack price then I still don’t see an issue with that.