Superchunky

As an antediluvian cave dweller, on some issues I am strictly old school. Take peanut butter. Call me a trog but when I eat peanut butter, it has to be Skippy super chunky. I hate Jiff, Peter Pan, any pretenders to the Skippy throne.

And worst of all of course, is the organic peanut butter. The tasteless stuff with two inches of oil at the top of the jar that you have to stir forever and it still tastes awful. And maybe deadly too.

News today that the Sunland Inc., the New Mexico company that makes organic peanut butter for Trader Joe's, has been shut down by the gubmint. 41 people in 20 states have been stricken with salmonella after consuming their products.

Time to come back to Skippy, people.

Sunland Inc. is the nation's largest organic peanut butter processor, though it also produces many non-organic products. The company recalled hundreds of organic and non-organic nuts and nut butters manufactured since 2010 after Trader Joe's Valencia Creamy Peanut Butter was linked to the salmonella illnesses in September.
In addition to Trader Joe's, Sunland sold hundreds of different peanut products to many of the nation's other large grocery chains, including Whole Foods, Safeway, Target and others.
In a monthlong investigation in September and October, after the outbreak linked to processor Sunland and to Trader Joe's, FDA inspectors found samples of salmonella in 28 different locations in the plant, in 13 nut butter samples and in one sample of raw peanuts.
The agency also found improper handling of the products, unclean equipment and uncovered trailers of peanuts outside the facility that were exposed to rain and birds.
The FDA said that over the past three years, the company shipped products even though portions of their lots, or daily production runs, tested positive for salmonella in internal tests. The agency also found that the internal tests failed to find salmonella when it was present.