Eff You, Blakely, Georgia

January 29, 2009 12:00 pm     Posted in Reality  Lauren - University of Michigan g+ page

tagalongs.jpgI am usually not one to hate an entire group of people for the mistakes of one (except OSU students…I really do strongly dislike them all), but this time it’s different.


By Lauren

This time it involves food. And not just any food, peanut butter.

Peanut butter has been the one constant in my life over the past 4 years. When boys upset me, I turned to peanut butter on a spoon. When friends upset me, I turned to peanut butter mixed with vanilla ice cream. When my jeans got too tight from all that PB on a spoon/in ice cream, I turned to peanut butter Power Bars to fuel my workouts. And when I got sick of working out and instead wanted to numb the pain, I smoked some pot and then turned to PB and Cheese crackers.

Peanut butter was my friend when I was feeling lonely, and my support base when I needed it most.

And now those f**kers in Blakely, Georgia have gone and ruined it for me. According to news reports, the people of Blakely are behind this whole peanut butter emergency; their factory was full of bacteria (not to mention roaches) and they knew their products were testing positive for Salmonella…but shipped them out anyway.

And now the country is freaking out and everyone is pulling my precious peanut butter products from store shelves. Even organic products! No one knows how widespread this outbreak is or when it will be resolved, so we all just have to sit tight as more and more products get added to the list.

So, thanks, people of Blakely, Georgia. Thanks a lot! My only saving grace in this moment of emotional stress is the knowledge that my precious Girl Scout Tagalongs were not affected.

8 Comments on "Eff You, Blakely, Georgia"

  1. Natalie says:
    Thu, 29th Jan 20097:32 am 

    Try finding some at a local co-op that is ground in store from peanuts. All the stuff in our fridge is totally clear.

  2. lee says:
    Thu, 29th Jan 20098:22 am 

    I know this may be a stupid question but what about Almond butter?

  3. Kelly says:
    Thu, 29th Jan 20098:31 am 

    I am so happy that those girl scout cookies aren't infected because I love those things. And I have the same relationship with peanut butter… there is a variety for EVERY occasion.

  4. Jennifer Lance says:
    Thu, 29th Jan 20093:33 pm 

    I almost couldn't leave a comment here, because I was born right after an OSU game (straight to the hospital from the horseshoe-Northwestern, not Michigan), but anyways I came to a realization today. My son took the organic peanut butter out of the fridge, and I panicked. We've been eating this peanut butter for weeks. No one has gotten sick, so we at least have one safe partially eaten jar in our refrigerator.

  5. Shea says:
    Fri, 30th Jan 20091:04 pm 

    Oooh no not the pb!

    It's my favey =(

  6. LaNae says:
    Sun, 10th Jan 20102:20 pm 

    btw boo to you for strongly disliking osu! go bucks lol michigan sucks

  7. Blakely, Georgia says:
    Tue, 19th Jan 20102:27 pm 

    Eff you.

    A) That was only one of the food process we have in our tiny little town.

    B) It is not all we do, (Read as, stop hating the entire county)

    C) the Company's headquarters are in Virginia (If you're going to Eff anyone Eff Peanut Corp.)

    D) Do recall that the Texas factory was just as bad, IF NOT WORSE.

    So I am sorry if you're precious peanut butter was recalled, but do not Eff an entire Town without properly doing your research. We are people too.

  8. Victor says:
    Sun, 22nd Apr 20122:01 pm 

    :I’m not sure what you mean . . . with respect to mggtoare amounts accounting for debt . . . hell, no one will LET the debt be measured, as the FED and SEC control the accounting firms who are in on it all, too . . . . etc.First of all, I was talking about the face value of the assets formerly known as toxic . This is not hidden it’s in their quarterly reports. It’s what they were claiming they were worth before it turned out that they weren’t worth that much.Second, you have to stop looking at these people as being the obedient minions of Cthulhu. As rich people they have in common the desire to preserve and expand their privileges, so they often act in concert. But they’ll also stab each other in the back if they think they can get away with it. Bernie Madoff, Alan Stanford, Key Lay they all ripped off rich people, too.The Fed, the SEC actually sometimes do the job they were created to do. It’s not the institutions, it’s whether they’re run by public servants or cronies.You see, you can’t stop the ripoffs. You can only chase the bright ones, figure out how they gamed the system, then change the rules before the copycats move in. The very best you can do is play catch-up.Now, the AIG bonuses are useful for theater building outrage. They amount to 1/1,000th of the AIG TARP funds. If Geithner knew about them and ignored them, I don’t blame him at all. I absolutely agree with Dean Baker that CDSes are out and out horse track gambling. I can’t take out a $1M life insurance policy on you, payable to me without your signature, for obvious reasons. But Sen. Gramm convinced enough people that it was a good idea to get it passed (actually, I believe he snuck it into an appropriations bill and most people didn’t notice). As a result, they cannot be regulated (or banned) without legislation. And no, I do not understand why TARP funds were used to honor horse track betting when the bookie went bad. The fact that the AIG unit that was bookie was in London and most of the bettors were European banks probably has something to do with it.readerOfTeaLeaves has a good comment at 11:59, though he confuses CDOs and CDSs at times, and I don’t think his conclusion is justified.But, we can only nationalize commercial banks. It would take new legislation to nationalize investment banks. And it will take new legislation to put a walls back between commercial banking, investment banking and insurance. However big a shitstorm they’ve created, they still have tons and tons of money, and tons of friends in the media and congress. A few peasants storming the gate probably won’t do it. It’s a chess game, not WWE Raw.Geithner’s plan: Banks will not get face value, and probably nothing near. If things go south, the taxpayer will take a bath, but they would without the Geithner plan, too. The biggest danger is unemployment, not the collapse of the RE bubble. If people have jobs, mggtoares will get paid and those assets will be worth something.I left you another . Really, Larue, we have to stop not meeting like this.

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