January 29, 2009
- 12:00 pm
By Lauren - University of Michigan
I 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.
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. Read More »
Tags: blakely georgia, FDA, fda peanut, girl scout cookies, organic peanut butter, outbreak, pb, peanut butter, peanut recall, peanut recall list, recalled peanut products, roaches, salmonella, Tagalongs
September 19, 2008
- 3:00 pm
By Kathryn S
Friday night: You’re at a crowded bar, and have to pee. Fearing the toilet seat, you pop a squat, clench your thigh muscles and hold onto the walls while you unleash your last five beers. You make sure you wash your hands (sometimes twice, depending on how filthy the pub is), and maybe even reach into your purse for some hand sanitizer, just to be safe.
Saturday night: You’re at a frat party. You just won three consecutive games of beer pong. You don’t think twice about drinking your cups, despite the fact that you’ve seen the ball land in other peoples’ used cups, roll along the basement floor, and watched the ball pass between thirty-something unwashed hands.
What gives?!?
Obviously, beer pong isn’t the most sanitary party game out there. But you have the “water cup,” right? That cup of tepid, dirty water is totes gonna disinfect that old, recycled ping pong ball (that was most likely found under someone’s bed 10 minutes before party time). Or not.
Some microbiology students at George Washington University decided to test exactly how detrimental to your health beer pong can be. If you like beer pong, you may want to skip this article. Read More »
Tags: anti bacterial, bacteria, bar, bathroom, beer, beer pong, beer pong ball, brew, clean, cleanser, club, cold, dirty, E Coli, experiment, flip cup, flu, George Washington University, germs, hand sanitizer, hands, Immune System, keg, kegstand, mouth, pneumonia, research, salmonella, scientist, sick, study, tap, toilet, wash, water cup
June 10, 2008
- 1:00 pm
By Jess - NYU
Tags: anne hathaway, famous atheletes, fruit, in season, Jessica Simpson, lingerie, name change, plus size, plus size fashion, produce, puff daddy, rupert everett, salmonella, summer fashion, summer fling, tomatos