Peanut Butter Update

I got a call yesterday from a sweet, little old lady in San Angelo, Texas who wanted to make sure she could still eat her peanut butter from the jar. Our main message sent out about the salmonella outbreak has been that retail peanut butter, i.e., peanut butter in a jar, is still safe to eat. However, there has been a recall on a lot of the peanut butter crackers we all love to eat.

Last night I learned that Byron's roommate had bought several packages of peanut butter crackers days before the recall, because they were all on sale. I wonder if some guy at the grocery store had an insider?

It's interesting (and comforting) to see how Americans truly love their peanut butter. I've heard the statement a couple times that "they'd rather take the risk than not eat their peanut butter."

I guess that's their choice, but our hope is that the salmonella scare, while it should not be taken lightly, will not cause a huge dip in peanut butter by the jar sales. That not only causes problems with food manufacturers, but could later cause a surplus of peanuts on the market and drop prices even more than they've already fallen.

If you're not sure what products are on the recall list, go to the FDA's web site.

Go to the TPPB site to read our statements.