A few years ago, I started baking mincemeat pie for the holidays. Relax--there is no meat in my pie (heh heh)--it has a bunch of fruit, cooked in bunch of rum and apple cider until it's basically a very thick syrup, baked in a double crust. INSANELY good.
Anyway, I was going to bake one for my dear friend Michelle this weekend and I was planning to do a blog post here on Sweet Tea that included the recipe.
So there I was...at the grocery store. My recipe calls for dried currants, but they were out, dammit. So I settled for cranberries ("Craisins") and hoped for the best. AND THEN. This morning, I find this article saying that Ocean Spray Craisins have been recalled because of "hairlike metal particles." The fuck???
Here's my favorite quotation from the article (emphasis mine): "Ocean Spray announced the voluntary recall late Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, one of the most cranberry-centric holidays of the year. The company initiated the recall on Wednesday."
You don't have to be friggen Einstein to know how this played out, amirite??? If they initiated (which is code for "did nothing") the recall on Wednesday, then they had to have found out about it before then. But then they huddled with their accountants who confirmed that announcing that their product would tear through you like it has claws may not be so good for business. So they "initiated" the recall on Wednesday, took Thursday off (and you know good and well the fine folks at Ocean Spray didn't eat cranberries on Thanksgiving, while those of us who didn't have insider knowledge were eating it like goddamn refugees), and then announced on Friday: "SURPRISE! That blood in the toilet? That may not be Nana's punkin pie."
The thing that we all know, of course, is that we'd probably all do the same thing:
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