MMMMM mmmmm MMMMM Allen's Green Beans

[lonestarnot]

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Rodent head in your green beans? No problem, canner says - it's 'commercially sterile'
By Brianna Lange
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 10/05/2007 01:17:22 PM MDT


Click photo to enlargeMarianne Watson of Lehu, UT had quite a surprise when... (Danny Chan La/The Salt Lake Tribune )«1»A rodent head found by a Lehi woman in a can of green beans would be safe to eat, the company's spokesman said Thursday. But Marianne Watson, the woman who found the head in the can bought from a Wal-Mart store, rejected a $100 settlement that Allen Canning offered her if she signed a liability release.
"There's no way that product could have hurt her," Allen Canning spokesman James Phillips said in a telephone interview. "This rodent was rendered commercially sterile. We cook each can individually at a temperature up to 265 degrees."
Even so, Phillips said the rat head wouldn't be welcome at his home. "I'd hate to even think about seeing the same thing on my kitchen table."
Watson bought the can from the American Fork Wal-Mart store on Sept. 28. On Sunday, when she opened the can to prepare lunch for her family, she found the rodent head.
The Arkansas-based company called the check it sent Watson a "gesture of good will," but assured her that it was not an admission of liability.
"It's a $100 bribe," Watson said. "It's insulting, and I felt they were disingenuous. I feel like they're asking me to view them as good farmers, but they're just protecting their tails."
Phillips says that Watson isn't the victim, though.

[ruiner4u]

1. yeah, the real victim was the rat...

:puke:

[lonestarnot]

2. I will speak for Swampie and agree!

:toast:

[Didereaux]

8. ...update on that ,and the mouse's family

http://www.flickr.com/photos/12461951@N03/


.......... ;)

[lonestarnot]

10. OMG ackenpucky!

[notadmblnd]

3. it must been a message... do business with Wal-Mart or else

you'll wake up to a dismembered rodents head in your lunch.

[lonestarnot]

5. ackety ack!

lunch a buncha fucking rats! Sorry Swampie :hug:

[malaise]

4. "There's no way that product could have hurt her,"

These corporations become more brazen by the day :puke:

[lonestarnot]

6. No shit. How much more you going to take people?

:puke:

[malaise]

15. I hope they sue big time n/t

[Window]

7. "...but they're just protecting their tails."

read (rodent tails) to be found in other cans of green beans.


:rofl:

[TK421]

21. Who ever thought you could get head from a can of string beans?

:D

[Heidi]

9. Commercially-sterile rodent heads: your daily source of unexpected additional protein.

Seriously, this is just gross. :puke:

[Buns_of_Fire]

20. Shhhhh..... They'll start charging extra for it...

Or, as Microsoft would say, "It's not a bug -- it's a FEATURE!"

[Raejeanowl]

11. Since When...

...Did an expectation of wholesome food become an unreasonable demand?

I'm not sure what a cooked rat's head in my green beans would be "worth" if I didn't actually, inadvertently consume it-sterile or not-but a revolting shock like that is NOT a trifle.

Was there at least a profuse apology with a pledge for remedial action accompanying the "good will" check and liability release?

A formerly pre-eminent cosmetic company used to send out a 10-plus page, jaw-droppingly detailed medical questionnaire from its legal department when a customer questioned an apparent sensitivity to a product. The intent was clear: to treat every complaint as a lawsuit-in-waiting, and to pre-emptively wear out the potential litigant. Never mind that the customer might have had a right to know or be cautioned about common allergenic ingredients in order to avoid them in future.

When will they wise up that this CYA legal approach is counterproductive?

[annabanana]

12. Is this the outfit?

http://www.allencanning.com/index.htm

Maybe they should charge EXTRA for the added value the protein of the head contributes to the beans!

[lonestarnot]

17. cat yack!

Could be one in the same. I don't know.

[cigsandcoffee]

13. God, that's disgusting. n/t

[hashibabba]

14. No breakfast for me this morning...

I may not even be able to finish my coffee!

[beam me up scottie]

16. Phillips went to the Donald Rumsfeld School of Public Relations:

"If you would calculate the frequency of this on a calculator, it wouldn't fit because the number's so small," said Phillips.

Still, the case is not the first time a complaint about animal parts in Allen's green beans has been made public. In 2005, The Northwest Herald in McHenry County, Ill., reported that a woman found an amphibian leg in a can of Allen's green beans. Brenda Eisenberg of Spring Grove found the leg in November 2005. Allen's offered her $25, a gift pack and a cookbook.

Watson says she made the incident public to prevent others experiencing the same thing. She advises those who have purchased Allen's green beans to check the label for the tainted batch number: 34CG262162.

Allen's regrets that the incident happened.

"Were we disappointed? Absolutely. Do we want these things to happen? Absolutely not. But when they do happen, we try to respond," said Phillips.

[sinkingfeeling]

18. Allen's is right up the road from me. In all reality, I love their Italian Green Beans and you

will find them served in most restaurant chains across the country.

I know it would be shocking and disgusting to find a mouse head in your green beans, but I can easily see that happening in one can out of millions. And you are aware that the FDA allows us to eat all kinds of things like rodent hair, rodent droppings, insects, parasites, etc.?


http://www.sixwise.com/newsletters/05/06/29/how_many_insect_parts_and_rodent_hairs_are_allowed_in_your_food.htm

How about a little rat hair with your peanut butter? A fly head with your macaroni and cheese? Though it may sound disgusting, these things and other gross filth the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) calls "natural contaminants" are indeed allowed and present in your food.

Think insect parts and rodent hairs are more of a rarity? Think again. A University of Ohio fact sheet estimates that we eat from one to two pounds of insects each year, and without knowing it.

[hedgehog]

19. Would you believe that they actually grew those same beans

outside in the dirt where birds could poop on them!