Now this is one of the weirdest food recalls you'll ever see.
A teen in Omaha found a big clamp inside a Fit & Active frozen dinner. And this wasn't just inside the box, it was actually on top of the sesame chicken meal itself, underneath the plastic (see photo on the right). The Aldi grocery store chain took all of the dinners off of their shelves and officials are going to investigate the matter to see if any further action has to be taken.
When I first saw the picture I thought it was some sort of lock that came with the meal so dieters could lock their refrigerators so they wouldn't overeat.
Cakes so amazing they'd be hard to cut into
Fruit juice: An invitation to diabetes?
Morbid thoughts? Have a cookie
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3-04-2008 @ 10:21AM
Iscariote said...
There's a reason products at Aldi are cheap.
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3-04-2008 @ 11:26AM
Jazzops said...
Its a sanitary clamp, also known as a tri-clover clamp. Used in a lot of food processing plants and dairies. We use them in our brewery.
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3-04-2008 @ 11:26AM
beanspants said...
you have to eat that thing to get your lifetime allowance of iron.
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3-04-2008 @ 1:13PM
Lindsey said...
Yet another reason I gave up frozen dinners. First it's all the preservatives and sodium, now it's factory equipment. You just never know what's in them. Ha.
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3-04-2008 @ 1:24PM
Ozymandia said...
My dad worked for years in a cereal factory, and he has lots of stories about various bits of machinery or conveyors ending up in boxes.
I used to build metal detectors for food and drug companies, and the stories about what was found in some foods before they had detectors (or if they had malfunctioning detectors) was enough to put me off certain foods for life.
There's everything from disintigrating chains and blades, to entire components falling into product. It's unfortunate, but wherever you have equipment or people in the vacinity of foods, there's the chacne that something unwanted will find its way into the product eventually.
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3-04-2008 @ 2:53PM
eric said...
that is wonderfully creepy.
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3-14-2008 @ 6:17AM
Micah said...
Don't they have scales or something that weigh the productbefore it gets sent off? Shouldn't this have triggered something?
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