I'm currently avoiding ALL products with peanuts in them,
Posted By: BrainDeadMT - sm on 2009-02-11
In Reply to: what did you have to throw out after the - peanut recall
as the recall just seems to keep getting more and more expansive. At the beginning of it I bought some chocolate-covered cookies with peanut-flavored middles that were going to go on a picnic with me, to share with others. Instead, I bought different cookies to share with my friends. (I have few enough friends, without poisoning them to death!) Still, I couldn't throw away the package, and since they were generic, without a particular brand, I finally took a chance and ate one bite of one myself. They were fine, and needless to say, I ended up polishing off the entire package.
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Peanuts in Coke
I grew up in Texas, and I saw it all the time. The salt is suppose to make it better. I have also heard of someone choking to death when a peanut got stuck in his trachea.
Peanuts In Coke?
I just got off the phone with a friend of mine. She recently met a man who puts peanuts in his Coke,then he drinks it.
I remember a song when I was growing up and this was mentioned. It sounds horrible. Have any of you ever done this?
Why???
Is it good? Dont the peanuts gets mushy?
Peanuts in Coke
I live in Tenn and I have done this all of my life. It is good. I also love my sweet tea too. My daughter traveled to the North on a business trip and asked the waitress for sweet tea and one of the guys asked why she asked for sweet tea which they did not have. Where he lived, they did not do this. He said they put sugar in after the tea got cold. My daughter told him if you put the sugar in the tea while it is hot, it would dissolve better. He said he would try it the next time. Love them Chicken and Dumplings too. Gosh, it is about time I made some dumplins soon. I have not done that for awhile, too busy trying to make a few dollars with work being so slow right now with the terrible economy.
What about boiled peanuts? I am...
not originally from the south either and cannot for the life of me figure out why anyone would eat these things (yes, I tried them once).
I do feed the squirrels a mix with peanuts
and seeds and sprinkle it on the ground. Unfortunately they bury the peanuts instead of eating them. I've had as many as 20 squirrels in my yard before when I spread food out on the ground for them. They're pigs and it's quite ridiculous, but yes, I do put food on the ground and in a plastic bowl in an attempt to get them to stay on the ground. They have broken 2 nice feeders already, and for those reasons, many people like to keep them off the feeders.
I'm in north MS, I saw a bag of fried peanuts in...
still in the shell at a convenience store yesterday!
I grew up in IL and many of the foods I grew up eating are the same here.
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My Siberian Husky, Wiley, had enamel hypoplasia, so I always had to take good care of his teeth. It was diagnosed when he was 5 yrs of age. He had a particularly severe case, and I could probably write a book about all our dental adventures over the years (x-rays and cleanings every 6 months, extractions, root canals, malformed roots, reabsorption of the root canals many years later so they had to be removed...)
Anyway, the vet said I needed to brush his teeth *every* day, w/o fail. My heart sank when I heard this, because Wiley was, shall we say... 'spirited' and I thought there was NO WAY he was going to let me brush his teeth.
Fortunately, I found that he really loved the poultry flavored toothpaste for dogs (sounds disgusting, doesn't it?) made by C.E.T. The best price I found was here: http://www.fuzzytummy.com/ (Click on 'shop' under where it shows *C.E.T. Dental Products for Cats and Dogs* then click on 'Best to Brush' and scroll down to C.E.T. Oral Hygiene Kit for Dogs.)
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Ingredient in over 1,800 products
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/peanutbutterrecall/index.cfm
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Mrs. Meyer's geranium or lavender. They also make cleaning products.
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