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D'oh SpaghettiOs: 15 Million Pounds Recalled

061910Spaghettios.jpg Campbell Soup is recalling approximately 15 million pounds of "SpaghettiOs with Meatballs" due to possible under-processing of the meat. The nasty SpaghettiOs in question were canned between December 2008 and June 2010, and the problem is believed to have been caused by one of the cookers at the company's Paris, Texas, plant, which malfunctioned and left the meat undercooked. You're going to want to stay away from SpaghettiOs with Meatballs, SpaghettiOs A to Z with Meatballs, and even that variety of SpaghettiOs Fun Shapes with Meatballs with pasta in the shape of characters from the Disney film Cars! So our weekend's pretty much shot.

In other hot FDA news, the agency is currently creating a database containing details about all food, drug, and medical device recalls that occurred throughout the year. It'll be available to the public online in the fall, and the Sunlight Foundation hopes access to recall data "will allow reporters to determine if there are any trends in outbreaks or problems for particular companies, and then link that to lobbying these firms may have done on food and drug safety issues in Congress."

But to be honest, this entire post was just an excuse to revisit that classic Reagan-era SpaghettiOs commercial starring Urkel. Such an innocent time!:

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  • robingee

    Don't y'all front like you don't eat Spaghetti-O's! DAMN.

  • silver

    Who eats this shit? You'll be shitting it for days, if you don't die from a clogged artery first. Public school pasta slurry is less nasty.

  • Uh-oh, Spaghettios.

  • Clarice City

    I wouldn't feed that stuff to a dog anyway.

  • FelixtheCat & Christine Quinn'

    Marie Callender Chessy Chicken and Rice is also recalled.

  • Powerhugs

    Good Source of Fiber...

  • hotstepper

    blech! spaghettios are so awful that i'd rather eat vegan.

  • smilez4milez

    No. I dated a vegan once. They taste funny.

  • longacre

    They're better covered in meat sauce and some good parmasan cheese.

  • FelixtheCat & Christine Quinn'

    +1

  • r1b2

    Um, or simply never buy this rubbish for your kids, ever.

  • Cannibal

    Thats why I stick to Chef Boyardee.

  • Rocknrope

    Seriously, the ravioli rocks.

  • Shinobi Shaw

    It's the only thing I like from Boyardee, it's good!

  • Stevennnn

    Too late. December 2008? Those cans have been eaten already.

  • SFNY

    It takes a year and a half to figure that out??

  • smilez4milez

    I can't think of a more disgusting way to measure SpaghettiOs than in pounds. ooowowwaaauch

  • As I said elsewhere: If you sewed a human being together out of skin & then filled that sack of skin up from toe to crown with SpaghettiOs, you could fill 150,000 skinsuits with that much SpaghettiO.

    Because I had to try really hard to think of a grosser way to measure it.

  • smilez4milez

    touché

  • Wait, my mistake-- just 100,000. BLARG.

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