Time to avoid pistachios

[RainCaster]

The FDA has not been a reliable source of news about food borne illnesses, so I subscribed to Canada's version. For two weeks now I've been receiving daily notices of various pistachio products being pulled for salmonella. Today the notice was a general notice about all pistachio products.

Please stay safe.

Added subscription link: https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/subscribe

[LeftInTX]

1. Thanks. I checked Habibi Chocolates. they are recalled in Canada, but based on Florida.

So yeah...

How do you even find out about Canadian recalls?

(I was wondering where their pistachios were sourced)

Boo on our non-existent FDA.

I love pistachios and was gonna make some kunefe for a get together next weekend. Looks like I won't be adding pistachios.

[niyad]

2. google "canadian recalls list" then click on that link. there is a section

to subscribe.

adding: OP added the link.

[LeftInTX]

5. Done!

[DET]

6. Gonna Be a Bumpy Ride

I never heard of kunefe, so I looked it up. Sounds delicious. I’m kind of ticked off since I recently bought an expensive nut assortment as a thank you gift for a local business that did a favor for my son, but my son beat me to it with his own gift. So we’ve been eating the nuts, but hadn’t gotten to the pistachios yet. Now I’m afraid to try them.

God help us if RFK Jr. allows bird flu to run rampant, as he’s proposed. Or some kind of infection in cattle. Or any kind of infection in anything, since he won’t test for it. I’m amazed that there isn’t more pushback against these reckless policies.

[niyad]

3. I am so grateful to the DU'er who directed me to that site some

months ago.

[Hekate]

4. Thank you. And thanks for the link.

https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/subscribe

[Melon]

7. This is not for US pistachios!! US pistachios are fine. These are imports out of turkey.

We have friends that grow for the US market in California. These are Canadian imported from turkey. Let’s not hurt our markets with misguided info. Pistachios aren’t grown in Florida.

[Irish_Dem]

14. When there is no reliable info from US FDA, we are forced to look at other country's data.

The US food producers will suffer for it.

[nilram]

8. damn. I have this great pistachio + Walmart shrimp recipe to try.

My niece tried it, she's positively glowing.

[Melon]

9. Do it. Use US grown pistachios. California. Arizona and I think Texas.

[niyad]

20. You missed the radioactive wal-mart shrimp reference?

[markodochartaigh]

10. Thank you.

One of my cats likes a pistachio now and then. I just buy the smallest bag and give him a couple a day for a few days.

[no_hypocrisy]

11. Our store is pushing the Dubai Chocolate bars.

Nothing but chocolate with pistachio filling. (Uh oh!)

[shanti]

12. Looks delish

But those Dubai chocolates are hard to find, and very pricey.

[no_hypocrisy]

13. We sell them for $15. I've tasted them. Yuck!

[Irish_Dem]

15. Looks nauseating. How do they manage to ruin chocolate.

[no_hypocrisy]

16. Customers are still buying them.

I warn them about the $15 price tag and they don't blink.

I guess it's the mystique and online "influencers" that drive the purchases b/c it certainly isn't the taste.

[tavernier]

17. I bought one when I was in Cali recently

and actually thought it was delicious. I didn’t get much of the pistachio flavor but the chocolate was very nice. But not special enough to buy another.

[Irish_Dem]

18. I am seeing the Dubai chocolate venders at malls

Shopping and food malls.

Looks nauseating in person too.

Given the bad appearance and high price tag perhaps the taste is fabulous?

[no_hypocrisy]

19. Not at all. I've outright told customers to take their $15 and go

buy a steak.

[niyad]

21. The whole dubai chocolate thing is courtesy of some tiktok "influencers".

Ii had been wondering why I was suddenly seeing this stuff everywhere, so I went looking. Not a pretty story, but rather depressing about how easily swayed people are.

[yardwork]

22. Isn't that the truth.

We're in this whole mess because of how easily people are duped by influencers.

[niyad]

23. A pint of pistachio ice cream and a good chocolate bar would serve

you much better. .and far less expensive.