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Alberta only (at present): Mahrousa brand tahini's being recalled for salmonella. https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-recall/mahrousa-brand-tahini-recalled-due-salmonella

I was waiting for it, and was not disappointed. About the second social media post I saw when I got up this morning was "Pancake Tuesday already? That really creped up on us..."

Some of BC's Stellar Bay brand oysters are being recalled for norovirus. At present they're only known to have been sold in BC, but as always that may change with future updates. They were sold to consumers and also through hotels/restaurants, so something to be aware of if you're in BC and have recently had oysters during an evening out. https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-recall/certain-stellar-bay-shellfish-brand-oysters-recalled-due-norovirus-0

My grandmother used to hoard them for baking days. The idea of paying for pan spray would have horrified her Depression-formed soul!

Huh. Chicken chitterlings. Chickerlings? Chicklin's?

There's a place in Newfoundland, just outside of Port aux Basques (where the ferry docks), called Wreckhouse. The coastal hills have a way of funnelling the winds into one particular pass, there, which means on random days with no particular weather going on, you'll encounter gusts of up to 200km/h (120mph) on the highwayLocal tourism guides encourage people in RVs to hasten through that stretch, lest they find themselves on their sides in the ditch, but a surprising number of them stop instead to take a photo beside this sign: (I couldn't find a better photo, but it gets the idea across). There are a few other places around Newfoundland where that kind of thing happens. Shipping containers get blown off flatbed rail cars, etc.

"Shakeable bowl" = 1) Open bowl. 2) Open dressing, add to bowl. 3) Re-seal bowl. 4) Shake that thang! (lid stays on) 5) Open bowl, eat salad.

No worries. You accidentally pressed one of the hottest of my hot buttons, as you probably gathered. I was somewhat concerned I might have overdone it, in fact. When I was a kid, the farmers my family rented from (our closest neighbours) had a small dairy farm, and I used to watch in fascination as my friends' mom would pour the milk into the electric separator (a big freestanding centrifuge, in the corner of the kitchen) to separate the milk and cream. She always brought hers up to a near-boil, though, before using it.

Raw milk has a handful of purported benefits that are poorly supported by research, vs an extremely well-documented history of causing significant illness and death. Pasteurization was/is one of the cornerstone public-health interventions (along with vaccines and improved sanitation) that brought down child mortality in particular from 100 per 1000 live births at the turn of the 20th century, to 0.77/1000 live births at the turn of the 21st (those are US numbers, because they're easier to find, but Canada's tracked pretty closely to the same percentages). I don't have any particular objection to a billionaire and his former-dancer wife setting up shop as salt-of-the-earth homesteaders, and selling their homegrown meats etc to their Instagram followers. It's a grift, but (shrug) if someone wants to order meat from them at a premium, vs the farmer down the road, that's their prerogative. Nothing to do with me. But I do get het up over the notion of deliberately promoting something that's known to be unsafe, whether as a money-maker (again, the dude could live very comfortably on his trust fund without needing to do this), or from ego, or whatever. The "schadenfreude" comes from knowing this guy could definitely have budgeted to hire a consultant and gotten it right the first time, but couldn't be bothered. I guess you could say that "putting lives in danger for fun and profit" rubs me the wrong way (anti-vaccine grifters also set me off badly, which probably will not be a shock to you given the foregoing). As it happens I'd just finished reading this article from Ars Technica when I came across a link to that People Magazine piece on social media, so the timing was especially apt. https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/02/newborns-death-spurs-raw-milk-warning-in-new-mexico/ I've written a number of articles about outbreaks of foodborne illness during the time I've been freelancing, and there's been a pretty big body of research to pull from where raw milk is concerned. I'll drop a couple here, just 'cause, but this is one of my big hobby-horses so I'll exercise a bit of restraint. https://marlerclark.com/pdfs/raw-milk-jeh.pdf (The farm mentioned in this piece is especially influential, and has largely driven the rise in visibility for raw-milk consumption) https://www.livescience.com/health/viruses-infections-disease/new-report-details-one-of-the-biggest-raw-milk-related-outbreaks-in-recent-us-history ...and while this one isn't about people knowingly consuming raw milk, a mechanical failure allowed raw milk to mix with pasteurized milk, causing at least 12 known deaths, over 16,000 lab-diagnosed infections, and (after tracing the milk's distribution pattern) estimates of over 160,000 probable illnesses overall. https://theconversation.com/contaminated-milk-from-one-plant-in-illinois-sickened-thousands-with-salmonella-in-1985-as-outbreaks-rise-in-the-us-lessons-from-this-one-remain-true-254036 Please understand I'm not dunking on you, here. A lot of people are promoting the stuff, whether for mercenary reasons, or rote contrarianism, or because they've become True Believers; and obviously I don't know your daughter or her beliefs/influences on the matter. If you're interested, you can reach out in a private message and I can find some more links for you that either emphasize the science or actively debunk the main handful of bad-faith arguments that favor raw milk.

Food recalls, "grifter schadenfreude" edition: https://people.com/ballerina-farm-halts-sale-of-raw-milk-after-failed-health-test-report-11897521

Another enoki recall, for listeria. So far the only "for sure" market affected is BC, but they've kept the door open to other locations as well. https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-recall/mushmoshi-brand-enoki-mushroom-recalled-due-listeria-monocytogenes-0

They still make those big commercial units that attach to a workbench, for sure. Not so certain about the wall-mount domestic kind, like my grandmother had. This one is just a simple hand-held unit, like any other except (in my experience) better made than most.

Macadamia lovers in BC and Alberta, beware... some Dan-D Pak macadamias are being recalled for salmonella. https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-recall/dan-pak-brand-raw-macadamia-nuts-recalled-due-salmonella-0