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#311286 - Fri Jun 23 2006 09:51 AM Enough to make you weep
sue943 Administrator Registered: Sun Dec 19 1999 Posts: 38005 Loc: Jersey Channel Islands	Cadbury's, the chocolate manufacturer, is removing more than 1,000,000 bars of chocolate from shop shelves, to be destroyed. It is feared that there is a small chance of the products being infected with samonella. What a terrible waste, I could weep. BBC News _________________________ Many a child has been spoiled because you can't spank a Grandma!
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#311287 - Sat Jun 24 2006 05:34 PM Re: Enough to make you weep
tiffanyram Multiloquent Registered: Tue Jun 13 2006 Posts: 2547 Loc: Tennessee USA	That's terrible Sue! Destroying all that chocolate. But, then again, we can't have people getting sick if it is infected. The question is--how would they be infected, and who wasn't paying enough attention to be careful with the chocolate? Surely, it is someone's job to keep this from happening-then we do all make mistakes. Tiffany btw, I'm with you, I could cry _________________________ "One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way." -Frank Smith
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#311288 - Sat Jun 24 2006 06:01 PM Re: Enough to make you weep
Copago Moderator Registered: Tue May 15 2001 Posts: 14384 Loc: Australia	Noooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!
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#311289 - Sat Jun 24 2006 06:11 PM Re: Enough to make you weep
ren33 Moderator Registered: Thu Sep 30 1999 Posts: 12593 Loc: Kowloon Tong Hong Kong	They need better testers I reckon, don't you? Shall we volunteer? _________________________ Wandering aimlessly through FT since 1999.
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#311290 - Sat Jun 24 2006 07:05 PM Re: Enough to make you weep
tiffanyram Multiloquent Registered: Tue Jun 13 2006 Posts: 2547 Loc: Tennessee USA	I would GLADLY volunteer to test the chocolate! Though I don't think that my husband would like the outcome...lol _________________________ "One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way." -Frank Smith
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#311291 - Sun Jun 25 2006 12:47 AM Re: Enough to make you weep
JaneMarple Star Poster Registered: Fri Jan 30 2004 Posts: 14486 Loc: North West of England	It is a waste of chocolate...but better be safe than sorry! _________________________ My mind is like a parachute...it functions only when open.
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#311292 - Sun Jun 25 2006 02:13 AM Re: Enough to make you weep
Gatsby722 Pure Diamond Registered: Fri May 18 2001 Posts: 123698 Loc: Canton Ohio USA	Seeing as how eating chocolate causes me to have sneezing fits, this could be considered a public service to we scatterd "sneezers". OK, maybe not .... _________________________ "The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful." ... H. L. Mencken
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#311293 - Sun Jun 25 2006 06:26 AM Re: Enough to make you weep
sue943 Administrator Registered: Sun Dec 19 1999 Posts: 38005 Loc: Jersey Channel Islands	But more than a million bars of chocolate, and I LOVE Cadbury's Milk. _________________________ Many a child has been spoiled because you can't spank a Grandma!
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#311294 - Tue Jun 27 2006 11:40 AM Re: Enough to make you weep
dg_dave Champion Poster Registered: Sun Oct 05 2003 Posts: 24575 Loc: near Stafford, Virginia USA	Having been in the food service industry for over five years, I don't see how chocolate can have salmonella without having eggs in it. _________________________ The way to get things done is NOT to mind who gets the credit for doing them. --Benjamin Jowett No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. --Eleanor Roosevelt The day we lose our will to fight is the day we lose our freedom.
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#311295 - Tue Jun 27 2006 11:49 AM Re: Enough to make you weep
skunkee Star Poster Registered: Thu Oct 16 2003 Posts: 10984 Loc: Burlington Ontario Canada	Salmonella does not just grow in eggs Dave. The easiest was for it to spread into the chocolate would be for the chocoalte to have been handled by someone who was infected with salmonella. It is terribly contagious. _________________________ Editor: Movies/Celebrities/Crosswords "To insult someone we call him 'bestial'. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult." - Isaac Asimov
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#311296 - Tue Jun 27 2006 01:43 PM Re: Enough to make you weep
sue943 Administrator Registered: Sun Dec 19 1999 Posts: 38005 Loc: Jersey Channel Islands	Quote: The contamination was caused by a leaking pipe at Cadbury's Marlbrook plant, near Leominster, Herefordshire. The leak was discovered in January with samples sent to an independent laboratory where a rare strain of salmonella was identified. It is still a horrible waste of all that lovely chocolate. _________________________ Many a child has been spoiled because you can't spank a Grandma!
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#311297 - Sun Aug 06 2006 05:42 AM Re: Enough to make you weep
sue943 Administrator Registered: Sun Dec 19 1999 Posts: 38005 Loc: Jersey Channel Islands	There is an upside to this story. Due to all the publicity over the problem, sales of Cadbury's chocolate must have taken a downturn (mind you it would take more than a very, very slight chance of salmonella to stop me eating the stuff!) so in order to boost sales some shops are offering large bars of the stuff at half price! Yum, yum. _________________________ Many a child has been spoiled because you can't spank a Grandma!
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#311298 - Sun Aug 06 2006 10:50 AM Re: Enough to make you weep
chelseabelle Star Poster Registered: Thu Oct 07 1999 Posts: 10282 Loc: New York USA	Cadbury Royal Dark Chocolate is not only luscious, it is good for your heart. I personally try to consume some daily--purely for medicinal purposes. I am a fan of the milk chocolate as well (although, sadly, that does lack the heart-protecting properties of the dark chocolate), although I understand that the milk chocolate version sold in the U.S. differs from that in the UK. I think ours is somewhat sweeter. I much prefer it to the other makes. I hope they do not show any video of the chocolate being destroyed. It would be too horribly painful to watch. Hmmm...I never realized you can get salmonella from chocolate. Is nothing sacred any more? _________________________ Still Crazy After All These Years
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