Peter Pan Peanut Butter

I was driving home from picking up my son from preschool yesterday and heard on the radio about the recall on Peter Pan peanut butter. I had to almost pull the car over to see if I heard it right. Who recall's peanut butter? How awkward is that, walking back into a grocery store with your little grocery bag filled with your stash of Peter Pan Peanut butter. Everyone watching as you go to the customer service desk and politely ask if you can have some more peanut butter because your peanut butter has been recalled. I suppose many people might just actually throw the peanut butter away in the trash and forget about it. Anyways, they said that if your jar had the number that started with a 2111 then your peanut butter might possibly be tainted with salmonella and you should dispose of it. I talked to my wife and she said she heard the same thing. Then she proceeds to remind me that we have a large jar of Peter Pan Peanut Butter sitting in our cabinet at home. But our jar was not just like any jar, this jar was a half empty jar. So, I get home with my boys to check out whether we have the dreaded peanut butter or not. I am not too worried since no one in my family is sick and we have already eaten at least half the jar. I walk over to the cabinet and open the door, and there it sits. Yes, my friends a large jar of Peter Pan. As I reach down to pick up the jar my hand begins to shake in anticipation of what the numbers are on our jar. I walk it over to the counter trying not to look. I set it down, and I look on top of the jar and see these numbers. 2.......1........1.......1.... noooooooo, in our very pantry sits the Peanut butter that has been recalled. You would think that my first thought would be, I wonder if anyone is sick, but it wasn't. My first thought was, “am I going to be that silly man walking into the grocery store to return peanut butter?” Actually, I did look over at my boys and see if they were ok. They were and still are.

So the moral of this story is: If you have Peter Pan Peanut butter check to see if the first 4 numbers are 2111 and then return it to the store.