WASHINGTON—Saying it was vitally important that citizens avoid consuming any of the affected items, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a nationwide recall of all food Wednesday. “We are asking all Americans to return any edible products they own to the store where these items were purchased or to discard such items immediately,” said FDA commissioner Margaret Hamburg at a morning press conference, specifying that under no circumstances should Americans eat grains, meats, produce, nuts, dairy products, processed foodstuffs, sweets, spices, or any other source of sustenance, nor should they feed any of these foods to animals or leave them within the reach of children. “If you are eating something right now, please discontinue doing so. We will let you know when it is okay to consume food again.” Hamburg noted that salt, baking soda, and all foods manufactured before 2002 were unaffected by the recall.
Does that include the food I ate yesterday ? I’d be glad to send it back to CONgress .
The FDA should recall itself, and then terminate.
Just a quick insight into the German language here:
Margaret Hamburg is married to a German husband, Hamilton, but in German the masculine ending for a family name is -er, thus Hamburger, which shows that his family was originally from the city of Hamburg.
To keep it simple, she just calls him by his affectionate diminutive, which of course is ‘Ham’.
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Some people (erroneously) believe Kennedy said “I am a jelly doughnut”. Go ahead and google “berliner” … and the first hit will be a jelly doughnut (Berliner Pfannkuche).
Didn’t Carter go to Germany and announce “Ich bin ein Frankfurter!” …. and then to Denmark to announce he”s a danish?
The stuff most Americans eat can’t really be called food.