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user-inactivated  ·  2823 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Aldi confirms up to 100% horsemeat in beef products | Business | The Guardian

This is more of a supply issue than anything else, not a meat issue. This can happen to really any product. It might be an argument for raw food diets, where you can visibly see the product every time like peas and corn, and generally yes vegetarian/vegan diets will have more of these types of food in them, but sometimes even if it's not meat you have no idea.

Like the one time I ordered loose leaf tea and ended up with a bag a quarter full of tobacco. I guess steeping tobacco doesn't get you nicotine because I didn't realize it until half way through the small bag. Then again, I might not have hit the tobacco yet, a large portion of it was definitely black tea.





tacocat  ·  2823 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If it was all tobacco you would have gotten sick. I tried to dye paper with tobacco and handling the mixture made me nauseous and I smoke a lot. I also filtered a cigarette out of a glass of whiskey and threw up immediately when I drank it. That last one probably doesn't count for much. I just rarely find myself in a situation where I want to admit doing that.

kleinbl00  ·  2823 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Girlfriend's dad once read that you could keep bugs off your plants with a tobacco tea spray. So he boiled a can of Skoal wintergreen in a pot of water and misted the apple tree.

It was years before the tree bore fruit again... And the kitchen never smelled the same.

user-inactivated  ·  2823 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't know how much of it was, but I saw a decent amount of loose tobacco at the bottom of the bag and a smoked cigarette with chinese lettering on it. I think I mostly drank the real tea on the top and probably didn't even get to the tobacco. The company said they had a disgruntled employee that did it. They aren't in business anymore.