The Adventures of Krystal Kid: Saturday Night's Alright for Food Poisoning

Saturday, July 28, 2007

Saturday Night's Alright for Food Poisoning

On Monday I will be headed down to Brunswick, GA to see Emily's Toybox in concert again. This will be my third trip down. They've been in Key West this past week playing at Sloppy Joe's. The cool thing is Sloppy Joe's has a live Stage Webcam. So you can watch them here. They got on about 10pm. They tend to play til about 2am, and their concerts are NOT KID FRIENDLY!! They'll have another show tomorrow night from key west as well. Immediately after that show they hit the road for Brunswick.
While I have been waiting for them to hit the stage, I have been doing some unpacking. Yes I still have boxes left to unpack. Especially the kitchen. My new kitchen is half the size of my old one and I am running out of placed to put things. My dish washer is currently serving as a storage place for the pots and pans I washed yesterday, cause I don't have cabinet room for them right now. Whats worse is I have about 4 more boxes of stuff left to unpack. One box is mostly canned goods. And who would have guessed what was sitting on top of the canned good? (Well obviously I would, since I bought it.)
So have you heard the news lately about the Castleberry's Chili recall? If you haven't you can read about it Here on their web site. And it just so happens this is sitting on the top of my box of canned goods:

Now I know you're wondering if this is one of those cans. if you follow the link above you can find a list of the products and UPC codes of tainted chili. I saved you some work, here's the important part:

Remember thos numbers and the descriptions. Here's the UPC code on the back of my can:

I know it is hard to read, but it says: 30300 07701
And just in case, I spun it around to this side (which I again know is hard to read)

The 2nd to the last line reads:"Castleberry's Food Co. Augusta, GA 30903"
The Augusta plant is the one with the Botulism problem. So yeah, this is one of those cans. So now the next question is: what do I do with it? Yeah I know the web site says I should dispose of it, but that's not any fun. (Don't worry, I taught the Hazardous Communications class on the base, so I know what I am doing!)
I thought of perhaps putting it on my bookcase as a display. But once the botulism kicks in the the can explodes while I am work, that won't be ANY fun to clean off every wall of the living room.
Then I thought about making myself a tidy profit. Since I've been selling stuff on Ebay lately in order to reduce my "stuff" I figured maybe I could sell it on Ebay. Sadly, they have a policy against selling biohazards.
I thought of smearing it on my face, taking a picture, then "getting sick" and letting Castleberry's pay for my PhD. BUt I bet their lawyers would find this blog, and there goes all my money. So now I am thinking: