Then again, one could just quit reading Food Recall stories. But this one rather stood out for weirdness—not salmonella, not e. coli, but botulism for chrissakes. The stuff you are told to worry about if you eat badly-home-canned food or go to a lot of church potlucks.

There hasn’t been a case of botulism in commercially-canned food in well over 30 years. Way to go, Bushie. Loosen those food-safety standards! The free market will take care of the problem, right?

However there is the minor matter of the stores that sold this stuff. Castleberry brand doesn’t must make Castleberry Brand products it seems. They make shit for just about everybody (except Hormel. Spam is safe.) On the just-released-very-expanded list are such items as:

Kroger Hot Dog Chili Sauce, 10 oz. cans (Kroger=everyplace)

Best Yet Chili with Beans, 15 oz. cans (Best Yet=house brand across wide range of regional stores)

And the big UH oh….

Great Value Chili with Beans, 15 oz. cans

* Great Value Hot Chili with Beans, 15 oz. cans

Great Value=House brand for Wal Mart.

And oh yeah, there’s also

UPDATE NOTE: If you read this before please click on “read more” and look again. I have received information from “someone not authorized to talk to the media” about this botulism shit. Useful informaton indeed.  Read more