It doesn’t even taste good.
I think we can probably conclude their industrial metal detector is not properly calibrated
I say there’s also strong evidence to suggest that their QA process for verifying the functionality of the industrial metal detector has some issues that need to be worked out.
It’s also quite likely that there’s at least one person in the process that is incompetent or corrupt.
If you contact them about this, they may send you many Fruit by the Foot rolls.
EDIT: NVM they called me back.
I contacted the 1800 number, they took my name and number and box code and everything, gave me a case number, said they were transferring me, and then an automated voice was like “thank you for calling, please rate our service, goodbye” and hung up on me.
All I’ve learned is to avoid buying any General Mills products for the foreseeable future.
EDIT: NVM they called me back.
They shipping you some freebies? Lol
No answer. They got to him…
They shot him at his damn desk…
They killed him with a sword, Mal. How crazy is that?
We can be assured that their metal detector does not work as supposed.
General Mills is overpriced anways. Aldi is best, usually, granola excepted. Idk about candy I don’t touch it.
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“Metal detector calibration device can be exchanged for many Fruit by the Foot…”
Ouch. Wonder how many contaminated feet of fruit are out there now.
we call it artisan wine ok
Mmm… You can really taste the tinins
This unironically sounds like an imperial system measurement. “It was 10,000 fruitfeet of contamination.”
If my math is good, it takes about 133,000 fruit feet to line one olympic-sized swimming pool, though that’s assuming 2m constant depth.
No idea why Olympic sized pools are the standard pool comparison unit. You’d figure most people would be able to better relate to like Y sized pools.
Which is 69.44 orchards, of course.
Not great. Not terrible.
But only at 70 degrees, where the dog sits, as all imperialists know
How many football fields is that?
I doubt this implies that any are contaminated. The metal disk will certainly be a device that’s safe for contact with food.
The problem is that it got through, so the metal detector isn’t working, and nobody noticed.
Lol. One of my first jobs was working a canning plant. QC procedure for the metal detector was to rerun the test can until it kicked it out properly and then mark it as “functional”.
Those american measurements, SMH.
I once got an assembly machine bumper in my bag of sun chips. The prizes are… unorthodox to say the least.
I once got ramen noodles with that gross cinnamon sugar stuff they put in like those instant oatmeal packets and such loaded in them. Weird. I don’t return food I just threw it out.
This is something else. There is a probably pretty dull story to this, I wish we knew.
Someone poured the wrong powder into the packing machine.
Stuff like that absolutely needs to be reported. People have allergies or diabetes and xould die not knowing what they’re eating (i know youd expect a reasonable person to know the difference, but there are a lot of unreasonable people and those with disabilities)
Yes it does. My wife has celiac and is highly allergic to any gluten. Years ago she started getting a rash on her scalp and shoulders. And not even the local allergist could figure out what it was caused by.
By a process of elimination, we finally got it down to her hair shampoo. And it was supposed to be a hypo allergenic product. A call to Proctor and Gambles customer service got her a nice young lady that was actually concerned about the reaction. She asked questions and took notes and gave promise to call back in a week or two. A week later she called back and was very apologetic. She had found a supplier had changed a formulation and didn’t tell them. And it now contained gluten. She said they were forcing the supplier to go back to the old formula and that this had triggered a division wide audit of all suppliers.
And a week or so later, this brand of shampoo was no longer to be found on shelves of stores in our area ever again. And my wife enjoyed a year’s worth of free hypo allergenic products for Proctor and Gamble to boot.
So yes, report this stuff if it happens!
My workplace is regulated by the FDA and USDA. Everyone is very focused on compliance and food safety and ready to jump on a call with a dozen executives if there’s so much as a whisper of an issue. There’s clearly still some teeth in these regulatory agencies if it’s causing the executives I support to be so concerned about maintaining regulatory compliance!
Probably saved them a lot of money in the long run.
It probably did. But who suspects shampoo!
At least you know the metal detector was being worked on.
Well I think this is what’s called a" hey where’d that go?"
John, the technitian, has dropped so many of those at this point he just carries a bag of them.
I actually laughed out loud at this. I imagined it more as John has been blowing the whistle about the faulty metal detector for a long time now. He’s filled out forms, sent emails, notified his supervisor, etc. Months of frustration go by. He finally just buys a bag of these and randomly chucks one in when no one’s looking so it’ll eventually make it to a consumer, effecting real change.
And they took a photo of it, had a laugh, and nothing changed.
Now john uses arsenic.
Damn, you got me twice.
No, John! That will just make you sick!
Then: I’ll better ponder on that with a little snack.
But alas it didn’t work.
Who detects the detectors.
I’ve worked in food production, I remember a metal test stick going missing, and having to recall&rework 8 full pallets of product to find it.
Food processing around my area has metal detectors.
One asshole threw some screws in the food to get a break, twice. He got caught the second time, charged, I forget, a year in jail or something.
Metal detectors are standard practice in food production, it’s part of HACCP, which basically every food manufacturer implements, I think it’s a requirement of SQF certification as well.
That company has better QC than General Mills apparently.
Just an employee who cares more I’m sure. Idk the absolute gigantic scale of the plants that make these food products is insane. It’s actually impressive there aren’t more issues.
But like if you were on the factory floor and you were worried about losing your job and some random thing happened that ultimately probably won’t kill anyone would you flag someone down or just let it go?
I’d like to think I’d grab somebody if I noticed it. I’d say it’s likely just something happened and it wasn’t noticed.
You might get fired if you fess up right away. You will definitely get fired at a minimum once it becomes public and they trace the production number back to you.
You’d be amazed, at industrial scale how fine grain quality controls can be. With modern QC technology there is very little excuse for cockups in food safety.
316/L is decent shit.
I don’t really have anything much to add other than that.
Last time I tried a fruit by the foot it was skinnier thinner and worse tasting than I remembered them being just a few years earlier. They came in a multi pack with gushers and rollups. The gushers where by far the most disappointing nostalgically, they didn’t even have a shape really and most had leaked.
It’s not just your imagination I and others don’t think, they’ve cheaped out on everything presumably. I used to like subway, I went there a couple years back and it was so salty I could barely eat it, and more downgrade than before I think. Others agreed with me on this, and other food products being worse quality.
Subway is, as far as I know, almost entirely a franchised operation so it varies substantially by region and between individual stores. My town definitely has a “good Subway” and a “bad Subway” (and actually it’s been a year or two since I’ve been, the good one might suck now).
Gushers have also failed my recent nostalgia test. Most come melted together.
Sadly that lives up to my nostalgia but I did remember them tasting better. Dunkaroos were a huge disappointment, the frosting doesn’t taste nearly as good as it did to 10 year old me. Not sure if the formula changed or if my taste buds did
Dunkaroos definitely changed.
I was a dm of dollar tree. They don’t give a fuck if things get melted. During the hottest three months some candy does come in with frozen.
What really concerns me is the medicine. A lot of that stuff says to keep it room temperature. Those trucks are not room temperature and the medicine never comes in with frozen. Straight off the hot ass truck.
Vaguely reminds me: I worked for 7-11 forna few years. One year during summer, the stores AC failed. We had to move all the chocolate into the drinks cooler because it was becoming bags of liquid chocolate…
They still kept and sold it all though.
I’m convinced snack companies are shrinking their products, ala shrinkflation, at a slow enough rate to make you second guess if they just looked bigger when you were smaller.
Right now they appear to be A/B testing natural colors vs old school Allura Red & Tartrazine. The boxes look almost identical, but IMO the natural colored ones taste better. I keep accidentally buying the artificially colored ones.
Ask them how many packets of that stuff they pay you for this thing.
Bad news about that metal detector
Why have Fruit by the Foot when you can eat fruit off my feet?
At least its stainless.
And at that price, a real steel!
It’s pretty metal to be sure.
I guess it failed and they never bothered to find out.
What flavor is it?
