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So here's something bizarre and sad. You know that salmonella outbreak that has been tied to Peter Pan peanut butter? (And, to a lesser extend, Wal-Mart's "Great Value" house brand?) It hasn't caused any deaths yet, but almost 300 people in 39 states have fallen ill from it.
Well, one of the people who have fallen ill? "Mike and Mike In The Morning" co-host and ESPN football guy Mike Golic, who announced it on the show this morning. He has been out sick for several days, and today, he confirmed it to co-host Mike Greenberg.
We hope Golic is able to recover from this — salmonella is pretty nasty stuff — and wish him well. Everybody knows that Jif is the best peanut butter anyway. It's what choosy moms choose.
Salmonella Possibly Linked To Peter Pan [Toledo Blade]
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Choosy Mom's Choose Jiff, Mike.
Golic must have ingested at least 3 quarts of the stuff in one sitting.
I like how he admitted to eating a second sadwich after recognizing the batch number. I completely believe him.
Which one's Golic in the photo?
So he didn't really lose the weight with nutri-system, it was the samonella diet.
ESPN radio interns rub the peanut butter under Golic's gums so it looks like he's actually talking.
There's only 1 PB - creamy Skippy.
I wouldn't wish salmonella even on Golic. I just barely came into contact with a small amount of bad chicken juice last year, and it sent me into a three-day spiral of wanting only to die.
Sorry I put uncooked chicken and spinach salad in our peanut butter.
-Peter Pan
"And those LifeStyles condoms gave me syphilis!"
Was it from a sandwich? If so, are we sure it was the peanut butter in the sandwich, or could it have been the sausage, ham, cheese, bacon or marshmellow topping?
Damn, all this peanut butter talk is making me hungry. I think this calls for 4 whole chickens and a diet coke.
Has anyone even explained how the shit salmonella gets into peanut butter in the first place? Other than HCM's explanation.
congrats to ESPN for finally coming up with a sports-related scoop
It's that goddamn Captain Hook tampering with Peter Pan's stash again.
You eat shit for breakfast?
It's that goddamn Captain Hook tampering with Peter Pan's stash again.
I wouldn't look past Ruffio so quickly.
Shea, I read yesterday that the CDC thinks the containers were dirty before the peanut butter was put in them. I don't think they have a solid answer yet though.
It's that goddamn Captain Hook messin with Peter Pan's stash again.
While Dr. Carver died penniless and insane, still trying to play a phonograph record with a peanut.
I am all about the Skippy Natural.
On a completely unrelated note, who remembers Mike Golic in the "Saved by the Bell: The College Years"? I nearly shat myself the first time I saw him on ESPN a few years back without all the beard and facial hair.
whoops
I'm with Unleash the Dragon- Skippy Natural Creamy PB is the way to go.
Dam Jen P beat me to it!
Hey, LL, it's good stuff! Spread the Skippy Natural love!
It's ok...because it's your dog!
Uh, PDF, wrong Golic
WAIT! I stand corrected. Mike is the brother of BOB Golic, who appeared on "The College Years." Clearly, I should have done my Google search long ago, because that one had bothered me for years.
One other thing -- I apologized in advance for the SBTB reference. Blame the Romo-Belding post, I say.
I thought it was his older, shaggy brother Bob, that was on Saved by the Bell.
I buy the organic unsweetened stuff. Does that make me ####?
and I apologize for turning this place into Regret the Error.
Are the Buckwheat Boys going to do a song about this too?
"IT'S PEANUT BUTTER SALMONELLA TIME!"
Coincidentally, Golic is in the same position now as in that picture.
I like Simply Jif, which is the low-fat low sugar Jif.
Which matches the Low Fat Special K waffle, light syrup, and the "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter - Light" I had for breakfast.
Smuckers natural is better than skippy's. Yea, I said it. I will say it later if provoked as well.
I too got Salmonella from peanut butter.
Of course, it might have something to do with the hooker I was licking it off of.....
And some dry white toast please, ma'am.
Sounds like low-fat I can't believe it's not breakfast to me.
I like the Adam's brand with the layer of oil on top that you have to mix in before eating. After eating that it's hard to love the stuff with the stabilizers in it.
That position reminds me of the "Cartoon Wars" South Park episode where at the end bin laden shows the Prez literally shitting on everyone.
Peter Pan got it from a raw Wendy's burger. (Sorry.)
Yes, dude, yes.
You guys are slow this morning!
Let's see...
Maybe (but the 80s hair is off-putting), No, Yes.
Wait, which Mike is the foppish dandy and which is the one with the explosive diarrhea and vomiting? I always get them confused.
When was that picture taken? 1987? That is some prime 80's/early 90's tail.
ILYBICT- My mom used to make me eat the Smucker's Natural, and you always had to stir it a million times, so I think I'm in protest of my youth by swithing to Skippy.
That wasn't peanut butter Golic ate, it was R Kelly's doo doo butter
SBTB "The College Years" ne-ver happ-ened.
Can I get a ruling on this?
I buy the organic unsweetened stuff. Does that make me ####?
No, no. Just insufferable.
Did you vote for Nader in 2000, as well?
Tim Hardaway approves this photo.
Sorry Jebus, but J-Bug and the Dooze disagree with you.
nicolae dica - I can deal with insufferable. I wasn't old enough to vote in 2000.
This only strengthens my belief that peanut butter is out get me.
Skippy coats the seventh layer of diet hell. Damn it's good.
I went to a high school with a guy named Sal Monella. He was a secent guy, but I never had lunch with him, so who knows?
Jesus, Bowden, you make me feel old. And I'm only 25!
"This is Mike Golic signing off for the Mike & Mike 'Oops I Crapped My Pants' radio hour!"
George Washington Carver is spinning in his grave.
The girl on the left is proficient in Bob Knight's "gameface"
When I was young I loved the stuff that came with the peanut butter and jelly in the same jar, even though it tasted like ass. Goober, I think it was called? Kids are easy.
"Has anyone even explained how the #### salmonella gets into peanut butter in the first place?"
Apparently, if you're using nuts with a cracked shell, there's a possibility of mold or insects geting in there and next thing you know, well, you're ####.
Todd Bozeman's passion for deli meat doesn't look so silly now does it?
This only strengthens my belief that peanut butter is out get me.
But it can't catch me... I'm fuckin' innocent.
Chunky Skippy. That is all.
I LIKE WAFFLES FOR BREAKFAST!!!!
sorry, just quoting Steven A from this morning's sportscenter.
He also gave a mischevious smile when told to have fun in Vegas and said "OH I WILL! CHEESY DOODLES ALL UP IN HER!!!" or something lieke that.