More packages of frozen shrimp potentially affected by radioactive contamination have been recalled, federal officials said Thursday.
California-based Southwind Foods recalled frozen shrimp sold under the brands Sand Bar, Arctic Shores, Best Yet, Great American and First Street. The bagged products were distributed between July 17 and Aug. 8 to stores and wholesalers in nine states: Alabama, Arizona, California, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Utah, Virginia, and Washington state.
The products have the potential to be contaminated with Cesium-137, a radioactive isotope that is a byproduct of nuclear reactions.
At this point the most surprising part of all of this is that a federal agency was permitted to do something beneficial to regular people.
You’re telling me a shrimp decayed this atomic nucleus?
So this is how we persue larger and larger unit sized shrimp?
But seriously, how the fuck?
I’m trying to imagine the factory that both prepares shrimp and handles nuclear waste… it just does not make sense…
It’s called diversifying, sweetie
FUCK.
Normally, I’m a measured man, save some for later I tell myself. There’s always more listeria and if I had a dime for every salmonella salad recall I’d be able to afford eggs and coffee right now. But this time, this time seemed different. Radioactive Walmart shrimp. Surely, this was going to be a one time thing. Time to open the hatch, I thought. Drop all my jokes at once, get them out while they’re still fresh. Last thing you want is rotten radioactive shrimp jokes, you’ll never escape the stink of that, might as well delete your account and start over at that point.
So, I blew my load the first round. Spent all my jokes on the radioactive Great Value shrimp from Walmart like a fool. And now I got nothing new. Just recycled radioactive shrimp jokes. And some kind of weird lump in my throat. Too bad I can’t afford to have a doctor check that out.
i am sorry for your predicament
The U.S. imports between 1.7-2 billion pounds of shrimp a year. That’s a lot more than I expected. Someone is eating a lot more shrimp than I am.
It’s me.
Hey George… the ocean called.
The jerk store called!!!
Imagine being bitten by a radioactive shrimp
If it’s a pistol shrimp then I could become the real life One Punch Man.
Shrimp-man, Shrimp-man, does whatever Shrimp-man can…
This got me thinking about being bit by a radioactive shrimp and getting powers like Spider-man. Not sure what powers I’d even get, I already have the shrimp dick.
It’ll make you curl up like you’ve been hunched over your computer desk for decades.
Already got that power too. Shrimp-man sounding like a raw deal.
We can always cook you if you like.
Pistol shrimp bite would turn you into One Punch Man or Woman.
I’d start watching the MCU again if there was a she-shrimp superhero with pistol-shrimp powers
So how does this happen? Did they use shipping containers to transport radioactive waste? And then just said fuck it its good?
Weird we didn’t ever have this happen before
Imagine all the times it did happen and we just didn’t know. I don’t need this to be proud to not ever set for in a Walmart though.
There was a concern of radioactive shrimp after Fukushima, but you’d have to have been collecting shrimp right near the nuclear plant, and I believe they still would have been safe to eat
So many brands from exactly the same supplier. The American illusion of choice.
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This is a big deal
“Nuclear is the way” “Fukushima was nothing, it was all media drama” sigh… I’m surprised this hasn’t happened earlier… Or it has but no one’s been measuring it… Where can I buy one of those radioactivity measuring devices? I would like to keep eating fish and seafood at least for a few years longer…
