Step Aside 'Horse' Hamburger: IKEA Presents 'Poop' Pudding

Submitted by Michael Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,

IKEA Recalls Almond Cake After Finding Fecal Bacteria

You thought horse meatballs were bad?  You haven’t seen anything yet.  The iconic Swedish furniture store, where apparently some people buy groceries, has been forced to recall a batch of its almond cakes in 23 countries “after Chinese authorities said they contained coliform bacteria, normally present in fecal matter.”  You know it’s bad when China calls you out on your food quality.  From Raw Story:

Swedish furniture giant Ikea pulled a batch of almond cakes from its restaurants in 23 countries on Tuesday after Chinese authorities said they contained coliform bacteria, normally present in faecal matter.

The Swedish-made cakes had failed tests “for containing an excessive level of coliform bacteria, according to the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine,” the Shanghai Daily website wrote.

Ikea said 1,800 Taarta Chokladkrokant cakes — described on its website as an almond cake with chocolate, butter cream and butterscotch — were destroyed in December after being intercepted by Chinese customs.

God Aptit!

Full article here.

Comments

[DaveyJones]

that shit taste good

[gmrpeabody]

Yes..., but I can get a whole bedroom suite for $19.99.

[Zer0head]

shit is organic

[FL_Conservative]

Nothing says "luvin" like fresh from the "oven".

[CheapBastard]

I had dinner last night at Escolar's Oceanside Cafe...

...and dessert at Ikea. I regret that now.

[hedgeless_horseman]

Home-ground wheat bread and homemade Derby cheese from our family cow...

Know your inputs, or eat shit.

[Rusty Diggins]

Argh! Day-yam!

[BaBaBouy]

Isn't That What They Serve At The FED Diner All Day Long ???

[BaBaBouy]

OR ...

Shit In ... Shit Out.

[BaBaBouy]

OR ...

Keep ON Buyin' IKEA Dark Brown Kake AND Paper Gold ...

[FEDbuster]

Life is like a shit sandwich. The more bread you have, the less shit you have to eat. 

[TruthInSunshine]

What would you do-oo-ooo for some horseburger helper, oily-anal-leakage escolar or Ikea chocolate pudding dooo-dooo?

[chumbawamba]

HOW CAN YOU HAVE ANY POOHDING IF YOU DON'T EAT YER HORSEMEAT?

I am Chumbawamba.

[StychoKiller]

Chumbawamba FTW!!!

[MagicHandPuppet]

Let them eat Poop Cake!

[Edward Fiatski]

You damn Kulak! The peasants are starving! Share your food! Expropriate his assets!

By order of Lenin Maobamao

[hedgeless_horseman]

You damn Kulak!

Indeed.  I just read One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich and The Great Gatsby back-to-back last weekend.  It is hard for me to say who are more miserable.

[francis_sawyer]

 "It is hard for me to say who are more miserable."

~~~

Definitely the one that has to do business with Meyer Wolfsheim for his living...

[hedgeless_horseman]

Anyone that has ever bet on a game using a bookie, bought a bottle of gin, or bought a bond from a NYC desk, has done business with a Meyer Wolfsheim.

[Lebensphilosoph]

Or bagels.

[willwork4food]

Or signed a note in blood with the devil.

[francis_sawyer]

I stipulated "for his living" there...

[Raymond Reason]

Kulak, a Russian word meaning fist. ...or by extension "tight-fisted" according to October revolutionaries.  They were liquidated to "free" the peasants.  Kinda like small business owners today, but the liquid was blood instead of cash. 

HH, that home ground bread looks marvelous! 

[justinius1969]

holy shit.. nice.. that fertile Emerald Ireland of yours..

[thisandthat]

Got SWAT team visit, yet?

[Dr. Richard Head]

Hell, I didn't realize I have been making Ikea quality products daily.  In fact, I ate a bunch of salted, roasted almonds last night.  Grade A Ikea almond cakes......mmmmmm........were made fresh by me this morning.

CAKES ARE HOT!  PICK 'EM UP!

[BobPaulson]

Shit in food is nothing new, I first learned about how endemic it was reading Fast Food Nation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Food_Nation

Keep in mind some people people put their mouths on other peoples exit ducts voluntarily for pleasure, so shit eating is more common than you might think.

[jmcadg]

Dude, you could sell your anal discharge back to Ikea.

This is the new Benanke inspired food chain.

[southerncomfort]

remember the pillsbury dough boy commercials...and that finger poking him in the belly?  never mind.  big finger, little dough boy - nightmares... ... his little "giggle" still haunts me

[LFMayor]

The Incubus takes many forms...

[Dr. Richard Head]

It's all just for shits and giggles until someone giggles and shits.

[Teamtc321]

I will be back in a minute, I am going to go make Krugman a hot lunch and leave him a napkin.

[ParkAveFlasher]

I'm sorry, but those shitcakes are still tasty and the innovative logistics of flat-packing huge volumes of tasty shitcakes are still to be marvelled at.

BTW have you noticed that very much kiddy candy sold in volume (like for party bags) is now produced in China?

[King_of_simpletons]

Is it horse fecal matter ?

[GMadScientist]

"but I wouldn't know cause I wouldn't eat the filthy motherfuckers"

[pods]

A whole new meaning to "This tastes like shit."

pods

[DblAjent]

does the package show 2 girls and a cup?

[LFMayor]

and a funnel, don't forget the funnel.

[SkottFree]

Good shit, bad shit, but it's still the same old shit!

[tarsubil]

...containing an excessive level of coliform bacteria...

The funny thing here is not that it contained shit, it contained too much shit. I always thought it was funny they put a threshold on shit contamination.

[Tijuana Donkey Show]

2 Girls, 1 IKEA. 

[Miles Kendig]

The quintessential dessert/pudding option to go with the shit soup sandwiches and fed liquidity shooters on the a la carte menu.

Cheers Davey!

[hedgeless_horseman]

What did you expect?  Got to keep prices down, so quality and quantity are the first things to get cut.

http://future.aae.wisc.edu/data/annual_values/by_area/2051?period=complete&tab=feed

The third option is for the Federal Reserve to create credit to pay the bills Congress runs up. Nobody objects, and most Members hope that deficits don't really matter if the Fed accommodates Congress by creating more money. Besides, interest payments to the Fed are lower than they would be if funds were borrowed from the public, and payments can be delayed indefinitely merely by creating more credit out of thin air to buy U.S. treasuries. No need to soak the rich. A good deal, it seems, for everyone. But is it?

The “tax” is paid when prices rise as the result of a depreciating dollar. Savers and those living on fixed or low incomes are hardest hit as the cost of living rises. Low- and middle-incomes families suffer the most as they struggle to make ends meet while wealth is literally transferred from the middle class to the wealthy. Government officials stick to their claim that no significant inflation exists, even as certain necessary costs are skyrocketing and incomes are stagnating.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul334.html

Fuck you Bernanke! Fuck you Congress!

[GMadScientist]

Is the hedonic adjustment for tofu styrofoam?

[akak]

No no, hedgeless horseman! 

Don't you know that, according to JimmyJames here on ZH, constant prices --- after adjusting for inflation, of course --- prove that there is no inflation?!  The brilliance of his insight still continues to astound me!

That's right, folks, constant inflation-adjusted prices prove that there is no inflation!  Yep,  you read it on ZeroHedge first!

[Panafrican Funk...]

Yeah, my brain melted a bit when I saw his comment lol.

There was an almond cake-sized load of logic fail in where he was going with it, but where I think he (and a lot of others) get confused is in thinking that our incomes rise in concert with inflation, ergo, if the price of the shit we buy increases at the same rate as the fiat money we are disbursed in exchange for our productive labor, then effectively there isn't an inflation problem.

Of course (and again, speaking purely within the bullshit govvy data realm here that those still in the cave confine themselves to), the issue is that, while our incomes from productive labor have mostly kept up with the CPI (from Jan 2009 - Jan 2013, average weekly earnings increased 8.62% vs. a 9.08% increase in CPI), total civilian employment has increased only 0.82%, while the total civilian noninstitutional population has increased 4.23%.  In other words, we "created" 1,169,000 jobs in 5 years, but we needed 9,924,000 jobs to really keep pace with inflation.  In other words, the total earnings of our civilian population has to keep up with CPI in order for us not to experience "effective" inflation.  To put a dollar figure on this:

In 2009, we had avg. weekly earnings of $753.08, 142,153,000 jobs, supporting 234,739,000 people in the "civilian noninstitutional population" category (over the age of 16, not in the military or disabled).  Total dollars per year:  $5.567 trillion.  Per person:  $23,714.57.  

In 2013, we had avg. weekly earnings of $818.03, 143,322,000 jobs, supporting 244,663,000 people in the "civilian noninstitutional population" category (over the age of 16, not in the military or disabled).  Total dollars per year:  $6.097 trillion.  Per person:  $24,918.23

So, while the total dollars earned has gone up 9.52% vs. 9.08% CPI, the dollars per person has only gone up 5.07%.  To have kept up with inflation, we would have needed $25,916.63 per person.  

The total gap:  $998.40 per person, or, $244.3 billion dollars.  That's how much poorer we effectively are than we were in January 2009, when we were in the midst of the financial crisis.  Welcome to the recovery.

[asteroids]

To boot, due to "value inflation", you'll pay more to eat Chinese shit.

[Cognitive Dissonance]

This isn't new or surprising. It's just "in the news" at the moment. What is actually disturbing is the FDA regulations for "allowed" amounts of fecal matter in various processed foods.

You really don't want to know what's in your hotdog. 

[ThaBigPerm]

Ground-up lips & buttholes?

[Cognitive Dissonance]

If it were only that I wouldn't be so concerned.

<Just shut up and swallow......hard.>