It doesn't even taste good.

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[–] 110 points 5 days ago (9 children)

If you contact them about this, they may send you many Fruit by the Foot rolls.

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  • [–] [S] 57 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (7 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 14 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    EDIT: NVM they called me back.

    They shipping you some freebies? Lol

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  • [–] 63 points 5 days ago* (12 children)

    Ouch. Wonder how many contaminated feet of fruit are out there now.

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  • [–] 21 points 5 days ago (5 children)

    This unironically sounds like an imperial system measurement. "It was 10,000 fruitfeet of contamination."

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 days ago* (2 children)

    I doubt this implies that any are contaminated. The metal disk will certainly be a device that's safe for contact with food.

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    [–] 32 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    I think we can probably conclude their industrial metal detector is not properly calibrated

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago

    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.

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  • [–] 36 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

    I once got an assembly machine bumper in my bag of sun chips. The prizes are... unorthodox to say the least.

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  • [–] 30 points 5 days ago (9 children)

    At least you know the metal detector was being worked on.

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  • [–] 25 points 5 days ago (6 children)

    Well I think this is what's called a" hey where'd that go?"

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  • [–] 15 points 5 days ago (4 children)

    John, the technitian, has dropped so many of those at this point he just carries a bag of them.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 17 points 5 days ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 14 points 5 days ago (10 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    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).

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    The franchiser makes all the ingredients, they have to buy from them, the franchisees have other discretions, but generally none of them can buy their own food or packaging or other supplies, dairy queen is an exception I believe as they have real burgers, but I hear not all are as good.

    Subway is famous for screwing their franchisees too, they allow new ones to open up right next to older ones, they have or at least had more locations than any fast food some years back, John Oliver did a piece on it some years back.

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    [–] 13 points 5 days ago

    Ask them how many packets of that stuff they pay you for this thing.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 days ago

    Why have Fruit by the Foot when you can eat fruit off my feet?

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  • [–] 10 points 5 days ago

    Bad news about that metal detector

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  • [–] 7 points 5 days ago (7 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 days ago (5 children)

    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)

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  • [–] 10 points 4 days ago (4 children)

    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!

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  • [–] 4 points 4 days ago

    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!

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    Probably saved them a lot of money in the long run.

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    I guess it failed and they never bothered to find out.

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