May I refer you to the following poignant article from the reliable reporters at The Onion, the nation's finest fake-news source....

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/fda_approves_salmonella?utm_source=a-section

Is it me, or does this joke seem to be a few months too late?  While I'm not sold on the current administration, they're supposed to be the new yahoos (as opposed to the OLD yahoos) who clean up thinks life FEMA and the Fed and the FDA, thereby making the world a safer, more just, less contagious place (queue heart-swelling music).  The FDA under the previous yahoos are the ones who should have been caught signing off on great ideas like "Butteos" breakfast cereal (with 3 brands of cigarette butts in every box), encouraging the mixing of spent nuclear fuel into your hamburger (for that explosive taste!), and dubbing Salmonella "Vitamin S".

But maybe The Onion is just predicting (probably wisely) that the poor state of the FDA won't be tackled by the new guys anytime soon, and that such tomfoolery will continue unrelenting for a while longer. The peanut scare (which broke just as the old yahoos were packing their bags) certainly chills my bones- I've got a young son, and I LOVE peanut butter.  Surely there's no better cure for the peanut butter blues than to chuckle about "Salmonella-o's", is there?

Regardless, the joke strikes me as either too early or too late, or just off target.  Tragedy plus time equals humor, but this is a case of tragedy plus not enough time, or too much.  That at least expresses where MY mind is regarding the current administration's take on food- hopeful, but dubious, and expecting, as usual, to get my heart broken....

Still, I love The Onion.  Happy Snacking,

Peeled Skinny