Results from last week's online poll 2/26/07

Certain jars of Great Value and Peter Pan peanut butter have been pulled from store shelves over concerns of E. coli contamination. The Southeast Missourian asked, "Did you purchase contaminated Great Value or Peter Pan peanut butter? Due to rounding, percentages may not add up to 100. (579 votes)

* 52 percent: Yes

* 41 percent: No

* 7 percent: Don't know

• "No, but I know several people who had some of it. I was really surprised how many people eat peanut butter now days. After hearing all the news reports, I started getting a craving for a PB&J sandwich."
• "Great Value."
• "Choosy Moms choose Jiff."
• "I have peanut butter with the code numbers on it. No one has been ill from it. The decision to label it contaminated was not based on any hard evidence."
• "We have a grandson who likes only creamy peanut butter, so when Schnucks had it on sale, I bought not one but two creamy and two crunchy, so there are four lids to mail."
• "I wish I would have, then I might be able to receive a big settlement."
• "I wound up eating 1/2 the jar before the annoucement. I never got sick. Bunch of sissies can't handle a little salmonela."
• "Three jars. Things could have been a little messy around my house!"
• "Yes I did. My household was ill for almost a week, and we didn't know why. Would have been nice to have been informed. By the way, I am in Augusta, Ga., where the peanuts are. It will be a long time before I look at another PB&J the same way again."
• "I was hospitalized for four days."
• "I've voted once already, but I forgot to tell you what I'm doing with the peanut butter. I've heard you can use it for deer bait by putting some on aluminum foil attached to the electric fence. I don't have any pine cones, so I'm using corn cobs from the outhouse (no kidding), painting them with pb, and then rolling them in bird seed. The cobs are mounted on nail points driven all the way through a board -- sharp end up."
• "Eat Jiffy, it's the best."
• "It didn't make us sick. Some people are sue happy."
• "Yes, but my car broke so I am still eating the stuff. I hope it ain't bad stuff."
• "I returned it to Wal-Mart."
• "My jar had the same numbers, but I really doubt it was contaminated. I did throw it away."
• "I did not, but my son did and after returning it to Wal-Mart in Cape Girardeau, two days later he purchased another jar of the same recalled stuff. How could that happen?"
• I am concerned why it was contaminated in the first place. What has the Food and Drug Administration has to say about this?
• I really wish I had known about the recall sooner. My 4-year-old grandson, sons and husband all ate some.
• Our family buys only the expensive peanut butter.