Pissed at pistachios

The Nanny State has a hard-on against my favorite nuts, the pistachio. The feds are warning people to not eat them if they see them on store shelves. Here’s the rub:

The salmonella has nothing to do with the ongoing outbreak of salmonella poisoning from peanuts. Unlike the peanut outbreak, the pistachio contamination was discovered during routine testing by Kraft Foods — before anyone was known to have been sickened. The FDA has at least two unconfirmed reports of sickness in people who ate pistachios, but those cases have not yet been linked to the types of salmonella found in pistachio nuts.

This is about ass covering and lawsuit avoidance. You are more likely to get killed driving to the store to buy the damn things. I’m gonna hit Walgreens and buy about 20 cans.