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Aug 20, 2025 6:20 PM
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zoltarpanaflex
I, for one, welcome our new Shrimp Overlords
(you KNOW this is better than our current deal)
80mtn
I wonder what superpowers you get if you're bitten by a radioactive shrimp?
saberattling
Crab free for life.
InUseSpace
My favorite part of this is that the item is green despite being on a store shelf. This implies that stealing (especially food) from corporations doesn't count as stealing.
ElbowDeepInAGoblin
It's stealing but not theft because nobody's deprived by the taking of it.
newyearworseme
Is it fallout day or somethin?
salunatics
@Ngugi need to add this gem to your collection. If you folks like fallout check this from earlier today. /gallery/fallout-stuff-KHei1bv/
Ngugi
Haha! Thanks for the heads up
GuyLuomo
https://fox8.com/news/walmarts-great-value-shrimp-recalled-over-possible-radiation-contamination/
7yxxxfmcy842
Wrong picture. They are in two pound bags.
onepinksheep
LordAbraxas
Shrimp is one of those things where there should not be a cheap alternative. What it takes to make cheap shrimp would shock and deplore you.
MrFuzzyBlumpkin
5m4llP0X
Low low prices sometimes comes with high high noises from your Geiger counter.
criminalsarcasm
Underrated comment
5m4llP0X
Thank you. Anything to smack talk about WalMart.
thepandasbum
Ok. I've been under a machine all day trying to get a customer up and running and I'm not sure what the joke is here. Can you enlighten me please? I just feel like something ridiculous was said. Again.
5m4llP0X
It's just what the image is about. There's a recall on all Walmart shrimp because it may be radioactive. The comment I made was about Walmart's slogan about "Low Low Prices" coming with "High High noises from your Geiger Counter"
loowitslair
You can eat your shrimp cocktail in the dark.
LoopStricken
You can leave your friends behind?
loowitslair
If they don't dance
Well, they're no friends of mine
woobniggurath
Yes, but HOW did the cesium get into the shrimp?
Munchman347
Just like the US now, they don't have a working FDA to keep food safe...
JarJarBinksKisser
Godzilla jacks off in the ocean, duh. https://media3.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1ZG9ja2d5Z2xoYzlidmp3aGttOXkydDYyajV3bTh3YjdxdG9saGdybyZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/Z1TGUPQcfusxmvP2fv/200w.webp
skooterLaughin
Accidentally dropped in by someone cesium the means of production.
saberattling
Fukushima shrimp š¦
flordelasantillas
Indonesia
OdinYggd
The company was registered out of Indonesia, but fishing boats travel around.
It is known that one of the reactors at Fukushima has been leaking that isotope ever since it got damaged in 2011. Not that hard to figure out what happened, they were fishing near Japan.
saberattling
I was just spitballing. Thanks for your research.
flordelasantillas
No shrimper will travel 3,700 miles for a catch when shrimping around Indonesia is plentiful.
MostAwesomeDan
It didn't, it was detected on a nearby container. None of the shrimp has actually tested positive, it was a recommendation out of an abundance of caution and then click bait media does what click bait media does.
youreathing
Yep, it was essentially protection from potential lawsuits, with a sprinkle of safety thrown in.
Aspernari
> FDA collected multiple samples for radionuclide analysis, with results confirming the presence of Cs-137 in one sample of breaded shrimp. All containers and product testing positive or alerting for Cs-137 have been denied entry into the country.
https://www.fda.gov/food/alerts-advisories-safety-information/fda-advises-public-not-eat-sell-or-serve-certain-imported-frozen-shrimp-indonesian-firm
One could read that as "in a shipment of", but I read it as "in breaded shrimp".
Aspernari
Also from the same alert:
> After being alerted to the contamination of shipping containers detected by CBP, FDA initiated sampling of products which included five different shrimp products from PT. Bahari Makmur Sejati, one of which was a sample of frozen breaded shrimp. FDA's laboratory confirmation of Cs-137 in the breaded shrimp had detectable levels of Cs-137 present at 68.48 Bq/kg +/- 8.25 Bq/kg. There was no detectable Cs-137 in the other products tested; however, this does not rule out
ScootinNtootin
The first comment is a perfect example of how people want something to be wrong more than it actually is. A lot of the loudest people commenting here can't seem to see they're doing the same thing as the people they hate. There's plenty of real ammo to use without diluting it with fantasy. In fact, it does the opposite of help.
Aspernari
And this comment is a perfect example of how people don't verify counterclaims. A lot of the loudest people commenting HERE can't seem to see they're doing the same thing... Yadda yadda.
The person claiming there is no product contamination is wrong. It is believed it was detected and stopped before any contaminated product entered retail channels. The recall is out of an abundance of caution, but actual shrimp did test positive, as can be found in the actual FDA alert article.
MostAwesomeDan
what's ironic is I have a well received comment on another post as well that's been swept away by memes.
I'm all for cracking jokes about it, especially at the expense of Walmart, that parasite, but my hate for sensationalism and click bait burns hotter than my love for memes
DavidBrooker
None of the shrimp *in the United States* has tested positive, but one batch was tested positive by the FDA outside of the US customs area (ie, in port). Caesium-137 was detected "in shipping containers", not "on nearby shipping containers". It's implied from current reporting that the contamination did not occur in transit, but at origin. The FDA stated: āThe product appears to have been prepared, packed or held under insanitary conditions whereby it may have become contaminatedā, per the NYT.
Strategicgnomer
They just ceisin'em.
MostAwesomeDan
thank you for the additional info! I only read a couple of articles on it the day it happened and I don't read NYT, I think CBS was the main one I was referencing. Another user on a separate post asked a good followup question:
"okay, but how did the Cesium get IN those containers?" or at the very least how would it ever be involved in this situation lol I feel that's a pretty good question.
xlr82xs
It's used to calibrate radiation detection equipment, and in some types of moisture-density sensors. I would not be surprised to find out there was an unreported accidental spill by a customs or dock worker.