Banquet Pot Pie Recall

October 10, 2007 | Reviewer: Abi Jones

Proper disposal of Banquet Pot Pies:
If your Banquet Pot Pies (chicken or turkey varieties) has the code P-9 printed near the ‘Use By’ date, you need to toss the pot pie and take the empty box to your grocer for a refund.

Do not eat the pot pie!

(1:52:49 PM) Abi: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21214391/
(1:53:25 PM) Nicole: I never get the turkey, just the chicken
(1:56:16 PM) Abi: the recall is for chicken and turkey both
(2:00:17 PM) Nicole: oh. sucks
(2:00:25 PM) Nicole: luckily, i have none right now
(2:00:33 PM) Nicole: so if i got part of the bad batch, i already ate it
(2:00:53 PM) Abi: well, salmonella doesn’t affect most healthy adults. I think.
(2:01:03 PM) Abi: we probably get it all of the time. sad, eh?
(2:02:02 PM) Nicole: i think “healthy” would be an exaggeration for me

At this time, all I can tell you is that the recall is at the point where Banquet has shut down production lines for both chicken and turkey pot pies. ~~The salmonella cases are confined to the Midwest, so those poor folks are getting double-whammy of unsafe frozen foods and horrible weather.~~

UPDATE: ConAgra, the maker of Banquet Pot Pies is now requesting that stores pull the pies from shelves. The recalled pot pies have now sickened over 150 people in 32 states, fortunately nobody’s met death by pot pie.

UPDATE #2 (Oct. 18, 2007): You should now by now not to eat these. And the folks sickened count is up to 174 in 32 states with dozens hospitalized. Do not eat the pot pie.

Need other non-pot-pie Banquet? Check out our category of Banquet Frozen Meal Reviews. They were mostly written by Nicole, which gives some context to the above IM conversation.