IKEA Withdraws Cake Contaminated By Fecal Matter

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**Dreadclaw69**

After the meatball fiasco at least they're using as much of the horse as they can

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21676069

Ikea has withdrawn a type of almond cake from its restaurants after samples were found to be contaminated by coliform bacteria.

Traces of the bacteria were found in two batches of the cake that came from a Swedish supplier and went through Ikea's health checks.

The cake has been withdrawn from 23 countries; the UK and Ireland are not affected, said the furniture company.

None of the infected batches had gone on sale, Ikea said.

It added that no pathogenic bacteria, such as E coli - which is considered dangerous to humans - had been found in the affected cake.

Last month Ikea withdrew meatballs from sale in some of its restaurants after it was suspected they contained traces of horse DNA.

The meatballs in 1kg packs were made in Sweden, and labelled as beef and pork.

The latest withdrawal comes after Chinese quarantine officials confirmed that 1,872kg of chocolate almond cake imported by the Swedish company had been destroyed.

The Swedish company said there was no health risk associated with consuming the contaminated product.

"Traces of coliform bacteria have been found in two isolated production batches of almond cake with chocolate and butterscotch, produced for the Restaurant, from one supplier in Sweden, " said an Ikea statement.

"The production batches have, as per safety and quality routines, been tested for bacteria that can cause health issues, such as E coli, and none of these pathogen bacteria have been found.

"However, since the product does not comply with our strict food quality standards we have decided to withdraw the concerned production batches from sale in the 23 affected countries."

Ikea has stores in 38 countries, and 18 outlets in the UK. The company's net profits rose 8% to 3.2bn euros (£2.7bn) over the 2011-12 financial year.

**Frazzled**

I thought Ikea was the weird furniture store.

**Gentleman_Jellyfish**

Frazzled wrote:
I thought Ikea was the weird furniture store.

Exactly. Who buys food from them?

**Ouze**

IKEA is an exhausting experience, and so they have a cafeteria which serves food.

Food which apparently contains horse and/or poop germs, but food.

**Dreadclaw69**

They do sell furniture, but apparently people went to their stores for meatballs, which were recently found to have horsemeat as part of that ongoing saga
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/26/world/europe/ikea-recalls-its-meatballs-horse-meat-is-detected.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

**Gentleman_Jellyfish**

Ouze wrote:
IKEA is an exhausting experience, and so they have a cafeteria which serves food.

Food which apparently contains horse and/or poop germs, but food.

I went to Ikea once for a little LED lamp.

It was damn terrifying. Do they have a flow of traffic through their aisles?

**Grey Templar**

Gentleman_Jellyfish wrote:
Ouze wrote:
IKEA is an exhausting experience, and so they have a cafeteria which serves food.

Food which apparently contains horse and/or poop germs, but food.

I went to Ikea once for a little LED lamp.

It was damn terrifying. Do they have a flow of traffic through their aisles?

Yes they do.

Its always a surreal experience going there.

In fact, its what I'd imagine a store on a 40k Hive World to be like.

**Gentleman_Jellyfish**

Grey Templar wrote:
Gentleman_Jellyfish wrote:
Ouze wrote:
IKEA is an exhausting experience, and so they have a cafeteria which serves food.

Food which apparently contains horse and/or poop germs, but food.

I went to Ikea once for a little LED lamp.

It was damn terrifying. Do they have a flow of traffic through their aisles?

Yes they do.

Then I am a jerk

I was going against the flow.

**RatBot**

Grey Templar wrote:
Gentleman_Jellyfish wrote:
Ouze wrote:
IKEA is an exhausting experience, and so they have a cafeteria which serves food.

Food which apparently contains horse and/or poop germs, but food.

I went to Ikea once for a little LED lamp.

It was damn terrifying. Do they have a flow of traffic through their aisles?

Yes they do.

Its always a surreal experience going there.

In fact, its what I'd imagine a store on a 40k Hive World to be like.

Pretty much. The one time I went to the IKEA in New Jersey I felt like I was in some kind of quasifuturistic corporate-state like in a lot of Cyberpunk novels.

The meatballs were pretty decent.

**Grey Templar**

Maybe its a dark glimpse of Scandinavian socilisim in the future

**Ouze**

30 Rock had an amusing episode a few seasons back where Ikea was depicted as the crucible in which relationships are broken.

**RatBot**

Grey Templar wrote:
Maybe its a dark glimpse of Scandinavian socilisim in the future

Ironically, I had more the impression of capitalism run amok, IE, when corporations literally are basically independent political entities beholden to no one and all citizens are employees (or is it vice versa?). But actually I think the ultimate irony is that in the end there's actually not much of a practical difference between a free-market grown so large that it has replaced the government in all aspects (especially if all those aspects are now serviced by only one or two ubercorporations) vs. a government that has grown so large that it's taken ultimate control of all economic aspects of society, but I'm neither an economist or political scientist, so what do I know? (other than the fact that I want some delicious, delicious meatballs).

**Mr Nobody**

It's all part of the plan.

**KalashnikovMarine**

IKEA is terrifying.

**Albatross**

IKEA is gak.

**Inquisitor Lord Bane**

KalashnikovMarine wrote:
IKEA is terrifying.

My wife loves the stuff though. I just hate dealing with all the stupid people there.

**master of ordinance**

Occasionaly i have been dragged there by my mother and i have to say the experience is....... Well i think someone described it as surreal in an above post and i am forced to agree. It is the only super store where i have seen the customers engaging in a form of traffic flow system. Its not even like their directed, its just automatic, like a psychic control. And believe me you get some dirty looks from customers and staff for rebelling against this control and [shudder] going against the flow.

But the food is often excellent and i always make sure to pick up some of those smoked Elk chipolata snacks from the food shop.

**gorgon**

Go to IKEA on a weekday and you'll have the run of the place. It just becomes crazy on the weekends.

About 20 years ago, the IKEA in Pittsburgh placed one of the best local ads I've ever seen, and I still give the chain props for that.

**kronk**

I have a cabinet with pull out drawers from them that I like.

Otherwise, I'm not impressed with IKEA. Let them eat their own cake!

**BolingbrokeIV**

I don't know what's with all the hate for Ikea here. I love the meatballs and their cakes are the gak.

**master of ordinance**

BolingbrokeIV wrote:
I don't know what's with all the hate for Ikea here. I love the meatballs and their cakes are the gak.

Bad joke BolingbrokeIV, bad joke

I actually have a lot of Ikea furniture-all bought by the afformentioned mother (according to her Gothic style is trofast and pkrinnfosk or some other unpronouncable swedish name. The fact i am almost to big for the bed and the bedding i want doesnt fit it is apparently a moot point). Its not bad, just.......

**Albatross**

Yeah, I've got an Ikea couch. Their food is (quite literally, it would seem) poop.

**Fifty**

I have a decent coffee table and a sofa from them. Decent quality at low price. The store itself is hellish though.

**thenoobbomb**

IKEA has nice stuff.

**Palindrome**

Their stuff is cheap, functional and reasonably hard wearing. in fact all the furniture in my lair is from Ikea which includes 2 rather decent glass cabinets for toy soldiers, the furniture in the more public parts of the house are considerably more expensive though :(

**BryllCream**

I work in a food factory, and this is the reason we wash our hands twice thoroughly before we go to the shop floor.

The tragic thing is, it's very easy for some minimum wage agency worker to simply not wash his hands after taking a dump, then not wash his hands properly before going to the shop floor...and hey presto, thousands of products are contaminated. It would surprise me very much if the factory responsable for this did not employ large amounts of agency workers, with the associated lower hygene standards.

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

You can mock Ikea but they DO honour their guarantees with no complaints

I had one of the springs on an 8 year old armchair from them snap (10 year guarantee),

called them up and had a repair man out to fix it within a couple of days

**Albatross**

Did he have poopy hands?

**-Loki-**

I've never had an issue with their food - even that cake that's had batches recalled. It's quite good.

Be fair guys, food contamination happens. In Australia, Woolworths pulled a huge batch of its milk because it was contaminated with industrial strength cleaner. The milk was even yellow, and no one noticed until it was in stores.

**generalgrog**

IKEA isn't that bad. They have really decent display cases for cheap.

I did try the food once....never again. I would describe it as a cross between Movie theatre food and a High School cafeteria.

GG