Dead Mouse Found in Jar of Mezzetta Peppers Prompts Recall
Mezzetta, the food brand famous for selling olives, pickled peppers, and other pickled vegetables, has issued a recall for some of its jarred peperoncinis. TikTok videos have gone viral showing what appears to be a dead mouse in one woman’s jar of the peppers. “Public service announcement, don’t buy this brand of peperoncinis, I have a dead mouse in mine,” the woman, only identified as Tiffany, says to camera in a video from Sept.
- ▪Mezzetta, the food brand famous for selling olives, pickled peppers, and other pickled vegetables, has issued a recall for some of its jarred peperoncinis.
- ▪TikTok videos have gone viral showing what appears to be a dead mouse in one woman’s jar of the peppers.
- ▪“Public service announcement, don’t buy this brand of peperoncinis, I have a dead mouse in mine,” the woman, only identified as Tiffany, says to camera in a video from Sept.
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Mezzetta, the food brand famous for selling olives, pickled peppers, and other pickled vegetables, has issued a recall for some of its jarred peperoncinis. The reason? TikTok videos have gone viral showing what appears to be a dead mouse in one woman’s jar of the peppers. “Public service announcement, don’t buy this brand of peperoncinis, I have a dead mouse in mine,” the woman, only identified as Tiffany, says to camera in a video from Sept. 16. @reizargt @Mezzetta | Real Ingredients ♬ original sound – tiffany In another video from the same day, the woman says, “I’m here with the pot roast I wanted to make Mississippi-style, but there’s a dead baby mouse.
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