ileliberte

[ileliberte]

One of my favourite things when reading fanfiction is when you click with an author's style so much that you adore the fanfiction you're reading, and once it's over you need more. So you go to their page and hope that there's more for any fandom you might know- only there isn't any. They've written for other fandoms you aren't familiar with and never would've thought about before.

But you're down so bad for their style and talent that they got you wading in like:

[ileliberte]

US recall of yu shang food inc ready-to-eat products due to deadly listeria contamination

this recall was announced november 9, but expanded on november 21, and deaths were reported on november 22. today is november 23.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21, 2024 – Yu Shang Food, Inc., a Spartanburg, SC, establishment, is recalling approximately 72,240 pounds of ready-to-eat (RTE) meat and poultry products within their shelf life that may be adulterated with Listeria monocytogenes, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). This release is being reissued to expand the scope of the November 9, 2024, recall.

All ready-to-eat products produced prior to October 28, 2024, are subject to recall. View full product list. View labels.

The products subject to recall bear establishment number “P-46684” or “EST. M46684” inside the USDA mark of inspection. These items were shipped to retail locations nationwide and available for purchase online. 

some emphasis mine.

Consumption of food contaminated with L. monocytogenes can cause listeriosis, a serious infection that primarily affects older adults, persons with weakened immune systems, and pregnant women and their newborns. Less commonly, persons outside these risk groups are affected.

Listeriosis can cause fever, muscle aches, headache, stiff neck, confusion, loss of balance and convulsions sometimes preceded by diarrhea or other gastrointestinal symptoms. An invasive infection spreads beyond the gastrointestinal tract. In pregnant women, the infection can cause miscarriages, stillbirths, premature delivery or life-threatening infection of the newborn. In addition, serious and sometimes fatal infections in older adults and persons with weakened immune systems. Listeriosis is treated with antibiotics. Persons in the higher-risk categories who experience flu-like symptoms within two months after eating contaminated food should seek medical care and tell the health care provider about eating the contaminated food. Anyone concerned about an injury or illness should contact a healthcare provider.

emphasis mine. for the record, it can take up to around 90 days for listeria to cause illness. as in, closer to three months after eating something contaminated with listeria.

and unfortunately, a pregnant person has died, losing both of their twins. but only one of the twins tested positive for listeria, so the other one does not technically count as a related death. might be a false negative.

right now there have been 11 cases, 9 hospitalizations, and 2-3 deaths depending on how you count. these numbers are expected to rise. do not rely on the list of states with confirmed illnesses to keep you safe. these products were shipped nationwide, and are contaminated and capable of causing illness within the affected date range regardless of where they were sold. (before october 28, 2024)

although the CDC uses yu shang braised beef shank as the thumbnail for their investigation, the FSIS has not yet added its picture to the official list of label pictures as of when I am typing this.

this is the style of packaging on these products. there are too many images of the recalled products to add to this post, but if you recognize this style of packaging, please check your fridge and freezer. if you find these products, do not eat them. throw them out or return them to wherever you bought them. sometimes a recall will include a note that it is safe to eat a recalled product if cooked thoroughly, but there is no such language on this FSIS recall.

ALL of these products produced before october 28, 2024, are being recalled.

list of recalled yu shang product names:

Japanese Chasu Pork Belly

Braised Pork Belly In Brown Sauce

Seasoned Pork Feet

Seasoned Pork Hock

Chinese Brand Spicy Duck Head

Yushang Brand Cooked Chicken

Chinese Brand Spicy Duck Neck

Bazhen Seasoned Whole Chicken

Chinese Brand Spicy Duck Tongues

Chinese Brand Spicy Duck Wings

Chinese Brand Chicken Feet

Yushang Sausage Made with Pork and Chicken

Seasoned Pork Tongues

Seasoned Chicken Quarter Leg

Braised Beef Shank

Braised Chicken Szechuan Pepper Flavor

Yu Shang Brand Cooked Pork Hock

Seasoned Pork Snout Meat

Spicy Pork Ear

Spicy Chicken Gizzards

Spicy Pork Feet

Lambs Head Soup (frozen)

Chinese Brand Spicy Chicken Feet

as of the time I am posting this, the label list on the FSIS website is outdated, but the product list is the correct expanded version.

listeria can take months to cause illness after exposure, and then up to a month or so for an illness to become officially associated with a foorborne illness outbreak. the true number of people who got sick is expected to be higher, and the number of listeria cases associated with this outbreak is expected to rise. not everyone who gets sick from listeria seeks out medical attention.

most people exposed to listeria will not develop major illness. but if you are in a high risk group and have eaten these products, talk to your doctor. there are antibiotics you can be prescribed before possibly developing symptoms. and as always, if you think you have gotten sick from the recalled products, please consider seeking medical attention, even if just to get your case officially linked to this outbreak. listeriosis can cause long-term medical issues, and if it does, you really want as many relevant medical records of it as possible.

the FSIS is currently working on a list of retail locations that sold these products, but as I post this now, it has not yet been uploaded. these products were also sold online.

as a reminder, I do not post every unites states food recall. please consider staying informed from official government recall sources. and if US recalls are irrelevant to you, please consider staying informed about whatever recalls are relevant to you. chances are, there are more recalls than you realize.

https://www.recalls.gov/ <- official website for recalls in the united states.

stay safe and take care!

[ileliberte]

[ileliberte]

Zayn performing live on stage at The O2 Apollo Manchester on November 24, 2024 in Manchester (📷 credit)

[ileliberte]

[ileliberte]

don't think i ever posted these thangs here!!!

[ileliberte]

Jane Austen really said ‘I respect the “I can fix him” movement but that’s just not me. He’ll fix himself if knows what’s good for him’ and that’s why her works are still calling the shots today.

[ileliberte]

Canon Buck is so interesting and complex and good, why is fanon Buck so victimized and wimpy! This is genuinely one of those instances where canon really does such a better job of making a loveable character with actual issues and complexity who does amazing things but also makes mistakes and apologizes, and popular fanon boils him down into a perfect jellyfish that everyone tramples on and who has other people groveling at him for hurting his feelings for difficult choices they were forced to make for their own lives.

Canon Buck might spiral, and that's valid, but he also knows it isn't Eddie choosing to or wanting to leave him, he's an adult who actually cares about his friend and knows the awful dilemma he's been facing for months now and how hard this choice has to have been. Between multiple fics about Chris choosing to come back only because he cares about how Buck feels abandoned rather than gaf about his own father and Buck yelling at Eddie about being a bad father, it's hard to click on any fic without prior warning...

also like framing it in terms of what buck “deserves” from eddie is inherently the wrong starting point. eddie deserves to be with his son because he loves him more than anything. that’s non-negotiable to BUCK. he doesn’t want or expect eddie to choose him and he shouldn’t! if he expected that he and eddie wouldn’t have the relationship they do. this isn’t a situation that fits within the framework of buck’s previous romantic relationships whatsoever—eddie and chris are buck’s family. in that way i think it’s actually more comparable to maddie (also buck’s Person and family), who also didn’t want to be apart from buck but was in an untenable situation where she felt had no other choice. the thesis of this story is always going to be that you fight for your family. however that looks. because you love them.

[ileliberte]

Having really strong feelings about fictional characters is the worst :(

[ileliberte]

The loud and unfriendly discourse about how Eddie is not being proactive, or how he's again making decisions that Chris doesn't want without talking to him and how he never learns...like, he's been trying to talk but neither Chris nor his parents are listening! He doesn't think he has a choice except to take himself back to El Paso because he doesn't want to keep missing more things in Chris' life because he's more miserable missing out on his son's life.

And the reason why he can't force anything else is because he made a mistake and thinks he can't, but it could have been fixed much earlier if his parents hadn't made it impossible to work through it gradually with his son together. They have now helped isolate Eddie from him completely, provided an environment that Chris is happy in for now (that they never cared to do for their son...), while they make sure their son remains miserable and lonely as they keep cutting him off from his son.

Eddie's parents are the issue here, and because they're good grandparents to Chris, it's more complicated than him just storming over and dragging him back. It's only character regression and bad parenting from Eddie if you never liked him in the first place ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

like ok sorry but can we cut eddie a little slack. he literally is trying. this is him trying. imagine the situation from his perspective: he fucked up and hurt chris and chris asked to leave so he let him go. it's been three months and the only thing his parents—who have driven into his head for literally his entire life that he is incapable of doing the right thing or making the right decisions—have shown him and told him is that chris is happy there. he has a life there. he's got all this good stuff going for him, stuff eddie didn't or couldn't give him (it's not like his dad was ever around to teach him to play chess). at least chris is answering his calls now, which is more than he got a couple months ago, so he gets to see in real time how settled chris has become. if you were in his position, and terrified of hurting your child again. would you tell your parents to fuck off. would you feel like you could ask your kid to come home. or do anything or say anything that could theoretically make your kid feel even a little bit guilty or worried or upset about his choice to leave because you hurt him. on a human level (and the level of a parent with very real trauma) he's in an impossible position!!! as far as he's concerned the self-punishment has been to stay away from chris altogether when he, as a father, needs his son. of course eddie doesn't want to move to el paso. but the sacrifice here isn't for chris's sake, it's for his own, and he's making it what little information and enormous obstacles (demon parents) he has. yes eddie is doing something objectively crazy. but it's quite literally the only thing he feels like he can do to allow himself. like. a crumb of happiness. be nice to himmmmmmm

[ileliberte]

ALSO eddie being like. swim club? chess club? oh. nobody told me. can you ask abuelita to send pictures to me. he is being actively shut out of christopher's life by his parents. they are literally raising his son with no thought or care to helping repair the relationship between eddie and chris. goodbye to whatever character growth they tried to give them in s6 it's time for the lava pit

[ileliberte]

Just tell her I'm a friend. A nice Chinese girl. You're not just a nice Chinese girl. I'll fake it.

LYNN CHEN as VIVIAN SHING Saving Face (2004) dir. Alice Wu

[ileliberte]

Aldis Hodge for 𝘌𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 magazine. Photography by Elliott Jerome Brown Jr.

[ileliberte]

it's very frustrating that when you do something mature---something that really demonstrates how much you've grown as a human being and adult---no full orchestra immediately appears in your kitchen to play verdi's triumphal march and/or an arrangement of tina turner's "the best" at top volume.