We believe that it’s important to honor fallen food that ends up strewn across a highway due to truck crashes. That includes the trailer full of frozen meat that crashed into the median in Eden Prairie, MN this morning, splitting the insulated trailer and causing boxes of meat to spill out onto the highway. The cops didn’t specify what kinds or brands of meat were in the vehicle, but did confirm that is a salami on the ground in the photo that they released. [KSTP] [More]
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Truck Full Of Domino’s Pizza Dough Hits Overpass, Spills Across Road
By 11.19.15
Here at Consumerist, we’re fascinated with incidents where truck crashes result in food (or future food) spilled across the highway. We’ve brought you tales of spilled milk, cheese, beer, frozen chicken, and one weird day where a truck of bacon and a truck of piglets crashed in different states. However, we never expected to hear about a highway full of pizza. Future pizza. Pizza dough, scattered across the highway. [More]
Local Authorities Warn Public Not To Eat Cheese From Overturned Truck On The Highway
By 9.28.15
Listen. I know how tempting free cheese is — grocery stores put away their samples when I come sniffing around — but no matter how badly you want to save cheese from the horrible fate of going uneaten, don’t do it. Officials in Alabama had to warn local residents not to scoop up cheese strewn across the road after a truck overturned on the highway. [More]
Bud Light Truck Overturns, Spilling Cans Of Natural Light Beer Everywhere
By 8.11.15
They say you shouldn’t cry over spilt milk, but can the same be said for thousands of cans of spilt Natural Light? Maybe not, but someone’s certainly going to miss the cases of brew left strewn across a Florida highway following a big rig crash this morning. [More]
Weirdly Symmetrical Tractor-Trailer Crashes Scatter Live Piglets, Cases Of Bacon Across Highways
By 6.9.15
Here at Consumerist, we have a completely understandable obsession with tractor-trailer accidents where food ends up strewn across the highway, especially when no one is seriously injured. Yet there’s a strange symmetry to two unrelated accidents in the last week that left thousands of live piglets running from the wreck in Ohio, and 70,000 pounds of bacon strewn across train tracks and a highway in Illinois. [More]
Everyone Near Scene Of Overturned Milk Tanker Truck Probably Trying Not To Cry
By 2.5.14
Sometimes the best advice is the hardest to carry out in your real life. Like when someone tells you not to cry over spilled milk? Sounds so simple — when’s the last time such a thing made you cry? Maybe when it’s 6,000 gallons of milk spilled all over a freeway and you’re the guy in charge of trying to clean the whole thing up. Then you still can’t cry, even if you want to. [More]
Tractor-Trailer Overturns, Spills 40,000 Pounds Of Chicken
By 1.15.14
This was not the kind of icy, light-colored material that one expects to find strewn across the road in January. A tractor-trailer hauling frozen chicken from Texas to South Carolina overturned yesterday morning on a highway onramp near Atlanta. When the vehicle overturned, the chicken spilled out across the onramp. [More]
Overturned Semi Sends 40,000 Pounds Of Holiday Ham Rolling Into Traffic
By 12.20.13
It must be a very stressful situation to be in charge of ferrying precious cargo from here to there, especially when it’s say, bottled beer or cheese, or other things people are looking forward to consuming. Which makes this holiday ham spill in Georgia especially upsetting — with 40,000 pounds of ham jamming up the highway, will there be a Christmas meat shortage? Perish the thought. [More]
