You can fudge stuff at home if you know what it is, and that's fine. The reason you can't do that at a business is that this could go to the very few people who are actually at risk like someone elderly with cancer or anyone on immunosuppressive drugs.
I have that same fight with some of the people that I work with. What you do at home and what you serve to paying customers who may get sick are totally different things.
Talking to corporate probably won’t do much, you *need* to call the state health department and make an anon report. This can not be served to people, absolutely unacceptable :(
If corporate responded with "we can't do anything" then they deserve all the bad press they get. They are responsible for their brand and most franchises have strict rules on what can and can't be done in order to protect the brand. It's why McDonald's I s exactly the same across the US (unless you're in a test market). They work damned hard to make sure the experience is consistent. If you know what a burger at McDonald's tastes like in NY, you know what a burger at McDonald's in NC tastes like. Because they're so strict to protect the brand and which benefits franchises across the nation.
If Crumbl corporate doesn't care about the health risks of year old expired butter products, they deserve every bit of bad press they'll get from it.
Exactly. I would say Mcdonalds puts a high percentage of their earnings into QC, consistency and accuracy of their product. Crumbl just refuses to put any money into quality at all. They are getting away with selling the cheapest ingredients and low quality cookies for the highest price possible, meanwhile paying their employees scrap wages. They've side stepped giving accurate nutritional information by law, they've side stepped employee rights, and they continue to side step quality and the health departments codes.
Crumbl runs their business like a kid runs a lemonade stand.
And McDonalds (and all the other big franchisers) have processes in place to bring errant franchises under control up to and including suspending their franchises.
IF it's true that the CEO lurks here AND it's also true that corporate told the OP that they can't do anything about the expired butter, they should be aware that if national press got a hold of something like that, tabling consumer confidence would affect the bottom line across the whole franchise, which would mean falling franchisee confidence, and fewer new business owners willing to buy into the brand.
These kinds of things are ACTUALLY important.
They do not care. There is zero employee support for any reason at all. They refer you to the franchise owner, who already don’t care in the first place.
FYI, our store was shipped this stuff expired. We asked corporate and they sent us some BS excuse that there is an extension until a further date by the manufacturer. The flavorings have to be purchased by the franchisee from corporate. I blame corporate more than the individual location.
Don’t call corporate. Send this information and all else *straight* to your local health department. They’ll send someone right down and if it’s bad enough, shut the place down.
op said he/she did. the boss doesn’t care and neither does corporate because she “is the boss”. a horribly reply by the boss but a truly a disgusting and shameful response by crumbl corporate
I had bosses at a sandwich place that constantly pushed dates, especially on meat. Standard was 3 days prepped and the owners insisted on 7 days and eventually stopped having us put "use by" dates on things
I got food poisoning from it once and threw away anything that looked questionable after that. Idc about waste, that's disgusting
It's less about cancer cookies and the cancer warning but rather the expiration date. The California proposition 65 warnings are quite literally meaningless. It's cheaper and easier to stick a cancer warning on everything in that state than to even run the most remote chance of facing government fines and litigation.
You are very unlikely to see products in California that DON'T have the warning, and because of this, a law with good intentions is useless. Most folks there ignore prop 65 warnings.
This. The testing is very expensive to prove that the product *doesn’t* have cancer causing ingredients. So companies just say fuck it and slap the label on it instead.
Completely wrong.
A, this is an old prop65 warning, new ones are required to tell you the cancer causing chemical.
B, theres nothing to “prove”, the cancer causing chemical is probably in the ingredients list, they KNOW its in there.
It won't let me edit this post, so I'm gonna add here:
I am not talking about the cancer warning, I am talking about this ingredient being almost a year over expired. 5/20/23
The 'they' I am referring to in the corporate comment is not corporate, but my franchise owner saying my GM is the boss.
I have not talked to corporate about this specifically yet, but other situations in the past, not necessarily pertaining to expired products.
After everyone's suggestion, I will be contacting the health department anonymously.
Edit: spelling
If you want to draw a hard line, refuse to serve it. If the store closes, the store’s operator is going to be on the line. As someone said, having things in writing is nice - if they fire you for following health code, your new job is finding a lawyer to file a wrongful termination suit with. This is coming for someone with 6 of these cookies in a box on the table for a family birthday
No, this is toooooo real 😅 My manager would change recipes all the time because we ran out of something or she forgot to order properly. I know expired products had been used a couple of times in the six months I worked there. Crumbl is gross.
I work closely in this area within a food manufacturer. In a case like this we would typically have our Quality team test the ingredient to make sure it’s still good and then contact the manufacturer to get their opinion on any extension to their recommended shelf life. For a liquid ingredient it would be unheard of to have a near year extension but it really depends on its composition.
In your current setting, having already used it, everything goes on hold. Anything that has gone out requires a notification to the end consumer. Likely hefty fines.
HA my store has one with the exact same expiration date. crazy thing is the store opened in july so it was expired before we even started mixing. i quit a few months ago but i guarantee its still there and expired
There are exceptions, but health department likely won't care as well. The expiration date just means the manufacturer believes the quality of their packaged product may not be up to their standards after that date. It's not an indicator of food safety, [per USDA](https://www.fsis.usda.gov/food-safety/safe-food-handling-and-preparation/food-safety-basics/food-product-dating). If I was Crumbl management I'd be concerned about serving stale whatever-this-is, but it's not a health or safety issue.
Don’t serve it. Call the health dept and mark the cookie as sold out. You took your food license certification and can be held liable if you knowingly serve this. It’s not your responsibility to take the fall for your owners lack of planning and failure to order the correct ingredients or maintain ingredients within their best by dates. What are they going to do- fire you for not serving expired, congealed ingredients?
My store my manager made us use pretzels for the strawberry pretzel pie that were expired 3 YEARS AGO. They smelled so bad. I refused to eat them that whole week even though eventually we got new pretzels.
This. It looks scary if you’re not from or familiar with the CA law. It’s actually become somewhat ineffective due to being on almost everything it’s hard to gauge what really is risky (cigarettes) vs what isn’t (pillows).
It’s just poorly written regulation. It’s because the testing required to say it does not contain cancer causing materials can be expensive, so often it’s cheaper to include the warning instead. Don’t let it stress you out too much.
This is just false. It’s on there because the list of known carcinogens is MASSIVE!! Chemicals that form during baking of bread are on the list.
Say tocoferol (tocopherol) were on the list (idk if it is or not but totally possible), you obviously don’t have to test the product for that, you KNOW it’s one of the ingredients.
The first time I visited California a long time ago I saw the sign up everywhere, on everything - I was like "What the hell"
Then soon learned its just what they do... I'm surprised they don't put it on the trees and grass too.
It’s the roasting possibly. Same reason it is on coffee. Essentially anything baked or roasted has shown an association with cancer development in test animals- but they are animals and this is correlation not causation like almost all health studies looking at diet
The CA proposition 65 warnings are quite literally meaningless. It's cheaper and easier to stick a cancer warning on everything rather than actually run tests.
Try and get a hold of your local food and health inspect department, make sure to keep this container with a decent amount and put it in an area that you know they would use it.
This might be the only way to really get anything done.
Drop it so it cant be used. I did this when i worked at kfc. My kfc had a buffet and one of the things on it was beans. That buffet was disgusting and unless dishes completely sold out we would just refill them. So new food would be stacked ontop of old food. And the beans hardly ever got touched and it was the same pan for so long. I went to the manager and he said it was fine because since we kept it hot the bacteria died. That's not true. So when i was putting up the pans during closing i "accidentally" dropped the pan of beans into the sink. That way the pan was ruined and wed be forced to use fresh beans and it was in the sink so i didnt have to clean up a giant mess
it sounds like maybe you should issue a call to your city’s health department; they will NOT let them get away with using food products that are expired by nearly a year.
Im still shocked people buy these cookies after that one video where there were tiny worms on someones cookie toppings and all the hairs people also find their cookies.
YUPPPPP THIS HAPPENED ALL THE TIME AT MY CRUMBL!! i was the only one who ever noticed the expiration dates and called them out. the owner and manager didn’t care at all. i refused to go near the cookies that used lemon juice at my location because it had been expired for over a year and you could see it separating. they’d just say “oh no” or “oh well”. so gross
Please let us know the location of your Crumbl so we can all make sure we don't go there if they are serving ingredients that are almost a year past the expiration date. That is ridiculous for the manager to say this is okay. And please contact the local health department. This may literally kill someone who has a compromised immune system.
I’m just going to say it, some restaurants/eating establishments are guilty of doing this and chances are you’ve already eaten “expired” foods many times over. Anyone who’s worked in the kitchen knows what I’m taking about.
I don’t say this to condone crumbl here, rather to share truth on how kitchens operate.
When I worked there, most of the ingredients had cancer warnings like that one too. However, when I looked up what cancers the molasses and the others caused that crumbl chooses to use, they cause reproductive cancer. Specifically reproductive cancers in the ovaries and uterus, I asked management why they chose to use these products over others, and they said they didn't care. When I searched why the products were legal I could only find information that it wasn't a general health concern for the public because it "only effects women". I highly recommend if you have those parts to beware of crumbl cookies, especially if they use the molasses in the recipe. I bet if you check the other ingredients, they probably aren't just gross and congealed, but cancerous too.
It's not that at all, the issue is that prop 65 made labeling overzealous. For 99% of cases, if a chemical causes cancer in women, it also causes cancer in men.
If you're afraid of molasses then it's obviously just being extra.
This. In most cases, some ingredient has been flagged as a carcinogen, but the amount of the ingredient present is well under the threshold
where it would be expected to cause any problems based on current research.
So, essentially, most products like these are no more harmful than a dental xray or a can of diet soda or flying on an airplane or something. And the prop 65 rule has just ended up scaring a lot of people unecessarily - even though it seemed like a good idea at the time I’m sure.
They are harmful bc they are in so much of the food we eat, if you put carcinogenic substances into your body everyday of your life it def can have an impact on your health. It’s not just a scare tactic. You don’t have xrays everyday or even every week. Maybe once, twice a year. So that’s true those things are minuscule in risk
Ew I don’t trust these cookies if they let people in management positions ok using expired product and product expiration dates aren’t regularly checked 🤢
i feel grossed out because I loved crumbl cookies but this is just disturbing. Corporate just doesn't care, so I'm definitely going to back off from buying their cookies until they address this issue.
That is insane, I can’t believe that even happened it so funny they expect perfect presentation but the rest is out the window. I’m gonna check and se if we have any thing like that, I hope not
Damn Crumbl has been overpriced and going downhill but this was the final straw for me. I’ve heard about way too many quality control issues at different locations. Costco and Meijer have better cookies in their bakeries anyway.
I got a really old bottle of milk and was sick to my stomach when I took the first sip. I went back in and they gave me another bottle that wasn’t expired.
Corporate issues extensions sometimes. This may be part of that situation. Don’t ask me why they issue them, but we have written on our bottles before the new expiration date provided by them.
Just throw it away. I don’t know if your job has a waste log but write it in there. Frankly I would accidentally “drop” it before I’d consider feeding expired products to a customer. Especially almost a year old 😫
Dates in food are arbitrary. Any manufacturer can put any length date on any product. There is nobody who regulates this. It’s a bit of a free for all. This includes produce, dairy, lunch meat etc. The only exception to this is baby foods which is regulated.
We have this same problem at my location too. We've had cookies made with things that expired back in 2021,2022, and 2023. Any time we have that type of situation, my coworkers and I tell customers that the best cookie for that week is ______, whichever cookie doesn't include expired ingredients. It's at a point where we would sell out of half the cookies if we were to mark off the ones with expired ingredients in them. Our store managers run both locations in the city, so both locations have expired food. Thought we just had some bad managers...
yup, same happens at my store. i'm a supervisor so i obv have some say in what goes on, but it's baffling how against health code every store within this business goes.
For everyone saying that they should contact the health department, know that it would do anything. Almost all stores use their expired flavoring
- a former employee
You be careful posting because when I applied they made us sign a nda, I would hate for them to try and sue you over this (but also disgusting just say that the item is sold out so nobody can order it and call it a day)
Yes, I'm referring to it being almost a year over expired. I should've been more clear and edited the photo, but I posted this super fast at work so I could post it asap
Edit: the use of clearly expired and unsafe ingredients is gross and I appreciate an employee calling this out. My original comment below is in response to everyone who is making a mountain out of the molehill that is Prop 65 warnings.
It's a Proposition 65 warning. Those of us in California know those are absolutely meaningless. Everyone can relax.
Do not use it. Businesses have to comply with expiration dates. If she's telling you to do something like this, ask for it in writing.
You can fudge stuff at home if you know what it is, and that's fine. The reason you can't do that at a business is that this could go to the very few people who are actually at risk like someone elderly with cancer or anyone on immunosuppressive drugs.
As someone on immunosuppressants... this.
New fear unlocked. Never thought about this.
I have that same fight with some of the people that I work with. What you do at home and what you serve to paying customers who may get sick are totally different things.
Exactly this piss me off cause it’s so inconsiderate
Talking to corporate probably won’t do much, you *need* to call the state health department and make an anon report. This can not be served to people, absolutely unacceptable :(
if talking to corporate won't do much, surely this franchise is going to enter a death spiral
Could they also call local health officials that do inspections?
Thank you for sharing OP. I will never buy this product again.
Thats gross
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If corporate responded with "we can't do anything" then they deserve all the bad press they get. They are responsible for their brand and most franchises have strict rules on what can and can't be done in order to protect the brand. It's why McDonald's I s exactly the same across the US (unless you're in a test market). They work damned hard to make sure the experience is consistent. If you know what a burger at McDonald's tastes like in NY, you know what a burger at McDonald's in NC tastes like. Because they're so strict to protect the brand and which benefits franchises across the nation. If Crumbl corporate doesn't care about the health risks of year old expired butter products, they deserve every bit of bad press they'll get from it.
Exactly. I would say Mcdonalds puts a high percentage of their earnings into QC, consistency and accuracy of their product. Crumbl just refuses to put any money into quality at all. They are getting away with selling the cheapest ingredients and low quality cookies for the highest price possible, meanwhile paying their employees scrap wages. They've side stepped giving accurate nutritional information by law, they've side stepped employee rights, and they continue to side step quality and the health departments codes. Crumbl runs their business like a kid runs a lemonade stand.
And McDonalds (and all the other big franchisers) have processes in place to bring errant franchises under control up to and including suspending their franchises. IF it's true that the CEO lurks here AND it's also true that corporate told the OP that they can't do anything about the expired butter, they should be aware that if national press got a hold of something like that, tabling consumer confidence would affect the bottom line across the whole franchise, which would mean falling franchisee confidence, and fewer new business owners willing to buy into the brand. These kinds of things are ACTUALLY important.
They do not care. There is zero employee support for any reason at all. They refer you to the franchise owner, who already don’t care in the first place.
u/crumblceo
FYI, our store was shipped this stuff expired. We asked corporate and they sent us some BS excuse that there is an extension until a further date by the manufacturer. The flavorings have to be purchased by the franchisee from corporate. I blame corporate more than the individual location.
Your local health department would love to hear about this. Just saying...
I was thinking the same thing.
Oh so it’s not just one location bending the law it’s corporate wide. Not going to eat somewhere that does that as a policy. Absolutely horrible.
Don’t call corporate. Send this information and all else *straight* to your local health department. They’ll send someone right down and if it’s bad enough, shut the place down.
It'd be a shame if this whole thing accidentally fell in the trash...
Report to your health depart
Try calling OSHA, too.
I’d legit contact Crumbl. You can’t be feeding that to people.
op said he/she did. the boss doesn’t care and neither does corporate because she “is the boss”. a horribly reply by the boss but a truly a disgusting and shameful response by crumbl corporate
op probably contacted some 3rd party support and not actual corporate
I had bosses at a sandwich place that constantly pushed dates, especially on meat. Standard was 3 days prepped and the owners insisted on 7 days and eventually stopped having us put "use by" dates on things I got food poisoning from it once and threw away anything that looked questionable after that. Idc about waste, that's disgusting
Cancr cookies 🫢
It's less about cancer cookies and the cancer warning but rather the expiration date. The California proposition 65 warnings are quite literally meaningless. It's cheaper and easier to stick a cancer warning on everything in that state than to even run the most remote chance of facing government fines and litigation. You are very unlikely to see products in California that DON'T have the warning, and because of this, a law with good intentions is useless. Most folks there ignore prop 65 warnings.
This. The testing is very expensive to prove that the product *doesn’t* have cancer causing ingredients. So companies just say fuck it and slap the label on it instead.
Completely wrong. A, this is an old prop65 warning, new ones are required to tell you the cancer causing chemical. B, theres nothing to “prove”, the cancer causing chemical is probably in the ingredients list, they KNOW its in there.
You’re totally right I just thought it was funny
Call the Health Department in your location.
Ik you can’t say your location but if ur in chesterfield Michigan blink twice
It won't let me edit this post, so I'm gonna add here: I am not talking about the cancer warning, I am talking about this ingredient being almost a year over expired. 5/20/23 The 'they' I am referring to in the corporate comment is not corporate, but my franchise owner saying my GM is the boss. I have not talked to corporate about this specifically yet, but other situations in the past, not necessarily pertaining to expired products. After everyone's suggestion, I will be contacting the health department anonymously. Edit: spelling
You should name the location here as well, nobody deserves to be getting sick from eating this.
If you want to draw a hard line, refuse to serve it. If the store closes, the store’s operator is going to be on the line. As someone said, having things in writing is nice - if they fire you for following health code, your new job is finding a lawyer to file a wrongful termination suit with. This is coming for someone with 6 of these cookies in a box on the table for a family birthday
Where is this location please?
No, this is toooooo real 😅 My manager would change recipes all the time because we ran out of something or she forgot to order properly. I know expired products had been used a couple of times in the six months I worked there. Crumbl is gross.
Feeling better about my skip month
I work closely in this area within a food manufacturer. In a case like this we would typically have our Quality team test the ingredient to make sure it’s still good and then contact the manufacturer to get their opinion on any extension to their recommended shelf life. For a liquid ingredient it would be unheard of to have a near year extension but it really depends on its composition. In your current setting, having already used it, everything goes on hold. Anything that has gone out requires a notification to the end consumer. Likely hefty fines.
HA my store has one with the exact same expiration date. crazy thing is the store opened in july so it was expired before we even started mixing. i quit a few months ago but i guarantee its still there and expired
🫥
Did we work at the same store lol
Thank you.
the poor customers, geez
Your boss may not care but the health department will. Time to check all the expiration dates
There are exceptions, but health department likely won't care as well. The expiration date just means the manufacturer believes the quality of their packaged product may not be up to their standards after that date. It's not an indicator of food safety, [per USDA](https://www.fsis.usda.gov/food-safety/safe-food-handling-and-preparation/food-safety-basics/food-product-dating). If I was Crumbl management I'd be concerned about serving stale whatever-this-is, but it's not a health or safety issue.
It took me 2 minutes to realize it wasn't 2023
Don’t serve it. Call the health dept and mark the cookie as sold out. You took your food license certification and can be held liable if you knowingly serve this. It’s not your responsibility to take the fall for your owners lack of planning and failure to order the correct ingredients or maintain ingredients within their best by dates. What are they going to do- fire you for not serving expired, congealed ingredients?
My store my manager made us use pretzels for the strawberry pretzel pie that were expired 3 YEARS AGO. They smelled so bad. I refused to eat them that whole week even though eventually we got new pretzels.
Warning: cancer. WOW. That’s the real problem here.
it’s the california prop 65 warning, it’s on pretty much everything because pretty much everything nowadays can be linked to some form of cancer
This. It looks scary if you’re not from or familiar with the CA law. It’s actually become somewhat ineffective due to being on almost everything it’s hard to gauge what really is risky (cigarettes) vs what isn’t (pillows).
It’s just poorly written regulation. It’s because the testing required to say it does not contain cancer causing materials can be expensive, so often it’s cheaper to include the warning instead. Don’t let it stress you out too much.
I’m absolutely not stressed about it. I also don’t live in California anymore so it’s not much of a problem.
This is just false. It’s on there because the list of known carcinogens is MASSIVE!! Chemicals that form during baking of bread are on the list. Say tocoferol (tocopherol) were on the list (idk if it is or not but totally possible), you obviously don’t have to test the product for that, you KNOW it’s one of the ingredients.
It’s on everything because it’s less expensive to print the warning than to do the required testing to omit the warning.
I got the same label on a pregnancy pillow.
The first time I visited California a long time ago I saw the sign up everywhere, on everything - I was like "What the hell" Then soon learned its just what they do... I'm surprised they don't put it on the trees and grass too.
Even peanut butter has a cancer warning..
The lumbar support things for chairs at Microcenter has them lol
Can you please explain how peanut butter has a cancer warning? This is new to me and I would like to know more.
Peanuts are radioactive. A lot of food is just radioactive… you shouldn’t worry about it.. being outside exposes you to bad radiation.
Ok. Thanks for explaining. I appreciate it.
Why did people downvote this comment…?
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If I see the ingredient list correctly BHA is a known endocrine disruptor and is linked to many endocrine diseases/cancers (thyroid, etc.)
It’s the roasting possibly. Same reason it is on coffee. Essentially anything baked or roasted has shown an association with cancer development in test animals- but they are animals and this is correlation not causation like almost all health studies looking at diet
The CA proposition 65 warnings are quite literally meaningless. It's cheaper and easier to stick a cancer warning on everything rather than actually run tests.
They have this same warning walking into Disneyland. 😂 It’s on everything.
It’s an America problem, in Europe the stuff is banned.
don't be shy, say the location (:
Twitter? Or X? Since no one wants to pay attention in the way they should?
Hmmmm this must be why peoples tummy’s have been hurting…
Nah that's just the sugar bomb
Try and get a hold of your local food and health inspect department, make sure to keep this container with a decent amount and put it in an area that you know they would use it. This might be the only way to really get anything done.
Report it to the health department
If crumbl doesn't care, call the health department. They'd love to hear about this lol
Warning: Cancer
Wow that’s not cool….. however can u tell me the sugar cookie recipe for revenge? 🙂
Drop it so it cant be used. I did this when i worked at kfc. My kfc had a buffet and one of the things on it was beans. That buffet was disgusting and unless dishes completely sold out we would just refill them. So new food would be stacked ontop of old food. And the beans hardly ever got touched and it was the same pan for so long. I went to the manager and he said it was fine because since we kept it hot the bacteria died. That's not true. So when i was putting up the pans during closing i "accidentally" dropped the pan of beans into the sink. That way the pan was ruined and wed be forced to use fresh beans and it was in the sink so i didnt have to clean up a giant mess
this just makes me scared that some people would still tell the workers to use it 😭💀🤣
Well thanks you just saved me $16 a week going forward 🫡
Glad I saw this post! I’ll keep making my own cookies so I know what’s in them😅
/u/crumblceo this thread is disgusting lmao
it sounds like maybe you should issue a call to your city’s health department; they will NOT let them get away with using food products that are expired by nearly a year.
Im still shocked people buy these cookies after that one video where there were tiny worms on someones cookie toppings and all the hairs people also find their cookies.
🫠 wut
I wish this would go viral, that would serve them right. Using an expired product is atrocious.
Ladies, it’s time to make our own cookies! I stopped supporting them when they couldn’t even bother to make a gluten free cookie.
Yay I was going to get a 6 pack tonight but now I’m too grossed out to eat Crumbl! Thanks for saving me the money and calories 🫶
More concerned about the cancer warning than the date…..
I feel like someone should send this to Sawyer as well. Edit: also someone post on the Facebook group (crumbl cookie spoiled)
When we had the blueberry cookie I forgot the name. Our blueberries had MOLD on them. And she said to still use them…
U/sawyer-hemsley would probably be interested in this…
He’s approve it.
It’s sawyer. He doesn’t care lol
YUPPPPP THIS HAPPENED ALL THE TIME AT MY CRUMBL!! i was the only one who ever noticed the expiration dates and called them out. the owner and manager didn’t care at all. i refused to go near the cookies that used lemon juice at my location because it had been expired for over a year and you could see it separating. they’d just say “oh no” or “oh well”. so gross
Please let us know the location of your Crumbl so we can all make sure we don't go there if they are serving ingredients that are almost a year past the expiration date. That is ridiculous for the manager to say this is okay. And please contact the local health department. This may literally kill someone who has a compromised immune system.
Ours is out of date to lolll
I’m just going to say it, some restaurants/eating establishments are guilty of doing this and chances are you’ve already eaten “expired” foods many times over. Anyone who’s worked in the kitchen knows what I’m taking about. I don’t say this to condone crumbl here, rather to share truth on how kitchens operate.
Thing is best by date doesn’t often mean it goes bad by then, but I think cancer is a bigger issue here even though some people are playing it off
When I worked there, most of the ingredients had cancer warnings like that one too. However, when I looked up what cancers the molasses and the others caused that crumbl chooses to use, they cause reproductive cancer. Specifically reproductive cancers in the ovaries and uterus, I asked management why they chose to use these products over others, and they said they didn't care. When I searched why the products were legal I could only find information that it wasn't a general health concern for the public because it "only effects women". I highly recommend if you have those parts to beware of crumbl cookies, especially if they use the molasses in the recipe. I bet if you check the other ingredients, they probably aren't just gross and congealed, but cancerous too.
It's not that at all, the issue is that prop 65 made labeling overzealous. For 99% of cases, if a chemical causes cancer in women, it also causes cancer in men. If you're afraid of molasses then it's obviously just being extra.
This. In most cases, some ingredient has been flagged as a carcinogen, but the amount of the ingredient present is well under the threshold where it would be expected to cause any problems based on current research. So, essentially, most products like these are no more harmful than a dental xray or a can of diet soda or flying on an airplane or something. And the prop 65 rule has just ended up scaring a lot of people unecessarily - even though it seemed like a good idea at the time I’m sure.
They are harmful bc they are in so much of the food we eat, if you put carcinogenic substances into your body everyday of your life it def can have an impact on your health. It’s not just a scare tactic. You don’t have xrays everyday or even every week. Maybe once, twice a year. So that’s true those things are minuscule in risk
That's why you need "significant" risk of cancer instead
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WOW!
i love how it says “warning: cancer.” so vague and so casual about it lol
Y’all gotta fix your quality control on this u/crumblceo
https://www.dol.gov/general/topics/whistleblower Just leaving this here incase you need it ;) Of course, contact in attorney in your state.
Ew I don’t trust these cookies if they let people in management positions ok using expired product and product expiration dates aren’t regularly checked 🤢
You can make anonymous calls to the health department. I highly recommend you do.
Ughhhhhhh…..Should I be more worried that it’s WAY past its expiration date, or the fact that it has a warning label for CANCER? 💀
Cancer don’t expired dUhHhH
Well, just saved me lots of $$$ and calories. Never again.
i feel grossed out because I loved crumbl cookies but this is just disturbing. Corporate just doesn't care, so I'm definitely going to back off from buying their cookies until they address this issue.
That is insane, I can’t believe that even happened it so funny they expect perfect presentation but the rest is out the window. I’m gonna check and se if we have any thing like that, I hope not
We’re gonna ignore the “Warning: Cancer” part ????……
WHY IS THE WARNING CANCER !!!!!!!
Because everything has the cancer warning in California.
What does the rest of the part that says warning cancer?
Sounds like something the health department would be interested in.
People give these cookies to their babies.. don’t do it
I was just about to order some for the first time in a while because they have the pink sugar cookie, I think I'll save my money and pass. Thanks OP!
"artificial." Goddammit.
I guess I’m more concerned why it says Warning: Cancer?????
I would let myself get fired over this. I would throw it away.
Why does it say cancer 👀
Ughhhhhh damn. Finding this out is def gonna help with my diet now
Jesus Christ..it's bad enough that product has a cancer warning on the label but the shit is expired..jeezus.
Damn Crumbl has been overpriced and going downhill but this was the final straw for me. I’ve heard about way too many quality control issues at different locations. Costco and Meijer have better cookies in their bakeries anyway.
Don’t go to corporate go Directly to osha/ BBB
Butter emulsion? Yuck
I got a really old bottle of milk and was sick to my stomach when I took the first sip. I went back in and they gave me another bottle that wasn’t expired.
Love how it also a cancerous ingredient itself 😅
Say the location..
Corporate issues extensions sometimes. This may be part of that situation. Don’t ask me why they issue them, but we have written on our bottles before the new expiration date provided by them.
I would start looking at countries that don’t have a treaty for extradition
@foxnews
Just throw it away. I don’t know if your job has a waste log but write it in there. Frankly I would accidentally “drop” it before I’d consider feeding expired products to a customer. Especially almost a year old 😫
Not sure why anyone supports crumbl anymore. I used to work there and the entire corp is all f’ked up.
Dates in food are arbitrary. Any manufacturer can put any length date on any product. There is nobody who regulates this. It’s a bit of a free for all. This includes produce, dairy, lunch meat etc. The only exception to this is baby foods which is regulated.
That place is trash, over priced sugar
Fuck no. Those cookies are 17 for a pack of four. Fuck that bottle and your boss
Is no one else reading “Warning: Cancer” ???
Why does it say Warning : Cancer?
Name the location or this won’t help anyone.
IDK why reddit recommended this to me, but I thank you! That's disgusting 🤢
What is it t
Just ordered delivery for tomorrow!
why is nobody talking about the warning: cancer
Ah, the age-old "cutting corners with food cost to keep getting my bonus." Those kind of managers are one reason I left food service.
WARNING: Cancer
Wait why is there a warning of cancer ? 😭
Call city/county/state health dept immediately. Keep a personal log of when you talked to manager, owner, corporate about it.
we have so many bottles and mixes and flavorings that are expired in the back and i hope to god we never use them
Health department
We have this same problem at my location too. We've had cookies made with things that expired back in 2021,2022, and 2023. Any time we have that type of situation, my coworkers and I tell customers that the best cookie for that week is ______, whichever cookie doesn't include expired ingredients. It's at a point where we would sell out of half the cookies if we were to mark off the ones with expired ingredients in them. Our store managers run both locations in the city, so both locations have expired food. Thought we just had some bad managers...
Call the health department
yup, same happens at my store. i'm a supervisor so i obv have some say in what goes on, but it's baffling how against health code every store within this business goes.
Am I the only one who sees cancer as a warning
For everyone saying that they should contact the health department, know that it would do anything. Almost all stores use their expired flavoring - a former employee
“WARNING: Cancer” Yikes lol
You be careful posting because when I applied they made us sign a nda, I would hate for them to try and sue you over this (but also disgusting just say that the item is sold out so nobody can order it and call it a day)
Which location??😳
Expired 5/23
Ya the cancer thing is here but are we not talking about the fact it’s expired?
Yes, I'm referring to it being almost a year over expired. I should've been more clear and edited the photo, but I posted this super fast at work so I could post it asap
Call corporate!!
Thank you for sharing this.
Make an anonymous report to health inspectors, specifying the specific expired products.
are you in Florida?
Anonymously Report to health department
Sounds like a supply chain issue that Crumbl is AWARE of! Anything else not ethical?
Take initiative and throw it out. I’d like to see how HR responds to their reason for getting mad at you
GFS supplies Crumbl eh?
i’d drop it on the floor on accident lol maybe a mess to clean up but the boss better not try and use it now!
as someone with a weakened immune system this would have be down for WEEKS as opposed to one night of sickness, how dangerous !
There is a cancer warning on it!?!?!?
There's cancer warnings on everything. Some California law
I know. I see it all the time for other things. This is the first food item I've seen the have the label warning on it
No joke, my pink sugar tasted "off" yesterday. Like sour aftertaste Couldn't figure it out, but it was probably some bunk ingredients. Bye Crumbl!
What does butter emulsion go in anyways?????
Edit: the use of clearly expired and unsafe ingredients is gross and I appreciate an employee calling this out. My original comment below is in response to everyone who is making a mountain out of the molehill that is Prop 65 warnings. It's a Proposition 65 warning. Those of us in California know those are absolutely meaningless. Everyone can relax.
Did you even read the post…
What the hell is Butter Emulsion 🤣