Dairy Farm Chicken Pork (The Costco Confession)

On June 1, 2026, Jones Dairy Farm — a company that has been a dairy farm since 1889 and therefore logically makes chicken sausage — issued a recall for their "No Antibiotics Ever Chicken Sausage Links" sold at select Midwest Costco locations. The reason: during production, a small amount of pork links were introduced while the chicken links were being produced. The company was quick to clarify this was "not a food safety concern," issued "out of an abundance of caution for people who cannot eat or choose to refrain from eating pork." Costco members may return the product for a full refund. A vice president signed the letter.

We read it three times and it only got funnier. A brand named after dairy cows, selling chicken sausage, that turned out to be pork — one product, three species, zero food safety concerns. The earnest, deeply apologetic energy of a rural Wisconsin VP explaining livestock paperwork to Costco felt like it had been waiting its whole life to become a bluegrass song. So here it is: a full barn-revival confession, complete with fiddle breakdown, tight harmonies on every chorus, and the actual verbatim recall language delivered deadpan over banjo. The bridge reads directly from the letter. We're not embellishing a single word.

For more on the original recall: AllRecipes — Costco Issues Recall on Popular Sausage Following Product Mixup and Yahoo News — Costco Issues Recall on Popular Sausage Following Product Mixup.