Champion Foods LLC of New Boston, Michigan recalled their Motor City Pizza Co. 5 Cheese Bread on May 29, 2026 — not because anyone got sick, not because any test came back positive, but because a milk powder supplier three steps back in the supply chain issued their own recall first. The seasoning blend manufacturer tested the batches before use and got a clean negative. Zero illness reports. Zero injuries. The company still pulled product from 22 retailers across the country, from Costco to Publix to a mid-tier distributor called Merchants Dis Hickory, because sometimes the most menacing thing you can do is voluntarily recall something that almost certainly isn't contaminated.
That's the energy of this track. The FDA's boilerplate language reads like a threat brief — arterial infections, infected aneurysms, endocarditis, arthritis — dropped over cold Detroit drill production like a CPSC press release read aloud at a funeral. The chorus is the company's actual posture: tested negative, no reports of illness, shutting it down anyway. Abundance of caution. We just built different. The Verse 2 retailer roll call (all 22, verbatim, in cadence) is where the absurdity peaks and the track either clicks or it doesn't. If you make it through "Lipari, Merchants Dis Hickory, PDI Hy-Vee" without laughing, the bridge will get you — FDA Salmonella boilerplate delivered flat and cold, then immediately undercut with "but we tested negative."
[Intro]
Champion Foods LLC
New Boston, Michigan
Out of an abundance of caution
We movin' different
[Verse 1]
Motor City Cheese Bread, five kinds, no illness
Voluntarily recalled but the test came back negative
Ain't nobody sick, not a soul reported
But California Dairies had a milk powder problem
Seasoning manufacturer, third-party supplier
5 cheese sauce blend was the next in the supply chain
Single Pack, Two Pack, UPC on the label
Sell-by date hidden inside the cheese bread image
[Chorus]
Abundance of caution (caution, caution)
We testin' negative (negative, negative)
No reports of illness (illness, illness)
But we shuttin' it down anyway
Motor City Cheese Bread (Cheese Bread)
Twenty-two retailers (twenty-two)
We precautionary (precautionary)
Champion Foods, New Boston Michigan
[Verse 2]
Costco, Walmart, Target and Kroger
Publix, Meijer, Giant Landover
Jewel, Schnucks, Grocery Outlet
C&S, Bozzuto's, listen don't doubt it
SpartanNash, Supervalu, Food City, KeHe
Lipari, Merchants Dis Hickory, PDI Hy-Vee
River Valley, UNFI, Brookshire too
Twenty-two retailers, we done warned you
[Bridge]
In rare circumstances, infection with Salmonella
Can result in the organism getting into the bloodstream
Arterial infections — infected aneurysms
Endocarditis. Arthritis.
But we tested negative
No reports of illness
We just bein' cautious
Champion Foods LLC
[Chorus]
Abundance of caution (caution, caution)
We testin' negative (negative, negative)
No reports of illness (illness, illness)
But we shuttin' it down anyway
Motor City Cheese Bread (Cheese Bread)
Twenty-two retailers (twenty-two)
We precautionary (precautionary)
Champion Foods, New Boston Michigan
[Outro]
Sell by date printed in black
Inside the cheese bread image on the front of the pizza
Check your dates, February through April, twenty-twenty-seven
No illness. No injury. Abundance of caution.
We the most responsible company in Michigan