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Found this in a jar of pasta sauce.

421 replies

GeorgeandHarold66 · 29/04/2021 17:48

Anybody want to hazard a guess what it is? I feel a bit sick Envy

Found this in a jar of pasta sauce.
Found this in a jar of pasta sauce.
Found this in a jar of pasta sauce.
OP posts:
speakout · 29/04/2021 20:14

Don't send it back to the manufacturer

If it is something gruesome they will never admit.

Contact tradings standards or environmental health.

Leah2005 · 29/04/2021 20:15

Have you ever heard about the "mice" that women used to have in Georgian times? I reckon it's one of them Envy (not envy)

speakout · 29/04/2021 20:15

Mango worms?

AwaAnBileYerHeid · 29/04/2021 20:17

A cluster of genital warts.

Puntastic · 29/04/2021 20:20

@Leah2005

Have you ever heard about the "mice" that women used to have in Georgian times? I reckon it's one of them Envy (not envy)
I know what you mean but can't for the life of me remember what they're called! It's driving me mad now- I think it began with a p?
Puntastic · 29/04/2021 20:22

@Leah2005- I remember now, it was sootikins!

I don't think that's what's in OP's sauce though.

Happyschool · 29/04/2021 20:22

I would say from the second images it makes me think of slugs but I wouldn’t rule out a good substance like tomato. I agree would be interesting to see the ingredients in case any might take a weird alien form.

DenisetheMenace · 29/04/2021 20:24

Don’t know but it seems to have a face, top of the first picture Grin

carolinasm · 29/04/2021 20:26

Looks like a dried mushroom

shenanigans5 · 29/04/2021 20:30

Mould

HelpPlsArhhgg · 29/04/2021 20:31

Op please pm me the brand if you don’t want to put it here I definitely need to know my go to brands are safe from this 🤢

again2020 · 29/04/2021 20:32

Kin hell, I have a strong stomach but 🤮😳
Wish I could unsee!
At best I think it's a clump of gone off lentils, at worst...I don't want to know.
Hope you get some sort of compensation OP

MaxNormal · 29/04/2021 20:36

@Puntastic sootikins.

That thing looks like a mulberry. But a horrible zombie one.

FruityPolos · 29/04/2021 20:38

Yes definitely complain, I found some blue plastic in a jar of Dolmios once, complained to their customer service who asked me to post it to them. They said it was part of the gloves staff in the factory wear and sent me lots of vouchers as compensation.

joystir59 · 29/04/2021 20:39

I think it's an ex mushroom

BrutusMcDogface · 29/04/2021 20:41

I definitely wouldn’t be throwing the jar away! I’d contact the company. Though the underside did remind me very much of a sun dried tomato 🤷🏻‍♀️

Laiste · 29/04/2021 20:42

OP has gone! Gone i tell you! We'll never know the brand.

The underside looks like the 'foot' of a snail.

Or a sun-dried ear.

PlasticCupPolitics · 29/04/2021 20:45

Why did I open this thread just as I’m about to eat? Envy (not envy)

You need the jar, when you complain they’ll ask for the batch number & date stamp so fish it back out & seal the alien eggs tightly in there, just in case.

Xtraincome · 29/04/2021 20:45

Oh my god that's gross. Definitely let company know! Please let us know the company too though please 🙏

Loshad · 29/04/2021 20:46

Contact the company but don’t have high expectations
I had some chocolate covered plastic in a bag of choc raisins no reply from company and environmental health said that was a general common and many companies were using coivd as an excuse to not bother replying

DenisetheMenace · 29/04/2021 20:46

joystir59

“I think it's an ex mushroom“

Or an extremely ex-parrot.

ChardonnaysPetDragon · 29/04/2021 20:54

Mango worms?

Do I even dare ask what that is?

HelloDaisy · 29/04/2021 20:54

As speakout said, definitely don’t send it back to the manufacturer or you’ll never hear from them again!
Trading standards at your local council is the best place to go. They will look at it and tell you what it is and what to do next.

picturesandpickles · 29/04/2021 20:54

oh no, this thread has ruined my appetite

please please please update if the company get back to you or the mystery is solved

ilovecardigans · 29/04/2021 20:57