Do I have a case for suing WAITROSE? Their packaging is LETHAL!

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I am mighty cross.

I wanted mackerel in tomato sauce for lunch, so I laid out my sliced bread on a large dinner plate, and proceeded to open the tin of mackerel. The tin sort of exploded and splattered tomato sauce all over my hands, and my beautiful white Per Una (yes, really) top, with beads and embroideries - ethnic gypsy look I should imagine.

This was caused (I gather) by a combination of two things:

1. Too much runny sauce and too little actual mackerel.
2. Dinky little tin which opened unevenly. (Essential Range, so probably sub standard material)

Now, less than a year ago I managed to stab myself through a Waitrose ice cream tub, again flimsy, not like Cart d'or! The knife just went straight through both ice cream and tub and I pierced my finger.

I think I should perhaps avoid Waitrose in future, as their packaging is clearly a hazard to health and safety, and a danger to fabrics of all kinds.

But, do you reckon I can ask them for compensation for a ruined top?

(I have so few naice clothes, so it will be sorely missed, unless I try dye it maroon?)

WWYD?

You will all be pleased to hear that the stains CAME OFF!

Lets just hope that mackerels were as ethically sourced as the metal in the tin...

The effect of UV on tomato stains is magic

Post of the week ^^

I would like you to contact your local paper so they print a photo of you looking sad holding a mackerel tin up at the camera. Please.

I should have done that when I still had a stained top. I should have a mackerel tin in one hand, and a strawberry ice cream tub pierced stuck to the other hand with a knife. I would look extremely sad. I would epitomize sadness.

If it's a cotton top, you could try to get the sauce stains out with a Milton tablet (just wet the top, and press the tablet onto the marks).