DANGEROUS Yeo Valley yogurt pots

[Albie20]

Hello everyone. Firstly let me introduce myself. My name is Denise, and I am a grandmother of three. I have registered with the site today, to warn parents of the hidden dangers of Yeo Valley yogurt pots. I use the word hidden, as after having contacted them about a serious cut to my grandsons tongue at Xmas, they wrote back and said they was aware of the situation with the sharp pots, but still have no intention of putting a warning on the packages. They then had the audacity to send me £2 in vouchers as a way of an apology! My 3 year old grandson simply licked the pot like children do. The problem is the extremely sharp plastic that's there once the pots are separated. This is clearly a case of putting profits before the welfare of their customers. SHAME ON YOU YEO VALLEY!

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I cut my finger on this earlier, just wait, card warehouse are going to get ripped to shut once I've had me way with them. Nowhere does it say you SHOULDNT open it with a knife then stick your finger in.

Outraged of London

I've just eaten a small tub of SNOG - thanks guys XP Can I do a sad face? Mumsnet thread MAKES woman eat overpriced frozen yoghurt.

Hi, my name is Lynette.

I have three children, no grandchildren and one cat (who likes yogurt).

I once met someone who had cut her tongue drinking form a coke can.

She somehow got an infection in it (she claimed from the actual can) and her tongue swelled up massively.

I'm so going to buy some Yeo Valley yogurts tomorrow, and lick the pointy bit, just to see....

There once was a yoghurt called Yeo,
It dealt my poor Grandson a blow,
He licked the pot,
His tongue was shot,
And off to mumsnet I go.

Denise, would you mind sending me those vouchers? I take it you're not going to use them.

Thanks x

I'm actually mortified that you allowed your child to lick the outside of the pot which anyone could of touched! What next? Drinks from the toilet?

I've got a scar on my hand from playing with my dad's razor blades on holiday. There was no warning on them. Is it too late to sue?

This reminds me of an article I saw in a local paper about a women complaining to a supermarket that her fish fingers had bones in!

Apparently being told that there is a warning on the packet wasn't good enough!

Did you know you need to becareful with peanuts as they may contain nuts X

Maybe OP needs to inform her DGS that his tongue needs to remain in his mouth rather than dangling it around licking stuff.
Maybe a helpful list of things that should not be licked? A fun rainy day activity.

Things I shouldn't lick:

Next doors cat
Plug sockets
Radiators
The outside of yoghurt pots ....

So I shouldn't like next door's cat? Can I lick my own cat?

So, I showed DH the OP only.
He said:

1. Oh. That's not going to go well, is it?

2. The Yeo Valley ones? They're really sharp you could easily hurt yourself. You'd never give one to a toddler.

Can I get £2 from the farmer whose grass I cut my finger on

Ooh Denise, I'm gonna go against the tide, nay tsunami of opinions here and agree with you! I've got several cuts on my hands right now from these ridiculously designed pots. The 'snap off' bit leaves a bit of plastic like a little sharp blade on the curved edge of each pot once you snap them apart.

I bloody love Yeo Valley yoghurts, and am not about to give up eating them despite the risk to life and limb. But I wish I could hold the feckin' things without being cut no matter how carefully I try to handle them. They are certainly not child-friendly.

Standby knowing how dangerous they are would you give one to a toddler

We eat a fair number of snap-apart Yeo pots each week, and the cat always gets to lick the pot residue. No cut tongues as yet. If it was going to happen already, it would have by now. The cat just shoves her little fluffy face in it without so much as a cursory glance so I doubt she's purposely avoiding the sharp bits.

Reckon licking your own cat Pip should be fine. Just all those other wayward cats you shouldn't lick. You never know where they've been.

DD tried to use our Dpuss' tail as a teething ring earlier. Thank goodness it was her own Dpuss' and not next door's moggy.

Hang on a cotton picking minute.

You mean Hazelnut yoghurts are really dangerous???

But I ate one earlier.

I may not be here tomorrow.

There was a huge hazelnut yoghurt botulism (or poss salmonella??) scare ages ago.

I must warn you about lids off tins too. You can get a badly cut tongue licking them especially ones with yummy pieces of food stuck on

Yes, it was a hazelnut yoghurt related botulism outbreak but it was in 1990, so if your yoghurt dates from then then I think botulism would be the least of your problems.

RealHuman It could be sharp if you eat it off a knife.

YABU, the outsife of the pot isnt supposed to be in your mouth.

That's not so bad Beverley - cats are quite capable of dealing with misbehaved toddlers. A good scratch usually does it