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!

I feel sorry for my children too, having a sensible mum who doesn't let them lick jaggy bits. Maybe il buy them a rose bush to make up for it and send them out every morning to lick the thorns to appease my guilt.

Op, your hands on your skins alot thicker than your tongue. Did he carry his pot? Did it cut his hand? There's your answer.

Ive not licked the lid ever since i cut my tongue 20 plus years ago. No idea which yogurt pot company it was but my fault for licking something that i shouldnt have. They not designed for licking. You lick at your own risk. I learnt from that. Why didnt you supervise your grandchild better or put the yog in a more suitable bowl for his age. Yabu re contacting the company, hence why the minor £2 they sent you. Very strange complaint and the pots are dangerous.

I worked for an open outcry trading floor and we had to get the trading cards produced with rounded corners because the traders would fling them around and the overpaid brats traders might get one in the eye.

What?

It isn't here or there that he licked it. Mouths are more delicate than hands or fingers, so more likely to be cut with something vaguely sharp.

So if you dropped a glass jar of, say, pasta sauce and you subsequently wanted to warn others of the dangers of cut glass you think that would be taken seriously? I often eat Yeo Valley yogurts, both the old style with the cardboard wraparound and the new style in pure plastic, and not once have I severed the plastic. This thread sounds like it was started by someone with an agenda, and it sits uncomfortably with me. By all means, report it to Trading Standards if you believe the pots are a danger, otherwise I question your motives. Have you spent the voucher yet? If they'd given you a £20 voucher would you still be on here warning of the dangers of a yogurt pot?

My DSIS one fell on a gate and cut her leg, mainly because she was behaving like a tit.

We didn't sue the makers of the gate.

Albie, firstly they only have a duty of care to you when the product is used correctly, licking the pot could in way be described as the correct way to eat a yogurt. Literally anything can be dangerous in the hands of a small child, but as far as I know the only product when used correctly that's actually dangerous is a cigarette.

Secondly, you posted this in AIBU, you might not have got quite such a flaming if it had gone in chat or parenting. Welcome to mumsnet.

Not a perfect parent but I did on occasion tell my little darlings to use a spoon. If they then cut their tongue I would tell them that's what happens when you don't do as Mummy says. If it was their finger they would get a cuddle and possibly a plaster if they were really lucky.

i don't know about anyone else but I don't habitually read the side of yoghurt pots so wouldn't see any warnings, I do, however, have common sense and a fair appreciation of the risks that abound in life.

Oh after new years eve I was biting off my false nails. I somehow in my hungover state managed to get a bit of jaggy acrylic in my freaking eye. That hurt. Bloody beautician. Bloody acrylic.

Don't let him near a can of corned beef... I ended up in A&E!

(never occurred to me to contact the manufacturers though, even though the triage nurse told me it was a common problem)

the bit about picnics confused me - are spoons not allowed on picnics?

imagines rows of toddlers eating from bowls on hands & knees like pets

londonrach - bet it was Muller - I remember their lids as being quite vicious!

originalmavis - your posts are making me wince!! I have "eye ishoos" - can't stand anything to do with them. Still don't quite know how I managed to wear contact lenses for 20 years!

Are not dangerous rather than are dangerous. (throws ipad out of window)

YABU- only lick the lid!

Thumb yes, good point re viscosity. Maybe someone should tweet them and ask. (I don't have twitter) Unless anyone works for GSK?

I always have a spork in my bag. You never know when there will be a yoghurt emergency.

I get fancy yoghurt that comes in teensy terracotta pots. The scraping of a metal spoon on the pot really puts my teeth on edge.

Parenting is all about managing risk. I'm happy to take this one.

Thumb it might have been (def not ski as those yogs are tasteless and not worth the risk of a cut tounge).....

Op, have you posted on netmums to alert those posters?

God, people are being total twats on this thread! So noones three-year-old has ever licked a yoghurt pot. Ok then

I think the point the OP is trying to make is that these particular pots are sharper than your average pot. And no, they shouldn't be sharp enough to cut a small child.

I'm sorry you've had such a shit reception in here, Denise. It's probably because you're a grandmother, or maybe even a Mil, which makes you all kinds of wrong on this site

You can't get your tongue in a Petit filous pot.

Ah OP they're just breaking you in. Stick around and you'll see people aren't trying to be insulting.

Sorry to hear about the cut tounge, those things hurt like buggery. Maybe avoid those yogurts in future and definitely train not to lick anything other than the spoon. Or get some frubes.

Grrrr....tongue not tounge.... (Mutters and goes off to clean the bathroom...)