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What's the worst thing you've found in your food?

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BeanFobbedOff · 27/02/2018 11:40

...as I found a big insect insect in a tin of beans some weeks ago and am feeling massively fobbed off.

I wasn't looking 'for compo', so I contacted the company directly; they wanted the can and said they'd let me know. They sent me a £10 Morrisons voucher as a goodwill gesture.

They didn't follow up so I contacted them again. Immediately I was sent an attachment, dated that day, basically saying it was a bee, it couldn't have got in there, and IF it did, it would have been deformed due to the high temperatures of the process.

So they fucking think I put it there myself, all for a 10 voucher? Bastards.

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BeanFobbedOff · 27/02/2018 11:57

Fish worms are really common! Never look at cod too closely...

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BeanFobbedOff · 27/02/2018 11:57

Arf at engagement ring. Was it at home or in restaurant? Did you bite it?

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ColinsVeryJolly · 27/02/2018 11:58

Bean we told the mum when she got back and I remember her not seeming all that fussed Confused
It stayed with me though and I wouldn't buy pick n mix for ages after.

appleoftheluck · 27/02/2018 11:58

Live maggots moving in my rice in a hotel in India, my lucky DP had them too.

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BeanFobbedOff · 27/02/2018 11:59

As you've all begged, here is a pic of my beebean

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GetOutOfMYGarden · 27/02/2018 12:01

If we're sharing pictures Grin

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BeanFobbedOff · 27/02/2018 12:03

Yuck, Garden that looks like it REEKED.
Yay for the boycott. I'll boycott Asda with you.

Please don't buy any KTC tinned beans with me.

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Justwanttosayplease · 27/02/2018 12:08

I bought a jar and inside it were these long pink rubbery things that looked like sausages, bendy and about 99% water. Very, very weird.

Cod Worms are very common by the way.

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BeanFobbedOff · 27/02/2018 12:10

A jar of what, please ?
Sounds alien.

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MissionItsPossible · 27/02/2018 12:10

A cockroach in a plate of chips.

Goldmonday · 27/02/2018 12:11

Not going to be eating for a while thanks everyone.

I have a colleague who worked in a pie factory, he had an episode where he chopped the ends of his fingers off in the pie mix (it was ice cold so he didn't realise). He then put blue plasters on his fingers and they got lost in the mix also.

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BeanFobbedOff · 27/02/2018 12:14

Hang on, aren't those blue plasters blue for maximum visibility in food...?

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Pseudousername · 27/02/2018 12:15

Half, yes half a caterpillar in some brussels sprouts.
Boke.
Dad's allotment produce though so didn't get anywhere with compensation unfortunately!

LoveManyTrustfew · 27/02/2018 12:17

A six legged spider in a bag of salad, the yoof in Sainsburys couldn't see the problem until I asked him how many legs a spider had.

We need an eye roll emoticon.

On second thoughts maybe not, there would be chaos. Grin

Adoodoobydoo · 27/02/2018 12:18

Is that an envy face, Adoodoo ? Are you jealous of the fingercake of the beanbee?

Grin

Yes I'm totally jealous!

Adoodoobydoo · 27/02/2018 12:18

(It was a sick face)

Hortonlovesahoo · 27/02/2018 12:22

Big long hairs in loaves of bread. We’ve had metal before in rice packets. The worst was a colleague who found several insects in their supermarket brought salad Confused

ApproachingATunnel · 27/02/2018 12:26

MoreVelmaThanDaphne

Im feeling sick just thinking of that fingertip completed with fingerprint lines.

Spartacunt · 27/02/2018 12:27

A metal staple in a jar of Carluccios sauce. I took it into the shop and later that day a courier arrived at my house with a HUGE bag full of Carluccios goodies and wine, and a handwritten letter of apology from Priscilla Carluccio. I loved them even more after that.

Amarriedcatlady · 27/02/2018 12:27

A few years ago, I went to a McDonalds drive through with my elderly father and ordered a McFeast ( non veggie at the time) I started eating it and next thing I hear is something rolling around in the box. It was a blood filled bandage. To say I felt ill was an understatement. I took photos, I emailed the manager to let them know and got complete silence.

DH and friends urged me to call one of those no win no fee lawyers. In a nutshell, I was advised to put the burger in the freezer. Get a hep b injection from the hospital to protect myself. The McDonald’s lawyer was very arrogant and how in court, they will deny it all. As there was no recordered accident in the incident book. There wasn’t enough evidence, so my lawyer didn’t want to pursue the case. After that, I put a complaint into the local council who took the burger away. They did a surprise vist to McDonald’s and claimed it was all above board.

Immediately after, McDonald’s contacted me ( this is 8 months later) offering me free vouchers which I declined. Quite frankly, I was being honest and had the manager contacted me and acknowledged me, I wouldn’t have got a lawyer. It’s really eye opening how much big food corporations like McDonald’s can get away with and how little councils will do against the food giants.

I’m just so lucky I didn’t get Hep B!

Clandestino · 27/02/2018 12:30

I'd be probably more bothered with metal or glass pieces in food than with insects (except for worms in fish or meat, yuck).
Insects in veggies or salad are OK(ish). Just wash them thoroughly et voila. Cockroaches or anything else in cooked food and mice in rice etc. are a different story, that's about a very bad hygiene.

halfwitpicker · 27/02/2018 12:33

Earwig.

Not the best, really.

halfwitpicker · 27/02/2018 12:35

the yoof in Sainsburys couldn't see the problem until I asked him how many legs a spider had.

^

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ShotsFired · 27/02/2018 12:38

I found half a cooked slug in a potato. I had no more potato on the plate Envy

7even · 27/02/2018 12:44

They "called you a liar" with what sounds like good reason. Don't things going into tins need to be boiling at the point of sealing?

"So they fucking think I put it there myself, all for a 10 voucher?"

But you were contacting them for more, surely? You had your £10 already.