to expect better and to complain to the shop's HQ?

[Vallhala]

We picked up some samosas from the deli counter of a local mini-supermarket today. Got them home, heated them up, then halfway through eating mine in an absent-minded manner, wrapping a pressie at the same time, I realised something wasn't right. I looked closely....

Chicken!

Nothing wrong with that except we are vegetarian - I've been so for 30+ years, the DDs all their lives. My poor 12 yo rushed out to the bathroom and was immediately sick.

The samosas had clearly been marked "Vegetable Samosas", so I rang the shop. Matey the manager said that well, he didn't know what to say. He did add that he was sorry, which of course I accepted politely and I told him that I know it wasn't his fault.

Fair enough, it won't kill us, although to eat meat is abhorrent to me, but FFS, what if it had been a product marked nut free which wasn't what it should have been? He could have been speaking to the mother of a child in hospital or dead, not one with a child throwing up.

AIBU or should I inform the shops HQ? I'm not expecting to be compensated or anything of that sort but I do want to know that measures are taken to prevent this sort of mistake happening again.

YANBU

I'm not vegetaria, but accidentaly took a bit of a meat pasty the other day, and spat it out and screamed. (I'd thought it was veg)

I think it was just the counter persons mistake, so a letter to HQ wouldhopefully result in a bit of re training.

YABU- complain to the manager as you have and leave it at that.

I am sure there must be stricter rules about any food that might contain nuts. If anyone has a nut allergy they would surely ask/take care if they weren't sure anyway.

I think that 'Nut free' labelling is subject to different rules, because of established protocols about allergies.

Fairly gross as an experience though. I'm a pescatarian who inadvertently ate chicken recently (ds was served chicken goujons, not fish as he'd ordered, at a kids' party, & I absent-mindedly pinched one).

I don't have any great objection to eating chicken, & it still made me boak.

It was probably labelled wrongly on site - I'd expect an apology from the store & a bollocking for the assistant responsible.

You can't really equate it with 'nut free' labelling, though. Apart from anything, very little supermarket food IS labelled 'nut free' because the potential consequences of cocking it up are more serious than a vomitting veggie who's accidentally eaten chicken.

Yes YANBU and should write to shop's HQ ...

....but I do think this is a chance you take buying loose food... my cousin who has a nut allergy and a fish allergy that could kill her would never trust anything in those circumstances, will only buy if it is in sealed wrapping saying no nuts/fish, so I guess in some ways these things do happen and its up to you how careful you are. I am always terrified I will poison her when she visits.

I also know veggies who take a similar approach (ie wouldn't buy loose food).