Is £5 vouchers reasonable compensation for finding a piece of gravel in a loaf?

[VoodooTheUnlikely]

I nearly broke my tooth! Dread to think if dd or ds had eaten it.

Was a piece of gravel, they called it a 'small mineral'

must admit I expected more then £5 vouchers..
was that unreasonable?

so what do I do now?
they have the 'mineral' they needed it for testing
I have pics of it and their letter acknowledging the stone.

dunno, I mean you didn't suffer any loss or injury, did you? You had a stone in your bread, you bit down on it, it didn't damage anything, they apologised and gave you a fiver - more than enough to buy another loaf of bread.

tbh, I'd just move on.

Hmmm, seems a bit lightweight. Get stuck in with more letters and emails.

When I was a kid, I nearly choked on a piece of black bin liner in a weetabix. We were chuffed to bits with the free packed and spirally paper hat they sent as compensation! It was the late 70's....my how things have changed

Oh, meant to say, re your child might have eaten it - you don't get compensation for what could have happened. Nothing did happen, so I can't really see how you need compensating as such.

I'm glad you didn't hurt your tooth or your kids didn't eat the stone btw.

Well, what's the damage? Not much - the price of sending a complaint letter or email. £5 sounds a good deal to me.

lolol at taking pictures of it

ok I think I will quit while I'm ahead!

tis true no physical damage was done but I am hyper-protective of my teeth now, and have gone off bread somewhat..

but hopefully will help the diet
maybe I should pay them some cash to say thanks!

well i got £30 of vouchers, £5 for my time and fuel and a free packet of cakey things of my choice (didnt want any more of their hot cross buns) when i got a 4 stones in my hot cross bun (tesco)

If you bought 1,256,896 more loaves you could redo your drive.

£5 is shit!

Couple of months ago found huge shard of bone in bacon rasher, complained. Got NOTHING but a sickly letter!

i found a false nail in my maltesers icecream. They offered me £5 mars voucher as tesco has apparently 'lost' the evidence!!! (i'd returned it to tesco who said they'd deal with it for me )

I think you need to let it go.

I once found a prawn in some Asda coleslaw, phoned up to advise them, because I was slightly concerned about people with full on prawn allergies eating one by mistake.

I got refunded for the coleslaw (a measly £2 or something! )

I don't like Asda much anyway, and I'll never buy their coleslaw again!

eeeeek a false nail in lovely ice cream!!! YUCK!
bone in bacon is a bit more understandable... shocking but still was part of the pig ( hmmm, or possibly the corpse of a hated bacon-factory worker?)

maidamess PMSL!

I found a live worm in an orange. I got to pick any fruit of my choice plus £20 in vouchers.

(Waitrose)

A friend of mine found an eyelid, complete with lashes, in a tin of corned beef. She was told that was 'normal' for corned beef

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah eyelid!!!

Does she still eat corned beef? Am loving "normal" ha ha

I found what I thought was gravel in my warburtons raisin loaf. I almost choked on it, so I sent it to them with a letter of complaint.

They wrote back to say it was "unblended mixture" was very hard for unblended mixture more like unblended rock, but anyway and they gave me £5 - it was a cheque with my name mispelt so I couldn;t even cash it.

So £5 must be the bakery standard for foreign object in loaf complaints

I found a large blowfly on the outside of a morrisons french loaf. It had been cooked to perfection.

We received £10 compensation. Morrison store did not want to send the complaint to head office, but I insisted.

curly girl - mine was warburtons too ! the raisin orange loaf. white gravel. they acknowledged it was a 'small mineral' which came in with the fruit.