earwig found in tesco frozen veg

cobbingstones

I'm still feeling so sick at seeing this. I contacted the online services and they asked me to take it to the shop. This is a pain due to it being a good 15 miles away. I can only assume that they need to tighten their health and safety practices for this to get in.

Feel better now....


MM

raphanius

i found an earwig in a pack of lidl gem lettuce last summer...

gingin_2

It's happened to me numerous times, as raphanius says, mainly with salad. It's nature. Most of the fresh food we eat will have had heebie greebies crawling all over them at some point, this slippery b***** just slipped through the net. A cockroach or vermin, I would be alarmed about. As a positive, a little earwig should go some way to satisfying you that it hasn't been overly nuked with pesticides. I was watching a program with my daughter on how frozen peas are processed and I can see how it could have slipped through the production line.

Biggles

What do you think lives in veg?

As gingin says, it shows it's proper veg.

redruby

I once found a white spider in with my grapes, did not look like it came from this country, after a lot of phone calls I finally got through to the natural history musuem, they asked me to drown the spider in gin and send it to them in a film canister, which I did do............


Turns out it was from somewhere like Brazil, and if it had bitten me I would have been very ill for over a week :eek: , the musuem told me to ALWAYS leave grapes in a sink of cold water for a 1/2 hour before eating.

I always cringe when I see children walking around Mr T eating the unwashed grapes.

I guess it just happens sometimes, shows the stuff is fresh.

Penelope_Penguin

madsmum wrote: »

I'm still feeling so sick at seeing this. I contacted the online services and they asked me to take it to the shop. This is a pain due to it being a good 15 miles away. I can only assume that they need to tighten their health and safety practices for this to get in.

Feel better now....


MM

As gingin says - shows it's not been overdosing on pesticides I'd far rather have an earwig than that

I'll move this to the Vent Board.

kazmc

redruby wrote: »

I always cringe when I see children walking around Mr T eating the unwashed grapes.

:eek: :eek: :eek: OMG I let my little girl do this :eek: :eek: :eek:
Not any more I dont!!!

floyd

I sliced around the outside of a peach (from Lidl) withe the intention of twisting it apart like an avodaco. The knife went straight through the stone and a live earwig jumped out onto my hand.....Nearly dropped dead on the spot :eek:

Also boiled some broccoli once before I had a steamer and floating on the top was a big fat boiled caterpillar

Numerous slugs in lettuce and greenfly on salad but I just cut out the bit they were sliming on and get on with it.

As gingin said, roaches, mouse/rat poop or limbs I would complain but anything else I don't bother.

foxxymynx

makes me cringe but it's nature. Just give it a good wash!

gazza975526570

i gues we have become soft now and expect produce that grows underround to be nice and clean - nowt like ating dirty carrots!

One_Of_The_Good_Guys

It gives you a bit of a fright but as others have said shows that it's not all pesticide'd up!

Not really relevant, but, my mate George ate a slater (woodlouse) for a tenner, the dirty scaff.