bone found in tesco food ---- help !!

HH62

I must admit this thread has made me literally LOL. Especially the squid sandwich bit. :rotfl:
Was gutted when some bright spark pointed out that squid (s?) actually do have a shell thing..

To the OP - I can understand that you were upset that this happened but really, I agree with the majority of the other posters.

As for M & S. I still feel guilty to this day. Over 20 years ago I was eating one of their spag bols. I found a small metal screw in it. I was horrified. I wrote them a most indignant letter, including the screw. They checked it all out, and replied to me assuring me that the type of screw I'd found in the food was not used anywhere in the production process. They sent me £20 in vouchers. I was disgusted by their response.
Three years later, I was at home, using my pepper grinder. A screw fell out of the bottom of it, into the cottage pie I was making. I turned it upside down and noticed that there should have been two screws in the bottom of it. There weren't any....:o
OMG...I realised..the screw I'd found in the M & S spag bol had actually fell out of MY pepper grinder when I added pepper to the meal !! :rotfl:
I'd been accusing them of all sorts!!

I still have the odd guilty twinge to this day as to whether I should have written an apologetic explanation and returned the £20 !!

dazzle21

HH62 wrote: »

As for M & S. I still feel guilty to this day. Over 20 years ago I was eating one of their spag bols. I found a small metal screw in it. I was horrified. I wrote them a most indignant letter, including the screw. They checked it all out, and replied to me assuring me that the type of screw I'd found in the food was not used anywhere in the production process. They sent me £20 in vouchers. I was disgusted by their response.
Three years later, I was at home, using my pepper grinder. A screw fell out of the bottom of it, into the cottage pie I was making. I turned it upside down and noticed that there should have been two screws in the bottom of it. There weren't any....:o
OMG...I realised..the screw I'd found in the M & S spag bol had actually fell out of MY pepper grinder when I added pepper to the meal !! :rotfl:
I'd been accusing them of all sorts!!

I still have the odd guilty twinge to this day as to whether I should have written an apologetic explanation and returned the £20 !!

:rotfl: That has made my night, how funny! :rotfl:

zaksmum

Well maybe it's just me, but I can totally agree with the OP's outrage here.

Chicken sandwiches are NOT supposed to contain bone. If you got a Happy Meal at McDonald's for your 3 year old, you would not expect a one and a half inch bone in the burger and wouldn't be too amused at all those who informed you that cows DO contain bone, you know....!

Where do you draw the line? Can you shrug it off when a baby chokes on pureed chicken and whatever from a jar, just because chickens DO contain bone, and there's a bone in the jar? Or your toothless old granny chokes on her chicken soup because there's a bone in it?

Rest assured, Tesco wouldn't have given £15 if they'd been in the clear in this case.

chris3349

kurjam wrote: »

no , but it does say all sandwiches are hand made to ensure finest quality..... you would feel this bone it is a large one...

I work in a sandwich making factory not one that makes tesco sandwichs i have to say but all our sandwiches are hand made by agency workeers on a production line the chicken is brought in already sliced and used by the ton so when producing 1000s of a chicken sandwich the chicken is just picked up by the handfull very hard to spot every bone i agree if there is a warning on the pack then tesco will have there backs covered.

chris3349

HH62 wrote: »

I must admit this thread has made me literally LOL. Especially the squid sandwich bit. :rotfl:
Was gutted when some bright spark pointed out that squid (s?) actually do have a shell thing..

To the OP - I can understand that you were upset that this happened but really, I agree with the majority of the other posters.

As for M & S. I still feel guilty to this day. Over 20 years ago I was eating one of their spag bols. I found a small metal screw in it. I was horrified. I wrote them a most indignant letter, including the screw. They checked it all out, and replied to me assuring me that the type of screw I'd found in the food was not used anywhere in the production process. They sent me £20 in vouchers. I was disgusted by their response.
Three years later, I was at home, using my pepper grinder. A screw fell out of the bottom of it, into the cottage pie I was making. I turned it upside down and noticed that there should have been two screws in the bottom of it. There weren't any....:o
OMG...I realised..the screw I'd found in the M & S spag bol had actually fell out of MY pepper grinder when I added pepper to the meal !! :rotfl:
I'd been accusing them of all sorts!!

I still have the odd guilty twinge to this day as to whether I should have written an apologetic explanation and returned the £20 !!

OMG i would to feel sooooo guilty

Steve_xx

zaksmum wrote: »

Where do you draw the line? Can you shrug it off when a baby chokes on pureed chicken and whatever from a jar, just because chickens DO contain bone, and there's a bone in the jar? Or your toothless old granny chokes on her chicken soup because there's a bone in it?

Rest assured, Tesco wouldn't have given £15 if they'd been in the clear in this case.

If a baby choked in the way you describe, then the manufacturer would be liable, if, the baby suffered injury.

Tesco, by giving £15, is not admitting to any liability. They are simply making a gesture. In this particular case, the child did not suffer any lasting damage, and therefore there is no valid legal claim against Tesco.

adouglasmhor

zaksmum wrote: »

Well maybe it's just me, but I can totally agree with the OP's outrage here.

Chicken sandwiches are NOT supposed to contain bone. If you got a Happy Meal at McDonald's for your 3 year old, you would not expect a one and a half inch bone in the burger and wouldn't be too amused at all those who informed you that cows DO contain bone, you know....!

Yes but it was a chicken sandwich not a burger or a pureed meal. If you don't want a small risk of bones don't buy cooked unrendered chicken. It was a very unfortunate incident but it's not unheard of to get a bit of bone in cooked chicken, it's not massively common though so maybe that's why we all get a bit complacent about it. I understand that it is very upsetting when something goes wrong that could hurt or damage your loved ones, but sometimes nobody is at fault. There is not always someone to blame for every little thing that goes wrong.

When I was a young teenager a young girl who went to school with my friends choked to death on a small bit of bone in a chicken curry she had bought from a local takeaway. A load of us from that time haven't eaten chicken since it has such a strong connotation for us.

adouglasmhor

Steve_xx wrote: »

If a baby choked in the way you describe, then the manufacturer would be liable, if, the baby suffered injury.

Tesco, by giving £15, is not admitting to any liability. They are simply making a gesture. In this particular case, the child did not suffer any lasting damage, and therefore there is no valid legal claim against Tesco.

They had a disclaimer on the label "may contain bone" or words to that efect. I think any claim may have been nulified or mitigated by that.

Steve_xx

adouglasmhor wrote: »

They had a disclaimer on the label "may contain bone" or words to that efect. I think any claim may have been nulified or mitigated by that.

In that case the mother would be liable for any damage done to the child, since she acted as an intermediary and she fed it to her child, after presumably, being capable of reading the label.

dazzer68

zaksmum wrote: »

Well maybe it's just me, but I can totally agree with the OP's outrage here.

Chicken sandwiches are NOT supposed to contain bone. If you got a Happy Meal at McDonald's for your 3 year old, you would not expect a one and a half inch bone in the burger and wouldn't be too amused at all those who informed you that cows DO contain bone, you know....!

Where do you draw the line? Can you shrug it off when a baby chokes on pureed chicken and whatever from a jar, just because chickens DO contain bone, and there's a bone in the jar? Or your toothless old granny chokes on her chicken soup because there's a bone in it?

Rest assured, Tesco wouldn't have given £15 if they'd been in the clear in this case.

a mcdonalds happy meal are made from blasted, minced pureed chicken designed for children to eat, and probably have much careful prep, than a tesco chicken sandwhich, which isnt necessarily made for children.