Found Chicken in my Veg Pie

Enfieldian

Indeed it does, I should have noticed the red line in Firefox.

Amended accordingly.

pcombo

I could go chicken now. Isn't chicken soooo lovely.

Badger_Lady

Back to the question...

My parents once found a piece of ham on their vegetarian pizza at Sainsbury's... they took it back to the customer service desk and were offered a £20 voucher.

I once found a large green (dead) bug in a box of Tesco Value orange juice... I took it back to the instore customer services with a written letter and was given a £10 voucher on the spot, plus a follow-up letter some weeks later explaining the measures they were taking to ensure it wouldn't happen again.

Last year, some kind of crazy bug (kind of like a small cricket) jumped out of an airproof jar of Asda stuffed vine leaves. I took it back to the shop and showed the lady the, then dead, bug so she ran around squealing at all her colleagues, even calling them over on the tannoy, and gave me a refund plus £5 voucher.

There's a theme

Mrs_justjohn

Badger_Lady wrote: »

Back to the question...


I once found a large green (dead) bug in a box of Tesco Value orange juice...

Last year, some kind of crazy bug (kind of like a small cricket) jumped out of an airproof jar of Asda stuffed vine leaves.
There's a theme

Indeed there is ....that you keep getting dead/live animals/insects in your food products....:rotfl:

Soubrette

Badger_Lady wrote: »

I once found a large green (dead) bug in a box of Tesco Value orange juice... I took it back to the instore customer services with a written letter and was given a £10 voucher on the spot, plus a follow-up letter some weeks later explaining the measures they were taking to ensure it wouldn't happen again.

I think this is perhaps a good analogy for the meateaters out there - who obviously don't see a problem with chicken

How would you feel if you had a chicken pie and found a dead slug in there? Would you want compensation or for the supermarket to review their procedures?

If no, carry on chuckling (extra chuckles for those who would have eaten it anyway )

If yes, perhaps a little bit of sympathy for the OP.

Personally I wouldn't want compensation but I would be writing to HO and explaining the situation and ask that they try to ensure that this does not happen again.

Pollycat

Soubrette wrote: »

I think this is perhaps a good analogy for the meateaters out there - who obviously don't see a problem with chicken

How would you feel if you had a chicken pie and found a dead slug in there? Would you want compensation or for the supermarket to review their procedures?

If no, carry on chuckling (extra chuckles for those who would have eaten it anyway )

If yes, perhaps a little bit of sympathy for the OP.

Personally I wouldn't want compensation but I would be writing to HO and explaining the situation and ask that they try to ensure that this does not happen again.

I think that comparing a slug with a piece of chicken is like comparing apples and elephants.
It's not a good analogy at all.
Slugs are something that NOBODY (or at least very very few people) eat whereas chicken is a tasty food to many people.
Let's be clear here - that piece of chicken did not put the OP's life in danger.
It may have offended her sensibilities and compromised her CHOICE of vegetarianism but it didn't put her into an anaphylactic shock.

If I found a slug in any food, I'd do what I've suggested several times to the OP:
write a brief, to-the-point, unemotional letter asking how it could have happened and ask them to review their processes.

What I wouldn't have done was come on here and ask:

can anyone give me any advice on how to pursue this further.

'cos to most posters that smacks of "I want compensation" - especially as she had already been offered a refund on the pies.

Soubrette

Pollycat wrote: »

I think that comparing a slug with a piece of chicken is like comparing apples and elephants.
It's not a good analogy at all.

I disagree because of your very next point

Slugs are something that NOBODY (or at least very very few people) eat whereas chicken is a tasty food to many people.
Let's be clear here - that piece of chicken did not put the OP's life in danger.

This is an excellent point and exactly shows why the analogy is a good one. Most people who eat chicken find it hard to understand why some vegetarians find chicken so offensive. Chicken is a tasty food to many but not to all....but everyone (apart from maybe a few toddlers ) understand why slugs aren't. Perhaps people can transfer their dislike of slugs to at least an understanding as to why for some people eating chicken might be like eating slugs.

I am clear, I completely understand that neither chicken or slug puts anyone life in danger

It may have offended her sensibilities and compromised her CHOICE of vegetarianism but it didn't put her into an anaphylactic shock.

Nowhere do I suggest this would happen. Just to set the record straight - as far as I am aware neither chicken nor slugs will put the eater into anaphylactic shock.

If I found a slug in any food, I'd do what I've suggested several times to the OP:
write a brief, to-the-point, unemotional letter asking how it could have happened and ask them to review their processes.

Exactly as I would do, indeed exactly as I suggested

What I wouldn't have done was come on here and ask:

'cos to most posters that smacks of "I want compensation" - especially as she had already been offered a refund on the pies.

Nor would I. This really has nothing to do with questioning how revolting eating chicken was for the OP though. This is called the strawman argument where a poster argues against a position which was never put forward by the poster they are arguing against.

Googlewhacker

Badger_Lady wrote: »

Back to the question...

My parents once found a piece of ham on their vegetarian pizza at Sainsbury's... they took it back to the customer service desk and were offered a £20 voucher.

I once found a large green (dead) bug in a box of Tesco Value orange juice... I took it back to the instore customer services with a written letter and was given a £10 voucher on the spot, plus a follow-up letter some weeks later explaining the measures they were taking to ensure it wouldn't happen again.

Last year, some kind of crazy bug (kind of like a small cricket) jumped out of an airproof jar of Asda stuffed vine leaves. I took it back to the shop and showed the lady the, then dead, bug so she ran around squealing at all her colleagues, even calling them over on the tannoy, and gave me a refund plus £5 voucher.

There's a theme

You're contaminating the produce?

Googlewhacker

claretmatt wrote: »

A similar thing happened to my uncle's friend's wife with another well known supermarket. She threatened to sue and won £12,000 in an out of court settlement. It was in the papers

Did you parents brother friends daughters mother have a link?

blindmouse

A very long long time (more than 20 years) ago I found the tiniest fully complete bone in a gingsters beef pastie, it was so small it could only have come from a sparrow !!!! I have never ever eaten any sort of pie from a supermarket since, thats the best way to ensure you never eat anything you dont want to..