Found Chicken in my Veg Pie

Mrs_justjohn

Googlewhacker wrote: »

You're contaminating the produce?

LOL - I was going to say that but bottled out....:rotfl:

catflea

Actually, whilst not life threatening the consumption of meat products by a long term vegetarian can cause illness. Reason being that as the body becomes used to digesting vegetable matter as a sole source of food the nessecary enzymes for the effective digestion of meat are no longer produced in the quantities that are nessecary.

An ex partner of mine was very unwell for 2 days after consuming a meat pizza (silly mare said that she was fed up being veggie and gorged herself on a meatfeast type pizza) after feeling that ill, she never touched meat again - shes now Vegan in fact!

As for the OP. I totally and utterly understand your disgust in finding meat product in a vegetarian product. IMHO it would be reasonable to expect a refund on the product, a small gesture of goodwill (£20 voucher maybe) and a letter of apology& explaination.

Pollycat

Soubrette
I disagree with a lot of your points.

Your analogy is not a good one - IMHO. On this we'll just have to agree to disagree.

I actually CAN understand and accept that the OP (or anyone else who is vegetarian or vegan) finds chicken offensive.
I actually say as much in my post #47.

I don't think I said (or implied) anywhere in my post that slugs would cause anaphylactic shock.
The point I was making was that some foods that are perfectly OK for the majority of people (and I'm talking things like nuts here, not slugs) but pose serious health risks to a minority.
Chicken is not one of those foods.
If the OP had been allergic to chicken and it had put her life in danger, the situation would have been different.

So we are at least in agreement that the OP would be better to write to Asda.

And that neither of us would have posted on here if we had been in a similar situation.

I'm not sure if your last point regarding a 'strawman' argument is aimed at me.
If it is, for the record, I haven't questioned how revolting eating chicken was for the OP.

Are you really suggesting that OP was just asking for advice how to word a letter asking for

an assuarance it wont happen again and for there to be more quality assuarance checks with their products.

Yeah, right.

Owain_Moneysaver

Bunter wrote: »

Totally agree!!

I bought some hot cross buns a couple of months ago in ASDA and "lo and behold" they contained pieces of chicken. It was clearly freshly cooked chicken (quite nice) and caused no upset.

Thing is, though, that chicken and buns have quite different safety requirements - the buns could have been sitting displayed at 'ambient' for a couple of days or more, in which case the chicken certainly wouldn't have been fresh or quite nice.

I can understand a bit of cheese from the cheesy topped baps might adhere to a cherry scone.

Soubrette

Pollycat wrote: »

Soubrette
I disagree with a lot of your points.

Your analogy is not a good one - IMHO. On this we'll just have to agree to disagree.

I actually CAN understand and accept that the OP (or anyone else who is vegetarian or vegan) finds chicken offensive.
I actually say as much in my post #47.

I don't think I said (or implied) anywhere in my post that slugs would cause anaphylactic shock.
The point I was making was that some foods that are perfectly OK for the majority of people (and I'm talking things like nuts here, not slugs) but pose serious health risks to a minority.
Chicken is not one of those foods.
If the OP had been allergic to chicken and it had put her life in danger, the situation would have been different.

So we are at least in agreement that the OP would be better to write to Asda.

And that neither of us would have posted on here if we had been in a similar situation.

I'm not sure if your last point regarding a 'strawman' argument is aimed at me.
If it is, for the record, I haven't questioned how revolting eating chicken was for the OP.

Are you really suggesting that OP was just asking for advice how to word a letter asking for


Yeah, right.

I think we will have to agree to disagree, I still think the slug analogy is an excellent one

My original post was a response to people who could not (for whatever reason) understand why other people find chicken revolting. It was merely pointing out that other nutritious meats are more universally found to be revolting and perhaps offering these people a little bit of insight into why chicken might (for some) be considered so.

Nothing more, nothing less.

Just to be clearer - it was not a comment on whether the OP should sue or if they did, if they should be entitled to anything.

candygirl

Sandoval wrote: »

Oh for God's sake grow up!

Hard done by given the severity of what happened!? You found a bit of chicken in a vegetable pie for crying out loud!

Instead of trying to bring down Asda or claim hundreds in compensation just take a deep breath, try to put your ordeal in perspective with actual injustices and get on with your life.

Stop being a nobhead and put yourself in the OPs place:mad::mad:I also am a vegetarian, and would have also have been as repulsed as you if you found a turd in your meat and potato pastie:mad::mad:

Mrs_justjohn

candygirl wrote: »

Stop being a nobhead and put yourself in the OPs place:mad::mad:I also am a vegetarian, and would have also have been as repulsed as you if you found a turd in your meat and potato pastie:mad::mad:

Given what a meat and potato pastie looks like- how would you know?
:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Pollycat

catflea wrote: »

Actually, whilst not life threatening the consumption of meat products by a long term vegetarian can cause illness. Reason being that as the body becomes used to digesting vegetable matter as a sole source of food the nessecary enzymes for the effective digestion of meat are no longer produced in the quantities that are nessecary.

An ex partner of mine was very unwell for 2 days after consuming a meat pizza (silly mare said that she was fed up being veggie and gorged herself on a meatfeast type pizza) after feeling that ill, she never touched meat again - shes now Vegan in fact!

As for the OP. I totally and utterly understand your disgust in finding meat product in a vegetarian product. IMHO it would be reasonable to expect a refund on the product, a small gesture of goodwill (£20 voucher maybe) and a letter of apology& explaination.

Is eating (admittedly by mistake and against the OP's personal preferences) what was probably a small piece of chicken the same as GORGING oneself on a meat feast pizza?

Actually I wonder if the cheese used is vegetarian.
And if the fat used in the pastry is non-animal.

I'd be interested to hear from the OP if the product is actually marked 'suitable for vegetarians'.

To be clear, I've already said that I agree that a vegetarian pie shouldn't contain meat, so I'm not unsympathetic to the OP's predicament.

The OP has already been offered a refund on the pies - although she hasn't said whether she accepted the refund.

Both I and Soubrette have suggested she write to Asda head office.

Soubrette

Pollycat wrote: »

I'd be interested to hear from the OP if the product is actually marked 'suitable for vegetarians'.

The opening post says it was.

Pollycat

Soubrette wrote: »

I think we will have to agree to disagree, I still think the slug analogy is an excellent one

Sure, we'll agree to disagree.

Not quite sure what this smiley is for though: