Insect found in meal

gordikin

I think you both should forget it and 'move on'...these things happen unfortunately, it's no biggy in the scheme of things. I must have swallowed dozens of bugs in my cycling days...I'm still here!

fronswa

I think that would just encourage companies to fob people off until they gave up.

You expect to have to eat some bugs if your cycling or camping, but not if you're forking out some money to someone else to provide a meal for you.

By the looks of things it was a one inch bug in a sprig of parsley. If I was making a meal like that for someone else, or even for myself, I'd be pretty disappointed if I didn't notice it.

gordikin

fronswa wrote: »

I think that would just encourage companies to fob people off until they gave up.

You expect to have to eat some bugs if your cycling or camping, but not if you're forking out some money to someone else to provide a meal for you.

By the looks of things it was a one inch bug in a sprig of parsley. If I was making a meal like that for someone else, or even for myself, I'd be pretty disappointed if I didn't notice it.

...but could you have possibly missed it? Okay you'd be disappointed you had missed it, what would you expect the diner to do when they found it?

fronswa

gordikin wrote: »

what would you expect the diner to do when they found it?

Well it depends on who the dinner is don't you think?

Is it the kind of person who doesn't like to make a fuss, doesn't know their 'Consumer Rights', is easily fobbed off, and generally lets people walk all over them?

Or is it a solicitor who focuses on Consumer Law?

fronswa

:T

Amazing... I was starting to think that this forum had been infiltrated by corporate plants or something (weird I know) so I did a search for "criticism of moneysavingexpert".

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Oh thank God... it's not just me.

Having posted in the forum in the past trying to learn and gather information I have found the place extremely hostile if you have an opinion different from the norm.

There is a lack of intelligent conversation and people are more keen to argue and insult than share points of view.

pheeeewwww.

I thought I was loosing my mind there.

You need to chill on the hostility chaps. It's a bit much.

funkycoldribena

fronswa wrote: »

I thought I was loosing my mind there.

You need to chill on the hostility chaps. It's a bit much.

The trouble is what do you/her want? Free meals for life,the manager hung by his goolies? Thousands of pounds?
Everyone wants compensation for everything nowadays,theres numerous threads on here asking what compo can I get for mostly petty nonsense.
Its only a piddly bug,move on,lifes too short,Im sure plenty of people back in the old days when growing your own stuff was the norm ate all sorts of creatures.

fronswa

funkycoldribena wrote: »

Everyone wants compensation for everything nowadays,theres numerous threads on here asking what compo can I get for mostly petty nonsense.

Yeah, I can imagine.

I mentioned the Consumer Protection Act earlier, and that you have to be looking for £275+ in order to use it. That's what confused me. I thought, "ooo that probably doesn't apply to this situation then".

This section's called 'Consumer Rights' not 'Consumer Opinions'... or 'What I'd like Consumer Rights to be'.

Maybe just ignore the people looking for compensation scams in future eh? Or don't let them wind you up so much?

Like you say - move on,lifes too short. :snow_laug

somethingcorporate

fronswa wrote: »

Trust me mate... I read it.

Why didn't you raise this with paulinespens as it was the 'pens' that introduced it into the conversation? Fair question I think.

Because you were the one that was going to rely on it, not the person that brought it up.

fronswa wrote: »

The case is relevant... it can't not be relevant, you even say so yourself that it 'obviously' applies in this instance.

So in other words it looks like your saying that it is so relevant, to the point where it has actually become irrelevant. :think: And I kinda agree with you there... but again... why not raise this with the 'pens'?

If you had a clue about case law then you would probably understand what you were talking about. The whole point about the snail in the ale is whether the manufacturer had any duty of care to the diner. They disputed it because they did not sell the bottle, the restaurant did. Your case the restaurant gave the meal directly to the diner, without the involvement of a manufacturer. Hence, res ipsa loquitur.

fronswa wrote: »

I just politely acknowledged the case and said I was looking for something more recent.

Case law doesn't need to be recent, just relevant.

fronswa wrote: »

Mayhaps you can peruse the prospectus of your local educational establishment and see if they offer courses in civility and social skills. You might find that it will supplement your knowledge of the legal system quite well.

Says you!

Edit: Just because I disagree with you please don't assume it to be "hostility"

peachyprice

fronswa wrote: »

From what I can tell the bug was embedded in the pasta sauce.

fronswa wrote: »

By the looks of things it was a one inch bug in a sprig of parsley.

So which was it?

Esoog

I found an Earwig in my lettuce last week. Turns out after some googling that Earwigs love lettuce, at least said Earwig got some lunch