Strange marks on inside of can and funny tasting soup...

Jonny_Red

Hello all

Had a can of supermarket own brand mushroom soup for my lunch a few days ago. I thought the soup tasted a bit funny but assumed that it was just my tastebuds as it wasn't the usual brand I would buy. The soup was well in date (i'd just bought it that day).

On rinsing the can out however I noticed some strange marks on the bottom of the can... six circles arranged in a circle with a seventh circle in the middle.

My first thought was 'aliens!' but on reflection I've decided that there's probably a simpler explanation (perhaps heat marks from where the can has been heat treated?).

Anyhoo... I'm not dead so it can't have been off and I haven't been abducted by aliens so that's that out of the equation but I am a bit disgruntled about the taste of the soup (and whether I've eaten any harmful stuff).

I still have the can... my options as I see it are, email the supermarket or take the can directly back to the store. Any suggestions as to the best way to complain?

Jx

SailorSam

I think i'd Email the makers and tell them you'd thrown the soup away 'cos it was foul and the can is soiled. Wait for a reply before going back to the store. Don't suppose you still have the receipt have you.

kittycat204

Jonny_Red wrote: »

My first thought was 'aliens!'

lol, you could be right, those damn aliens breaking into tins and leaving marks.

love it.

SailorSam

Jonny_Red wrote: »

Hello all

Had a can of supermarket own brand mushroom soup for my lunch a few days ago. I thought the soup tasted a bit funny

My first thought was 'aliens!'

I am a bit disgruntled about the taste

Maybe that's the answer, there wasn't mushroom in the can 'cos it was full of aliens.
The scientists are putting all sorts of processed stuff in our foods now.

tooldle

Go back to the filler, rather than the supermarket. If there is a problem with the can that is affecting the product, it will get looked at. Was it a two piece, or three piece can?
Mushroom soup is not particuarly agressive, so you would not expect the tinplate to be adversely affected by it.

aliasojo

tooldle wrote: »

Was it a two piece, or three piece can?

Oh c'mon....the OP was struggling to differentiate between an alien and a mushroom so how do you expect him to know what kind of can it was? :rotfl:

Sorry OP.

kittycat204

aliasojo wrote: »

Oh c'mon....the OP was struggling to differentiate between an alien and a mushroom so how do you expect him to know what kind of can it was? :rotfl:

Sorry OP.

lol

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Pink.

As this is more of a consumer query than Old Style I've moved your thread over to the Consumer Rights board.

Pink

paddyrg

Write to them saying it was minging, you may get a free can or two. Talk of contamination, and they'll launch an investigation and it becomes a much bigger deal and people panic.

I would just write with the affected bit of the can, saying you noticed this pattern, and found the soup unpleasant, are they related?

pawsies

Jonny_Red wrote: »

My first thought was 'aliens!'

Jx

You sure it wasn't magic mushroom soup?

Forwandert

Is it not just a case of the soup being cooked in the can and its the heat marks I'm sure some manufacturers do this.