Tesco Horror Story

robpw2

the moth had been washed and was ready to eat , just becasue your a lefty vegetarian you moan at tesco

you could have given it to someone else to eat

pelirocco

valk_scot wrote: »

I picked a lovely, pesticide free, organically grown Cos lettuce from my garden this afternoon, took it in the kitchen to wash it and eventually evicted fourteen earwigs. And that quite possibly wasn't them all, though my family wouldn't blink an eye at something escaping from their plate tbh. One moth? Out of however many thousands of bags of spinach processed that day? I think that's not at all bad.

Anyway I'm pretty sure moths aren't toxic. My cats eat about a dozen every night atm and they're not bothered. I agree though that if you pay extra to have a product washed and ready to eat then it should be free of wildlife, at least to a better standard than I seem to manage some days. But they've admitted it, they've apologised, they've offered some compensation. So what's the problem? Your "horror" at finding it? TBH if that's the most horrific thing that happened to you that week you should count yourself lucky. I do hope you didn't get too dramatic about it around any kids you may have btw? Because that's how eating phobias can get triggered...not by the item itself but by the parental reaction to it.

I remember as a kid people always found creepy crawlies in their salad , no matter how well it was washed ...... there was always the odd caterpillar hiding in there :rotfl:

cwood2112

Thank you everyone for your responses, particularly those who provided useful feedback. It's obviously a more common thing to occur than I realised. Like I said in my original post, I have only just moved out of home so clearly this is one of those life lessons to be learnt.

Yes I agree that my title was slightly melodramatic, however I truly was quite distressed about the situation, more so because we had already eaten some of the product when we discovered the moth. If it had been sitting on top and I had found it before using the product, I would be nowhere near as upset about it. I'm not about to have nightmares about it, but it was distressing to me, regardless.

I have no intention of trying to take things further and will be more careful with 'ready to eat' products in future.

Thanks again for those who took the time to respond.

lemontart

Perhaps you should find out the name o the company that supplies this as that is where the issue occurred and a lot iof the process automated so yes it can happen - a lot of these companies packing facilites are in Linconlshire

ellay864

Is it just me...I always take the phrase 'ready to eat' as meaning it doesn't need any cooking or specific preparation eg peeling. But I thought most if not all packs of salad etc will say they should be washed by the individual before use.
And to answer OP original question I think a £10 voucher as compensation is acceptable; it's equivalent to somewhere between 500 and 700% of the cost of the offending item, which allows for recognition of you finding it distressing

Azari

ellay864 wrote: »

Is it just me...I always take the phrase 'ready to eat' as meaning it doesn't need any cooking or specific preparation eg peeling. But I thought most if not all packs of salad etc will say they should be washed by the individual before use.

If it says 'washed and ready to eat' I would assume it means just that.

I'm quite surprised that they manage to produce washed spinach, though. Every pack I've bought says to wash first and I assumed that was because of the difficulty of drying the spinach if they washed it for you - putting wet spinach in a packet being a very good way of inducing it to degrade/rot quickly.

cwood2112

It specifically said 'washed and ready to eat'. Nevermind, lesson learnt!

*Scarlett

Well clearly I'm never eating any fruit / veg /other products without careful examination!

This topic has given me the pure heeby-jeebies - I'll be looking for a bluebottle in my toast!

Tina20

I think it's worth contacting tesco, so at least they could consider changing the wording. Washed and ready to eat isn't true in this case, maybe they shouldn't make such claims unless they can be 100% sure it's safe and ready to eat.

Azari

*Scarlett wrote: »

This topic has given me the pure heeby-jeebies - I'll be looking for a bluebottle in my toast!

Try Asda.

Their rye bread with bluebottle, woodlouse, and sundried tomatoes is to die for.