Tesco Horror Story

Meadows

cwood2112 wrote: »

We did our first weekly shop including lots of fresh veg (desperately trying to start our life together healthy!) and a bag of 'washed and ready to eat' spinach. I always ALWAYS wash fruit and veg before eating it however because the bag specifically said 'washed and ready to eat' I thought I would save some time and leave it. I cooked a meal that evening including the spinach and when finished, was putting the leftover uncooked spinach into a container to keep them fresh when I pulled out a massive dead moth. No exageration, it was about two inches long. Obviously we were utterly horrified, even more so because we had already eaten a meal using the ingredient so god knows how many germs we ate.
Does anyone have any thoughts and/or similar experiences?

Several months ago I found a grubworm at the bottom of my (washed) salad bowl after I had made myself a tuna salad. I had eaten most of the meal when I came across it and felt sick for days after.

Contacted Tesco (online purchase) and was told they had tried to ring me (no they hadn't) and would get back to me.
Did they! No even though I contacted them several times.
Recently contacted them about another issue to receive a message saying sorry we are too busy to call reply pleas contact this free phone number!!!

So a letter has gone to head office and I have also mentioned the grub and the fact they never came back to me. Don't hold out much hope of a response or a caring response but we shall see.

Take_it_like_a_man,_sonny

I learnt on my apprenticeship about double processed food. If you buy a lettuce, from a grocer, it was packed in the field, sent to wholesale and ends up in the grocer. (Supermarkets store their food in a tent of nitrogen, that is why it goes off so quick)

If the said lettuce, instead ends up in a prepacked salad, because customer is too <insert excude or other here>, the said lettuce has to wait for the rest of the ingredients, to come together. They are then mechanically sliced and shooved into bags. this takes extra time. And money

SmartPricePoster

I'd love a tenner for just having a dead moth in my spinach!

tescobabe69

If you knew what your spinach/veg/salad was washed in, you would wash it again before eating it.

Azari

Take_it_like_a_man,_sonny wrote: »

(Supermarkets store their food in a tent of nitrogen, that is why it goes off so quick)

I don't find supermarket food goes off any more quickly than that which I get from the greengrocer.

I don't buy pre-packed salads, though.

SmartPricePoster

I've always had green grocer/market stall veg last a lot longer than supermarket.

OneYorkshireLass

tescobabe69 wrote: »

If you knew what your spinach/veg/salad was washed in, you would wash it again before eating it.

I heard salad is washed in a diluted chlorine solution, but I'm not sure how true this is ...?

stephen77

OneYorkshireLass wrote: »

I heard salad is washed in a diluted chlorine solution, but I'm not sure how true this is ...?

That is one method that is used.

Why wash it again after washing it diluted chlorine solution?
If I open my mouth in a swimming pool I have to jump straight out and wash it?
The concentration used is pretty low otherwise you would be tasting it.
Its added to kill bacteria.

remeber most of the water is spun/dried off anyway.

Elvisia

Yesterday in my mixed salad (which came from a local organic farm, not pre-washed) there was a massive slug, which climbed onto the side of my bowl and looked directly at me, waving it's two tentacle things in the air. I felt quite bad for it as it had been sitting freezing it's nuts off in the fridge and then had a thorough washing from me before being seasoned. It's now happily in the neighbour's garden, chowing down on their vegetable patch.

faerie~spangles

Elvisia wrote: »

Yesterday in my mixed salad (which came from a local organic farm, not pre-washed) there was a massive slug, which climbed onto the side of my bowl and looked directly at me, waving it's two tentacle things in the air. I felt quite bad for it as it had been sitting freezing it's nuts off in the fridge and then had a thorough washing from me before being seasoned. It's now happily in the neighbour's garden, chowing down on their vegetable patch.

:T


Wee soul.