Tesco Horror Story

Gothicfairy

My best friend as a child use to eat worms and the likes all the time and he grew up to be a 6 foot 4 rugby player where as I turned my nose up at anything wriggly and only managed a poxy 5 foot nowt and built like a weeble ( the wobbly type, not the bug) so it does make me wonder what I would have looked like had I followed his fresh diet.

themull1

i've found a cockroach leg in a jar of mixed pickles, i just ate around it.....and part of a bitten off fingernail in a turkish delight thin, when i took it out of my mouth it still had the pink nail varnish on the end...

Steer73

So to summarise, the majority of us think there is no need to get into a flap over this moth.

melbell

I'd be happy finding a moth, Means the spinnage is fresh!

VfM4meplse

I was thinking about a recent experience at Tesco, and when I stumbled across this thread realised it must be fate.

I noticed a member of the bakery team diligently reducing batches upon batches of fresh bread, stopping only to scratch his a**, equally furiously. Needless to say, I gave the whoopsies a miss on that occasion.

societys_child

When a combine harvester goes out threshing the corn do you think all the insects get out of the way? Oh no

. . so what do think happens to 'em?

Think about it . . yeah that's right:eek: your crusty farmhouse loaf / white sliced/ wholemeal goodness, contains all kinds of extra nutrients . . and they charge you nothing extra, it's all part of the service . . .:j

bedpotato_2

cwood2112 wrote: »

I am angry that the bags reads 'washed and ready to eat' when it has clearly not been washed very well and is not ready to eat when there's bugs in it. That was the main point I was trying to make, and then to say 'all fruit and vegetables should be washed' in their response just irritated me more.

The exact same thing happened to me once with a bag of spinach that was "washed and ready to eat" just like yours - except what I found inside was a slug. A large slug. It was still alive.

If this has never happened to people then they will not understand the OP's indignation. I felt exactly the same way as the OP when I was told by the people in the shop in a patronising way when I went back to complain "you should always wash your fruit and veg, dear." That isn't the point.

I always do wash my fruit and veg, but that's not the point here. The point is that the product has turned out to be not as stated on the packet - which is false advertising.

It's stated as "washed and ready to eat" and the process of rendering something "ready to eat" ought to include removal of unwanted insects.

The same thing would apply if you bought a packet of fresh pasta that stated "cooked and ready to eat" only to open it up and find it was still raw. You'd be indignant because they were making claims on the packaging that were proved wrong once you'd opened it and seen what was inside.

I agree with OP. It shouldn't be allowed. :mad:

People are trying to say it's the OP's fault for being squeamish about accepting the reality that there are creepy crawlies in the earth that get into plants, or the OP's fault, for being unwilling to wash your veg yourself. Both those accusations are wrong. If somebody chooses to buy vegetables that are advertised as "washed and ready to eat" then it is the supplier's fault (not Tesco's) for failing to remove said creepy crawlies and make sure the contents of the packet is truly "ready to eat."

I suspect the reason this is happening is because the vegetables are being washed in large amounts in factories by a machine, rather than being done by hand by a human being. If they were inspected bit by bit by a human doing it by eye then they would spot things like slugs and moths - but everything is being done on an industrial scale by a machine.

societys_child

I suspect the reason this is happening is because the vegetables are being washed in large amounts in factories by a machine, rather than being done by hand by a human being. If they were inspected bit by bit by a human doing it by eye then they would spot things like slugs and moths

The cost would be prohibitive and no one would buy it

Elvisia

I washed my salad by hand carefully, which had come off a farm so I was expecting the possibility of a visitor, and I still didn't notice that there was a massive slug until it crawled up the side of my bowl and tried to get my attention.

It is vile to open up salads and find something you don't want, and the slug did freak me out a bit. It does make you wonder what else we are eating - the flour thing is right it is full of stuff, including flour weevils as is rice. Having had a weevil invasion they are just disgusting, but I was told they were safe to eat as long as they were cooked! As a vegetarian that really creeped me out.

paddyrg

geordieracer wrote: »

Swallow a spider to catch the fly.

Don't do it! I know how this ends!! The fly is a gateway insect, it leads to bigger things