Morrisons - meat in vegetarian pasty - WWYD?

dougyd

olias wrote: »

Ok, have just bought my wife - a life long vegetarian - a fresh cheese and onion pasty from the hot food section at Morrisons. Back home she took several large bites of it and began to chew, then spat it back out. The pasty was actually a corned beef pasty! It has made her feel really ill, as well as leaving her with no lunch!

I checked the pack, just in case the assistant had misheard me and picked up the wrong pasty, but no, it says cheese and onion on it.

Now this is obviously a simple mistake - one pasty looks much the same as another and someone had obviously put them in the wrong section. I would ordinarily just leave it at that but....

I have had problem after problem with this store - mispriced items on shelves, offers advertised on shelves yet not coming off at the till, problem kids hanging around the entrance and intimidating customers and the manager stating it was 'not his problem', etc etc etc.

I cannot use another store as I live out in the sticks and this is the only supermarket for miles around.

What would you do?
Go back and complain to the uninterested manager?
Write a complaint to the head office?
leave it as just one of those things?

Just wondered....

Olias

Same thing happened to me and my girlfriend, boy did I enjoy that pasty..... the rest were cheese and onion so she still got one as well.

cottyh24

OP - if that happened to me I'd complain. I've been veggie for 26 years and biting into a meat pasty when I thought it was veggie would make me ill. Complaining may stop someone else from being in the position your wife was too.

As for the leather debate, those vegetarians sitting on their leather settees wearing their leather shoes are not proper vegetarians. That's as bad as people who say they're veggie but they eat fish.

arbroath_lass

notanewuser wrote: »

If it says "suitable for vegetarians" on the label then it must not contain animal rennet.

I understand that , I maybe misunderstood but it seemed you were saying vegetarians could eat any cheese rather than just some. Obviously from your later posts that's not what you meant, sorry.

peachyprice

cottyh24 wrote: »

As for the leather debate, those vegetarians sitting on their leather settees wearing their leather shoes are not proper vegetarians.

Do they eat their shoes and sofas then?

Sambucus_Nigra

cottyh24 wrote: »

As for the leather debate, those vegetarians sitting on their leather settees wearing their leather shoes are not proper vegetarians. That's as bad as people who say they're veggie but they eat fish.

I think you are a bit confused. People who don't EAT meat or fish are vegetarians. That is all.

It's got nothing to do with clothes or seating arrangements.

HTH

Out,_Vile_Jelly

Some people are vegetarian for moral reasons, quite a few for health reasons. I've been one since I was 11- it's easy for me as I never liked meat or fish anyway. I accept that when eating out, there is a tiny risk that a chef might use a spoon that had previously just stirred a meaty dish, or that a drop of sizzling flesh fat might jump onto a neighbouring pan. You do have to be a bit realistic though, otherwise you would never eat anything that you hadn't grown and prepared yourself.

If a product is labelled incorrectly, it is reasonable to politely and calmly point it out and ask them to check their processes.

woohoo_postingid

Eating involves swallowing and the OP's partner only chewed and spat out the food therefore she is still a vegetarian and hasn't eaten the meat.

I would complain the same as I would if I purchased something and was given something different. The whole veggie/meat argument is a moot point, you were sold one thing and given another.

stephen77

woohoo_postingid wrote: »

I would complain the same as I would if I purchased something and was given something different. The whole veggie/meat argument is a moot point, you were sold one thing and given another.

If the product is claiming to be veggie.
its actively telling you its some thing it is not.

If there is no claim it would be a moot point.

PinkLipgloss

Re: the whole leather/veggie thing.

I have been vegetarian for 20 years and, during that time, have never bought any leather products (shoes, sofas etc) for myself, or indeed others.

However, I am vegetarian for moral and health reasons (I seriously object to factory farming). If vegetarians are vegetarian for purely health or other reasons I see no issue with them choosing to buy leather. For instance, my father is a veggie for purely health reasons and wears leather shoes, has leather sofas etc. I really don't see how that is a problem.

stephen77

As the veggie debate has waned a little i take it off on a slight tangent.

What do you believe the health benefits are of a vegeterian diet?
I will admit in advance I do not believe it is benefical.
With out going into to much detial. You can have healthy meating eating diets and unhealthy vegeterain diets. However when claims are mentioned they can often look at general populations rather than eg a healthy meating eating diet that includes lots of exercise, no smoking or drinking and there meat comes from oily fish etc.