Suspected mouse legs found in Sainsburys basic soup !

stephenliverpool1

dodger1 wrote: »

We aim to please

Er no I am not lol !!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

dacouch

To be fair to Sainsbury's, their catchphrase is "Try something new today"

Money-Saving-King

When I first read this earlier today (hungover) my eyes weren't working properly & I've spent the whole afternoon wondering how a pair of moose legs could fit in a tin of soup!

Now I'm not hungover anymore this thread finally makes sense!

shaun_from_Africa

Money-Saving-King wrote: »

I've spent the whole afternoon wondering how a pair of moose legs could fit in a tin of soup!

Quite easily if you think about it logically.

Spidernick

Either someone is taking the 'Mickey' or else Sainsbury's 'squeaky' clean image has gone.

Oh well, the best laid plans of....

Ah, perhaps not!

Money-Saving-King

shaun_from_Africa wrote: »

Quite easily if you think about it logically.

The op's mother in law must be quite a muscular woman to carry that home!

Johno100

hollydays wrote: »

But once the shop has the evidence..I seem to remember supermarkets have a habit of losing contaminated food that is sent to them.

That's why if I were to find such a contaminant in food I'd go straight to the food safety department of my local councils trading standards. But of course my wish would be to prevent a reoccurrence, not to screw the most compo I can from the retailer.

SevenOfNine

"Mouse legs" - plural. Photograph, then give 1 to Sainsbury (get a receipt), & take the other to Environmental Health at your local Council to check what it is (phone first to see if they can take a look).

Compensation can be discussed once Sainsbury have either determined exactly what it is, or lost it. They can then also say what failsafe procedures they have put in place to prevent this happening again.

Stop buying the basic range, you'll get a whole one if you pay more - easier to identify.

Money-Saving-King

SevenOfNine wrote: »

Compensation can be discussed once Sainsbury have either determined exactly what it is, or lost it. They can then also say what failsafe procedures they have put in place to prevent this happening again.

The thing is though I always read things like this on here it's too thought out. It makes compensation sound like a profit exercise rather than what the idea of compensation is really suppose to be about. It's like finding something wrong is an opportunity to some people rather than a misfortune.

kwikbreaks

Was it marked as "Suitable for vegetarians"?

I think in general the options are compensation from the seller and £50 sounds reasonably generous or report to trading standards/fsa.

I've done both in the past. A few quid when I found a bolt in a lasagne and sod all with no action taken that I'm aware of for what looked very much like a maggot in the rice that came with a ready meal that I reported to trading standards. To get compo they'll want it back and trading standards are unlikely to proceed on photos alone given that in my experience they did nothing even with the evidence - they never got back to me at all.