Mouldy sweets in kids lucky bag - Debenhams

pinkshoes

andyrules wrote: »

Either way, I wouldn't feel safe eating mouldy food!;)

You don't eat blue cheese?? Made with those lovely mouldy spores, mmmmmmmmmmmmm!

Brie and Camenbert also have white surface mould.

relay

Just out of interest was there any particular reason they were reduced to 60p? Could it have been because they were out of date anyway?

albertross_2

fesdufun wrote: »

What would you do?

Forget about it pretty quickly, there are more beneficial things to do with your time than trying to chase for compo over a dodgy sweet.

fesdufun

Well I rang the store at 11.00 and asked them to remove any remaining packets from the shelf and said I would return the ones I had brought back to store. I went this afternoon and found them still had one for sale. I took it to the counter with the ones I had brought on Friday. The one on the shelf had a DOB sticker on it for July 2008 so they weren't out of date. The manager opened it in front of me and the sweets were mouldy. She is sending them back to Head Office so they can take it up with their supplier.

And pinkshoes yes I have eaten blue cheese but I don't really fancy sweets with hairy white and blue mould growing on it!

Rab19

So, did you a get a refund then? At least you got the others removed from the shelf & saved someone else buying them!

Rab x x

fesdufun

Rab19 wrote: »

So, did you a get a refund then? At least you got the others removed from the shelf & saved someone else buying them!

Rab x x

Didn't get a refund. They said they could only refund the price of the bags and that they would have to refer to Head Office for anything more.

To be honest it is not the money although you may think that by reading the first post. It is the principal of the thing and the fact that they were still selling them after I had phoned that gets to me.

At this point we don't even know what mould it was that was growing in the packets of sweets. I feel it needs to be investigated further and the matter taken seriously.

hollydays

Surely you got a 60p refund?

andyrules

pinkshoes wrote: »

You don't eat blue cheese?? Made with those lovely mouldy spores, mmmmmmmmmmmmm!

Brie and Camenbert also have white surface mould.

Blue cheese - yum, especially with a digestive bikkie and red wine, but it is deliberately made by introducing a particular mould, that is safe. (although preggie women shouldn't eat it). But food that is mouldy with age - eeooow!
I wouldn't!

andyrules

fesdufun wrote: »

I went this afternoon and found them still had one for sale. on it!

Hope that doesn't mean they sold the rest! :eek: