I have just been to the supermarket and purchased a salad bowl for lunch. Halfway through I noticed a slug type insect. It was on my fork ready to eat when I noticed it. What should I demand when I take it back and what am I likely to get.

 

I always laugh when this happens.

Surely it means the salad has NOT been treated with insecticide and is therefore more organic......

I feel happier finding things in stuff like that. It's only a slug - won't kill you.......

 

make a little slug trap in the salad using a thimble and a drop of beer.

 

Gotta be worth a couple of hundred in compo, if you make enough fuss

 

I once got a catapillar in my sweetcorn. All pink where it had been boiled. School meals never were upto much.

 

did you pay extra for it, if so take it back and get a refund. !!

 

Not seen one of those before? Was it a slug or was it an insect..?

What worse than biting into an apple and finding a maggot inside...?

 

I have just taken it back. I got my £1.79 back and they send it of to be checked out. I should get some vouchers or something.

We have named him ceasar

 

it was a brown/red colour and about the same size as a maggot.

 

Was Ceaser still alive? I guess he wasn't going to go hungy, but he may have been chilled to the point where he appeared deceased...

 

He was unfortunately dead and a bit mushy.

 

at least u woodnt have to chew him much then
Si

 

EEEEWWWWW

 

Don't shout too loud about this find.... everyone will be wanting one .

 

Did you check the label?
May have had the slug as an ingredient
Alas

 

Not suitable for vegetarians then

 

did it tell you the fat content

 

If I remember right, the first ever case of someone sueing someone for damges for personal injury was down to this kind of thing. A woman drank some ginger beer back in the 1800s that had a decomposed slug in it. It made her violently ill. She sued and got shed loads of damages.

If I were you, I'd chop it in half and throw one half away. Say you ate it and demand a year's supply of Stella from the supermarket!

Seriously, take it back and speak to the manager. If you push a bit, without being cheeky, they'll probably agree to a lot more than just your money back, as if you were to take it further it would cost them a lot. Don't DEMAND anything , just see what they say and if they don't offer anything, start mentioning the words Environmental Health and see what happens.

Cheers

Rich

[Edited by RICH WILD - 5/29/2003 11:32:44 AM]

 

For real compensation make it a 1/2 of a slug

 

Just seen a restaurant in York called ...... The Slug and Lettuce !!

 

Rich Wild - Donoghue v Stephenson 1932, happened in 192?8.


Tattooed onto every lawyer's grey matter.


zzzzz

 

<<<What worse than biting into an apple and finding a maggot inside...? >>>


Biting, finding hole where maggot SHOULD have been, but no Maggot
Alcazar:

 

Nah - finding HALF a maggot.

That joke first available on papyrus.

 

I got a £5 voucher from the supermarket and an apology letter from Del Monte.

 

When I was a kid, there was a kid on our street with ginger hair called Greg - he used to eat whole slugs, the big fat ones as well

 

DW > what relevance is it that he was ginger?

 

the same that his name was Greg i guess they r better with a bit of salt thou
Si

 

LOL , no relevance, just remember he had really thick ginger hair, freckles, and an odd liking for slugs.

 

You could have written to "Claims-R-Us"!

Les