Jer

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.

imlach

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.......

mj

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

GreenMachine

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

nkh

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

lpski1

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

Nimbus

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...?

Jer

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

Jer

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

Nimbus

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...

Jer

He was unfortunately dead and a bit mushy.

scooby_si

at least u woodnt have to chew him much then
Si

Paulo P

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Apparition

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

Alas

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

Tino

Not suitable for vegetarians then

Burt

did it tell you the fat content

RICH WILD

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]

mega_stream

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

Apparition

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

Brendan Hughes

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


Tattooed onto every lawyer's grey matter.


zzzzz

alcazar

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


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

Brendan Hughes

Nah - finding HALF a maggot.

That joke first available on papyrus.

Jer

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

Dream Weaver

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

ChristianR

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DW > what relevance is it that he was ginger?

scooby_si

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

Dream Weaver

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

Leslie

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

Les