[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/ck/ - Food & Cooking

View post   
File: 53 KB, 615x580, 1582892312440.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
14380390 No.14380390 [Reply] [Original]

A mum-of-two was "revolted" when her daughter found what appeared to be a lizard head in her vegan bolognese sauce.

Polly Wheaton, 47, popped out to Lidl to buy the ingredients for a vegan bolognese for her twin daughters Isabelle and Megan, 20.

But as Isabelle got to the final few mouthfuls on her plate, she was horrified to find what looked like the scaly head of the reptile in her food.

The family think it came from a jar of sauce or tin of tomatoes from the supermarket.

Lidl have said they are "very sorry" and have launched "a thorough investigation."

But mum Polly says she won't be shopping with the German budget giant again.

Nail technician Polly, from Shoeburyness, Essex, said: "It was traumatising - my daughter still can't eat properly after this.

"It's not about being vegan - nobody wants to find that in their food, whether they eat meat or not. But it did make it all the more revolting for her.

"I feel at the very least that this product should have been recalled. The fact that we found an exotic animal in our food in the middle of a global pandemic is shocking.

"But I haven't had so much as a courtesy call from Lidl to apologise.

"I've had to constantly chase them over the last six weeks, and all they've told me is that their complaints team is still looking into it.

"I think this should take precedence over someone who has complained about a bad can of baked beans or something."

Polly said the suspected lizard's head was about the size of her thumbnail - which is why she had not seen it when she was pouring the ingredients into her sauce.

She found it on May 27.

She said: "I don't usually shop at Lidl - during the lockdown, I've just found it to be the most convenient and the most quiet supermarket.


https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/lidl-very-sorry-after-revolted-22331730

>> No.14380392
File: 99 KB, 810x539, 1587320876932.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
14380392

"But I certainly won't be shopping there again."

A spokesperson for the German supermarket said: "We were very sorry to hear of this matter and would like to sincerely apologise for any distress that this may have caused.

"Following the customer's initial enquiry the case was immediately raised to our Quality Assurance team who launched a thorough investigation with our suppliers.

"At Lidl, we pride ourselves on having thorough procedures in place to ensure that our products are of the highest possible quality for our customers.

"We are, therefore, disappointed that these expected high standards have not been met on this occasion.

"We are keeping the customer updated on the progress of this investigation, and upon its conclusion will share any results directly."

>> No.14380401

>use premade vegan sauce
>find shit in it
>while eating
What, were they eating from the jar?

>> No.14380630
File: 104 KB, 600x400, F6F2BEEF-6141-42C1-8AF3-1C0AB3351138.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
14380630

Ok since when a fucking lizard is an exotic animal?

>> No.14381086

>>14380630
people aren't very smart. surprise surprise surprise.

>> No.14381111

>>14380630
"Exotic" pets are basically things that are not the traditional cat, dog, or hamster.

>> No.14381167

>>14380390
>food made by a machine
>small animal gets in the machine
>surprise

Obviously this is shitty, well worth a refund and some free product, but it's pretty much as inevitable as bugs in organic produce. There only way to prevent it is by making the production process vastly more complicated and expensive, eliminating any steps where the product is exposed to the air, batches are moved around, etc, and introducing computer vision systems or other similar solutions to pick out impurities that were there from the start, or got in despite precautions.

>> No.14381178

>>14380630
No native dinosaurs there you goober

>> No.14381589

>>14380630
Bongs don't have lizards

>> No.14381605

>>14380390
VEGANS BTFO!!!

>> No.14381607

>>14381167
Automated controls faggot here. You idiots are always asking for too much and I'm getting too fucking fat from all these jobs. Literally, just pay a Polack to be on fucking lizard patrol instead of paying me to design and install some fancy anti-lizard countermeasures when the problem is really just some idiot in shipping who wedged a fire door open.

>> No.14381623

F
RIP Lizard fren

>> No.14381630

Should be glad it wasn't some piece of metal or anything dangerous.

>> No.14381631

>mum-of-two
>Nail technician
>Essex
a walking meme

>> No.14381646

>>14380390
stale pasta

>> No.14381681

>>14381607
Nobody can watch a section of a machine for an 8 hour shift looking for lizards when there are no lizards 99.999% of the time. You'd have to randomly release a simulated lizard at least once a week to make sure they were on the ball, and by the time you finish making the remote controlled mechanical lizard I'm not sure it'd be worth it over an automated system.

>> No.14381691

>>14381681
>remote controlled mechanical lizard
This is the shit I'm talking about. Just use real Polacks and real lizards. Stop asking me to make up overly complex systems when I already own my own home and could retire comfortably at the age of 50. Minimum wage is kept low for a fucking reason.

>> No.14381712

>>14381691
Bolognese Company Expenses, 2020 Q1
> Beef - $3.4m
> Tomatoes - $1.6m
> Upkeep - $0.7m
> Debt - $0.3m
> Lizards - $0.1m
> Lizard Monitor Salaries - $0.06m

>> No.14381729

>>14380390
Probably just an unlucky gecko crawled up the wrong vine on some farm in Mexico. If you wanna start an interesting conversation, ask vegans if they look for the little tag that says "no animals were harmed in the making of this produce". Obviously there's no such thing. Whether it's farmers having to shoot rabbits and gophers, putting up bird nets over berry bushes or just a section of forest getting razed to make room for a cornfield, all agriculture harms animals in some way.

By the way fuck Bolognese. Bologna is Italy's Chicago. All foods made there are bafflingly shitty and overrated.

>> No.14382077
File: 13 KB, 220x293, 1585620101343.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
14382077

>>14381729
aalewis is that you?

>> No.14382080

>>14381712
>Polacks - $0.01k

>> No.14382153

>>14381729
>writing a fifty page paragraph on what vegans do but not what omnivores do
We all know you're hiding your guilt by putting the focus on vegans and not animal products

>> No.14382196

>>14382153
>>>14381729
>>writing a fifty page paragraph on what vegans do but not what omnivores do
>We all know you're hiding your guilt by putting the focus on vegans and not animal products

>50 page
imagine being this bad at maths

Omnivores dont care if animals need to be killed because they get eaten and because they are under no illusion that animals will suffer and die to feed humans whether that food is meat or plant based

>> No.14382208

>muh head
I bet she never even read this site
https://www.food.gov.uk/news-alerts/search/alerts?type%5BFood+alert%5D=Food+alert

>> No.14382216

>>14382153
phoneposters deserve death

>> No.14382220

>>14380390
Do non-Americans really have such appallingly lax food standards? Can't believe how much corner cutting yurocorps get away with.

>> No.14382223

>>14382220
That's what being raised on soy milk does for you, under developed brain

>> No.14382240

>>14382196
>>14382216
Blah blah blah thing x is bad we get it you hate brocolli

>> No.14382314

>>14380630
That thing is vegan, 47 and called "Polly".

>> No.14382378

>>14381589
>Bongs don't have lizards
We do, but they're very rare. I've never seen a wild one.

>> No.14382447

Whites will cause Corona 2.0.

>> No.14382481
File: 8 KB, 184x184, Graphics cat.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
14382481

>>14381681
>remote controlled mechanical lizard

>> No.14382498

>>14382240
brocollini in beef fat is goat tho

>> No.14382814

bump

>> No.14382835

proof that vegans arent real. its only real in your mind you stupid fucking faggots. when you eat farm raised food ANIMALS DIED IN THERE. Animals died as a direct result of you eating food that you didnt grow or harvest yourself. Thats how farming works. rabbits, moles, insects, birds, and even lizards die in all sorts of ways even if youre a "vegan". they get chopped up in harvesters, killed from pesticides (organic ones too), displaced to an area they cannot survive in, ran over by tractors, directly killed by farmers, etc. vegans arent real, unless you live in the jungle and live like a feral plant eating animal which you dont, you cant be a vegan. deal with it.

>> No.14382876

>>14382835
ikr a lizard got sucked up into the tomato harvester big whoop
fucking retards

>> No.14383182

>>14380390
Vegans always think they are preventing animal cruelty by supporting massive monocrop agriculture. They think only animal feed production is the only cruel and unnecessary crop ag.

This bitch could have prevented this by not being so cheap and useless and growing her own produce. This poor lizard died because some farmer decided its home would be a great place for a giant mechanized crop monoculture to overcharge vegans and other useless consumers with calorie and nutrient devoid bullshit they could grow themselves. How fucking hard is it to grow your own herbs and tomatoes?

>>14380392
Is this her? She looks like she could afford to fucking grow a god damn fucking pot of tomatoes. There's nothing Lidl can do bitch. Animals exist. You pay for people to take away their homes don't be surprised when you find one trying to re inhabit their ancestral home.

>> No.14383195

>>14381712
> Owning the libs - Priceless

>> No.14383217

>>14380390
>Nail technician Polly, from Shoeburyness, Essex, said: "It was traumatising - my daughter still can't eat properly after this.
I guess I've watched Airplane too many times, because I imagine her daughter shoving forkfuls of spaghetti upwards into the side of her face and then breaking into tears because she just can't get it right.