She’d bought the frozen veg from Poole’s Iceland store earlier in the month. After pulling the caterpillar out her family felt so queasy they eventually skipped their meal for the night. Mandy, from Swanage, Dorset, explained: “I had them all on the boil. I was dishing up, this one was the last to go on.
“That’s when I saw a black thing in one of the corns. I just thought it was a black bit of corn to start with, but then I took a closer look and started to pull it out. I was pretty shocked to find it was a worm or a caterpillar. It really put us all off our dinner. We didn’t eat a thing that evening, none of us.”
After lodging a complaint call with the Poole store, Mandy accepted a £10 voucher. She said: “As soon as I put the phone down I thought it had to be worth more than that because I threw our five dinners away.”
4 comments:
What a waste. The caterpillar is on the corn, not on the steak. In a way, it's good because the corn is pesticide free. I occasionally find worms in my veggies and I just cut out that portion and eat the rest. It's cooked anyway. If that's the actual corn, I'd have just flicked the worm off and 10 kernels.
I agree, Brixter. There's no way I'd throw out the whole thing just because of a caterpillar. Why not just throw away the corn if it bothers them that much.
Her face reminds me of somebody. Can anybody else figure it out?
Anyone who grows a garden knows how common this is. You wash the vegetables, and when you boil them, you occasionally see insects there as well. You remove them if you can, but if you miss one it's not going to kill you. You can't blame others when you throw steaks away.
She looks like Benny Hill to me. With extra gin blossom.
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