Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Man surprised to find locust living in Sainsbury's bag of rocket

A man got a surprise when he bought a bag of salad and found a live locust crawling inside. Stephen Oldham, 21, purchased the rocket from Sainsbury's and was astonished when he got home and saw the fully-grown pest among the leaves.



Stephen, from Bath, Somerset, said: "I purchased a bag of rocket from Sainsbury's in Bath and when I was unpacking my shopping noticed that there was a locust living in the bag."

The architect student from the University of Bath, filmed the insect before going back to the store with the bag, which originated in Spain. Stephen added: "The person I spoke was quite humorous about it. Sainsbury's are now handling it."


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Sainsbury's said: "We've apologised to Steve for this - clearly it should never have happened and we have contacted him to make it up to him. Our supplier has stringent checks in place on the production line and we will be looking closely at how this occurred."

2 comments:

Ratz said...

The Locust probably quite enjoyed it, food as far as the eye can see and it's all for me. Though perhaps a little boring as it's all the same. Next time get sealed in a bag of mixed salad.

Shak said...

I thought Tescos cornered the market on foreign objects in the food.