Have You Ever Found A Beastie In Your Fruit And Veg?

[plowter]

There seem to be regular stories of people discovering lizards or insects in their pre-packed salads and tales of supermarket staff finding spiders and scorpions in their bananas. Have you, or any of your friends, ever found a beastie in your groceries?

[sandyRoe]

Does a slug on a cabbage count as a beastie?

[plowter]

Hardly Steve Irwin material, unless it was an 'alien killer slug with razor-sharp teeth' (copyright Daily Mail)?

[craft1948]

The dog once found a dead mice in his dried food..............

[FredPuli43]

No in groceries but on my plate. At school, I once found a large, live, caterpillar in my salad. I called over the master in charge , expecting a complaint to be recorded and to be excused eating the salad. Bad decision. He was a bluff Yorkshireman. He took one glance at the offending creature and said "Ee, lad, that's your meat course. Eat up!"

[jno]

yep, nothing wrong with a bit of added protein.

[hc4361]

Only in the fruit and veg I pick in the garden.

I wouldn't mind a little lizard as a pet

[slinkycat]

Much the same as you Fred, except it was a boiled caterpillar in the home grown cabbage served up as part of the roast while visiting an great aunt with a small holding in deepest Gloucester.
There was much muttering about "soft townfolk" even though at about 10years old I'd tried to politely hide it under a cabbage leaf!

[NoMercy]

I had a meal at the Pandy Inn near Hay On Wye - one of the oldest pubs in Britain.

Had a goats cheese starter with a little salad and found a maggot on my plate.

*Shudders*