I just found a worm in a raspberrie !!!

I bought some fruit from local supermarket for my break (trying to be good lol) and ok I know you should wash them but I never do...and I picked one up, nice plump juicy one, and I always check, and there was a little worm inside!!!

It's really put me off and I can't face any more (wouldn't mind, but I get through about 2 or 3 punnets a week when on day shifts!!)

ah well, think of all the extra protein I could have been eating.....

> ah well, think of all the extra protein I could have been eating.....

Exactly :-)  I think supermarket fruit has spoiled us.  Used to find loads when scoffing brambles as kids but we didn't seem to come to any harm :-)

Well I don't mind little bugs (and I'm sure I've quaffed plenty of those) but ones that stre-e-e-etch up nearly out of the fruit is very offputting!! LOL

and yes, I used to spend many a happy HOT summer going round the local hedgerows and coming home covered in juice and grass-stains......  **sigh**

we have brambles in the garden and hubby wants to rip them out, but I like picking the fruit when I'm out with the dogs, what with the damsons, greengages in our garden, and apples in the neighbours that grow over our side, it's quite a fruitful experience....... :) :)

You see, you are getting over it already :-)

return it (fruit and worm) to the store along with all the packaging as they need this info to process the complaint. your entitled to a refund and may get a gesture depending on who answers it.

(my job you see :))

Good heavens, what is the world coming to :-)

ah but it does say on the packaging - wash before eating - and as I haven't washed it I don't really want to make a fuss, am quite happy to take them home, soak them and then eat them (after inspecting them carefully lol)

I mean, how far should we expect fruit to be inspected?? If it was a wopping great spider then yes I would prob take it back, if only to make them aware in case they want to check the rest of their stock....

I remember soaking all handpicked hedgerow fruit when I was little and being amazed by the amount of creepies floating up!!!

and they are British so at least it's a local creepy (well local to Kent according to fruit grower info ;) )

see your far more reasonable than many people, but its a fault so your entitled, take it back :)

standard proceedure and i work for the biggest in britain :)

I don't doubt it but it seems a step too far to me that fruit must never see a bug.  Visual inspections can surely only go so far and I don't think I would like them to use vermicides.  I wonder what the organic growers do?

same thing happened to me at my local supermarket. I got a realy small slug in my finest stawberrys. when I took it to the customer service desk the lady looked very intently at it. I said 'it is a slug' she said ' oh yes but it does say was before consuming' I told her I didnt care I wasnt paying the price they ask to get straws that have had a slug knawing thru them. Organic yes I would accept that.  but not 'normal ones'

> and may get a gesture depending on who answers it.

I think I know what the 'gesture' would be! ;-)

oooh I wish I hadn't said anything now!!

was meant to be light-hearted!!!

I'm just not hard enough to crunch them creepies !!!

lol ;)

> was meant to be light-hearted!!!
>

Don't worry.  It was quite clear you were not in high dudgeon about it :-)

they are supposed to insopect each punnet thouroughly washing it at every stage of the picking to packing process.

i agree with you, its fruit, bugs happen, but many many customers get very upset about it

lol, not to someone as polite as dearlady :)

i know you were just kiddng, but seriously your entitled to your money back at least. its no loss for the company i assure you.

plus if its from my employer every little helps get me overtime lol :) (kidding)

we get thousands of correspondence about this each year so you'd not be seen as a nutter or a whinge, promise. though i must say if i get probs i don;t ususally bother either.

did they complete a product complaint form? they should have and it should have been sent to headoffice to be processed and send a response to you.

Dearlady,

There's only one thing worse than finding a 'stretchy' crawly in your Raspberry, and that's finding half a 'stretchy' crawly in your Raspberry :-D

>There's only one thing worse than finding a 'stretchy' crawly in your Raspberry, and that's finding half a 'stretchy' crawly in your Raspberry

Dill you stole my thunder!!!!!
I got all the way to the end think, yeah, know ones said it, then I came across YOUR reply :O :o :o :o
Ditto to Dill Dearlady :) :) :) At least you saw it LMAO
Lea :) :)  

Reminds me of the story of my aunt eating the Swiss Roll full of dead ants out of the cupboard. :-D

Oh noooooooooo MG
I will NEVER eat a swiss role again :( :(
Off to find the toilet QUICK!!!!
Lea :)

Just seen this thread. I don't like creepy crawlies in my food either but I found a very small caterpillar in my raspberries yesterday :-(  In fact I wouldn't have seen it at all if it had not been onthe surface and wiggling.  Usually this would put me off too but as I flicked off the little blighter I reasoned that the raspberries had just been bought in M&S who have high standards and that the wiggler was wiggling proved how fresh the raspberries were and d*mn I am in my first week of my slimming world diet and I really wanted those raspberries. :-)

I didn't look too closely at the rest and they were delicious. :-)

When I was at college some students who were doing Biology broke down the components of wine.  They found a percentage of lactose which is animal.  I'll leave it to your imagination to work out the two sources of animal in wine.

Or the treacle scone my Granny cut open to find a fly in the middle :)

''I'll leave it to your imagination to work out the two sources of animal in wine''.

No, my imagination isn't working, tell!

My friend's granny used to say "Them who eats the most jam, gets the most maggots"!! :-D

LOL yes at least I saw it before I ate it....

and just a little update, took said Raspberries home last night, put them on the side to wash after I took the dogs out etc...next thing, hubby is eating them!!!

ha ha I didn't tell him about the creepy I found in them ;)

he said they were very nice :)

hee hee

Re wine - apparently the lactose is from insects, insects that are on the fruit at time of processing and insects that have been digested and landed on fruit courtesy of birds

Not put me off though :-D

...and we all know what honey is don't we ;)......

I thought finding a ladybird in my salad in a restaurant was bad enough until my mother ordered a ploughman's lunch in a pub & found an earthworm under her lettuce. Yuck!

I found a beastie in frozen broccoli once and sent it back stuck to a letter to the company it came from.  I received lots of tokens but spent them all on sweeties - fruit and veg are dangerous and that beastie proves it ;)

>and we all know what honey is don't we ;-)......<

No?................

lmao :)

>>and we all know what honey is don't we
>No?................

erm ... bee vomit ....

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Oh! I wondered if one source was the grape treaders feet!  but I don't suppose it is done like that any more :-D

>erm ... bee vomit ....<

:)

I did a conservation project in Africa and lived "wild (ish) " for a few weeks.  I didnt notice that whilst sitting under a mango tree eating my instant soya mince a troop of ants were dropping off the tree into my bowl, they blended in so well with my food I didnt notice until I had nearly finished

I was in spain a few years ago and got a fresh orange juice from a bar by the beach. After drinking half of it I commented that it looked like the bits of pulp were moving so I fished one out with my straw and it crawled along it! It was maggots!

> so I fished one out with my straw and it crawled along it! It was maggots!

That is so gross!!!

Ha I know! I lay on the beach feeling sick for the rest of the day! Not suffered any adverse effects though!

I had an eyelid complete with lashes in a scotch pie years ago ......never ate them since....puke!

>I had an eyelid complete with lashes in a scotch pie years ago

You see.  What's a little fruit worm.  :-)

For my hubbys birthday a few years ago I was cooking him a full english and went to the shop to buy some eggs....long story short when i cracked the egg into the pan the worst smell of sewege I have ever smelt and the egg was all green!!!!!

For nearly a year neither of us could eat egg!!!

Ahhhh......... bet the worm was the happiest of all, didn't end up in your tum. :-D

You've reminded me of when I worked in London there was a cafe where I used to nip out for lunch most days, and I was such a regular that they started to give me a takeaway to eat in the office when I was really busy. One day I had ordered a stew with cabbage, (It's engrained I can't forget it! :-D) and I had eaten 3/4's of it, was tucking into the last bit of cabbage and there on my fork was a boiled spider with long legs. Feeling sick wasn't the word.  If I had been reading instead of looking it would have been in my mouth, I took it back, (in those days you didn't get all the worries of suing) just to let them know and to look out for other spiders, they gave me a free desert and free dinner the next day, which I was over the moon with and actually didn't expect.  :-)

But.......... my mother always says that we most probably do eat quite a few bugs/insects without ever knowing.

Someone I know went to have a fried egg sarnie for breakfast one morning.   Cracked open the egg and there was a partially formed baby bird in it.   That put me off eggs for a long while after she told me that.

yuck!"

are you sure? because our suppliers at least do not have ANY cockrels on the premesis at all so if she did its probably an immaculately concieved chicken

the only food that does not go off! :)

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apparently you swallow 8 spiders a year when asleep

>apparently you swallow 8 spiders a year when asleep

I read that somewhere but since read that it is an urban legend

thank goodness!