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Tesco apologises after student finds dead maggot in bag of nuts

Marice Barnes claims she made the gruesome find just hours after buying the own-brand pistachios from her local store in Sale

Marice Barnes found a maggot and half eaten pistachio in a bag of Tesco Nuts

A mum found a dead maggot in a bag of nuts she bought from Tesco.

Marice Barnes, 20, claims she made the gruesome find just hours after buying the own-brand pistachios from her local store in Sale .

Relaxing on the sofa when she returned home, Marice opened the bag and found the maggot.

To make matters worse, it appeared the maggot had munched its way through half the nut before dying – hollowing out its own tiny tomb.

Marice, a student and mum-of-one, from Heywood Grove, Sale, said: “I was on the phone to my friend and I started eating them and then I thought ‘this one looks a bit funny’ and I pulled out a little thing and then realised it was a maggot.

“It had eaten half the nut and then died inside it.

“It turned my stomach, it was disgusting. I’ll never eat pistachios again, it wrecked my Easter.

“I don’t think I’ll be able to eat a chocolate egg now.”

 


Marice Barnes

 

When Marice called Tesco customer services, she was told to take the nuts – which had an expiry of September 9 – back to get her £1.99 refunded.

But she said: “I can’t believe that’s all they said. It’s disgusting.

“Imagine if I’d eaten it? What then?

“It makes me sick just thinking about it. They need to make sure this doesn’t happen to anyone else.

“The way they reacted they just didn’t seem to care.”

A Tesco spokeswoman said: ‘We set ourselves very high standards for the safety and quality of our food. Our Customer Service Team have apologised to the customer and advised them to return the product to the store so we can investigate. We will keep them updated with our findings’.

 

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Every Little Helps’ – Tesco tweet to man who informed supermarket giant he’d found WASP in his food

Aaron Booth was preparing a meal for his girlfriend when he says he found the wasp in a bag of carrot, cauliflower and broccoli bought from a store in Sale

Sting in the tale: Aaron found wasp in food bag

A chef who tweeted Tesco bosses claiming he found a wasp in a ready meal received a tweet back saying ‘Every Little Helps’.

Aaron Booth, 20, was preparing a meal for girlfriend Tallulah Wheeler, 19, on Tuesday when he claims he found the insect in his microwave.

He believes it came from inside a bag of carrot, cauliflower and broccoli he bought from the Tesco store in Sale town centre earlier that evening.

However when Aaron tweeted the retail giant a picture of the wasp he received a curt response with the chain simply saying ‘Every Little Helps’ along with a smiley face.

 

Tesco Twitter Response

 

The phrase has been the firm’s slogan advertising slogan since 1993 and is synonymous with the brand.

Aaaron, who works in the kitchen at Wetherspoon’s Pub at the Chill Factore Ski slope in Trafford, said he expected a more sympathetic response.

He said: “We had been cooking the veg but the bag burst and when opened it the door there was a wasp in there.

“I’m certain it came from inside the veg because I had cleaned it just before I put it in.

“It was still alive, I don’t know how it survived.

“Me and my girlfriend are both scared of wasps so we had to get my mum to come and kill it.

“Tallulah was disgusted and wouldn’t eat the food afterwards. If the bag hadn’t burst we would have ended eating it.”

 

Wasp found in vegetables

Buzzfeed: Insect was in bag of food

 

However Aaron, from Partington, was left even more stunned when he took to Twitter to raise it with the company’s head office.

He said: “To be honest I found it quite funny. But I was surprised that that was all they said to me.

“I thought they might ask me to go into the store or offer me a refund.

“I work in a kitchen myself and if one of our customers said they’d found something like that in their food we’d be really apologetic and offer them free meals.

“So it’s not great customer service on their part really.”

 

Aaron Booth and girlfriend Tallulah with Tesco tweet

Afraid: Aaron and Tallulah had to call on his mum to kill wasp

 

A Tesco spokesman said: “We set ourselves very high standards for the safety and quality of our food and take all complaints seriously.

“Our Customer Service Team have apologised to Mr Booth and offered him a gesture of goodwill’.

 

 

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