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gillyh

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I have just been eating a nectarine bought from the local asda store. I was reading an article on this site and looked down to cut another slice........there was a maggot crawling over it!!!!!!! I've e-mailed the contact at asda (for complaints) and just got an 'out of office' reply.
What would the rest of you do? :evil:
 
I'd phone the store direct that I purchased it from.

I bought a bag of flour once that was riddled with weavils. They bought me out a new bag withing the hour and a load of cake making freebies for the kids by way of apology.
 
Just take it straigtht back and hand it in a customer services. They should replace it without question. Still finding a maggot is better than finding half a maggot :D
 
gillyh said:
True about the half maggot.....yeuck!! :(
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Why worry - a maggot comprises only the fruit it has been eating - it won't taste any different. :wink:
 
Well folks here's the end of the maggot story. I did take the nectarine and friend back to the asda store. It was tied up in a carrier bag. I told the woman on customer services and then gave her the bag. she dropped it so fast when I told her that the maggot was also in the bag!! I said 'it won't bite you' but she wouldn't open the bag to check. I got a punnet of plums out of it as they had sold out of the nectarines. Thanks folks for the advice. :mrgreen:
 
Many moons ago I bought some bottles of beer, they were reduced to clear and the 10 pack had 1 missing as it had broken.
On opening one of the bottles I found a sliver of glass on the neck and I was just lucky that I saw this before drinking it.
I took it back to the supermarket and had to fill in a form.
I explained the issue on the form.
I received a letter with a £5 voucher, however the letter said that the supermarket would be contacting the bottling plant about this.
In my opinion the sliver of glass appeared when the missing bottle had been broken and that the suppermarket not the bottlers were at fault.
So I wrote and told them this.
Shortly after, a case of beer and £20 turned up with a letter saying that they would review their selling of damaged goods policy within the store.

Ok the money and free beer was nice but I was mainly glad that (in theory) no-one was going to slice themselves open becasue an item had not been checked for broken glass.
 
I received a £10 voucher from Asda for the maggot episode. Probably to avoid publicity about it. Good for you getting all that beer and the vouchers. :mrgreen:
 
But HOW could the supermarket have been able to tell that there was a maggot in a Nectarine in first place? I am a bit puzzled by all this...

Karen
 
Yes well with fresh meat thats different, but a Nectarine, in a punnet? Surely supermarket staff dont go checking every punnet and every Nectarine in there?

I once bought some sliced ham in a packet and there was a rusty nail in the middle of the slices, and other things too and each time did get some compensationg, even non food items.

Karen
 
The worst one was I cooked a whole cauliflower and when I cut it up ,right in the middle was a perfectly cooked whole worm!!I quietly got rid of that bit before the kids saw it! :lol: :lol:
 
Oh my goodness, now that would have sent me straight to the morgue, I tell you creepy crawlies and worms and slugs, the very thought of it makes me very faint, but what I meant was that the odd worm in fruit, snail on a lettuce or yes, in a cauliflower - but thats what happens natural and a supermarket cant really check these things?
I wouldnt be able to take anything like this back, I would be flat on the floor, I would need the kiss of life!
 
ChocFish said:
Oh my goodness, now that would have sent me straight to the morgue, I tell you creepy crawlies and worms and slugs, the very thought of it makes me very faint, but what I meant was that the odd worm in fruit, snail on a lettuce or yes, in a cauliflower - but thats what happens natural and a supermarket cant really check these things?
I wouldnt be able to take anything like this back, I would be flat on the floor, I would need the kiss of life!
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Loved the flat on the floor thought :wink:
Received another £5 voucher from Asda for the maggot in the nectarine. Gonna love spending them though. now to decide on what!! :roll:
 
sugarless sue said:
I once bought a chixken from th Co-op and cooked it,it was totally rotten!!Took it back and got a refund.
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Icky things in vegetables and fruit are one thing (after all they co-exist in the wild and on the farm), but when there's something wrong with meat, my minimum is that they should replace the bad meat, AND give you a refund as a minimum.

Steve
 
I agree. The maggot was something natural but a rotten chicken is disgusting. Saw a programme once about how 3 men were colouring out of date/off chickens and selling them. :evil:
 
I've found all sorts in foods over the years, ranging from sharp shards of plastic, to caterpillars and beetles but the thing that made my stomach heave the most was a blue sticking plaster, half-baked into a 4-pack of hot-cross buns!!I know, those working in the food manufacturing industry have to use brightly coloured plasters so that they can be seen if they fall off in food and this was clearly visisble through the fron of the clear packet, so I dont know how it got as far as a supermarket shelf. I just took them to the till and said "you might want to take this one off the shelves". Yuck!
 
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