Have you ever found something in a product that didn't belong there?

A friend of mine bought their son a Cars, Mater Takes Off sticker book from SDM over the weekend and she found a used finger cot in it!!!!! She sent me pictures...it even looks a little yellow....Ew. So, yeah, she's ticked (obviously). She said it was stuck inside the staple of the book.
Anyway, I told her to email the company and tell them. Which she did and they just told her to take it back to SDM. :eek: Seriously? I mean who knows what the person had wearing the finger cot....they should at least send her a replacement coupon and show a little more concern regarding the matter. Not just, "please take it back to where you purchased it". :mad: and then "Our manufacturers try to maintain a high standard of quality in all our publications, however there are occasional bindery errors." ......I think this qualifies as more than a bindery error!!!!!! So infuriating!

Guess I am ranting on her behalf...although it does make me angry seeing how they responded to the situation.

Oh yuck. Yes, once I made sloppy joes and served in on naan. my DS bit on a small pebble/stone. At first I thought it was in the sauce but it was in the naan. Luckily he didn't crack his tooth.

The one that I remember the most is a hair deep fried in my fish at a restaurant I don't visit anymore although I did get my meal free.

In this case, I would agree with the company in requesting she return it back to SDM for a refund. Unfortunately, in both consumer goods (non food) and in food, there is a "Standard" of acceptable contamination. Since she purchased it that same day, it's something that can easily be returned, it's not like a can of beans that has been opened. Especially in toy factories that are so huge, and can in fact have the parts made in several different locations, and then assembled in yet another place, it can be really hard to track down where this in fact happened.

Hopefully your friend gave the company the information they needed to try and track down the assembly line where this was done. Then the plant can reassess the machinery to ensure that it's all working correctly. Unfortunately wherever humans come in contact with a product, there is room for error, it happens. I'm just thankful that she noticed it first and not her ds or dd whom may have started playing with the item.

I once opened a jar of honey and found a dead bee on top of the honey in the jar. I wrote a letter, yes I did, to the company and stated something like, " I know your product is fresh, but really!". I then received a whole case of honey as a way of saying "sorry". Mind you that had to be 25 years ago. I doubt that it would happen like that today.

When my oldest was a baby I was feeding her Heinz baby food blueberries and found part of a chicken bone in it. Needless to say I stopped feeding her baby food after that and made homemade food for my toddler

Yup on Sunday I made the Schneiders Naturals hamburgers and found what had to be either a bone or cartiledge. Good thing I didn't damage any teeth........

Ew....

that reminds me of a few years ago...won't name the restaurant my DH had a cesear salad and the salad had dirt on it. when he pointed it out to the hostess she said, "Well it comes from the earth." :-)

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Originally Posted by macw1960

The one that I remember the most is a hair deep fried in my fish at a restaurant I don't visit anymore although I did get my meal free.

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last yr i bought a duvet on ottawa st...it was half price, so i got one for my mum in law. when i put it on my bed there was something INSIDE one of the sqares..i held it up to the light & it was an orange gummy candy!
wth?

so instead of lugging it all the way back to exchanged it...i just made a small cut & removed the gummi & sewed it up. ;-)

Mom has found plastic bits in organic sugar from a zipper top bag. I personally like Redpath or Lantic sugar from the store but she wants organic-a surprise inside guaranteed from time to time.

I once had a big piece of plastic in a bag of twizzlers. Company said it was probably from their machinery. :shrug:

I can easily list a hundred things...I have the worst luck.

The most recent is Gold Seal wild salmon, bought a bunch that was on sale. Ate 2 cans, the 3rd can I pick out a piece and find a worm curled inside the meat. Threw out the can, return the rest of the stock pile, don't even bother complain to them.

Ugh! :eek::eek:

:yikes:Ewwww, yucky. So disturbing to think/read about it. I know it's so common but still.....yuck.:(

Found a dead bug and its' shed skin (?) inside some sapputo ichiban once. I couldn't find their contact info for MONTHS. Of course when I did find it, I no longer had the package. It was really, really gross.

Oh wow... adventures in pre packaged food! Eeekkkkkk. Feel ick for the people who found bugs/hair/chunky things in their products. That is disturbing.

The one example for me to share that stands out was a box of blueberry eggo waffles. Inside the box on the outside of the plastic wrapped waffles was a HUGE screw... very thick and 3-4 inches long. Kept wondering if their machinery could chug along without this thing. And was this thing just slowly twisting around... hanging there on the assembly line and one day just fell in? Called and was mailed out coupons (this was probably 15 years ago now). To this day when we open up a box of blueberry waffles I wonder what surprise will be in the bottom of the box.

My DH and I were at a fancy fish restaurant in Boston where I found a piece of a fisherman net inside my Frutti di Mare pasta. My dinner was free.