Frog found in salad - extra protein anyone?!!!

kendrafallon
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Read it for yourselves:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-19555898

Live frog found in Waitrose salad bag in Hampshire
The frog in the salad bag The frog went unnoticed for a night, while the bag of salad was in Christina Carrington's fridge

A live frog has been found in a bag of salad leaves bought by a woman at a Hampshire supermarket.

Christina Carrington, 50, from Chandler's Ford, said she ate some of the salad before realising the frog was in the bag.

Mrs Carrington's daughter discovered the green and brown frog in the salad, purchased at Ringwood's Waitrose store.

In a statement, Waitrose apologised and said it was investigating this "isolated incident".

The palm-sized amphibian, thought to be a pool frog, went unnoticed on Sunday night in Mrs Carrington's fridge.
'Disgusted and angry'

She said: "The next day I opened the bag took out a portion for my lunch, sealed the bag with a food save clip, and put it back in the fridge. The frog in the salad bag Waitrose described it as an "isolated incident"

"After I'd eaten lunch at work, I received a phone call from my hysterical daughter, screaming 'there's a frog in the salad bag in the fridge'.

Mrs Carrington said she was "disgusted and angry" and had not been able to eat salad since.

"You pay more for these prepared salads and trust they've been prepared properly," she said.

In a statement Waitrose said: "We are very sorry for the distress caused. All our bagged salad is thoroughly washed and we have steps in place to check each product before packaging.

"Although this is an isolated incident, we're investigating with our suppliers how this happened and taking steps to further minimise the chances of this happening again."

Once the frog was discovered Mrs Carrington said she was "not sure what to do with it", so kept the frog in her fridge for another night until it was collected by a member of staff from Waitrose.

"I turned the fridge [temperature] down and he seemed quite happy in there," she said.

"We quite liked him in the end, it was just when he hopped around in the bag - that freaked us out a bit."

Dr Silviu Petrovan from Froglife, a national amphibian and reptile conservation charity, said the frog was difficult to identify without specific body measurements and details of location found, but added it "could be a pool frog".

Dr Ian Stephen, Zoological Society of London's curator of herpetology, said: "It's almost impossible to accurately identify this species as it's a juvenile, but it is a type of water frog, from the genus Rana sp."

Replies

  • jkcrawford
    jkcrawford Posts: 435 Member
    EWWW!
  • mommy2AR
    mommy2AR Posts: 2,796 Member
    yikes ...lol
  • MrsSWW
    MrsSWW Posts: 1,585 Member
    Seriously, PALM sized??? I think you'd notice the difference in weight alone, lol! Aww, I love frogs :love:
  • mfprichard1
    mfprichard1 Posts: 37
    Would have lost 5 lbs instantly from throwing up. Lol!!!
  • SorchaRavenlock
    SorchaRavenlock Posts: 220 Member
    poor frog :(
  • xXmimiXx
    xXmimiXx Posts: 564 Member
    Poor froggy!
  • alimac92
    alimac92 Posts: 705 Member
    Yuk!
    I do feel sorry for the frog being kept in the fridge another day.

    Recently I have taken to washing the pre-washed ready to eat salads.
    I find they go limp earlier than their sell by date.
    They also smell horrible my reason for giving them a rinse.

    I told my hubby to wash his salad before packing his lunch box.
    He thought I was being over zealous and didn't do it.
    Sadly his salad went off on the second day and he had a stomach upset.
    I do buy separate salad ingredients, so perhaps it's safer to use those.
  • taylor5877
    taylor5877 Posts: 1,792 Member
    what type of frog? guessing a tree frog.

    if it was a bullfrog, skin him and fry that sucker up...

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