Walmart Frozen Green Beans Come With Free Frog
Mmm, delicious green beans! Oh wait, what's that? Kermit, nooooooo!
A woman in Tyler, TX found a surprise waiting for her in the bottom of her "Great Value" green beans from Walmart— a frozen frog.
From KLTV:
"Thank goodness I had put butter in the bottom of the bowl," said Erbaugh. "I went to stir it and there's this brown clump."
The good news is that she has a sense of humor about it.
"That's a frog!" she said. "Or worse than that, it's part of a frog - 75% of it. They didn't even give me the frog legs with it."
Yeah, you know what? The legs are the good part. What a ripoff.
The reporter talked to a Northeast Texas Public Health District official who told them: "When you're washing field vegetables, you're going to get certain little pieces and parts, but we certainly don't want something so large you can identify what it is."
I'm going to have to sort of disagree with her here... If I'm going to have mysterious dead things in my beans — I would rather be able to identify what they are. That's just my personal preference.
Woman finds frog in frozen veggies [KLTV](Thanks, Courtney!)
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Do we have a pic??? I would actually not mind seeing what is in food as I would want to know how that could slip in.....
Awww Meg.... it's just a little extra protein ;-)
I love the quote:
"but we certainly don't want something so large you can identify what it is."
Anyone for spiking this woman's field veggies with boogies and small insects?
Oh boy! Not only do I get my dinner, but I get dinner for the cat too!
Mummm, Mummm. Just like momma used to make.
@Radi0logy: Yeah, the part about not getting the legs got me laughing. If it happened to me, I'd have sworn off green beans forever...
Maybe it was some kind of mock frog.
Was it a Chinese frog?
@katstermonster: I was in China last year and made the mistake of trying a dish made from frog... hard a hard time finishing *that* meal lemme tell ya...
*nom*nom*nom*nom*. Hmmm, tastes like felt...
KERMIT?!
So THAT is how France is dealing with their overpopulation issue....
Soylent Green Beans
@Secret Agent Man:
Also,
We use only the finest baby frogs, dew picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in finest quality spring water, lightly killed, and then sealed in a succulent Swiss quintuple smooth treble cream milk chocolate envelope and lovingly frosted with glucose.
I'm glad, for once, the automatic response wasn't to sue Wal-Mart for millions of dollars for psychological anxiety over ever being able to eat green beans again.
Good thing she didn't kiss it, or it'd turn into a corpse wearing a golden crown.
@winshape:
Me, too. She's more amused than appalled. It's nice to know someone out there isn't a litigious nut.
LEAPING LIZARDS!
you can grow them quite easy or buy them at a farmers market for much cheaper, and no worries about frog parts.
Mmmm, crunchy frogs.
@Trai_Dep: Would he come with the little cart those guys with no legs use while panhadling? or do we think he was once an entire prince?
Sort of like finding egg shells in your eggs at Denny's: at least you know they're real eggs :)
Aside from the cool mind trip that you would get by licking (eating a frog) what can you do if you found one in your frozen vegtables? will they give you your money back? would you go to the trouble to get your money back?
It's not easy being green...
@Radi0logy: I actually had frog legs here in the USA once. Fried Frog Legs. They were yummy. The bone was unsettlingly crunchy though.
exchange the bag for a new one, story ends.
If she had just shown her receipt at the door, the frog would have turned into a prince.
My ex used to go gigging for frog. I tried the legs; sort of meh. Not much there unless the frog is the size of a dinner plate (I've seen some bullfrogs that are).
@You know what ole' Jack Burton always says:
Off-topic, but have you seen the new Disney preview? The princess kisses the frog prince, and instead of him turning back into a prince, SHE turns into a frog. It looks hilarious.
And it's actually ANIMATED. I almost fell out of my theater seat. I thought they were done doing that.
What no "Crunchy Frog" Monty Python jokes?
@HogwartsAlum: Yeah, it's chicken-ish. Alligator's gamier, but chicken-ish, too. Frog's legs are sort of like crawfish in that they're a lot of work for not much meat.
Although it's fun to fling their sticky tongues across the room and get them stuck in girls' hair or oozing down the restaurant walls.
@EdenBabararacucudada: ...Until the frog's wife, accompanied by a school of tadpoles, appear on your doorstep in a cup asking where Daddy is.
@Trai_Dep: LOL!!!
I like frogs; as creatures, I mean. I think they're cute and interesting. I'm not much into eating them unless there's nothing else.
@HogwartsAlum: Ani-mated you say? like with pencil, ink and tons of frames of film?
they must have found it laying around in the back.
There was a frog in my toilet once. I thought someone had somehow crapped on the side of the bowl and didn't flush, and then what I thought was a turd BLINKED at me. If I'd sat down without looking and that thing had hopped, I think I'd still be unconscious. No idea how it got in there.
@You know what ole' Jack Burton always says:
Someone at diesny realized they hadn't tapped the "ethnic princess" market thouroughly enough, and voila! new movie.
Is it me, or is food safety a joke in this country? What inspectors?
@BillyDee_CT: Yes, the US has enough food inspectors to inspect every single bag of food that's sold, they're just slacking off. That's it.
The part that the media is not mentioning is that the Wal-mart where the green beans were purchased was notified immediately after the incident (about 20 min. after) and they neglected to remove the remaining packages from their shelves. Corporate was then notified and they asked what the lot # and the expiration date was on the bag (I guess green beans turn into frogs if they expire) and the location of the store it was purchased at. The Wal-mart representative then said that was all the info they need and that everything could be disposed of. Wal-mart did not notify the manufacturer (Pictsweet) of the complaint for another two days! It was not until the local news station got involved with the ordeal and went to the Health Dept. that the product was pulled from the shelves. FIVE DAYS AFTER THE INCIDENT!!! Wal-mart did NOT voluntarily remove the remaining bags, the Health Dept. made them. Sooo... how valued are we as customers?!?!
@Radi0logy: I hope it was a new bag, not a partially eaten one. Otherwise, I would have been furiously digging through the bowl looking for the other 25% while moaning to myself...
Also, I had frog legs in France, and I really don't see the point. Tiny bits of meat that don't taste particularly good...
George Carlin once asked what they do with the frog after they eat the legs. Now George Carlin would know what they did with the rest of the frog.
@humphrmi: I can see a bad bean getting through, but a dang frog?! I find that incredible. I don't expect them to catch a moldy bean but this is a FROG we're talking about! I mean how did a frog (sans legs) end up in a vegetable factory? It's wacky!
I'm glad she had a sense of humor about it. Personally, I would be too busy vomiting out my insides to find the time to laugh about the situation.