Walmart Refunds For Dead Frog Found In Salad
"Oh my God, I see eyes!" screamed Carla Hill after opening a bag of greens from Walmart.
Staring back up from her preparations for Sunday dinner was a whole dead frog, an unwelcome interloper who arrived via a bag of Glory Mustard Greens. "I hate frogs," said Carla.
Walmart said they are going to work with the manufacturer and refund the customer's money.
Carla plans on getting her salad from a different source in the future. "The next greens I eat will be growing in my garden outside," she told UPI.
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A frog in with fresh produce doesn't surprise me, refund, and move on.
Little does she know that if she grows greens in her own yard outside.. there will be frogs there too!
Yeah... much less likely to be infested if you grow it yourself...
It's not that easy being green.
Sometimes you end up in someone's Caesar Salad...
Also, BINGO! on the OP. Way to preempt the "I grow my own leafs at home" crowd Carla. @subtlefrog will certainly not like you, and I am liking you less and less. Watch it.
Oh God, oh God! Where's subtlefrog?! Has anyone checked up on subtlefrog?! Can anyone confirm subtlefrog's current location and status?!
Was I the only one who read "Gory Mustard Greens"?
Could we get some kind of warning with that photo? Uggh, I hate frogs. I really do. And I haven't even had lunch yet, so this is not helping.
I'd take a frog over e.coli.
@pecan 3.14159265: That's a really.. really.. subtle frog. (You know, to be hidden in the greens.)
Our regular Subtlefrog is out teaching some fancy schmancy thing today.
@pecan 3.14159265: Subtlefrog was alive and well this morning on Twitter, I think she's alive and well...unless those nasty high schoolers killed her and put her in this bag of salad!!!!
Once my mother served a salad with a snail prominently visible. She's legally blind and couldn't see it. We each got up from the table, one by one, and went to our various favorite fast food joints. ;)
Great, now my daughters have another excuse not to eat their vegtables,
"A frog might be in there!!!"
@Kimaroo - Fortified with Kittydus Purrularis: Frogs, snails, snakes and other criters too.
The question that I have to ask is 1) why did the local news think that this was newsworthy, and 2) why did CNN think it was newsworthy.
A severed finger in my salad worthy of making the news
A frog found in a can of soda - worthy of making the news (unless it is frog flavored soda).
A frog found in an organic product, while it may be gross, not worthy of making the news. Issue a refund, and perhaps some product coupons and move on.
Yikes, that lady almost got a frog in her throat.
Hmm, wonder if it was a bag of organic greens. I had a salad in Honolulu that had a medium sized beetle in it. I actually put it in my mouth and then felt something 'hard'. Spit it out and saw a live beetle on its back. Yeah, organic foods are great, but sometimes things like that bite you back hard.
This is what happens when you're so disconnected from your food source! There are far worse things in her ground beef, but I guess it's okay if you can't see it.
@Rachacha: Have you recently seen the kind of things CNN covers?
And perhaps, more importantly, the kind of things CNN PREEMPTS to cover these things?
@squinko: No, they're not. I've always hated frogs. It's because they jump. And the eyes. It's also about the eyes.
A co-worker once found a live frog in her salad from the deli across the street. A different co-worker kept the frog as a pet for months (feeding it live flies she got at a pet store) until it died. We counted it as a positive sign that the greens were not treated with chemicals.
@pecan 3.14159265: I'm ok with frogs as long as they either can't get me (Like if they're in a tank) or if they're really far away from me.
The jumping creeps me out too.
@Kimaroo - Fortified with Kittydus Purrularis: look up "monkey frogs" they don't jump as much. they crawl most of the time.
You may find that jumping is less creepy.
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Do not look directly in the eyes of the ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD.............
Im sure there no frogs, bug, ants or any other animal shitting in her ghetto garden... ::eyeroll::
@Kimaroo - Fortified with Kittydus Purrularis:Heh - I dunno, I think a dead critter (other than the kind you expect to be in your supermarket purchases) is still going to qualify.
And I do think frogs are cute. Just not, you know... dead in my salad greens.
Quoted for awesomeness and slight relevance:
Praline: Am I right in thinking there's a real frog in here?
Milton: Yes. A little one.
Praline: What sort of frog?
Milton: A dead frog.
Praline: Is it cooked?
Milton: No.
Praline: What, a raw frog?
Milton: 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.
Praline: That's as maybe, it's still a frog.
Milton: What else?
Praline: Well don't you even take the bones out?
Milton: If we took the bones out it wouldn't be crunchy would it?
Praline: Superintendent Parrot ate one of those.
Parrot: Excuse me a moment. (exits hurriedly)
Milton: It says 'crunchy frog' quite clearly.
Praline: Well, the superintendent thought it was an almond whirl. People won't expect there to be a frog in there. They're bound to think it's some form of mock frog.
Milton: (insulted) Mock frog? We use no artificial preservatives or additives of any kind!
Praline: Nevertheless, I must warn you that in future you should delete the words 'crunchy frog', and replace them with the legend 'crunchy raw unboned real dead frog', if you want to avoid prosecution.
@pecan 3.14159265: But frogs are cute!! I prefer toads though, they're bumpy and don't look like they're wet all the time.
@ Carla Hill: "Carla plans on getting her salad from a different source in the future. "The next greens I eat will be growing in my garden outside," she told UPI."
Carla,
I don't think the SOURCE of your salad is the problem.
When food is grown in the wild, you can get all sorts of critters in your salad no matter where you get it. Carla, your problem is that you don't WASH your food.
Bagged greens != fully prepared food.
WASH YOUR VEGGIES.
... you also shop at WalMart, so eating a dead frog should be a step UP for you. :-p
I'll admit, after seeing these, when I buy bagged lettuce, I shake the bag around to make sure there are no frogs.
@Yurei: Hearted for remembering the whole Monty Python sketch! (and for giving me a much needed grin at work)
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But was the frog subtly hidden inside the package?
And thank God it was a bag of Glory Mustard Greens. I know some frogs that get really sick when they get meat slipped in.