Plastic inside my Linda Mc Carthy pie.

dj_louth

On Wednesday 23/12/2015 my wife and I was eating one of linda mc carthys cheese and leek platis for dinner. When she started to choke on a piece of the platis. I ran over and slapped her on the back. She coughed up a big piece of PLASTIC that came from inside the pie. If I wasn't there I don't want to think what might of happened to my wife. I was once a lover of this food but do not feel safe eating this food anymore. I want everyone to know what can be found inside linda mc carthys food so they too will stop eating this food.

Has this happend anyone before with any other pies and food. if so what did they do. let me know what i should do?

Ruby31

Who is this Linda McCarthy person?!! LOL!

Faith

Mod note: Moved from Food & Drink.

topmanamillion

Do you still have the receipt?
Do you still have the piece of plastic?
Did you complain at the shop you bought in?
Did you phone/write or email the company using the details supplied on the box?
Did you're wife attend hospital or a doctor to get checked over?

If the answer is no to all of these you've let nearly 2 weeks go at this stage which won't help any redress but you can still seek it.
You're lesson may be; just because it's endorsed by a "celebrity" doesn't make it safe or healthy!

slimjimmc

Foreign objects can and are being found in a wide variety of ready-made foods not just from a particular brand. There are a number of threads here which report anything from hair, plastic, stones, insects, screws etc.

I suggest you bring the wrapping with the batch numbers and report it to the shop. Even at this late stage it may give them the opportunity to remove any remaining stock from the shelves as a precaution. The shop will likely replace or refund you for the item.
Then you could report it to the manufacturer (the shop may already do this) so they can check batches too. You'll no doubt get a sincere written apology and probably product vouchers or similar by way of apology.

slimjimmc

@Posters, stay on topic please. A number of AH-style posts have been removed.

awec

What sort of plastic was it? Are you sure it wasn't just a piece of the plastic wrapper that fell in when you removed it before cooking?

feargale

slimjimmc wrote: »

Foreign objects can and are being found in a wide variety of ready-made foods not just from a particular brand. There are a number of threads here which report anything from hair, plastic, stones, insects, screws etc.

I suggest you bring the wrapping with the batch numbers and report it to the shop. Even at this late stage it may give them the opportunity to remove any remaining stock from the shelves as a precaution. The shop will likely replace or refund you for the item.
Then you could report it to the manufacturer (the shop may already do this) so they can check batches too. You'll no doubt get a sincere written apology and probably product vouchers or similar by way of apology.

Apology and vouchers my eye! Assuming OP's story is correct he should be talking to a solicitor. His story isn't just about developing a phobia. I'd have some bloody phobia if I were choking, not sure if I was going to live or die.

Arbie

Something similar happened to me with a HB Maxi Twist tub years ago. I found a half inch shard of hard, sharp plastic in the ice cream which appeared to be part of a lid, even though the lid of my tub was intact. I wrote to them and they sent me a €15 cheque and an apology letter promising to review the packaging. They introduced new lids a couple of months later.

sandra06

bought some choc today luxury brand they were there own brand choc coins gave them to my daughter to try she opened the foil and there was like black lump in it brought it back to thortons to complain they said it looked like burnt choc had got into mix left my name and no with shop any idea what happens now will they contact me to let me know what it was

topmanamillion

sandra06 wrote: »

bought some choc today luxury brand they were there own brand choc coins gave them to my daughter to try she opened the foil and there was like black lump in it brought it back to thortons to complain they said it looked like burnt choc had got into mix left my name and no with shop any idea what happens now will they contact me to let me know what it was

They may contact you to offer you some vouchers, box of chocolates or some other apologetic token.
It's unlikely they'll deviate from the "burnt chocolate" story.

Cabaal

feargale wrote: »

Apology and vouchers my eye! Assuming OP's story is correct he should be talking to a solicitor. His story isn't just about developing a phobia. I'd have some bloody phobia if I were choking, not sure if I was going to live or die.

I see compo culture is alive and well,

ben.schlomo

feargale wrote: »

Apology and vouchers my eye! Assuming OP's story is correct he should be talking to a solicitor. His story isn't just about developing a phobia. I'd have some bloody phobia if I were choking, not sure if I was going to live or die.

Or the Daily Mail.:rolleyes:

Rachiee

In fairness this kind of thing can happen with any food made in a factory, sometimes systems fail. Write to the company and tell them what happened so that they can look at their systems.

feargale

Cabaal wrote: »

I see compo culture is alive and well,

Not so much as the slave mind. There's no compo culture in China, Iran or Saudi Arabia. In those paradises if you're seen talking to a lawyer you could be in big trouble, and so could the lawyer.

ben.schlomo wrote: »

Or the Daily Mail.:rolleyes:

I don't read the Daily Mail and have no idea what that is supposed to mean. Perhaps, as an apparent reader of the Daily Mail, you might enlighten us.

xband

Get in touch with them. It's most likely just a manufacturing glitch like some ingredient was being added as a plastic lid fell in or something like that.

It's very unlikely to be anything nasty.

L1011

feargale wrote: »

Not so much as the slave mind. There's no compo culture in China, Iran or Saudi Arabia. In those paradises if you're seen talking to a lawyer you could be in big trouble, and so could the lawyer.

I'm not sure I've seen such a deranged post here recently


No lawyer would take a case for this as in absence of injury there is no case

feargale

L1011 wrote: »

I'm not sure I've seen such a deranged post here recently


No lawyer would take a case for this as in absence of injury there is no case

When you're done with your psychological analysis would you read OP if you haven't already done so, or read it again if you have.

dj_louth wrote: »

On Wednesday 23/12/2015 my wife and I was eating one of linda mc carthys cheese and leek platis for dinner. When she started to choke on a piece of the platis. I ran over and slapped her on the back. She coughed up a big piece of PLASTIC that came from inside the pie.

L1011

feargale wrote: »

When you're done with your osychological analysis would you read OP if you haven't already done so, or read it again if you have.

No injury in there. Not choking is not an injury

Even if there had been some extremely minor injury from it, turning up over two weeks out with no medical attention sought and no ability to prove anything medically would have you laughed out of the solicitors office.

MarkAnthony

I love it when everyone gets all legal... I'll just leave this here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donoghue_v_Stevenson

Nervous Shock is an injury, so laughed out is perhaps overstating it.

That said food contamination is very common and should not be unexpected. If ya didnt come across a piece of plastic big enough to chocke on during mastication you need more chews

ben.schlomo

feargale wrote: »

Not so much as the slave mind. There's no compo culture in China, Iran or Saudi Arabia. In those paradises if you're seen talking to a lawyer you could be in big trouble, and so could the lawyer.



I don't read the Daily Mail and have no idea what that is supposed to mean. Perhaps, as an apparent reader of the Daily Mail, you might enlighten us.

As a fan of overreacting you would enjoy it, highly recommended.;)

Lux23

This happened to my Mum once, they apologised and sent her a cheque for a few quid, it was probably £20 which was a small amount but enough of an apology for something that probably happens more than you would imagine. Its the things they you don't see in food that I would be more worried about.

dudara

@feargale and ben.schlomo - do not continue this tit for tat on thread.

dudara