Maggot in my Alpen

Hobbes wrote:

posting to get more attention is against the charter.

That said you should bag it up. Ring the company and explain what happened. They will give you details where to send the bag. Might ask for the tracking number on the box. Or if you want to take it further talk to a soliticor first

Apologies I wasn't aware there was a charter on attention seeking, by the looks of alot of the threads in AH attention seeking is all the go! Like i said to the MODS feel free to move it to Consumer issues or like Mr Roger Bongos suggested, the legal disscusion forum. I was only posting it here to make people aware of it. Personlly I don't cruise the consumer Issues forum but if someone found something manky in their food I'd like to know about it so I could avoid it happening to me.

I agree I was over dramatic, I think its the fact the little bastad wriglled. I use maggots fishing and rag worm and lug worm (which are disgusting creatures in comparison to maggots) but it was in my food, my food I was about to eat, what if it wasn't a single serving of Alpen and was sitting in the middle of a regular size box of alpen, undiscoverd untill after 2/3 bowls were consumed...eurgh! Also the thought that magoots live off rotting flesh is in my head, WTF was it doing in cereal? Is there a pack of musli out there with a severed finger or something?

gary the great wrote:

ring the environmental health, there could be a load of boxes with maggots in them.

Anaiyela wrote:

Thats disgusting you should get on to the customer services dept of Alpen, and give them a piece of your mind.

So how do I go about getting in contact with these organisations? I've tried googling 'Alpen' and it just gives me nutritional info. Thanks for the helpful replies.

Finally in my defence, I may seem overly sqweeish and dramatic etc. I can't help it if my mind is saying 'don't put that food in your mouth' cause mentally I'm seeing a forkfull of magots. If someone posted they had a fear of spiders or dogs or something as trivial would you all jump on them telling them not to be so silly its only a spider or a cute lil doggy or whatever? Well in my eyes its the same, so lay off the name calling please, I know its stupid, its as stupid as someone having a fear of water or of flying but a fear none the less okay? Thanks.

RotalicaV wrote:

Actually, you might be better contacting The Sun newspaper, they had an artical about a woman who found a mouse in her jar of pickles from tescos. They'll also ring and complain for you, most likely.

I doubt you'll get any compensation out of this, but people deserve to know. These companys make millions at least, every year selling us this stuff.

I probably won't go any further because I hate the whole compo culture we've become and I'm usually the first to cry FFS when I hear of yet another compo case but like you said in an earlier post, there could be loads of boxes out there with maggots in and people deserve to know.

Mind you Fluffer said in an earlier post that a magoot can't harm you, that being squemish is not an excuse for compo. Yes I realise that fluffer, physically a maggot can't harm you but I actually haven't been able to eat right since, isn't that grounds for some sort of mental harm?!