Is that a frog in your lettuce or are you just happy to see me?

by Bob Sassone, Posted Jan 24th 2008 @ 2:13PM

frog We've heard those stories of spiders being found in imported grapes, but this one is new to me.

A woman in Brooklyn, NY was startled when a frog jumped out of her organic lettuce. That's right, not only was there a frog in a head of lettuce the woman bought at the Park Slope Food Coop, it was actually alive, surviving the trip from Florida to New York.

As you can see from the pic, it wasn't a big frog like you'd find in a swamp or lake, but still, must have been freaky.

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Tags: frog, lettuce, ogranic, park slope food coop, stores-and-shopping

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Reader comments (Page 5 of 9)

1-25-2008 @7:13PM Marcicat said... In October of 2006 I bought a couple of mum plants at Walmart. They were in the back of my Tahoe for a couple hours while I ran other errands. When I got home my daughter and I each carried one from the car to the house. While I was unlocking the front door she let out a squeel. I turned to look at her and there was a tiny tree frog on her eyeglasses. We were pretty startled, but it was so funny. We live in Las Vegas so he obviously had traveled from somewhere else in the mum. We took her new pet to Petsmart to find out exactly what he was, and to buy him a home and everything he needed to be happy. Her new pet was free, but we spent about $75 to make sure he would be comphy and happy. He also requires a trip to Petsmart every two weeks or so for fresh baby crickets, who also have to have a home and food etc., We don't mind though because he's a lot of fun to have around. It's been 15 months and "Froggy" is happy and growing in his little froggy house.
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1-25-2008 @10:02PM Heather said... At least it wasn't a baby snake...could you imagine???
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1-25-2008 @7:23PM Laura said... I live in Las Vegas too and I wish I was lucky enough to find a frog in the plants I buy. I bought some plants at Smith's and all I found when I replanted them were bugs! Not a pleasant thing for me. That's actually an understatement! LOL
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1-25-2008 @7:31PM OhLuckyMe said... As I said to my friends in my e-mail, it is kinda funny. He really is cute sitting there in the green. But, this is the exact reason that I do not buy organic anything. And if I grow it, it is better than organic, and is washed throughly.
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1-25-2008 @7:44PM Kayla said... that is nasty....and i am never eating lettuce again
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1-25-2008 @7:58PM missy said... Lmao aw. frogies are so cute,. Oh ilovegreenleaf lettuce its so yum. but i guess i recomened inspecting it first and washing it duh.! ppl
well this is funnie,. Oh god, imagin a spider, creepy things.
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1-25-2008 @8:02PM Ivyevine said... There's nothing like the real thing baby!!! No pestasi.'s on that lettuce!
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1-25-2008 @8:05PM c dro said... Same thing happened to my mom 40 years ago when I was a kid....the story is family legend!!!
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1-25-2008 @9:21PM Karen said... Did she get a free meal?
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1-25-2008 @10:18PM myty said... helloooooooo this is earth!!!!!! creatures have been here as long as man.... they must live as well as us!!!! OR SHOULD WE DDT ALL CROPS!!!!! THEN LET'S ALL SCREAM WE ARE DIEING FROM CANCER????? get a freaking BRAIN!!!!
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1-26-2008 @2:04AM Jossy said... cute frog an yes, i hope she gave it a nice comfy home in a glass aquaruim, complete with a tiny swimming pool pond. she should get a few more so it has a bunch of new pals too. at least she didn't find a dog turd in the lettuce so she should consider herself blessed.
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1-26-2008 @12:59AM Dave said... This story is freaky. I think if I found a frog in my lettuce, I'd CROAK!
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1-26-2008 @2:12PM Holly said... I would consider this a good omen and feel blessed. I hope she took the cute little rascal outside so he could be free and live. Bless the beasts and the children.
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1-26-2008 @2:14PM Jimi said... i found a purple frog in a cuppa joe when i was in florida last year but i drank it anyways because my cup was smokylike and it wasnt so bad because it tasted like it was suppossed to be in da drink
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1-26-2008 @2:19PM RinaD said... What a little cutie!! Thank goodness she wasn't making cole slaw with a food procesor!!
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1-26-2008 @2:21PM Viv said... It's so cute!!!! I woulda kept it.... let's just hope the skin wasn't poisonous or anything.
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1-26-2008 @2:34PM Janet Moyer said... It is shocking to buy vegatables and get extra alive or dead in them. The other night I had spinich and had a dead beetle in it. It was in a frozen batch of spinich that was cut. I wonder if our veggies are inspected at all. Bagged or proccessed foods should be more regulated because if it is this easy to find animals in them, just imagine what else can be added and our food is not checked for human consumtion.
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