
When most people think about macaroni and cheese, images of ultimate comfort spring to mind. Ideally, mac and cheese is a dish that is soft, creamy and without any difficult-to-chew bits. Unfortunately for Rebecca Shorten, her most recent experience with macaroni and cheese was decidedly un-comforting.
Sunday evening, Shorten was home with her fiancee, eating a quick dinner of pre-made mac and cheese from Tesco, when she found herself biting into something hard in her meal. Before she could prevent it, she swallowed the object. Looking more closely, she discovered two inch-long metal nails in her dish. Later that evening she was taken to the hospital, where it was discovered via X-Ray that she had indeed swallowed a third nail. She is currently in the hospital and on morphine to dull the stomach pains while she waits for the nail to pass through her system.
Tesco has recalled the product from their shelves and is investigating the situation more closely.
[via the Daily Mail]










Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
8-29-2008 @ 12:24AM
Bernie B said...
Remember kids, chew your food so as to prevent ingesting nails.
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8-29-2008 @ 6:31AM
jbjg24 said...
bet thats gonna hurt when it comes out!!
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8-29-2008 @ 7:04AM
stnsmok said...
Somebody said that they tried the olimpic nude scandal, it's a virus.
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8-29-2008 @ 7:05AM
stnsmok said...
She wasn't eating a meal, she was inhaling a meal. Nobody could miss that in any kind of food. I am sure that there is an attorney standing by for the big payout. I wonder what she has planned next.
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8-29-2008 @ 8:26AM
ron said...
Yummy!! Lots of iron in her diet. Seriously though, I found a nail in an omelet before I bit into it. I was lucky to find it first. Oh well.
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8-29-2008 @ 8:51AM
drstrangegun said...
She just misread the package, it clearly says "Tesco Nails and Cheese".
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8-29-2008 @ 8:59AM
Diannia said...
I found this one hard to swallow!!!!!!! I hope they do a follow up on this story!!!!!!!!! again it's just too hard for me to swallow!!!!!!!!!!!
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8-29-2008 @ 9:11AM
Don said...
"before she could prevent it?" I ain't biting on this one......I've bitten on several "objects" in my food before (small pieces of bone, etc), and never once, have i ever continued to swallow the object.....this woman's just looking for a payday IMO.
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8-29-2008 @ 9:15AM
Kathy said...
This isn't the first case and most likely won't be the last. Unfortunately, it took a woman to be hospitalized to find the nail in her stomach. Where are the competent, Supervisors, employees, and inspectors? Sadly, every company has workers that pass the buck, have no allegience to their company, nor pride in the worksmanship. Who is inspecting the machines that the foods pass through, the belts they flow on, and the ramps that load them into cartons that are loaded into the trucks and the deliveries to the prespective stores, etc? Heard of bolts in frozen foods, glass I have seen, finger nails, hair, worms/maggots, razors, straight pins, etc. Yet, for years, no one is being held accountable for inept inspections. Companies need to be evaluated, workers need employee reviews, health exams a must, higher standards do need to be in place and a written agreement signed by employer/employee to the rules and regulations in a company, if not compliant to the them, the employee is warned, and if this behavior persists, they're let go.
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8-29-2008 @ 10:03AM
Jaculis said...
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8-29-2008 @ 10:05AM
Mikey J. said...
If they are Chinese made nails, they'll be soft enough to chew anyway.
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8-29-2008 @ 10:29AM
Audrey said...
Does this woman chew her food or just wolf it all down. I would certainly know if I had a nail in my mouth when I start to chew. Ouch!
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8-29-2008 @ 10:34AM
Scott said...
One look at her and you can see there was a lot less chewing and a lot more swallowing going on. She had to be woofing down that Mac and C to miss a 2" nail. Best thing about this story is that she will likely lose weight from the incident. Think salad next time honey.
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8-29-2008 @ 10:46AM
Danay said...
wow, its amazing that these kinda of stories are still happing.... what in the hell, these company's that make these mac and cheese , or any other that are out there . that found them self with almost the same problem are still in bussiness...... hello !!!!!
if you have a food bussiness you need to be aware of what is going in your factories..... you need to move you butts and check on your employess ... and see what they are doing ..... you could lose your money making bussniess .... its that simple ......
peace everyone >>>>>>>
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8-29-2008 @ 10:47AM
Phil said...
Does anyone really believe this Bull $h!t. Sounds like a get rich quick, sue happy farce to me. She might have swalloed a nail but the manufacturer is gonna get SCREWED!!!
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8-29-2008 @ 11:09AM
D. Goldman said...
Anyone who eats like that should be put into a pasture.
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8-29-2008 @ 11:33AM
Ann said...
I too find it hard to believe that anyone eating a food as soft as Mac n cheese would not notice a nail in it. Come on did she not chew at all?
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8-29-2008 @ 11:51AM
Dean said...
If she chewed and ate something that big she must eat like a hog.What a glut.
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8-29-2008 @ 11:53AM
WILL said...
I SMELL A SCAM , THAT WOMAN IN THE U.S. WHO CLAIMED THERE WAS A FINGER IN HER CHILI AT WENDYS GOT 12 YEARS IN PRISON , TREAD CAREFULLY LIMEY
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8-29-2008 @ 11:55AM
karen said...
Is that her in the picture?
Weird how the article says she's currently in the hospital waiting for the nail to pass, yet the press has been to her and has taken her photo for the story.
I'm just saying...
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