UK woman swallows nail found in Tesco mac and cheese

by Marisa McClellan, Posted Aug 28th 2008 @ 4:32PM

Rebecca Shorten holding some of the nails she found in her macaroni and cheese

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.

Bizarre objects found in food(click thumbnails to view gallery)

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]

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Filed Under: Food News
Tags: macaroni and cheese, MacaroniAndCheese, one-inch nail, One-inchNail, Rebecca Shorten, RebeccaShorten, swallowing foreign objects, SwallowingForeignObjects, tesco recall, TescoRecall

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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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8-29-2008 @1:11PM Karron said... You people are insensitive and too quick to judge what this woman has gone through. When someone is hungry we eat faster than normal. Mac and cheese slides down rather fast with little chewing. I have known of people finding objects like this in their foods also. I also have found them. The food industry needs to be more careful of OUR food products. I hope she sues them because it serves them right. Everyone is ragging on this poor woman and she is the victim! She's in the hospital on freakin' morphine. That stuff is horrible not to mention her pain is has to suffer from!
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8-29-2008 @1:07PM Angiebaby said... I don't know which is worse... that she swallowed a nail in her food, or that her doctors are letting the small, but SHARP instrument tear its way down her intestines. Damn. Sounds like this gal's luck runs similar to mine.
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8-29-2008 @1:10PM brooke said... Wow, she must have been one hungry hungry hippo.
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8-29-2008 @1:17PM nick said... I WILL BET THAT SHE HAS NO TEETH.
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8-29-2008 @1:17PM sara said... What is she blind too? HOW on earth can you miss 3 NAILS in your food and then to top it off SWALLOW one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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8-29-2008 @1:18PM Barbara said... ******JUST CURIOUS.......WHAT WAS HER BOY FRIEND EATING AT THE TIME, AND I WONDER IF HE WAS THE ONE WHO PUT THE LITTLE NAILS IN THERE TO BEGIN WITH?
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8-29-2008 @1:25PM Barb said... To Kathleen Harris- If someone would of kept their legs shut, the gnat wouldn't have gotten in your food!
People like you make it hard for the "real" complaints which are actually justified, by a customer, by creating such non-sense, & complaining etc. to the waiters/waitresses,management, whatever! Just like the ignorant people who as the server: "How many pieces of shrimp come in the " 21 " piece shrimp plate? " or "How is your "fried" chicken prepared? Duh! People like you, cost restaurant owners and employees $$$$$$ and jobs, constantly! Get real, and get a life!!
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8-29-2008 @1:35PM Theresa said... she put those nails in the herself just to sue.
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8-29-2008 @1:35PM Theresa said... shes a liar
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8-29-2008 @1:43PM Theresa said... A nail like that would stand out from the color of what she was eating.. Was it a 9 inch nail? hehehhe
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8-29-2008 @1:46PM Linda said... Hmmm. Looks like a scam to me. Any proof it was in there BESIDES the fiance?
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8-29-2008 @1:50PM Jordan said... Years ago a friend of mine (14 yrs old at the time) ate a McDonald's hamburger that had many small metal wires imbedded throughout the meat. After severe stomach pains and bleeding, he was hospitalized and had to undergo surgery to remove the wires. They had come from the metal bristled brush that had been used to clean the grill. These types of situations aren't at all uncommon. Use caution because anything can happen!
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8-31-2008 @2:10AM Zog said... @#34 Jordan: Those were small pieces. This is about huge metal spikes the woman supposedly put in the microwave, in a soft yellow food.

1) She didn't chew, she just gulped it down like water.
2) The nails would have arced in the microwave.
3) She never stirred the food or looked at it. Just gulped it down like water.
4) She got free morphine.
5) The company already pulled the product completely off the shelves on the word of one person with no proof, losing millions of dollars, which they will now pass on to everyone else to pay.
6) She needs money to pay for her wedding.
7) This is utter BS and fake. That is a fake photoshopped Xray, a very obvious and poorly-done fake.

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