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Grimes, of Troy, Mich., told Slashfood she noticed something moving inside the package as she was getting ready to make a salad for dinner.
"I didn't know what I was seeing but sure enough, I looked a little closer and there was a small light green tree frog, happy as can be, crawling around, living life in the bag of lettuce," she said Tuesday. "I just sort of gasped a bit, and then I stared and just remember thinking 'That's not right.'"
Grimes decided to keep the frog -- still in the bag of lettuce -- for three days in the garage, stored in a paper bag. "I didn't really want it in my house," she said.
A FOX 2 camera crew came on Monday to document Grimes opening the bag. The video clip shows the frog leaping out of the lettuce and onto the kitchen counter.
While the Grimes children wanted to keep the frog as a pet, the family released it into their backyard.
Kroger spokesman Dale Hollandsworth said that the grocery chain has never before had reports of frogs found in bags of the chain's lettuce.
"We're obviously very surprised that that little thing survived harvesting. It survived trimming. It survived washing. It survived cooling the product to 40 degrees and then being in the package," he told Slashfood. "I hope that's a tribute to how gently we handle our lettuce when we're harvesting and cleaning it."
Hollandsworth offered the Grimes family an apology and said the store would replace the romaine lettuce. He offered his backyard pond as a potential home for the frog.
Grimes, however, doesn't foresee Kroger lettuce in her future. "I certainly won't be buying this grocery store's lettuce ever again."
And her son has also grown leery of salad. "Literally as the reporter and the camera were leaving, my son said 'I'm never eating lettuce again,'" she said. "I thought 'Oh boy.'"
Have you ever found a foreign object in your food? Spill it in the comments below.
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11-04-2009 @11:19AM Rachel said... Get a grip - it wasn't at all harmful - it's a natural thing - why all the fuss?
Don't we all have something important to do -- really?
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11-04-2009 @11:20AM Kel said... I had a similar experience when I worked in the cafeteria at college. I had to work the salad bar that day, and sure enough...I found a green frog in the huge bowl of lettuce already on the bar for serving. Appears to be a common occurrence. I quickly removed the frog and released it outside... Pretty amazing that it survived the processing of the packaged chopped lettuce.
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11-04-2009 @11:37AM Gloriana said... I had found a strange looking dead fly in my Express Salad bag..it looked sort of a large horse fly~ I called Salad Express's 800 #. They too explained the cleaning process, the lady was nice,seemed they never had encountered such an insect as I discribed, I offered to mail it to them..lol..they sent a free coupon- I wasn't looking for anything free,I wanted to company to know what "extra" had been in the salad bag.. No matter how careful we are,things happen ! :o)
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11-04-2009 @11:25AM cynthia said... I must agree, it is a frog. And? Where exactly do you think your lettuce comes from??? I remember once we were at a flea market and my mom walked over to a fruit stand. My sister, who was around 15 at the time says "Momma would go look at fruit at a place like this" I asked her what she was talking about and she says "It's outside and it's hot" I kinda nudged her and asked her where she thought fruit was grown. Everyone wants fresh food and pesticide free food, where that comes from there are animals and insects. You can't have both fresh, pesticide free food and bug and animal free food. Lol, I am sometimes amazed at how often people "forget" food comes from nature. It is our "convenient" society. It is a simple tree frog, wash the lettuce and eat. If that creeps you out, you do not wanna know what else was more than likely crawling on it before the tree frog.
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11-04-2009 @11:35AM mea said... I was in a very known restuarant order some chicken and the endive had some little green worms crawling on it. I sent it back and ordered some soup,
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11-04-2009 @11:34AM Janet said... I once found a butterfly wing in a package of pudding just as I was getting ready to put the spoon in my mouth. I sent the wing to the Jello company and they sent back several coupons for free pudding. I would have loved to have gotten the frog. They're good luck, and so cute!
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11-04-2009 @11:47AM yana said... a couple years ago, i bought a pop-like carbonated beverage, in a green glass bottle, and just before opening it to quench my thirst, i notinced something floating around in it, so i looked behind the label, and saw a small dark grey mouse! being broke and extremely thirsty, i went back to the store to exchange the product. the cashier freaked out because she was scared of mice, i was just thirsty.. so i got the same exact product again, thist time, mouse-free...as long as we dont find any humans or their parts in out food, i think we're fine...
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11-04-2009 @11:47AM randy said... RACHEL,you ask in youre previous post: "dont we all have more important things to do ?" Must be YOU DONT,seeing you are posting and replying !!! i work third shift and find this entertaining,whats youre excuse ???
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11-04-2009 @12:03PM Tricia said... This woman and her kids are real idiots. Take a pill, lady.....it's just a little frog. And then to leave it out in her garage for 3 days and call a news station. What a pig!
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11-04-2009 @11:53AM Evie said... A girlfriend and I went to the movies one evening. We bought some goodies to munch on before we went inside. After the movie had started, my friend was eating a box of M&M's. I suddenly felt an elbow nudge me and when I looked at my friend, she had this terrible look on her face. In her hand was a clump of M&M's stuck together with chewing gum!
Eeeeeewwwwww! I had a good laugh, even though se wasn't amused!
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11-04-2009 @12:02PM Billie said... A little frog she found now she won't buy lettuce? Hum, does she know how many insects are ground up and bleached in her flour? How many trace bug parts and such in canned food? A child will react to stimuli based upon the parents reaction, so it really is her fault her kid does not want to eat lettuce any more. Yes I have found snails, etc. in fresh produce, I wash it off and go on, whatever.
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11-04-2009 @12:04PM coscorron said... isn't this like old news from last year?
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11-04-2009 @12:38PM rikstik71664 said... And now they are SCARRED FOR LIFE and deserve a million dollars for thier pain, suffering and mental anguish. LMFAO!!!
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11-04-2009 @12:08PM Madame fifi said... I once received a box of expensive Godiva chocolates as a gift. We ate the top layer of candy, then when we lifted the piece of cardboard to get at the bottom layer, we noticed little white worms crawling all over them! I've never eaten Godiva chocolates since.
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11-04-2009 @12:09PM Dee3 said... We had bought Captain Crunch Cereal and also Quaker Oats Apple and Cimmomon oatmeal and found a piece of a tooth in each it was from meijers in charlotte mi now my children won't eat either even though it has benn about 5 years ago things happen in production and packaging what can we do
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11-04-2009 @12:08PM Paula said... How cute! I would gladly share my salad greens with a tree frog. Neat idea, enclosing a free pet with every lunch.
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11-04-2009 @2:29PM uncle freddy said... Tell this poor sole to rinse off her lettuce and make her salad. Does she worry about what crawled around on all the other food she eats? Most of this world's population would have been delighted to have a little meat bonus in their bag of lettuce.
Does she really think this was some sort of "food scare" or just a three dollar ticket to national publicity? I say give Kroger a break and find better things to worry about, and let the kids keep the damn frog!
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11-04-2009 @12:15PM melissa said... I have a great one for you all.... remember those chef boy ardee dinner bakes that you put together and stick them in the oven? I was preparing one of those i think it was the pizza pasta one and my son who was 3 at the time said "i cant chew this mommy" i just told him to spit it out on the napkin thinking it was a noodle that didnt get soft .....here it was a fake fingernail with a part of the real fingernail still on it lets just say i threw the whole pan out and never ever bought it again lol
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11-04-2009 @10:53PM Nancy said... I once opened the salad I had prepared for lunch, poured dressing on it, and wondered why I was seeing something moving.
It was a beautiful, dressing-covered butterfly, still alive. He had survived all the packaging, plus a rinse at my house and the dressing. I picked him up and placed him outside.
I also find lots of bugs and dirt in farmers market lettuce. Once it's washed, though, it's delicious.
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11-04-2009 @12:21PM randy said... coscorron,no this isnt old news from last year! ..last year someone found a peice of lettuce in a bag of frogs ,close though ,cant beleive you rememberd that..
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