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Ben Leonard of White Oak, Texas, told KLTV-TV that his wife found the fragment in a package of Walmart's Great Value brand frozen mixed vegetables. The family ate the vegetables before they figured out the fragment was likely a rat's jaw.
"She thought it was a big chunk of corn cob or something and the further I got into it the more I thought, 'Oh no, this is rat's jaw!'" Leonard told KLTV.
Leonard said he reported his find to the local Walmart, where the vegetables were purchased, and he told KLTV they directed him to the manufacturer. Walmart did not respond to Slashfood's request for comment.
In an e-mail, Leonard told Slashfood the company held a conference call with him when he first reported his discovery, then immediately turned contact over to their insurance company.
"They did not ask to examine what I had. I told them I was willing for anyone to examine the small chunk of bone but I was not going to send it any where," he wrote. Leonard said he offered to accompany the object so that Walmart could test it. "It would be so easy to say either it was lost, destroyed in testing with incomplete results, or it tested negative," he wrote.
He told the station the manufacturer asked him if the object might be a piece of plastic conveyor belt.
"I said, 'No, this is dark and it's got roots coming out of it. I know what plastic looks like,'" he told KLTV-TV. After being transferred several times, he said the manufacturer's insurance company offered him $500, which he declined.
"I would like to see them more responsive to the customer," he said.
Leonard told KLTV he plans to take the fragment to be analyzed, and he wonders where the rest of the rat wound up.
"There was a whole rat and so somebody else has got the rest of it," he said.
[Via KLTV-TV]
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12-22-2009 @7:17AM Penny Morgan said... I once found a table knife in a glass bottle of Pepsi.
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12-22-2009 @10:19AM Usergeneric said... How unfortunate someone out there has an incomplete set of flatware.
12-22-2009 @1:10PM bk said... When I was younger I found a wrapper from a package of Zingers in a glass Pepsi bottle...
12-22-2009 @7:26AM Rick Suddes said... They should have sprayed fragrance of Rataway to keep the rats at bay, non-toxic & non poisonous.
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12-22-2009 @7:49AM john said... I found a roach backed into a loaf of Brownberry bread, when I reported it to the company they sent me a gift certificate for $ 5.00 to buy more roach laden bread. As you might suspect, I haven't baought a loaf of brownberry bread for twenty or so years since that happened. I recommend the same to everyone that I know. I prefer to select my sandwich meat on my own
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12-22-2009 @7:55AM Amy said... My son was eating a bowl of fruit loops and bit into something hard he spit it out in a napkin and gave it to me it was a piece of tooth.I haven't bought fruit loops since and I won't ever buy them again.GROSS!
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12-22-2009 @7:59AM carol said... When i liveed in Washington state,i had opened a can of Jolly Green Giant green beans and after pouring them into the sauce pan i went to stir it and i found half of a frogs body and two front feet......i was shocked and grossed out...i looked on the can and had found a consumers number to call i had already thrown the beans out to the trash .I finially got a hold of someone i called and they told me to keep the product and freeze it till the health food inspectors came to my house......i recieved coupons worth like$15.00 .......and that was it.....
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12-22-2009 @3:15PM Jason said... What exactly were you expecting? If you aren't willing to kill, clean and cook it yourself, then you have to accept other people's attention to detail and commitment to quality. $15 is probably at least 8x what you paid originally.
Stories like this result in idiots creating these situations and trying to defraud the companies that make the product, resulting in higher prices for the consumer. Good think this guy was a rat expert...he can look at a bone fragment and just know....
12-22-2009 @8:02AM Vicki said... I found a good size piece of hard plastic in my instant Idahoan potatoes last week... I called the company and complained. They sent me a envelope and asked me to send it to them. The man I spoke to acted like it was no big deal. Does this stuff happen alot?? I cannot eat the potatoes anymore, just the thought of it makes me sick.
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12-22-2009 @8:36AM Marie said... Here is a thought. Maybe we need to cook from scratch more often and avoid all these horror stories
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12-22-2009 @9:17AM XeNoS said... Ding ding ding.... there's an idea. It's hard to find foreign objects in your food if you prepare it yourself.
12-22-2009 @11:26AM amanda said... AMEN even still we buy flour with roaches and wevals okay I'm so grosses out
12-22-2009 @9:07AM Kathie Pendleton said... When I was a kid my mom opened a can of Manwich to put in the saucepan, when she did, found a big clump of hair with some scalp attached. All us kids ran screaming out of the kitchen!!! Never had that again. The thought made mme gag for years!
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12-22-2009 @11:37AM Tex said... Hahahaha! Now we know why they call it Manwich. Evidently the main ingredient is humanoid.
12-22-2009 @1:14PM bk said... Now we know what happend to Jimmy Hoffa...
12-26-2009 @12:45PM annie said... hahahaha....jimmy hoffa...that was good! :) Too gross for all of the other stories though, jeez..I am a big proponent of home cooking myself..all from scratch. That was you aren't getting all of the preservatives and crap they like to load our instant foods with either.
12-22-2009 @8:36AM Brian said... I have found insects, and webs inside several nabisco products. I called them and they said "it happens" The were rude and dismissing. I boycott their products and don't sell them in our own store.
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12-22-2009 @8:47AM PEPPA said... MANY YRS. AGO I OPENED A CAN OF PEAS TO WARM THEM UP FOR SUPPER, AND AT THE BOTTOM OF THE CAN , THERE WAS A BIG GREEN CATERPILLAR.... SO FAT WAS HE > JUST LIKE A MANS PINKY FINGER. EWwwwww
I HAVE NEVER EVER BOUGHT CANNED VEGETABLES AGAIN.
MY PANTRY IS VOID OF CANNED VEGGIES... BUT THERE ARE STILL CANNED TOMATOES IN MY PANTRY WHICH I EXAMINE FULLY, BEFORE COOKING.
I PREFER TO BUY FRESH, AND DO THE CLEANING MYSELF.
I SOMETIMES BUY FROZEN >>>> BUT NOT THAT OFTEN.
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12-22-2009 @8:50AM Beth said... I found a tape worm in a package of boneless chicken breast. It was at least an inch long. I bagged it up and sent it to the company and they sent me a coupon to buy another package.... gross
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12-22-2009 @8:55AM John said... Yes, I've found moths in my goober candy before they sent me more coupons lol
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