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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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12-26-2009 @1:15AM Rick said... I recently found a small dried out black bug in a can of a local market organic diced peeled tomato's - I dug it out - and thought this must be organic and continued with using the product.
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12-26-2009 @11:35AM Norma C said... All this is gross, but I found a mouse all sliced in a loaf of Webers bread years ago. And one time I bit into a toco and got a large staple from a packing box stuck into my gums. Neither place offered a repate or any thing else not that I would eat any of their products again.
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12-27-2009 @12:07AM JT said... Went to a wendys In lakewood WA one night for a burger an some chili, My daughter ate the buger, As we watched TV I dipped my spoon into the chili an ate some of the chili. The second scoop I noticed my plastic spoon/fork act funny an bend. I stopped looked down an did it again. that is when I noticed the chili looked funny. just as the plastic broke I lifted out a clump of nappy hair out of it. I barely made it to the restrrom before I got sick. I took it back an the manager took it off my hands fast an gave me a part refund. I have never gone back to Wendys again ever, And this was 4 years ago..
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12-27-2009 @1:32AM Christina said... I was eating Chinese food in San Jose, Calif, when after eating my beef & broccoli, at the bottom of my plate sat half of a green caterpillar ...... so i must of eaten half or someone else ate the other half. I took my plate with my rice and caterpillar walked into the the restaurant.....full of customers at lunch time, explained loud & clear what I found..... got my money back and told everyone to do the same. I filed a report to the Health Department...... So as long as I got my money back &they lost profit that day..... I was happy.... Never ate there again... and word of mouth nobody from my company did either..... Happy Eating......
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12-27-2009 @6:51AM hippie said... I found a toothbrush in a bottle of champane they sent me two cases and 5K to make me happy.
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12-27-2009 @2:00PM Eva said... I once bought a loaf of wonder bread, years ao, and throughout the entire loaf, in each slice of bread there were little plastic pieces embedded. I figured something plastic fell into that particular batch. I wonder if that's why you can't find wonder bread any more. ;)
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12-27-2009 @6:29PM Fara said... One time I bought a bottle of tequila, and there was a WORM @ the bottom. lol
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12-27-2009 @9:56PM KatieCouric'sNemesis said... All the more reason to go back to growing and freezing your own veggies...and baking your own stuff from scratch. At the very least you will know that the hairs you find in what you process yourself are, if not the family pet's, then yours. And what's a little extra hair follicles among friends/family?
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