A CUSTOMER has been left “traumatised” after accidentally eating a mouthful of mud and stones from a salad she bought at a Sainsbury’s store.
Faye Bilsland bought the Chicken and Four Grain Salad yesterday [THURS] from a Sainsbury’s shop but didn’t notice the foreign objects until she started tucking in.
After biting into a “large, hard, object” the 24 year-old immediately spat out the food before realising it was actually a stone and mud.
The part-time model from London and pal Kristie Burton took closer look at the £2.80 salad she had purchased from the store on Regent’s Place in the city, and noticed more pebbles and soil throughout the tub.
Taking photos of the pebbles and dirt in the leafy green meal, Miss Bilsland complained to the supermarket giant.
In the snaps, light brown soil can be seen on some of the leaves and the grey stone is clearly visible.
Faye explained that she was enjoying her lunch break with Miss Burton she comped down on the stone, which may have have cracked a tooth.
Speaking today (FRI) she said: “It was a very traumatic lunch break for me. I’m not going to be able to look at a salad in the same way ever again.
“It was like eating tarmac if you can imagine that. I think I’ve cracked a tooth, I was mortified.”
“I was just minding my own business, enjoying my lunch and scrolling on Instagram when I bit into a large hard object.
“I immediately spat it onto the table over my friends pot noodle. It was at that point that my friends and I investigated the rest of the salad to find mud and soil and more stones.”
Miss Burton who witnessed the incident said it has put her offusing the supermarket in the future.
“‘It was like a whole garden was in there. It would have been so dangerous if Faye had swallowed it.
“Just terrible from Sainsbury’s. I will be shopping at Tesco from now on.”
Sainsbury’s have said that there are systems in place to prevent this sort of thing from happening, and have apologised to Faye for this one slipping through.
A spokeswoman said: “Our suppliers have processes in place to make sure salad items are washed thoroughly after they’re picked. We’re investigating with them and have apologised to Lauren who has accepted a gesture of goodwill.”
On Wednesday it was reported that Sainsbury’s customers had been left outraged at empty shelves in stores around the UK in the first few days of 2018.
Customers uploaded pictures to social media illustrating this, but Sainsbury’s said the images were isolated incidents in a “tiny” number of stores that are now fully stocked.
In September, Sainsbury’s customer Kerri Small was filmed screaming hysterically after she found a live spider in her salad while she was halfway through eating it.
