UK supermarket Tesco says it will be conducting a “thorough investigation” to determine how a dead bird ended up in a pre-packaged salad.
Paul Streeter, the unlucky customer, said his girlfriend was sick after the carcass was discovered in a baby leaf and rocket salad bought at Tesco’s Burnham-on-Sea branch, according to the BBC.
"I couldn’t believe my eyes,” he said.
“It was horrific.
“She was seconds away from eating it."
Streeter bought the salad to feed to his girlfriend and children, emptying the salad into a bowl and placing it on the dinner table before returning to the kitchen.
"Suddenly my girlfriend shrieked and couldn’t believe what she’d found on her plate,” he told the BBC.
"She had ladled the salad onto her plate and thought she was cutting into one of the dark leaves and what she found was a dead bird.
"I didn’t know what to think. I was concerned about the health of my family as they had eaten some of the salad."
The bird was "decomposed and skeletal,” he said.
"We take matters of this kind extremely seriously and are very disappointed to learn of this incident," a Tesco person said.
"Ensuring our food is of the highest quality is extremely important to us and we and our suppliers have robust systems in place to prevent foreign objects getting into products.
"We are in contact with the customer and have apologised."