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A frog in with fresh produce doesn't surprise me, refund, and move on.
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I worked at a camp many years ago. We'd get cases of iceberg lettuce and sometimes they'd have live frogs. We'd take them to the creek and set them free.
Didn't think anything of it about serving the lettuce either; we'd wash it.
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Little does she know that if she grows greens in her own yard outside.. there will be frogs there too!
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@Kimaroo - Fortified with Kittydus Purrularis: Frogs, snails, snakes and other criters too.
The question that I have to ask is 1) why did the local news think that this was newsworthy, and 2) why did CNN think it was newsworthy.
A severed finger in my salad worthy of making the news
A frog found in a can of soda - worthy of making the news (unless it is frog flavored soda).
A frog found in an organic product, while it may be gross, not worthy of making the news. Issue a refund, and perhaps some product coupons and move on.
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@Rachacha: Have you recently seen the kind of things CNN covers?
And perhaps, more importantly, the kind of things CNN PREEMPTS to cover these things?
@MostlyHarmless: The last time that I watched CNN was during the start of the Iraq war when they had the ride-along reporters. I guess I am not missing much!
Yeah... much less likely to be infested if you grow it yourself...
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It's not that easy being green.
Sometimes you end up in someone's Caesar Salad...
Also, BINGO! on the OP. Way to preempt the \"I grow my own leafs at home\" crowd Carla. @subtlefrog will certainly not like you, and I am liking you less and less. Watch it.
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Was I the only one who read \"Gory Mustard Greens\"?
@Kimaroo - Fortified with Kittydus Purrularis:Heh - I dunno, I think a dead critter (other than the kind you expect to be in your supermarket purchases) is still going to qualify.
And I do think frogs are cute. Just not, you know... dead in my salad greens.
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Could we get some kind of warning with that photo? Uggh, I hate frogs. I really do. And I haven't even had lunch yet, so this is not helping.
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@pecan 3.14159265: PLBBBTTTT!!!!!
Now don't make me give you the same lecture I gave 180 high schoolers today about why frogs are good. Because I will. I'll do it!!!
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@pecan 3.14159265: But frogs are cute!! I prefer toads though, they're bumpy and don't look like they're wet all the time.
@squinko: No, they're not. I've always hated frogs. It's because they jump. And the eyes. It's also about the eyes.
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@pecan 3.14159265: Aww, I like frogs. I think they're cute.
It's SPIDERS I can't stand. Especially the ones that jump.
The IT man shot a rubber band at me this morning and it fell on my head. I freaked out because I thought it was a great big spider!
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@pecan 3.14159265: You hate things that jump...and you have a rabbit.
So you're differentiating between a jump and a hop? That's just splitting hares.
@pecan 3.14159265: I'm ok with frogs as long as they either can't get me (Like if they're in a tank) or if they're really far away from me.
The jumping creeps me out too.
@Kimaroo - Fortified with Kittydus Purrularis: look up \"monkey frogs\" they don't jump as much. they crawl most of the time.
You may find that jumping is less creepy.
@The Porkchop Express: \"Monkey frogs\" are among my favorites - some of the most gorgeous. LOVE THEM.
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@pecan 3.14159265: [taricorp.net]
Do not look directly in the eyes of the ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD.............
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I'd take a frog over e.coli.
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Once my mother served a salad with a snail prominently visible. She's legally blind and couldn't see it. We each got up from the table, one by one, and went to our various favorite fast food joints. ;)
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Great, now my daughters have another excuse not to eat their vegtables,
\"A frog might be in there!!!\"
Yikes, that lady almost got a frog in her throat.
Hmm, wonder if it was a bag of organic greens. I had a salad in Honolulu that had a medium sized beetle in it. I actually put it in my mouth and then felt something 'hard'. Spit it out and saw a live beetle on its back. Yeah, organic foods are great, but sometimes things like that bite you back hard.
This is what happens when you're so disconnected from your food source! There are far worse things in her ground beef, but I guess it's okay if you can't see it.
A co-worker once found a live frog in her salad from the deli across the street. A different co-worker kept the frog as a pet for months (feeding it live flies she got at a pet store) until it died. We counted it as a positive sign that the greens were not treated with chemicals.
@maddypilar: probably true. Amphibians are among the first things to be harmed by the chemicals due to the permeable skin.
@The Porkchop Express: (Hugs you) Yay - people know these things!!! (This is what I spent my whole day teaching high schoolers about).
Im sure there no frogs, bug, ants or any other animal shitting in her ghetto garden... ::eyeroll::
Quoted for awesomeness and slight relevance:
Praline: Am I right in thinking there's a real frog in here?
Milton: Yes. A little one.
Praline: What sort of frog?
Milton: A dead frog.
Praline: Is it cooked?
Milton: No.
Praline: What, a raw frog?
Milton: We use only the finest baby frogs, dew picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in finest quality spring water, lightly killed, and then sealed in a succulent Swiss quintuple smooth treble cream milk chocolate envelope and lovingly frosted with glucose.
Praline: That's as maybe, it's still a frog.
Milton: What else?
Praline: Well don't you even take the bones out?
Milton: If we took the bones out it wouldn't be crunchy would it?
Praline: Superintendent Parrot ate one of those.
Parrot: Excuse me a moment. (exits hurriedly)
Milton: It says 'crunchy frog' quite clearly.
Praline: Well, the superintendent thought it was an almond whirl. People won't expect there to be a frog in there. They're bound to think it's some form of mock frog.
Milton: (insulted) Mock frog? We use no artificial preservatives or additives of any kind!
Praline: Nevertheless, I must warn you that in future you should delete the words 'crunchy frog', and replace them with the legend 'crunchy raw unboned real dead frog', if you want to avoid prosecution.
@Yurei: I don't know what that is from but it has a distinctive \"Monty Python-esque\" quality to it.
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@Yurei: Hearted for remembering the whole Monty Python sketch! (and for giving me a much needed grin at work)
@katia802: I admit I had to go google it for the exact script because I could only remember choice bits. :P
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@ Carla Hill: \"Carla plans on getting her salad from a different source in the future. \"The next greens I eat will be growing in my garden outside,\" she told UPI.\"
Carla,
I don't think the SOURCE of your salad is the problem.
When food is grown in the wild, you can get all sorts of critters in your salad no matter where you get it. Carla, your problem is that you don't WASH your food.
Bagged greens != fully prepared food.
WASH YOUR VEGGIES.
... you also shop at WalMart, so eating a dead frog should be a step UP for you. :-p
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@2 replies by:A recent set of tests confirmed that washing pre-washed salads actually introduces bacteria that wouldn't have otherwise been there. The real problem is that e-coli is grown into the product if the soil is contaminated like the outbreak that was last year (I think it was last year). People were told to not eat it - period. Washing wouldn't resolve the issue.
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I'll admit, after seeing these, when I buy bagged lettuce, I shake the bag around to make sure there are no frogs.
@Smashville_now with Monster Energy: I shake by bag of frogs around to make sure there is no lettuce!!
LOL to all of you.
I feel sorry for the frog if you put him in a salad spinner, but I guess it's a free carnival ride.
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A few days ago there was a local news story about a family finding a live frog in their bag of lettuce from Walmart (I think it was walmart, don't quote me on that). They called to complain and the store told them to bring the whole thing, frog and all, back to the store so it can be disposed of and they can get a refund. They decided against the refund and just let the frog out in the backyard instead. They said that sorta thing just happens sometimes and they'd rather not kill the frog because of it.
I thought the story was an amazing show of consumers not going nuts over something simple. Crops grow outside, sometimes animals get in them, sometimes people can't weed out all the animals and sometimes you get a frog in your greens. It won't kill you.
@korybing: If the frog was not indigenous to the area, releasing it would have been a bad idea, but okay.
@korybing: \"I thought the story was an amazing show of consumers not going nuts over something simple.\"
But the consumer STILL must have alerted the news media (so they did go a bit nuts), because I doubt highly that the retailer called the local media and told them to send a camera crew because a woman was coming into the store with a live frog that she found in her lettuce.
@Rachacha: Well yeah, but the news piece was presented more as a \"Haha, look at this weird thing\" and not \"OH MY GOD WHAT IS WALMART TRYING TO SELL US WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE\". So even though the family alerted the news to it, they weren't claiming that Walmart should be held 100% responsible for a frog that accidentally took a ride on the lettuce harvester.
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Shit happens.
I work making salads at a local supermarket (for the time being) and we get salads returned every so often with bees, flies, and other fun bugs. We use pre-washed Dole lettuce.
Nature of the beast.
After hearing a few stories like this, I'm starting to wonder about an incident a few years ago. I was just sitting down to eat a salad, when I noticed something zipping past my head. I thought nothing of it, then I saw my dog focusing on a lil' green frog on the carpet. After half an hour of chasing, I managed to catch it and toss it outside....then resumed eating my salad.
Now I wonder if the frog originated from my salad...that would be so cool. ^_^
That reminds me. What's green and smells like Miss Piggy?
\"Walmart said they are going to work with the manufacturer and refund the customer's money.\"
I hope these are two separate thoughts - because it really shouldn't take the two of them to refund $3 for a bag of salad.
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Silly WalMart.
If only they'd added \"1 dead frog\" in the ingredient/contents section in the back, all would've been fine. Tsk Tsk.
Well at least she didn't sue for a trillion dollars, which is what most people would do.
I guess I'm 13 years too late in reporting the hair I nearly choked on when I was a kid. It was in my cereal while I was watching Saturday morning cartoons. It was in my Malt-O-Meal Golden Puffs [www.malt-o-meal.com]
But reflecting on it, I guess it wasn't as bad as this: [www.nbcaugusta.com]
Luckily for me, I like to rotate my cereals because I can't stand the same flavor for more than a month.
I know I'm going to get in all manner of trouble for saying this, but that woman's facial expression just screams 'Drama Queen realizes she's just hit the lawsuit lottery on this one'.
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But was the frog subtly hidden inside the package?
And thank God it was a bag of Glory Mustard Greens. I know some frogs that get really sick when they get meat slipped in.
@MostlyHarmless: LOL!!!! Awesome.
Oh God, oh God! Where's subtlefrog?! Has anyone checked up on subtlefrog?! Can anyone confirm subtlefrog's current location and status?!
@MostlyHarmless: Wha?