Mum finds live frog in bag of Waitrose salad

Mum finds live frog in bag of Waitrose sald Mum finds live frog in bag of Waitrose sald

One hungry Hampshire mum and daughter found something else green when they opened up their bag of salad - a live frog.

Mum-of-three Christina Carrington, who works as a health care manager, said she opened the bag of leaves before work and took a few for her lunch on the go.

But it wasn't until later that same evening her youngest daughter Daniela Toale made the slimy discovery.

The 20-year-old university student was preparing dinner while her 50-year-old mum was at a gym class when she caught sight of the croaky critter in the salad.

Christina, from Chandler's Ford , had bought the mixed leaf bag from Waitrose in Ringwood .

The frog had survived despite being trapped in the bag for more than 24 hours.

She said: “I am absolutely mortified to think I ate the leaves at lunch time when clearly the frog had been in the same bag. I feel repulsed.”

A spokesman from Waitrose, said: “We are very sorry for the distress caused. All our bagged salad is thoroughly washed and we have steps in place to check each product before packaging.

“Although this is an isolated incident, we're investigating with our suppliers how this happened and taking steps to minimise the chances of this happening again.”

She added that the frog was “fine” and the supermarket chain is seeking advice from the RSPCA on finding it a suitable home.

Comments(53)

sotonbusdriver says...
8:04am Wed 12 Sep 12

Unless the frog was poisonous I doubt whether eating the salad, she will croak it.....

bigfella777 says...
8:08am Wed 12 Sep 12

A spokesman from Waitrose, said: “We are very sorry for the distress caused. All our bagged salad is thoroughly washed and we have steps in place to check each product before packaging.

Well thats obviously a complete lie to start with.You wouldn't get this trouble at Lidls.

freefinker says...
8:36am Wed 12 Sep 12

.. is it a bit to capture the French market?

Georgem says...
9:02am Wed 12 Sep 12

"I was so mortified, I ran straight to the papers"

wossit says...
9:05am Wed 12 Sep 12

Whats the fuss about take the frog out and wash the salad again job done. whats wrong with people today are they so detached on how food is grown, just becuase its normal devoid of life when you open it . It don't mean it was not cover in insects and frogs just 24hrs before hand

Huffter says...
9:06am Wed 12 Sep 12

Always a danger for those who want to buy ready prepared food - I prefer the old-fashioned method of buying a lettuce and washing it.

Big Mac says...
9:13am Wed 12 Sep 12

bigfella777 wrote:
A spokesman from Waitrose, said: “We are very sorry for the distress caused. All our bagged salad is thoroughly washed and we have steps in place to check each product before packaging.

Well thats obviously a complete lie to start with.You wouldn't get this trouble at Lidls.
Well thats obviously a complete lie...
no it isn't. It's a statement of company policy. That said, mistakes happen and I bet there is someone in the background hoping mad about this.
In regard to Lidls, I'm sure if they did 'trouble' it would be cheaper though – each to their own.

Georgem says...
9:20am Wed 12 Sep 12

This sort of thing is far from isolated. Last year, I bought some cornflakes from Waitrose, and almost choked to death on a small plastic dinosaur hidden amongst them.

MGRA says...
9:24am Wed 12 Sep 12

And her proof that her account is true is...... ????

George4th says...
9:26am Wed 12 Sep 12

Was she frog marched to the Daily Echo by a make-up artist?!

ohec says...
9:28am Wed 12 Sep 12

If people knew what happened to half their food they would be a lot slimmer, it won't be long before supermarkets will sell you somebody to eat all this ready to eat food to save you the trouble, or are we fast approaching the stage where you don't sit down for a meal you just pop a pill.

Huey says...
9:39am Wed 12 Sep 12

ohec wrote:
If people knew what happened to half their food they would be a lot slimmer, it won't be long before supermarkets will sell you somebody to eat all this ready to eat food to save you the trouble, or are we fast approaching the stage where you don't sit down for a meal you just pop a pill.
This is a ribbiting story

Lockssmart says...
9:44am Wed 12 Sep 12

Saladmander

George4th says...
9:48am Wed 12 Sep 12

Lockssmart wrote:
Saladmander
Very good although I didn't immediately have the froggiest idea what it meant!

forestexbury says...
9:51am Wed 12 Sep 12

Perhaps it was a mixed salad.... lettuce with frogs legs..........

daveetwo says...
9:58am Wed 12 Sep 12

Just as well she didnt swallow it otherwise she wouldnt have been able to talk to reporters because she had a frog in her throat.

Paramjit Bahia says...
10:05am Wed 12 Sep 12

Agree with comment that some people simply do not realise how food is produced in fields.

Rather than making standard statement, which most will hardly believe, Waitrose should have told the truth:

In cheap small bag of Salad suppliers can only put a little frog, if people want elephant they should pay lot more...

Hope the ladies have found their prince!

pushamara says...
10:16am Wed 12 Sep 12

Georgem wrote:
This sort of thing is far from isolated. Last year, I bought some cornflakes from Waitrose, and almost choked to death on a small plastic dinosaur hidden amongst them.
Haha! I actually laughed out loud whe I read that! Are you sure it wasn't a bike reflector in the shape of a tiger?!

Georgem says...
10:32am Wed 12 Sep 12

Paramjit Bahia wrote:
Agree with comment that some people simply do not realise how food is produced in fields.

Rather than making standard statement, which most will hardly believe, Waitrose should have told the truth:

In cheap small bag of Salad suppliers can only put a little frog, if people want elephant they should pay lot more...

Hope the ladies have found their prince!
Brilliant! Also, I couldn't help reading it in Borat's voice.

NotoNwo says...
10:43am Wed 12 Sep 12

"This woman had opened the bag of salad and took a few leaves for her lunch. Later in the evening the daughter is preparing dinner and makes the grave discovery of the frog!"

"Thats right Poirot"

"Ah but my dear Hastings, the bag was opened in the morning and left unattended in the scullery all day until the EVENING when madamoseille Carrington was preparing the evening meal so the frog could have made its way into the bag at any time during the day after madam carrington had left for her place of work!"

"Poirot! You got it! How silly of me to assume the frog was in the bag to begin with."

"Mon amis, they can fool the good Inspector Japp of Scotland Yard, but NOT 'Ercule Poirot !!!"

wilson castaway says...
10:44am Wed 12 Sep 12

I remember when my mum found a huge grasshopper in a bunch of grapes.It was dead unfortunately but we didn't call the papers,we kept it as it was soo cool.Took it to school for show and tell, then threw it away.Even ate the grapes!

Northamboy says...
11:12am Wed 12 Sep 12

Why go to the Echo? Why not take it to the shop, complain, get a few goodies and an apology, job done!

Going to the Echo seems to be an over reaction to me. Glad the frog is ok.

S!monOn says...
11:30am Wed 12 Sep 12

Just read the headline in the Daily Frog..."Innocent frog minding its own business on a cabbage leaf gets abducted, put in a plastic bag and almost eaten by giant alien"... more to follow....

wilson castaway says...
11:41am Wed 12 Sep 12

I have two pet frogs, id happily give the frog a home, if it cant be released.

Georgem says...
11:53am Wed 12 Sep 12

S!monOn wrote:
Just read the headline in the Daily Frog..."Innocen
t frog minding its own business on a cabbage leaf gets abducted, put in a plastic bag and almost eaten by giant alien"... more to follow....
It's a growing problem. I read an interesting article about the phenomenon in last month's 'The Lily Pad".

sotonbusdriver says...
11:57am Wed 12 Sep 12

Headline reads :- "Mum finds live frog in bag of Waitrose salad"..

No-one has asked why she had "Waitrose Salad",, surely having someone elses salad, is THEFT ???

ameliaS says...
11:58am Wed 12 Sep 12

Frogs are not slimey, they're lovely little critters.

Sovietobserver says...
12:07pm Wed 12 Sep 12

I think this story has been toad-ally blown out of all proportion.

lilbitofjodi , Eastleigh says...
12:18pm Wed 12 Sep 12

Couldn't feel that repulsed if your taking pictures with it!

CruelDevil says...
12:35pm Wed 12 Sep 12

ameliaS wrote:
Frogs are not slimey, they're lovely little critters.
Unless of course the frog in question had recently completed filming on an episode of "Get Your Own Back!", where everyone is slimey...

mr.southampton says...
12:47pm Wed 12 Sep 12

Must be the latest middle-class food fad.

Sushi is soooo yesterday dahling!!!

Huffter says...
1:31pm Wed 12 Sep 12

NotoNwo wrote:
"This woman had opened the bag of salad and took a few leaves for her lunch. Later in the evening the daughter is preparing dinner and makes the grave discovery of the frog!" "Thats right Poirot" "Ah but my dear Hastings, the bag was opened in the morning and left unattended in the scullery all day until the EVENING when madamoseille Carrington was preparing the evening meal so the frog could have made its way into the bag at any time during the day after madam carrington had left for her place of work!" "Poirot! You got it! How silly of me to assume the frog was in the bag to begin with." "Mon amis, they can fool the good Inspector Japp of Scotland Yard, but NOT 'Ercule Poirot !!!"
Poirot wouldn't have anything to do with frogs - he's Belgian.

bobbyboy says...
1:53pm Wed 12 Sep 12

If she had brought it in Portswood she would have got a carp in it so stop carping on and hopping off to the echo to complain.

alan.of.eastleigh says...
2:16pm Wed 12 Sep 12

bigfella777 wrote:
A spokesman from Waitrose, said: “We are very sorry for the distress caused. All our bagged salad is thoroughly washed and we have steps in place to check each product before packaging. Well thats obviously a complete lie to start with.You wouldn't get this trouble at Lidls.
The truth is that most of these stories are made up. Not saying this is the case here but we should also bear in mind the frog was not found in a sealed bag. If was found by a child several hours later. Hmmmm....

alan.of.eastleigh says...
2:17pm Wed 12 Sep 12

OK a 20 year old child.....

sotonboy84 says...
2:30pm Wed 12 Sep 12

Wouldn't a frog have suffocated in a sealed bag?!
I've had frogs in my kitchen before so more than likely the bag was left open on the side long enough for a frog to get in OR a frog got into the fridge when the door was open.

Huffter says...
4:04pm Wed 12 Sep 12

sotonboy84 wrote:
Wouldn't a frog have suffocated in a sealed bag?! I've had frogs in my kitchen before so more than likely the bag was left open on the side long enough for a frog to get in OR a frog got into the fridge when the door was open.
Recently I've had a problem with spiders indoors... now I've got to check the kitchen for fridging frogs!

sotonboy84 says...
4:17pm Wed 12 Sep 12

Huffter wrote:
sotonboy84 wrote: Wouldn't a frog have suffocated in a sealed bag?! I've had frogs in my kitchen before so more than likely the bag was left open on the side long enough for a frog to get in OR a frog got into the fridge when the door was open.
Recently I've had a problem with spiders indoors... now I've got to check the kitchen for fridging frogs!
Eeeeeeek!

miltonarcher says...
4:42pm Wed 12 Sep 12

That bag of Waitrose salad the lady is holding looks very poor value for money. Did the frog eat the rest? If the frog got really really scared I guess the salad "dressing" would have been interesting!!!

S!monOn says...
4:52pm Wed 12 Sep 12

sotonbusdriver wrote:
Headline reads :- "Mum finds live frog in bag of Waitrose salad".. No-one has asked why she had "Waitrose Salad",, surely having someone elses salad, is THEFT ???
Eh?

Crimbo says...
5:05pm Wed 12 Sep 12

At least is showed the salad was fresh... If it had been a dead frog the salad may have been past it's "sell by" day :-)

BillyTheKid says...
5:19pm Wed 12 Sep 12

Echo headline :

"Frog in salad story spawns weak joke marathon on Echo forum......"

Fatty x Ford Worker says...
5:24pm Wed 12 Sep 12

Why did She not fry it loverly jubbly with nice old bag lettuce!

NotoNwo says...
6:34pm Wed 12 Sep 12

Huffter wrote:
NotoNwo wrote:
"This woman had opened the bag of salad and took a few leaves for her lunch. Later in the evening the daughter is preparing dinner and makes the grave discovery of the frog!" "Thats right Poirot" "Ah but my dear Hastings, the bag was opened in the morning and left unattended in the scullery all day until the EVENING when madamoseille Carrington was preparing the evening meal so the frog could have made its way into the bag at any time during the day after madam carrington had left for her place of work!" "Poirot! You got it! How silly of me to assume the frog was in the bag to begin with." "Mon amis, they can fool the good Inspector Japp of Scotland Yard, but NOT 'Ercule Poirot !!!"
Poirot wouldn't have anything to do with frogs - he's Belgian.
Yes - he was very resentful of being called a frenchman and you could not blame him either.

bigfella777 says...
6:45pm Wed 12 Sep 12

Mum-of-three Christina Carrington,who only wears jimmy choo shoes and works as a health care manager, said she opened the bag of leaves before work and took a few for her lunch on the go because she just exists on nothing but lettuce.

But it wasn't until later that same evening her youngest daughter Daniela Toale(rich divorced husbands name) made the slimy discovery.

The 20-year-old university student who is studying geothermal astro physics at Oxford was preparing dinner while her 50-year-old mum was at her daily gym class to keep her perfect when she caught sight of the croaky critter in the salad.




Christina, from Chandler's Ford , had bought the mixed leaf bag from Waitrose in Ringwood because she would rather drive 20 miles to shop than be seen dead in Asda.

SNOB!!!

BillyTheKid says...
9:10pm Wed 12 Sep 12

bigfella777 wrote:
Mum-of-three Christina Carrington,who only wears jimmy choo shoes and works as a health care manager, said she opened the bag of leaves before work and took a few for her lunch on the go because she just exists on nothing but lettuce.

But it wasn't until later that same evening her youngest daughter Daniela Toale(rich divorced husbands name) made the slimy discovery.

The 20-year-old university student who is studying geothermal astro physics at Oxford was preparing dinner while her 50-year-old mum was at her daily gym class to keep her perfect when she caught sight of the croaky critter in the salad.




Christina, from Chandler's Ford , had bought the mixed leaf bag from Waitrose in Ringwood because she would rather drive 20 miles to shop than be seen dead in Asda.

SNOB!!!
Perhaps ASDA don't do frogs with their salad bags.

Linesman says...
9:36pm Wed 12 Sep 12

She was angry and the frog was hopping mad................I
f this had happened in a French supermarket, she would have bought a bottle of wine and the frog would have been legless.

IronLady2010 says...
10:28pm Wed 12 Sep 12

How has this reached The Echo? Surely this is a matter between Waitrose and the purchaser. Stinks of the typical American compensation claim.

I found a rubber seal in one of my meals, found out it was from my Pepper grinder. Just binned it and bought a new one. Maybe I should of gone to the echo for some photo opportunity?

BillyTheKid says...
11:55pm Wed 12 Sep 12

The more I read this story, the vagueness of the details, the idea that this "frog" stayed in the bag for over 24 hours, the more I am becoming convinced it is a hoax.

Personally, I would hope Waitrose take HER to court for attempting to damage their good name.

IronLady2010 says...
12:19am Thu 13 Sep 12

Put the frog on Jeremy Kyle and do a Lie Detector test.

Hang on, should it be the frog?

longdaytoday says...
6:15am Thu 13 Sep 12

I don't believe the story. The poor old frog is kept in an air tight bag that is probably packed under many other bags during transportation. Not to mention being kept in a chilly condition for 24 hours. So when the bag is opened instead of hopping it to freedom, Mr Froggy decides to hang around untill tea time so it can give everyone a good old fright and of course a brief moment of Echo fame for those concerned. Spawn us another.

Georgem says...
9:06am Thu 13 Sep 12

Linesman wrote:
She was angry and the frog was hopping mad................I

f this had happened in a French supermarket, she would have bought a bottle of wine and the frog would have been legless.
"Excuse me sir, I have found some salad in my bag of frog".

lionheart says...
12:11am Sat 15 Sep 12

It's a bit worrying where the supplier washed the lettuce.

I thought it was watercress that was grown in streams not lettuce.

Must have come from Frogham.

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