What did they expect?
Posted on 05/20/2007 10:33:37 AM PDT by WesternCulture
A couple in the west Sweden town of Tanum got a most unwelcome free gift in their breakfast cereal on Friday.
As Kerstin Nilsson and Ingemar Hansson poured out a healthy bowl of Kelloggs All Bran out plopped a bat. A 4 centimetre long, shrivelled-up English bat.
"We couldn't believe our eyes," the couple told local paper Bohusläningen.
"But there it was, a stone-dead, dried-up bat. It was really disgusting. We lost our apetites immediately. You've got to wonder how it got there."
Kelloggs is wondering the same thing, and promised to take the matter seriously. The company sent a representative up to Tanum to take charge of the packaging, the cereal and the bat.
"The packet will be sent back to the factory in England where it was produced. We obviously want to know how the bat ended up in the cereal." said a spokesman for Kelloggs.
Fearing that the bat could have been carrying some kind of disease, the couple also contacted their local environmental health department.
An official took away a sample for testing.
I’m not shy about jumping to conclusions.
Unless they are the most humble, church-going elderly couple (and even if they are sometimes) I absolutely don’t believe these stories whatsoever... Fricking LIARS.
“U.S. corporation. EU workers.”
- What would be the outcome if Mercedes, BMW, Volvo, Ferrari, Audi and Porsche hired American workers?
“Some of them even glowed in the dark.”
Like the population of Chernobyl still does?
“A 4 centimetre long, shrivelled-up English bat.”
Unless the bat had a passport it’s undocumented and is probably of North African/Middle Eastern origin.
Odds are the bat crawled into the box after it arrived at their house.
Bets on how soon they discover it is a local bat?
He was wearing a Manchester United t-shirt.
What did they expect?
Not quite. The bat fit on top of a ring base. It was the only way to mold and package the piece for very little money.
Half of the bats were molded in black, and half were molded
in natural polyethylene but with fluorescent pigment added.
I guess if a kid got a black one in his chips, he would keep buying till he got a glow in the dark bat.
Instead of “distrusting” US corporations you should question the conditions of your local distributors in Sweden.
- Swedish distributors of food spend a lot of time examining packages like those produced by Kellogs. Often, they manage to find eeky contents like bats and other animals in advance. After having done so, they are instructed by legislation to send them back to the producer, but sometimes they make mistakes.
Apparently they’re unfamiliar with the concept of the “toy surprise”.
What? No eye of newt?
I went to an Exxon station for gasoline once and they put a tiger in my tank.
"Tastes like a good McDonald's!"
Perhaps automobiles that worked fine.
Don’t try to play with me here. I am an American who has lived for the last 14 years in the EU. I know that some EU companies deliver good products and I also know that they sometimes deliver garbage. Ikea comes to mind. I’ve bought things there that were worth the money, and some things that were simply cheap. It is like that with many things in the EU.
I made the comment I did precisely because you amended the title of the article in order to make a broad brush indictment of U.S. corporations. The workers who oversaw the packing and storage of the product in question were employed in the UK. I might fault the parent company for QC standards, but how does anybody know whether it was the fault of weak standards or simply from the shoddy workmanship of the UK employee?
That’s the reason I gave up All Bran. I now have a Twinkie smothered in mustard for breakfast. It tastes like hell, but it gives me the right attitude to face another day being hectored by left wing idiots.
***What? No eye of newt?***
Naw! The Wiccans have the market cornered.
So naturally they distrust US corporations??? Do you think corporate headquarters issued instructions to place dead bats in the boxes made on the other side of the pond? Or is HQ wondering about the UK labor pool?
“Don’t try to play with me here.”
- Hey, does it sound like I’m trying to be serious??
Has it ever struck you that we Europeans like to make fun of Americans just because we actually love you?
By the way, it seems people in my country, Sweden, are becoming more and more keen on American cars.
Personally, I think The US makes a lot of awesome, hot cars. For instance, Just look at Dodge. The Viper has been admired for a long time over here in Europe and presently, there are a lot of Dodge commercials being shown on Swedish TV. Personally, I think the Nitro seems like a very nice car, but I still prefer Volvo.
OK, let’s just take it in good fun. Anybody that buys a product called all-bran would probably do better just to throw away the contents of the box (bats included) and just eat the cardboard.
Here where I live we see a lot of people driving big huge gas-guzzling American SUVs. I have no idea how any of them can afford the petrol, let alone the vehicle itself. When I first spent time in this part of the world (almost thirty years ago) it was extremely rare to see an American car, except for those owned by U.S. servicemen. Now we see them regularly, even some classics from the 50’s and 60’s.
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