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Couple find dead bat in breakfast cereal (This explains why Europeans distrust US corporations)
www.thelocal.se ^ | 05/19/2007 | The Local

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.


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: food; kellogs; scandinavia; sweden
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1 posted on 05/20/2007 10:33:41 AM PDT by WesternCulture
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To: WesternCulture

Witchcraft supplies! It was probably a Wiccan.


2 posted on 05/20/2007 10:36:34 AM PDT by glorgau
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3 posted on 05/20/2007 10:36:49 AM PDT by atomicpossum (Replies must follow approved guidelines or you will be kill-filed without appeal.)
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To: WesternCulture

Only one bat? I would complain. I thought there were two bats in every box.


4 posted on 05/20/2007 10:37:12 AM PDT by TommyDale (More Americans are killed each day in the U.S. by abortion than were killed on 9/11 !)
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To: WesternCulture

So many people fake this stuff for a buck. It’s impossible to prove.


5 posted on 05/20/2007 10:38:14 AM PDT by ca centered
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To: WesternCulture

This sounds like MADE IN CHINA....


6 posted on 05/20/2007 10:38:45 AM PDT by traumer
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To: WesternCulture

This sounds like MADE IN CHINA....


7 posted on 05/20/2007 10:38:56 AM PDT by traumer
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To: WesternCulture

In Italy they send you a dead fish.

Jus’ sayin’.


8 posted on 05/20/2007 10:38:59 AM PDT by IncPen (The Liberal's Reward is Self Disgust)
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To: WesternCulture

Probably amongst the other Chinese ingredients.


9 posted on 05/20/2007 10:39:38 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: WesternCulture

U.S. corporation. EU workers.


10 posted on 05/20/2007 10:39:55 AM PDT by Cap Huff
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To: TommyDale

You mean two scoops of bats in every box.


11 posted on 05/20/2007 10:40:26 AM PDT by A knight without armor
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"But there it was, a stone-dead, dried-up bat. It was really disgusting.

I know how they feel... I like my bats fresh.

12 posted on 05/20/2007 10:41:11 AM PDT by Max in Utah (WWBFD? "What Would Ben Franklin Do?")
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To: WesternCulture

Found a dead mouse on my bed the other day, guarded by my little wirehair dachshund. Mouse was then snatched away by another dachsie before I could grab it with kleenex. Then he...Reilly...didn’t have it, so looked on the bed again, as the wirehair was frantically searching among the covers. I found it first, though. I believe one of the cats killed the mouse and left it for me to serve as dinner. Lizzie, the wirehair, thought she’d have it. Not.


13 posted on 05/20/2007 10:41:26 AM PDT by hershey
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This explains why Europeans distrust US corporations

Since it was made in England, why this statement?

14 posted on 05/20/2007 10:41:36 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If you think you know what's coming next....You don't know Jack.)
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To: WesternCulture

I once found a huge dead moth in a purse I bought at the Dollar Store. Not the same thing as a dead bat in your All Bran, but I just thought I’d share.


15 posted on 05/20/2007 10:42:30 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: WesternCulture
Is the cereal boxed in the US or in Europe? Most products are shipped in bulk and then packaged near the destination.

Instead of “distrusting” US corporations you should question the conditions of your local distributors in Sweden.

16 posted on 05/20/2007 10:42:33 AM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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All the increasing scandals regarding food contamination are an illustration of one of the hidden meanings behind the thought stopper “Free Trade.” One true meaning of the phrase being “Cheap and Nasty!” This has been known for about 140 years-see Thomas Carlyle.


17 posted on 05/20/2007 10:43:56 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: WesternCulture
When I was nine years old, a friend of mine and I read an article about a man who found a piece of metal in a bottle, complained to the producer and was delivered a large amount of beer, just to keep quiet about it all (seems he didn’t).

My companion and I decided to try this concept out, not because we had acquired a taste for beer already (but by now, I admit we both have), but because we figured we could sell the beer and earn some money.

We borrowed a typewriter (this was in -79) and sent a letter of complaint to one of the biggest breweries in Scandinavia. We never even received a response letter.

There is no justice in this world.

18 posted on 05/20/2007 10:45:04 AM PDT by WesternCulture
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To: IncPen

Or a black rose..


19 posted on 05/20/2007 10:45:58 AM PDT by WesternCulture
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Hey, sounds cool to me...
Back in the early 70s, I was in the premium business and sold something like 5 million bats to Frito Lay to go in packages of corn chips.
Well, they were sponsoring Batman, and these were rings
that a kid could wear. Some of them even glowed in the dark.
20 posted on 05/20/2007 10:47:38 AM PDT by AlexW (Reporting from Bratislava, Slovakia)
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