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.
Witchcraft supplies! It was probably a Wiccan.
Only one bat? I would complain. I thought there were two bats in every box.
So many people fake this stuff for a buck. It’s impossible to prove.
This sounds like MADE IN CHINA....
This sounds like MADE IN CHINA....
In Italy they send you a dead fish.
Jus’ sayin’.
Probably amongst the other Chinese ingredients.
U.S. corporation. EU workers.
You mean two scoops of bats in every box.
I know how they feel... I like my bats fresh.
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.
Since it was made in England, why this statement?
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.
Instead of “distrusting” US corporations you should question the conditions of your local distributors in Sweden.
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.
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.
Or a black rose..
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