2023-07-05 20:17:52
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A man buys a piece of broccoli at Aldi. When he unpacks the vegetables at home, he is surprised: the product is not completely meatless.
Munich/Stourbridge – Anyone who goes to the supermarket or discounter can buy a variety of goods there. There are numerous products on the shelves of Aldi, Lidl, Edeka, Kaufland, Rewe or the competition. This also includes fresh groceries in the branches throughout Germany.
Aldi customer finds snake in broccoli – “It was very scary”
The discounters have now also opened markets beyond the borders of the Federal Republic. Lidl and Aldi are also represented in Great Britain. In a British Aldi branch, there was now a rather frightening incident. A customer bought vegetables, specifically a piece of broccoli, at the discount store in the town of Stourbridge. When he unpacked it at home, he probably mightn’t believe his eyes.
Like the British portal walesonline.co.uk reported, the Aldi customer found a snake in the broccoli pack. “It was very scary,” the 63-year-old told the portal the moment he discovered the animal. At first he thought of a caterpillar when he saw it, but the creature was clearly too big for that, according to the Aldi customer. So the Briton summoned his sister, who identified the animal as a snake. “I thought she was joking at first, but then I pulled away when I saw the snake moving.”
An Aldi customer found a snake in the broccoli that he had just bought in a branch of the discounter. © Donovan Linton
The 63-year-old Aldi customer and his sister decided to put the pack of broccoli and the snake in a box. They drove it back to the Aldi branch where the vegetables had been bought. “The guy in the branch was pretty scared too,” said the Brit. The snake eventually ended up at a local zoo, where its exact snake species was also determined.
Aldi apologizes, customer rejects compensation payment – ”Just not enough”
The snake in the Aldi broccoli was a stair snake. This species of snake can grow up to 1.6 meters long but is not poisonous to humans. Stair snakes live in the wild mainly in Portugal, large parts of Spain and southern France. An Aldi spokesman told the British portal: “We are investigating this isolated incident.” They also apologized to the Aldi customer. However, that is not enough, as he affirmed.
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He suffers from a snake phobia, the 63-year-old claimed to the portal. In addition, a disabled son and his needy mother-in-law live in their own household, both of whom were lucky not to have had contact with the snake. Aldi meanwhile offered him a compensation payment. “That’s just not enough – the consequences for us would be enormous if it got into the house,” said the angry Aldi customer. It remains to be seen whether the case will now spread even further and possibly end up in court.
Occasionally special animals hide in banana crates. An exotic spider was once discovered in a supermarket in Bavaria.
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