Tesco Fingernail Sandwich, Katie Sellers Finds Acrylic Surprise In Snack

Tesco Finger Nail

Huffington Post UK   First Posted: 2/02/2012 15:09 Updated: 2/02/2012 15:12

A hairdresser found herself chewing on a dirty false fingernail after tucking into a Tesco sandwich.

Katie Sellers was eating the smoked salmon and cream cheese sandwich when she felt something crunching between her teeth.

The 29-year-old told This Is Cornwall: “I pulled it out and it was a false nail. I felt physically sick.

“It wasn’t a nice nail – it was discoloured and dirty.”

Katie bought the sandwich for £2.40 from a Truro store on January 21, the Daily Mail reported.

She added: “I thought that people packing sandwiches had to be wearing gloves and I would not have thought they were allowed to wear false nails.”

A Tesco spokesman today confirmed a “thorough investigation” was being conducted.

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A hairdresser found herself chewing on a dirty false fingernail after tucking into a Tesco sandwich. Katie Sellers was eating the smoked salmon and cream cheese sandwich when she felt something cr...
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Craigzz
God must like pinball
01:25 PM on 02/03/2012
Apparently most people eat on average a dozen insects each year, by accident and without realising it. I';m still trying to get over the rat in the baked beans can.
07:46 AM on 02/03/2012
easy answer . make your own sanny . you got 50 quid i think il buy one too take it home take a bite then put something in it and take it back maby i will get 50 quid is this news worthy i think not
05:56 AM on 02/03/2012
A workmate of mine ate a Tesco sandwich and it had a live bug in it. Iwe had never seen one like it in this country. He actually bit on it. When he spat it out it was still very much alive and about a quarter of an inch long. He took the rest of the sandwich back in the original wrapping and they paid him £50 pounds there and then.
I imagine they use cheap Eastern European labour to make these sandwiches and there is no hygene control. what so ever.
I worked in the food industry for years and foreign objrcts in food is very common. There is absolutely no excuse for it, bad training and management full stop. As for tesco, all they are interested in is the cost of making them, they are not going to spend a penny more than necessary.
12:35 AM on 02/03/2012
Don't tell everyone as they will all want one !.
11:57 PM on 02/02/2012
My partner works at tesco... not through choice may i had... she ok over the till i'll tell you.....
11:57 PM on 02/02/2012
This is headline news???! Not nice, I agree, but come on HuffPost - you are really scraping the barrel here.
11:59 PM on 02/02/2012
Yea but not with them nails..
11:56 PM on 02/02/2012
Could cost tesco an ARM and A LEG... as well as a finger nail...
10:55 PM on 02/02/2012
I had a Tesco sandwich on Tuesday night. She was alright too. Nice n chubby.
09:53 PM on 02/02/2012
I dread to think where that finger nail was before it fell off.
What confuses me is that people will buy sanwiches from these places, it only takes a couple of minutes to make your own and apart from knowing what is in it, it so much cheaper.

My favourite home made sandwich is curd cheese, garlic sausage, coleslaw,lettuce, cucumber and peanut butter with just a little tomatoe puree.
My little one hates it, too much coleslaw and not enough tomatoe puree or cucumber, well you can't please everyone.
10:07 PM on 02/02/2012
In the words of Peter Griffin (Family Guy), Butt Scratcher, get your butt scratcher here.
09:48 PM on 02/02/2012
Never shop there as its to expensive . Go to Kentucky fried chicken there chicken taste FINGER linking good.
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Joyce70
Verba volant, scripta manent
09:40 PM on 02/02/2012
I can't believe it!
I thought employees had to work with gloves when it deals with food!!
Disgusting!
08:15 PM on 02/02/2012
Oh I'm sure she'll make a nice little claim, and when the cheque arrives she'll feel so much better. That's usually how it goes these days.
08:14 PM on 02/02/2012
look at her fingers....... she has the same nails.
10:44 PM on 02/02/2012
My thoughts exactly lol :)
11:54 PM on 02/02/2012
Yea, but probably used a glue not bougt from tesco.. so a good glue eh..
08:00 PM on 02/02/2012
Found half a caterpillar in bagged of mixed salad once - bought from Asda.
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librarianesque
The Right was Wrong, the Left was Right.
11:32 PM on 02/02/2012
....but it's Asda! what did you expect.
07:50 AM on 02/03/2012
Salad and protein - every little bit counts!
07:44 PM on 02/02/2012
A few months ago a girl at work had just finished her sandwich from Tesco & she started to brush what she thought was a piece of lettuce of her desk, it started to crawl & wriggle & turned out to be a very alive caterpillar!!!