The Waalwijkse Pascalle was faced with a whole Gore surprise on Wednesday evening. After getting a potato salad at the Plus in Tilburg for her steak, she found a thick, dirty, black animal between the potato slices. “It is five centimeters in size.”
Normally Pascalle makes a nice potato salad with her steak herself, but she had just not arrived because of her planning. “So I thought: do it that way. Only I will never do this again.” The potato salad turned out to be a very dirty, dead beast. Of up to five centimeters.
Pascalle doubted for a moment whether it could not be a beetle, but it really can’t miss it. It was a cockroach. She called the supermarket and was connected to the fruit and vegetable department. “They immediately removed all the packages from the shelves,” she says. “The store can’t do anything about it, because probably the beast ended up in the tank earlier. But I’m never going to go shopping there again and I’m pretty angry.” She was told by the supermarket that she would have to submit a complaint at the head office on Thursday. And that she can bring the bowl and the animal back. Then she gets the purchase amount back.
“It’s not a hole in your sock, it’s about food,” she says indignantly. “But fine, if they want it back. I put it in a kitchen roll and a sandwich bag, in the kitchen. Then I will bring them their cockroach on Thursday.”
Pascalle has warned the NVWA, which will investigate the potato salad. Because the risk is not only with the potato salads of the Plus, but with all products that come from this supplier. “They also deliver to the Albert Heijn and the Jumbo,” heard Pascalle from the NVWA and the Plus employee himself. There is therefore a chance that there are more infected salads. But an investigation is required for that. “This is just too gross for words. Because I think cockroaches never come alone,” says De Waalwijkse.
An NVWA inspector will look at it. “He can investigate what kind of beast it is. But it doesn’t belong in food anyway, that’s for sure. And I don’t want people to get sick of it.”