A 26-year-old Swiss man finds a piece of plastic in his frozen burger. He has already swallowed another one.
He is disappointed by the supermarket's reaction. Foreign bodies or even uninvited living guests can get lost in food and initially reach the store unnoticed. If the object gets stuck in the esophagus, a dangerous swallowing disorder (dysphagia) could result, which persists even after the object reaches the stomach. Depending on where the foreign body gets stuck, cramps and pain, nausea, and vomiting may occur. The man doesn't even want to imagine that his son could have gotten the contaminated burger. The supermarket's response? A verbal apology and the almost ten francs he had paid for the patties. The incident happened in the town of Aarau in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. It is not known if the man's son has been affected by the contaminated food or if he has been treated for an illness related to the incident.