As of: January 23, 2024, 7:19 p.m
By: Lennart Schwenck
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In an Aldi branch in Lünen, a fake label is causing a stir: “Human flesh.
250 grams: 0.99 euros.” A customer discovered the scary offer.
Lünen – Curious discovery in a supermarket in North Rhine-Westphalia: a product label declares an offering to be human flesh.
When Knut Thamm entered the Aldi Nord branch on Viktoriastrasse in Lünen, he was amazed when he noticed what he was holding in his hands.
Thamm actually wanted to buy a pack of cabbage rolls, but they were on sale.
But his anticipation was always quickly replaced by confusion.
There was a large sticker on the packaging: “Human flesh.
250 grams: 0.99 euros”.
The accompanying advertising text promised an absurd safety of the products through “feed containing drugs and hormones” and emphasized “tender and tasty corpse parts” with the note “100% quantity” – an absurd allusion to the usual note “100% quality”.
Human flesh stickers at Aldi: animal welfare activism or a bad joke?
Knut Thamm quickly realized that the “human flesh” sticker was a fake, as he told the
Ruhr Nachrichten
.
Nevertheless, he searched through the other products but couldn't find any other packaging with this bizarre label.
Unimpressed by the absurd incident, he went to the checkout with the cabbage rolls he wanted.
Interestingly, he turned the packaging upside down so the label wasn't visible, saying, "I was afraid they'd take it from me otherwise."
Human flesh stickers at Aldi: At Kreativismus.org, an activism platform, you can get the stickers for 2 cents each © Kreativismus.org/Imago images
One hundred percent beef?
Not always!
It remains unclear whether this action is a bad joke or a protest by an animal protection association.
When asked by IPPEN.MEDIA
, Aldi Nord was unable
to provide any official information.
However, a spokeswoman for Aldi Nord explained that it appears to be an isolated case: "All branches in the Lünen district were checked and no further products were found."
Only a few years ago, the big horse meat scandal that hit several supermarket chains in 2013 caused a stir.
At that time, foods declared as beef products in various European countries were found to contain up to 100 percent horse meat.
However, the result was different than expected: demand for horse meat products increased.
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