A discovery that is enough to disconcert more than one customer.
A resident of Dordogne had the very unpleasant surprise of finding a ballpoint pen in an apple pie that he had bought in a supermarket on January 23, the daily Sud Ouest reported this Tuesday, February 13.
Lilian, a resident of Léguillac-de-l'Auche, went as usual to the supermarket in the neighboring town of Saint-Astier to do her shopping.
He had bought an industrial apple pie there, supplied in an aluminum mold.
And when he consumed it, he found “stuck between the dough and the mold” an orange pen, the plastic of which had been slightly deformed by the heat.
“We first thought it was a bean slipped by mistake,” he explained to the local newspaper.
The supermarket declines all responsibility
The forty-year-old rushed to ask for explanations from the supermarket and informed the establishment's management of his mishap.
It was received, but those responsible for safety and hygiene declined all responsibility, on the grounds that “the pies were not made on site”, but by a service provider.
They are only heated in the ovens of the supermarket's bakery department.
The establishment must “report the problem (...) to the Pasquier company”, which had supplied the pie in question.
Contacted by our colleagues from South West, the company did not respond to their requests.
Lilian, for his part, was reimbursed for the pie and received a voucher for 10 euros at the supermarket, a commercial gesture that he does not consider sufficient given the damage suffered.