Look I don’t want to be calling for panic and hysteria in the streets or anything, but if you’ve bought broccoli from Woolies lately you might have gotten more than just broccoli…you might have brought home redback spiders as well.
This is NOT a drill, people. This is real. This is the stuff of nightmares. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to ever get one of those “Everyday Rewards” in my veggie shop.
Woolworths is reported to be pulling broccoli off it shelves, sourced from three different suppliers, after customers who bought broccoli discovered the deadly spiders were hiding in their veggies. News.com.au is reporting that the withdrawal affects stores in Queensland and New South Wales.
On Saturday, Dee Nott from the Gold Coast posted on Woolies’ Facebook page that she discovered a redback as she was washing some broccoli she had purchased from the company’s Runaway Bay Store.
“Hi team Woolworths. I just had a nasty surprise – a live redback spider in my broccoli purchased today at your Runaway Bay store.
“I am lucky it did not bite me as I washed it. I plan to take in the critter (now frozen) and my receipt tomorrow. I thought I should mention it in case there is an infestation.”
Another customer Maurice Wilson, claimed he was also washing broccoli he had purchased from a Woolworths store in Nambour, when a redback emerged and lunged at him.
He told Fairfax Media:
“I noticed a little black, but I continued to cut through it and I noticed this thing lunged out at my finger and I thought, ‘What the hell?’
“I dropped it and it came out and it was a redback spider, as you can see on the photo, clearly on the broccoli.”
He said the store offered him a $20 gift card for the inconvenience, and he was then contacted by the head office, which gave him a $30 gift card.
So if you’ve got kids who refuse to eat broccoli, maybe give them a free pass for a bit while this is sorted out.
