Yuck! Woman finds dead mouse in Albert Heijn bread!
In the category: it could happen to you! Recently, a man from Arnhem discovered a tarantula in a container of grapes from Albert Heijn; now a woman has found a, ugh!, dead mouse in her bread!
‘Bread, there’s something in it’; it is a well-known slogan of the Bread Information Office. But uh… a little mouse with hair?!
Chinese human hair
Bread & hair; that combination has already frightened us for years. Do you remember the episode of the programme Keuringsdienst van Waarde in which it was revealed that Chinese human hair is sometimes used as a bread improver? The processing aid that bakers add to dough to improve their bread, L-cysteine, is often extracted from plant-based products such as corn. With other, cheaper production methods, the amino acid comes from duck feathers. Or human hair. Yuck! But a dead mouse is perhaps even more disgusting.
Vomit-inducing
It happened to Zineb from Helmond. She wanted to make a sandwich for her son, but the bread turned out to smell rather bad. When she takes a good look at the sandwich, she sees, to her horror, that a mouse has been sliced into the bread: “I really started to feel light-headed. Immediately afterwards, I had to throw up.” Zineb takes the bread back to Albert Heijn. “The AH employee was also shocked, but he had to laugh a little from the nerves. He saw that my eyes were still red from throwing up,” Zineb told Hart van Nederland.
Pests, but not often
A spokesperson for Albert Heijn says that the company takes this horrific discovery “very seriously”. “We were also very shocked.” Zineb has been contacted, and the supermarket chain says it will ensure a suitable solution. The supplier is being investigated to find out how the mouse ended up in the bread. “Various preventive measures are being taken to limit pest problems. In any case, quality checks are always carried out. Such incidents are extremely rare.”
Read also:
- 6 incomprehensible products from Albert Heijn
- After this, you will never eat scrambled eggs in a hotel again
- Snackspert looks back: these are the most disgusting snacks of 2019
Image: @Zineb/Hart van Nederland
