A family was forced to abandon their home after they are thought to have found some of the world’s deadliest spiders hidden in their bananas. […]
She initially took back the £1 bunch of Columbian fair trade bananas to Sainsbury and was offered a £10 voucher.
h/t red jeff
No fair.
Yes, we have no fair bananas.
At least the company dealt with them fairly and it seems decently. Ug she actually might have eaten one of the spiders.
She’ll never feel safe in her home again.
Maybe she’ll switch from bananas to kiwis …?
That brings to mind a song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-9h1pjTP74
Well at least the bananas are not contaminated with pesticides. (:
Or this one, Gord: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrmBWtOWYsA
We’d better all turn to locally grown food…….the problem is that bananas don’t grow well on the prairies in the winter nor do most other fuit and veggies.
How about this one?
Yes! We have no bananas, we have no bananas today: ‘Might have saved this woman a whole lotta trouble.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT6JkceQ9FU
It is quite bizarre.
Having lived in rural areas a good deal,
that trek to town every week by most people
doesn’t involve some city raised hippy fantasy
with overflowing sacks of organic carrots and live
chickens being brought to the farmers market.
Having lived in cities most of my life, I agree with you.
These urban idiots have no idea.
Now I know why My granny used to force us to cut the ends off on Bananas
Illegal Aliens or Immigrants, those spiders have rights!
Those are good ones! Wikipedia says that the Brazilian wandering spider is large and aggressive and continues, “The genus Phoneutria includes some of the relatively few species of spiders known to present a threat to humans.” Phoneutria apparently means “murderess”. According to Wikipedia, one individual Phoneutria
was documented as killing two children. Guess it was having a bad day.
Well, produce grows wonderfully well down here on the Rock – all the turnips you
can eat, with sides of parsnips and Brussels sprouts. And blue potatoes.
Honestly, our Brussels sprouts are some of the best anywhere!
Yeah most Morontarians are unaware that a native spider…itsey bitsey…..the wolf spider can inflict a toxic bite…..killing tissue in the area…providing a site for some nasty infections.
I was unaware until a neighbor lady had to have an infection site surgically remove from the palm of her hand…..loosing a tendon the process.
My brother has found exotic beasties in some foreign food.
Happy eating, everyone.
When I worked in a grocery store back in the 1960’s, we would sometimes find a big, black, hairy spider, about the size of your palm in a box of bananas. It happened very rarely and the spiders were always dead, but it kept us on our toes when we opened the boxes. We displayed the spiders in jars of alcohol. The customers thought it was interesting. Nobody returned a banana that I can remember.
Time to bring up food irradiation again… and let heads explode.