Folgers checking report of turtle found in coffee

 

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Procter & Gamble Co. is looking into a report that an Iowa woman found a dead turtle in a package of its Folgers coffee, the company said on Friday.

 

P&G spoke with the woman, Marjorie Morris, on Thursday. The incident was reported by the Associated Press.

 

Morris says she found the turtle in a vacuum-packed brick package of Folgers coffee. She transferred the coffee to a plastic container for storage in the refrigerator and no longer has the original packaging, a spokeswoman for P&G said.

 

Morris is sending the animal to P&G for investigation.

 

"We believe that this is an isolated incident," P&G spokeswoman Susanne Dusing told Reuters.

 

P&G, which makes Folgers and Millstone coffees, said it was not aware of any other such incidents.

 

According to the AP report, Morris, of Ainsworth, Iowa, said she does not plan to sue Folgers.

 

The report comes months after Wendy's International Inc. saw its sales suffer after a woman claimed she had found a piece of human finger in a bowl of the burger chain's chili. The woman and her husband were later arrested and pleaded guilty to charges that they planted the finger in the chili to obtain compensation from Wendy's.

^^^^^^

I feel so bad when when I read these cooter stories.

I thought to myself, Turtle coffee (Pecans, caramel, chocolate)...

 

Not bad.

 

Then I find out it's REAL turtle flavored.

 

Yikes.

 

Turtle, turtle!

But perhaps it was a box turtle.

In the article I just read on it...

 

The writer said that the woman was "shell-shocked". :headshake

 

Some people need their writing utensils taken away.

These people never have the wrapper it came in. That alone will shed alot of doubt on this story. And the whole "how the hell did a turtle get packaged in coffee" thing

These people never have the wrapper it came in.  That alone will shed alot of doubt on this story.  And the whole "how the hell did a turtle get packaged in coffee" thing 

No, this one is straight up. The AP piece on it last week had a lot more details. the big missing detail in the foreshortened version here is that Folgers packs coffee in New Orleans. How hard is it to imagine that a turtle escaping Katrina high water somehow made it into the coffee at some stage of tthe packaging operation.

 

The larger story also said the woman had been consuming the coffee from the package in question for some time (weeks I think) before the turtle was discovered, so it's not surprising that the original packaging is not available.

 

Mostly, there's this refreshing bit that did make the short vesions: "According to the AP report, Morris, of Ainsworth, Iowa, said she does not plan to sue Folgers."

 

Why go to the trouble of concocting a contaminant-in-the-food story if you are not looking to profit by it?

I feel so bad when when I read these cooter stories.

 

thank you

thank you 

I thought the "box turtle" quip was even better.

I'm sure everyone involved is praying it wasn’t a snapper.

In the article I just read on it...

 

The writer said that the woman was "shell-shocked".  :headshake

 

Some people need their writing utensils taken away.

 

Nine hours thirty seven minutes later, I get the joke.

I think someone's just after some free coffee....

 

 

I've seen this trick before:

 

I think someone's just after some free coffee....

I've seen this trick before:

 

We'll take one. . . no, make that TWO cases of Elsonore. And I believe that order will be on the house.

We'll take one. . . no, make that TWO cases of Elsonore.  And I believe that order will be on the house.

 

 

koo-ook-koo-koo-oh-oh-koo-koo....