McDonald's new vegetarian meal row (From The Argus)
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McDonald's new vegetarian meal row
2:10pm Friday 21st October 2011 in News
A SECOND woman has described her horror at biting into a vegetarian meal in McDonald’s and discovering she was eating chicken.
Teacher Emma Goldsmith, 32, from Eastbourne, ordered a vegetarian meal at the town’s branch in Lottbridge Drove on September 24 but was given a chicken meal in a vegetarian wrapper.
She contacted The Argus after reading Karan Franklin, from Patcham, Brighton, had a similar experience in McDonald’s at Brighton Marina.
Ms Goldsmith said she was sick twice after biting into the burger and staff apologised.
She wrote an email of complaint and was sent a letter of apology and a £20 voucher, but has said she will not use it as she does not want to eat McDonald’s ever again.
She said: “I thought it was Quorn at first. I pulled it apart and realised it was chicken. The manager did not know what to do.
“It took head office nearly two weeks to respond to me. I rang them and then had to email them. I have got no intention of dining with them ever again.”
A McDonald’s spokeswoman said: “We are very sorry a customer at one of our restaurants in Eastbourne experienced less than our usual rigorous standards of food quality and service."
The company added it has retrained the restaurant team to make sure it does not happen again.
Comments(27)
Pitviper
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2:25pm Fri 21 Oct 11
I agree get a grip love, you must have known when you chewed it so why swallow, got yourself to blame for being sick and if you don't want the voucher I'm sure someone else would!
WS
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2:27pm Fri 21 Oct 11
On the basis that they'll make sure they never make the same again.
One wonders if perhaps some "retraining" for the Argus subs might be in order.
moonster
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3:12pm Fri 21 Oct 11
Servalan
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3:17pm Fri 21 Oct 11
Sir Donald Stokes
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3:18pm Fri 21 Oct 11
sandalman
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3:33pm Fri 21 Oct 11
Number Six
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3:49pm Fri 21 Oct 11
Archie Bun
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3:57pm Fri 21 Oct 11
DC78
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4:03pm Fri 21 Oct 11
Morpheus
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4:58pm Fri 21 Oct 11
LMS
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5:58pm Fri 21 Oct 11
DWALewis
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6:05pm Fri 21 Oct 11
hubby
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8:15pm Fri 21 Oct 11
Some really thick people think that vegetarians eat rabbit food.
Absolute morons think that vegetarians shouldn't be bothered if they get a mouthful of dead animal now and again.
A bit of human meat wouldn't do the carnivores any harm,but I bet they'd be up in arms if they found a toe in their Maccy D's.
cetude
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8:14am Sat 22 Oct 11
cetude
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8:20am Sat 22 Oct 11
Archie Bun
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11:38am Sat 22 Oct 11
cetude wrote:You're wrong there, sorry. A person working in McDonalds wouldn't know your religion, so you could hardly claim they discrimintaed against your religion if they didn't even know what it was in the first place. accidents and mistakes happen. It won't kill you. May upset you, but not kill you. And i speak as a vegetarian. Any self respecting vegetarian wouldn't go there in the first place so i would have no sympathy for you. What is your religion by the way? The only vegetarian one that springs to mind is Sihkism.
It's against my religion to eat meat so if McDonalds or any restaurant did that to me I would be filing a lawsuit for violation of my civil rights due to religious discrimination. If I ordered something without meat, that's what I expect. It's against the law to discriminate against a religion in America.
Archie Bun
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11:39am Sat 22 Oct 11
AngelicDevil
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2:33pm Sat 22 Oct 11
It's completely outdated - eating meat is a lifestyle choice these days, not a religious choice.
Many of my Brahman relatives eat meat these days and guess what - they aren't going to go to hell lol
Flippin Burghers
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3:06pm Sun 23 Oct 11
puddingandpi
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4:51pm Sun 23 Oct 11
It might be "only meat" to you, but it's the scorched, dismembered flesh of a murdered cadaver to some.
One man's meat is another man's poison, isn't it?
If that had been me, I wouldn't have been able to stop myself from vomiting. My revulsion towards meat borders on the pathological. I really could develop a phobia of meat if I wasn't so determined not to.
But that's beside the point - these people ordered a veggie meal - you must understand the genuine distress caused by them being served meat.
Several places I have been to have labelled prawn crackers & oyster sauce "vegetarian" when they clearly aren't! If it has to die before you can eat it, it isn't vegetarian. And all those out there who say "I'm vegetarian" & then eat fish are *not* vegetarians. They are "Pisco-vegetarian", because they are taking the ****.
cetude
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5:13pm Sun 23 Oct 11
D360
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1:06am Mon 24 Oct 11
Archie Bun wrote:Even with your intelligent, reasoned argument posted there four time for cetude to read the idiot still doesn't get it....
Argus servers fault, not mine.
AngelicDevil
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9:39am Mon 24 Oct 11
cetude wrote:I'd eat human meat if there was nothing else to eat and I was hungry.
Serial killing cannibals who have even sold human meat as pork (and nobody could tell the difference) think the same thing: "It's only meat". Human meat, pig meat, chicken meat, cow meat--meat is meat. That's probably why it's against my religion to eat animal products.
Survival of the fittest.
Gordonmuppet
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9:31pm Mon 24 Oct 11
Flippin Burghers
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9:59pm Mon 24 Oct 11
I thought wrote:Hello honky tonks, how are you?
Maxwell's Ghost wrote:Oooh YOU ARE AWFUL! But I like you.
She is very welcome to have a bite of my sausage
Flippin Burghers
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9:59pm Mon 24 Oct 11
AngelicDevil says...
2:12pm Fri 21 Oct 11