posted on November 10, 2005 07:07:40 PM new
Iowa Woman Finds Dead Turtle in Coffee
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Nov 10, 9:54 PM (ET)
AINSWORTH, Iowa (AP) - Marjorie Morris just wanted to pour coffee into a canister. What she found in the package of freeze-dried coffee left her shell-shocked.
Morris, 77, of Ainsworth, found a dead baby turtle in the 2-pound package of Folgers coffee last Sunday.
"I thought it was a toy at first," said Morris, 77, of Ainsworth.
Morris said she had been making coffee from the same package for a month before she made the discovery.
"It's a responsibility of the company to check their shipments closer," she said. "It could be much more serious."
Morris said she doesn't plan to file a lawsuit against Folgers.
She said a customer service representative for the company dismissed the find, explaining that because many Folgers plants are based in New Orleans the turtle might have ended up in the coffee as a result of Hurricane Katrina.
Sussane Dussing, a spokeswoman for Procter & Gamble, the company that owns the Folgers brand, said it's too early to say how the turtle ended up in the coffee.
Dussing said she wasn't aware of other similar incidents and that Morris' discovery would be investigated.
Morris, who has kept the turtle, said she would continue to drink coffee, but that she is now a more mindful consumer.
Things could have been worse, she said.
"It could've been a snake."
I gave my liberal neighbors son a book for his birthday. He went crazy trying to find where to put the batteries.
posted on November 10, 2005 08:58:04 PM new
If she was making coffee out of a 2 lb bag--(small) for 1 month before finding it then she is not a coffee drinker. LOL Still Drinking? haha Where is the punch line? This is definately a hoax. Urban myth Talk about stinky ewwwwwwwww!
My 2 cents worth paid in increments of 1% per annum uncompounded yearly!
posted on November 10, 2005 10:05:35 PM new
If i was her, i'd file a lawsuit but considering the nature of the case, the courts might be kinda.....slow in hearing the case.
posted on November 11, 2005 02:34:14 AM new
"Morris, who has kept the turtle, said she would continue to drink coffee, but that she is now a more mindful consumer."
ahhhhh why would someone want to keep a dead turtle?? and she's still going to drink the coffee after finding a dead turtle in it??
posted on November 13, 2005 11:54:10 AM new
I first thought this a joke. Well I SAW it on the NBC news the next day after the other posting I made. Folgers looking into how it got there. HAHA Maybe this lady is poor and can't aford to go buy more coffee but sure makes me think I don't want to buy Folgers anymore.
Still this could be another finger in the chili. LOL- Kidding. But it sure makes one want to stop buying Folgers.
Humm wonder if it had that wonderful coffee aroma when opened or that dead fish smell major alerter that one. UCK!
My 2 cents worth paid in increments of 1% per annum uncompounded yearly!
