Now and again, despite what diet you are following ‘very closely’, the allure of a pie becomes too strong to resist.

You slide the pie out the packaging, sink your teeth into the tasty treat and life is good – until you realise you’ve just chowed a mouse.

We kid you not, because a Cape Town woman’s steak and kidney pie experience has ended in disaster. This from IOL:

31-year-old [Carmelita Pienaar] said she bought three pies at Woolies, but the one left a nasty taste in her mouth.

“I was in town to visit my friend and I said to her I lus (I am in the mood) for a mutton curry and a steak and kidney from Woolworths,” Pienaar said.

“My friend bought a chicken and mushroom pie and then we went to the Plaza to sit down and eat.”

As her buddy bought another chip roll at a café, Pienaar finished off the mutton curry pie. But she got a nasty surprise when she sank her teeth into the steak and kidney pie.

“I didn’t take the pie out of the packet, but I knew something was wrong because it didn’t feel or taste right. And when I broke the pie open I saw the mouse,” she said.

Pienaar said that people at the café were also in shock and took pictures which they posted on social media.

So how did Woolies handle the mess? Not too well, it would seem:

She and her friend returned to Woolworths.

“While we were waiting for the manager, I asked to use the bathroom and then I vomited,” Pienaar said.

She said her horrified friend complained for almost an hour before the manager came to see them.

The manager reimbursed her for the pie, and “gave her R350 to go and see a doctor”.

I don’t know what the standard ‘mouse in a pie’ protocol is, but you’d hope they will be doing some following up.

Pienaar believes she may have been poisoned, saying “I’ve been feeling itchy and have rashes on my body”.

Apparently an internal investigation at Woolies is currently underway, so let’s wait and see if we hear a squeak out of them.

For now maybe you want to stick with Corner Bakery and win R1 000 while you’re at it – just seems like the safe choice.

[source:iol]

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