Qantas Admits Live Frog Was Found In Salad

[Chev]

Check this out, talk about getting what you pay for

 

SYDNEY Qantas Airways admitted Wednesday that a passenger had found a live frog in a salad served on a February flight from Melbourne to Wellington.

 

The passenger discovered the 4-centimeter, or 1.5-inch, whistling tree frog sitting on a piece of cucumber when she opened the plastic lid of her salad.

 

A spokesman for Qantas Airways told National Radio that the airline had changed its supplier since the incident. Tree frogs are common in the area where the lettuce for the salad was grown.

IHT

[F420]

oh shame it wasnt a french plane, some frenchie would have eaten its legs and then complained

[LoveMeBucket]

fuckin gross ::

 

always knew that airline food was dodgy

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awwww I hope they didn't kill the wittul fwoggy

[Luke Skywalker]

Frogs travel all over the country in salads and our leafy vegetable crops as they move from farm to the supermarkets.

 

There's someone out there who actually goes about tracking and recovering frogs which are found in transit or by the receivers, and returning them to their native areas. I saw it on Australian Story a while back. One of those true good news stories, where someone sees a need, and helps.

 

It's interesting how much we affect plant and animal distributions nowadays with our movements. Modern transport means that seed from a plant in QLD can travel to WA and grow out in our North West, establishing populations which would never have occured without human help.

 

Humanity is the ultimate pollinator and seed transporter.

[tripy spiral]

Frogs travel all over the country in salads and our leafy vegetable crops as they move from farm to the supermarkets.

 

There's someone out there who actually goes about tracking and recovering frogs which are found in transit or by the receivers, and returning them to their native areas. I saw it on Australian Story a while back. One of those true good news stories, where someone sees a need, and helps.

 

It's interesting how much we affect plant and animal distributions nowadays with our movements. Modern transport means that seed from a plant in QLD can travel to WA and grow out in our North West, establishing populations which would never have occured without human help.

 

Humanity is the ultimate pollinator and seed transporter.

the same thing goes with green tree snakes and bannans. Don't know if these some one who retreves them tho

[pixel]

yeah luke..thats absolutely right...anyone know about hairy caterpillars? I was in Europe a while back and put on a sweater that one had crawled on back here i was itching for weeks

[LoveMeBucket]

its ok if they happen to get in the lettuce or whatever but you dont want to see one on your dinner plate :: ::

[calyx]

Yes, they did kill the frog, they said they put it in a freezer to kill it nicely. -CALYX

[Buddy]

Qantas will do anything to get bums in seats, they are actually losing customers on the Paris leg of the flight to the UK.

The head chef of Qantas tried to seal a contract with the Queensland Government to get a regular supply of the North East Australian delicacy but was unsuccessful as the cane toad is regarded by most Queenslanders as a state emblem and therefore would look unfavourably at the proposal to feed French cowards with a thing that has such heritage value.

Not to be discouraged, Qantas decided to trial the common Eastern tree frog but one French barstard ,showing his dissatisfaction hurled the unfortunate frog in the direction of the gay flight steward claiming it didnt taste a bit like dog shit and would be making a complaint to Qantas officials upon landing.... where was I? :mellow: Oh yeah, the frog had come to rest on the plate of a pommy passenger who was unaware that the peice of uneaten foodstuff cum inflight missile was not included in his original order of fish and chips and pommies being natural wingeing barstards allerted the tabloids who blew the whole thing out of proportion.

 

This unfortunate occurance will not deter me from traveling with Qantas in the future