Huge FOOD SAFETY issue at this little store!…read more
I came in the summer before last for some quick bites to eat. It was for a picnic with a new lady friend and her child down at Lion's Park. I grabbed a couple egg salad sandwiches, some drinks, and chips. I rang up and went to the park with my food to enjoy with my new friend.
As we were digging in at the park, we started to get some eggshells in our mouths eating our sandwiches, just on the very first bite. We spat the shells out, and remarked that it happens sometimes. We tried to eat more, and it was VILE.
Every single bite was PILED with eggshells. It was disgusting. We took the piece from the child we gave and swept the remnants out of his mouth.
When I mean PILED, I mean exactly that. The shells had been added and mixed in so much that it was a straight eggshell sandwich on the second bite.
I opened the sandwiches up and it was disgusting. I should have taken a picture of all the shell fragments whipped into the sandwich. It was basically all shells. Super odd.
I looked all over the wrapper for contact information, and there wasn't any. No vendor label on the food. There wasn't a barcode, ingredients list, allergens list (egg, wheat), or even an expiration date!
Granted, I should have been cautious since there were no regulatory labels on the food I purchased, but I was in a hurry to go to the park. The weather was so nice that day. Maybe the label fell off.
A few days later, I go to the store so I can find out who supplies the store with these sandwiches. I had to go early in the morning, as I don't get to Bremerton that often and work and live in Belfair.
I go inside the store and no one is there. I say hello a couple times, and nothing. So I decide to look where I got my sandwiches and get the vendor name. I find the product in question, and they all don't have labels either! So at this point I figure that they all didn't just fall off.
I take a picture of the sandwiches on the rack when a person comes from the back asking if she can help me with anything. I ask her who supplies the sandwiches, as I had a terrible quality issue with them.
She immediately starts getting hostile with me and defiant. She keeps angrily interrogating me as to why I need to know. After about 5 minutes of conversation, where I tell my story about the incident at the park, she obviously can't keep her composure.
She eventually, within her anger, states that her mother makes the sandwiches, at home, and not in a certified kitchen. I continue to calmly ask a cpupke important questions about the food prep area.
She loses it.
She's yelling at me, extremely emotional about my inquiries about the safety and labeling of the food.
She gives me a partial refund very begrudgingly and asks me to leave.
I do.
Don't buy anything there without a label. I wonder how they know which sandwiches in the rack are from the day of, or weeks prior, since none of them are marked?
Lady was unhinged and food was inedible. Beware! I couldn't imagine having to be the cashier's family member or close acquaintance with that personality of hers. Yikes.