Woman Discovers Petrified Frog in Box of Barilla Pasta

[Miles Archer]

http://www.thedailymeal.com/eat/woman-discovers-petrified-frog-box-barilla-pasta/121615

A woman in Minnesota reportedly discovered a petrified frog inside a box of tri-color penne pasta from Barilla — after she had already used some of the pasta. “I had used one-half of the box and put the other half in the cupboard, then my husband knocked it off the shelf,” Minnesota resident Penny Hagen told Fox 9. “The pasta fell directly on the floor with the petrified frog.”

Barilla has since opened an investigation into the incident, telling Fox 9, “Barilla is aware of the isolated report regarding a foreign element in a box of Barilla pasta. Once we received this report, we immediately took action to coordinate directly with the consumer and have connected via phone, email and mail. We have also retrieved the product in question to investigate any deviation from our manufacturing and packaging processes.”

Hagen, however, remains unsatisfied with Barilla’s response, including their offer to send coupons for her troubles. Hagen also told the station that she believed Barilla thought she might be making up the story, but Hagen insists, “My kitchen floor is very clean, and I would not have a petrified frog laying on it. I could eat off my kitchen floor.”

Barilla maintains that the frog could not have entered the supply chain “while the product was under Barilla control.”

[Boudica the Lyoness]

1. I'd be petrified as well if I was trapped inside a box of pasta.

Poor little frog.

[TeddyR]

6. Very good

[yeoman6987]

26. Not great but this incident is probably once in a trillion at least.

[Eleanors38]

2. Poor guy musta read the ingredients.

[pinboy3niner]

4. The elegant prose was ribbeting!

[Eleanors38]

15. He feared being soaked, so he chose to croak.

[Human101948]

3. I thought it would be funny when I put it in the box...

I didn't know she would get all bent out of shape over a little petrified frog!

Barilla is my favorite pasta...especially multigrain.

[Eleanors38]

17. The frog will have to be a native of the packaging plant.

[jberryhill]

30. Maybe it migrated

[pinboy3niner]

33. Or the natives were restless

It's quiet...TOO quiet...

[Eleanors38]

36. To paraphrase Warren Zevon, "I'd like to meet his agent."

[KamaAina]

18. You may want to rethink that

See post 16 below. It's run by a raging homophobe.

[yeoman6987]

28. But the taste is the factor. I won't invite the CEO to dinner. I promise.

[KamaAina]

29. You won't have to. Thanks to the money you give him, he can eat out every night.

[yeoman6987]

32. Ok with me. I could care less what he eats.

If I stopped eating everything that some idiot CEO says or thinks, I'd starve. I am gay too but believe he can think as he chooses in this country. Perhaps Iran he might be in trouble for speaking his mind but thank goodness we still can.....for now.

[justiceischeap]

5. In this day and age and there's no picture of the frog?

I cry foul.

[pinboy3niner]

7. They'd never have noticed if the frog hadn't croaked

[jberryhill]

9. She said "They think I am fibbian about it"

[KamaAina]

12. pinboy3niner strikes again!

[pinboy3niner]

41. And besides, there's no pasta in Hopping John!!!

[KamaAina]

42. Snarf!

But isn't Hoppin' John made with kangaroo rather than frog?

[jberryhill]

8. "unsatisfied with Barilla’s response, including their offer to send coupons for her troubles"

What, specifically, does she want?

Barilla is apparently trying to figure out what happened. One of the primary things of likely interest to them will be the species of frog and its habitat. Apparently, she believes that Barilla is supposed to just take her word for it.

From another report:

"She then reached out to Barilla and AIG Insurance."

She put in an insurance claim? For injuries suffered by the frog?



That frog looks pretty good if it had been packed in a box of dried pasta, shipped, and survived a fall from the cupboard without breaking any digits.

"But Hagen said she’s frustrated that the company only offered to send her coupons, and believes she should be further compensated --“I think Barilla has not taken this as serious as they should have,” she said."

Oh, they aren't taking it seriously by communicating with her, offering to replace the product and investigating how it could have happened?

How much does she think they owe her?

[TeddyR]

10. MILLIONS

And millions of dollars apparently.

[TwilightGardener]

13. Froggy looks covered in dust bunnies and pet hair.

Froggy died under her fridge or stove, in other words.

[jberryhill]

21. The frog wasn't discovered in the box

Hubby knocks package to floor, pasta goes all over the place, and I would think that would need some sweeping in some infrequently swept places in order to collect the pasta from wherever it scattered.

That her first reaction is to call her insurance company, when no one has been harmed by anything, suggests to me that she thinks there is a payday here.

She may honestly believe the frog was in the pasta box in the first place, but nobody saw it in the pasta box, only in the floor sweepings.

[TwilightGardener]

24. Yup.

[pinboy3niner]

25. I could have toad you that

[jberryhill]

31. It's the truth, warts and all

[Eleanors38]

34. The toadle truth.

[pinboy3niner]

35. Thanks, I frogot to mention that

[Eleanors38]

37. Ha! It takes a leap of frogic.

[jberryhill]

39. The grass is always grenouille on the other side of the fence

[pinboy3niner]

40. This is about frogs, not granny grasshoppers!

[jberryhill]

45. .

[Eleanors38]

22. Similar case in FL years ago when someone "found" a mouse in his can of beer..

Investigation revealed rodent material scraped off and on the outside top of the pop-top can.

The complainer spent time in the Duval Co. jail.

[JonathanRackham]

11. Petrified or dehydrated?

Petrified wood is stone like, this critter still looks chewy. Toad jerky?

[jberryhill]

23. Well, I'm sure the frog may have been both frightened and thirsty

[KamaAina]

14. I thought frog's legs were supposed to be a delicacy?

[KamaAina]

16. Serves her right for eating homophobic Barilla pasta

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023733725

[pinboy3niner]

20. I haven't bought Barilla since then. nt

[closeupready]

27. Me too. They invited gay people to stop buying, so I did.

Problem solved.

Now you couldn't PAY me to eat it.

Now, DeCecco - THAT's pasta!

[geomon666]

46. Me either.

Fuck that company.

[longship]

19. Well, here's the Crunchy Frog!

As will undoubtedly be demanded by somebody.

[pinboy3niner]

38. In other news, Barilla introduces new pasta topping: Box O' Frogs

[femmocrat]

43. There was a DUer who was missing a frog a couple of weeks ago.

Jus' sayin'

[csziggy]

44. At the link there is a wonderful article placement

"15 Easy 15-Minute Pasta Recipes!" No mention of any recipes that include dehydrated frogs.