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Comments on some of these complaints are given below.
A couple having purchased a bag of boiled sweets on entering a cinema on a
Saturday evening subsequently found that the orange flavoured sweets had a silvery
coating. The factory in the North of England was traced and the discovery made that
a faulty recording thermometer had permitted mercury vapour to escape and contaminate
the sweets. Whilst it was reasonably certain that only one batch of orange flavoured
sweets hard been affected, the supplies of these sweets of all flavours were
immediately withdrawn from retailers all over the country.
A rolled, but used, bandage was found in a wrapped and sliced loaf. The
bandage, which was embedded in the bottom crust of the loaf, was of a different
type to that used by the medical department of the manufacturing bakery concerned
and its manner and point of entry to the loaf was never discovered.
Lead shot in some corned beef was probably the result of the animal having been
shot with a shot gun before slaughter.
A complaint concerning the quality of a Welsh Rarebit raised an interesting
problem. The dish had been prepared at about 2.30 p.m. on the day on which the
complaint was made at the local branch of a well-known restaurant by a kitchen hand
in the absence of the manageress who was having her lunch. In the absence of sufficient
cheese, but not wishing to disappoint a customer, the kitchen hand substituted
some mashed potato, and whilst the appearance of the finished dish was not unusual
its flavour was. In the absence of any standard for such a dish and the varying
recipes found in various cookery books, the staff of the restaurant was advised
against any future culinary experiments.
Hairclips were discovered in both milk and mineral water bottles. If such clips