WEEKLY GROSS-OUT: Salad

Why? Because it tastes like barf. And I now have even more reason not to like it: a Dunedin woman found a dead bird inside a Countdown supermarket salad mix last Wednesday night (New Zealand standard time), prompting an investigation by the chain. The woman, who chose not to be named, says the family ate from the salad for three days before discovering the 10cm bird, which was found intact inside a 300g Fresh Zone value family mix salad. This is not only disgusting but it also means that technically, the salad is no longer vegetarian. So I hope no vegetarians ate from that particular salad because that means that they may well have been eating leaves that have been touching dead animal flesh. And I hope whoever packed that salad has a pretty good explanation for this mishap.