Dead worm found lurking in sweetcorn tin

Daisy White, a 20-year-old hairdresser from Abbey Wood in South London, was stunned to discover a dead wormlurking in a tin of sweetcorn she bought from Lidl. She opened the tin to add to a stir fry, when she said she noticed the contents were a bit 'gooey' and smelled bad. On closer inspection she discovered the worm.

She told The Sun that the offending creature was about an inch long, dead, white and 'crusty'. Daisy said it was enough to put her off sweetcorn forever.

She says that she emailed Lidl and left a message on its Facebook page, but says she has received no reply and that her Facebook post has since been removed. A spokesperson told the Daily Mirror that it was investigating the incident, and were waiting for more information from the customer.

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Daisy must have thought the Halloween-themed supermarket food was going a bit far this year. She's unlikely to get any comfort at all from the fact that she's not the first person to find something horrible lurking in her food.

We reported back in October last year on the woman in Swansea who found an object growing in a bottle of vinegar that she said looked like an alien. In reality it was a 'mother', which is produced when the natural bacteria in the vinegar reacts to the oxygen in the air - which sounds every bit as scary as it must have looked.

In the same month, a family in South London were forced to flee the house after a deadly Brazilian wandering spider was found in a bunch of bananas that had been delivered by Waitrose - along with hundreds of spider eggs.

But perhaps the most hideous discovery was made back in 2009 by Clarence Stowers, who bought a pint of frozen yoghurt in Wilmington. He got the pint home, put a spoonful of it in his mouth, and discovered a human finger inside. It belonged to an employee who had suffered an accident when filling the tub, and in all the confusion, they'd accidentally sent out the one containing his finger.

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