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Mum’s horror as daughter finds 'FINGERNAILS' in THIS Aldi meal

‘It was just disgusting.’ - by Amy Sinclair
  • 28 Apr 2019

A mum has revealed her shock after her daughter reportedly found ‘fingernails’ in a tin of sardines, purchased from ALDI. 

The drama has caused worldwide headlines, with the mum revealing that her little one told her ‘I’ve got a fingernail in my mouth.’

Mum’s horror as daughter finds 'FINGERNAILS' in THIS Aldi meal

UK mum Lizzie Record says the drama started when her seven-year-old daughter Jessie asked to have sardines for breakfast, which she’d purchased from her local ALDI. 

‘Jessie is a pretty healthy child and she asked me for sardines for breakfast so I served it up as normal,’ the mum told Devon Live.

‘When she said she had found a fingernail I just thought well it isn't my fingernails or Jessie's.

‘So she continued to eat her breakfast which is when she found another one and that's when I thought that it was just bizarre.’

The mum says she then inspected the dish, and was shocked to find even more. 

She added: ‘When I started looking I found another two fingernails, it was just disgusting.

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Mum Lizzie was horrified to find what she claimed were 'fingernails' in her daughter's meal.

Image: Getty
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ALDI denies the claims, saying the bizarre find was in fact bones.

Image: Getty

‘The fingernails were quite small so it could only have been a teenager or someone with small hands. I checked them further and there were longish but it seemed as though they had been cut before they were put in the fish.’

Lizzie was quick to contact ALDI customer service, but was disappointed when they told her the items were bones - not fingernails. 

Lizzie told Devon Live: ‘Since Aldi have apologised and after sending them a copy of the barcode they told me that it was fish bones, not fingernails in the sardines. But I know what it is, and it's not fish bones.’

To judge for yourself, head here. However despite the mum’s objections, an ALDI spokesperson has insisted they’re definitely bones. 

Says a spokesperson: ‘While very rare, bones like this can occasionally be found in some cans of fish, nonetheless we are sorry to hear of Ms Record’s experience.’

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