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SABOTAGE: Rogue factory worker accused of hiding a CHICKEN NUGGET in a pack of vegetarian sausages in cruel attack

Customer said he hadn't eaten meat in 20 years - until he bit into THIS - by Amy Sinclair
  • 20 Apr 2019

A rogue factory worker has been accused of placing a chicken nugget in a pack of vegetarian cocktail sausages as part of a sick sabotage plan. 

The alleged conspiracy was uncovered when a customer - who hadn’t eaten meat in 20 years - bit into the vegetarian sausage and found a chicken nugget hiding inside. 

SABOTAGE: Rogue factory worker accused of hiding a CHICKEN NUGGET in a pack of vegetarian sausages in cruel attack

‘The texture seemed odd to me,’ said Matthew Barlow, from Kent in the UK. ‘It was chewy and not like a normal veggie product’s texture. I have no idea what meat should feel or taste like any more.’

As a result the manufacturer of Quorn sausages in the UK studied CCTV footage and interviewed staff to get to the bottom of the chicken nugget sabotage claims. 

While investigating, they told the customer that the sausages were made in a part of the food plant where meat products are also handled. 

Matthew tells Daily Mail: ‘Because they had the packaging they could determine that it was produced at night when they had a skeleton crew on. They pulled the people off the production line and interviewed them.

‘They reviewed CCTV footage and couldn’t find anyone planting anything and no one admitted it.’

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Image: Quorn

However Matthew believes it was an act of sabotage and that one of the factory workers ‘must have popped the nugget in the package to prank a vegetarian’. 

A Quorn spokesman confirmed to Daily Mail that it was feasible the nugget had been ‘introduced deliberately by a factory employee’ and said they’d been unable to find the source of the chicken despite reviewing CCTV footage.

Amy Sinclair
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