Sorry, but just what the fuck is it about Australia and stories about people finding small animals in their vegetables? Are we being punished?
A woman in Townsville found a redback spider lurking in her Coles broccoli on Sunday night, which appears to have put her off the vegetable for life.
Tamahra Moore, 32, told the Townsville Bulletin that she was doing her veggie meal prep for the week when she “saw a flash of black and red, the bloody thing just crawled out.” Well, we’ve all been there.
She took placed the broccoli and spider combo in a container and took it back to Coles North Ward,
“I called the supermarket so they could go check the rest of their stock and they didn’t believe me so I took the container in and the ladies on the front counter freaked out,” she said.
“They got the produce manager who said he had heard about it but had never seen it. He asked to keep it so he could show the distribution centre team and I said ‘that’s fine’, I didn’t know what to do with it.”
The incident appears to have scarred her for life. Moore says she’s “apprehensive” about the entire vegetable now, and she “would have probably been better off with takeaway.”
The Townsville Bulletin also reached out to Queensland Museum principal spider curator Dr Robert Raven for an expert opinion on the female redback. Quite frankly, it probably shouldn’t have, because we now know that the spider “looked ready to drop eggs”.
“She could have been building a silken nest in the broccoli as it would have provided a warm, moist location for the eggs it may have been ready to lay,” he said.
Hmmm.
Photo: Tamahra Moore.
