NSW woman finds live maggots in Aldi chocolate cake
A NSW woman has been left with a terrifying surprise inside her luxury Aldi chocolate cake, which has left her vowing to never return to the supermarket chain again.
On Saturday, the woman opened her Luxury Christmas Chocolate Sponge Pudding which was given to her as a gift before Christmas and discovered two maggots squirming on the surface of the cake.
“I was horrified - it was my son who found it and he said 'oh my god mum, I think that's a maggot',” she told Yahoo7 News.
"I said 'no it can’t be' but it then it moved... you can see the maggot is very alive, I don't understand how it got in there as we had to cut the plastic seal off.”
Her friend had purchased the dessert from Aldi’s Port Macquarie store.
The woman claimed the maggots were sealed inside the cake’s wrapping, which she had difficulty peeling off when trying to open the dessert.
However, the woman has been criticised for complaining about the maggots as the dessert’s best before date expired on February 9.
"It's only a best before date not a use by date. I expected maybe to find mould but certainly not maggots," she said.
Now, the woman has vowed to never return to Aldi again despite this being her first problem with the store.
“I won’t be buying anything from there again,” she said.
She later posted on social media, “I have never had a problem with any Aldi products before and I don't want anything off them. I contacted the news so other people would be aware and be on the lookout.”
An Aldi spokesperson told Yahoo7 that the company take any cases of food contamination very seriously and haven’t had any prior complaints regarding the product before.
"ALDI thoroughly investigates all claims relating to substandard food quality or the alleged presence of larvae in our product.
"We will do so with this matter and report back to the customer. From the thousands of Luxury Christmas Chocolate Sponge Pudding sold, we have no other recorded concerns.
"If the allegations are found to be true, this obviously does not meet the high standards of quality we hold ourselves to. We welcome direct contact from this customer so that the matter can be investigated."
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