A Wall Street Journal employee found a dead frog in her Tuna Nicoise Salad from a Manhattan branch of Pret A Manger. The employee, who wants to remain anonymous, bought lunch from the fast food restaurant on 6th Avenue and 47th Street in Manhattan on Dec. 30. Camouflaged with the lettuce, eggs, tomatoes and tuna was a small dead frog.
Kathryn Lurie, a Digital Features Editor at the WSJ, uploaded a photo of the salad online on behalf of her co-worker. According to a blog on their site, the employee had ate half the salad before discovering the amphibian.
Ellen Roggermann, Vice President of brand marketing for Pret A Manger, said that the chain is known for their 'handmade natural food" and unfortunately "organic ingredients" sometimes mixes in with the food.
"We don't use any pesticides with our greens and they go through multiple washing cycles," she said. "An unfortunate piece of organic matter has made its way through."
The WSJ employee brought the salad back to Pret A Manger where the manager apologized, gave her a refund and offered a voucher for a free lunch at the restaurant.
"We are so regretful that this has happened," Roggermann said.
"At Pret A Manger, we take issues like this very seriously," she continued in a statement. "Our lettuce is sourced from farms that do not use any pesticides on its produce, therefore organic matter does very rarely manage to pass through our production process. We are currently looking into this issue to make every effort that this does not happen again."
According to the Daily Mail, last September a woman discovered a live frog in a bag of washed salad she bought from a supermarket. Christina Carrington, 50, had already started eating the salad when her daughter noticed the frog in the bag.
