Is it a rip-off when you get more than you bargained for in your hot dog bun?
Maybe the bakers should be charged with cruelty to animals!
Apparent mouse found baked into bun
01:25 PM EDT on Friday, October 31
By MICHELLE BOUDIN / NewsChannel 36
WCNC.com
Charlotte, N.C.
Apparent mouse found in the hot dog bun
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A Charlotte man found what appears to be a mouse baked into a package of hot dog buns - now the popular wholesale club where he bought it is taking major action.
BJ's Wholesale Club has pulled thousands of bread products from 44 stores in three states after we called the company to inform them of what a customer believes he found when he went to make dinner.
Bruce Van Dyne said, I was cooking dinner, I brought these out, I opened them up.
An unwelcome condiment on his hot dog bun.
That's our little friend right there and that clearly is a mouse, he said when we visited him in his Charlotte kitchen.
The rodent's parts he says are pretty easy to make out.
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A Charlotte man found what appears to be a mouse baked into a package of hot dog buns - now the popular wholesale club where he bought it is taking major action.
I see the little ears, clearly that's a tail. I don't know what that is, part of his leg or something. That mouse is baked in there, Van Dyne said.
The IBM executive says he doesn't want money from this ordeal, just answers, and action. That's certainly noticeable, someone should have seen that but it got put into a bag.
So he called Arnold Breads, but says they told him not to call the Concord store where he bought the buns.
She told me oh no you don't need to call BJ's, just send it back to us.
But he says he worried about other customers.
Mice don't travel in isolation, they travel with other mice, if one mice got in, others could.
BJ's apparently worried too. They've pulled all bread products made at the same Florida factory where these buns came from.
Other consumers should be concerned. How did it get there? Are there other ones?
Jeff Glauber, Vice President of Marketing for Arnold Bakers told us, Arnold Bakers is committed to honoring the highest standards of quality for all our products. We stand behind our products, and welcome the opportunity to look into this incident and investigate all possibilities.
They are scheduled to do that first thing Friday morning when a company representative is meeting with Van Dyne and wants to test the bun. Glauber told us they have dealt with things like this before and in the past have found that the so-called mouse is actually pan accumulation or dough in the shape of a mouse.
A spokeswoman for BJ's also sent us a statement, it reads, BJ's first priority is the health and safety of our members. We deeply regret Mr. Van Dyne's experience as he described it to us. The Arnold Potato Hot Dog Rolls come to us prepackaged from George Weston Bakeries and are placed directly on our shelves by George Weston employees. We have contacted George Weston Bakeries and they are investigating this matter. George Weston has informed us that the product under investigation was manufactured at their facility in Plant City, Florida. As a precaution, we are removing all potentially effected products made by the George Weston Plant City, Florida facility.
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