Swedes' tacos marred by grisly maggot-surprise
Published: 16 Apr 12 09:01 CET | Print version
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A Friday night taco dinner at the Lindström household in central Sweden didn't turn out as planned after hundreds of crawling brown maggots emerged from a container of canned corn.
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Lindström and his family were planning a pleasant Friday night taco dinner at their home in Sågmyra outside of Falun in central Sweden.
Friday night Tex-Mex, Swedish style, in an increasingly popular trend among households in Sweden, and last Friday, the Lindström family was no exception.
But when Lindström's girlfriend arrived home, she noticed one of the three newly purchased cans of corn was leaking.
The family was then shocked to discover most of the yellow kernels they expected to find had been replaced by a swarm of brown maggots.
"The reaction was something special, we were a little surprised," Lindström told the newspaper.
Closer inspection revealed that one can of Garant-brand corn had been slightly damaged, most likely prior to the pre-dinner purchase.
While the Lindströms were able to follow through with their taco dinner using corn from the other cans they had purchased, they nevertheless plan to contact Garant, a brand produced by Axfood and sold in Willys and Hemköp grocery stores.
Axfood spokesperson Ingmar Kroon expressed his dismay over the maggot-infested can of corn.
"That's a very serious error. I've actually never heard of it before," he told Expressen.
He theorized that something happened during the shipping of the can from the factory to the store.
"If a can isn't sealed, anything can happen to the contents," he said.
"If the can is damaged, just about anything can get in there and it can be as nasty as you can imagine."
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...sounds like the can should have been checked BEFORE purchase - either by the purchaser, or the shop staff. Having spent some years shopping in Swedish shops, I'm never surprised that some of the fruit and veg could 'walk home by itself' - its that bad.
Didn't know that some of the canned stuff could also be alive as well. Lol!
But Tex-Mex food does.. like Chili con Carne and stuff, which is NOT mexican but Tex-Mex, meaning a new kind of cuisine originated in the USA by mexican/latin immigrants.
White bean chicken chili will sometimes have corn in it, but besides that I've never seen corn in anything besides the chips and wrapping for tamales in Mexican restaurants.
Might be a regional thing though.
Plus they don't look like maggots.
They look more like mealworms, which some people eat anyway.
But nevertheless, worms can develop also in apparently sealed cans of certain food. I purchased a can of Quaker's Oat in a West African country. It may not have been so new and it had been stored pretty warm, but it looked perfectly sealed.
But when I opened the can it was full of maggots, like a million of them.