Lorraine Wall, 38, was horrified to get a mouthful of spider eggs after buying the banana from her local Lidl in Birkenhead, Merseyside
A mother-of-six said has vowed never to look at a banana again after chomping into one from Lidl and finding the fruit infested with spider eggs.
Lorraine Wall, 38, was horrified to get a mouthful of arachnid eggs after buying the banana from her local Lidl in Birkenhead, Merseyside.
She took a bite into the fruit and felt a ‘crunch’, leaving her so disgusted that the threw up.
Ms Wall said: ‘I am already paranoid about spiders in bananas, so I broke both ends off and then bit into it.
‘I felt it crunching and crunching, and then I swallowed. At first I thought it was just not very ripe but then I looked and it was full of brown goo and what look like spider eggs.
‘It’s embarrassing but I was sick everywhere, it was disgusting, it turned my stomach.’
Although she’s now able to joke about the incident, Lorraine says she was worried the eggs would hatch inside her.
Ms Wall added: ‘I called 101 because I panicked, they sent a paramedic because it could be toxic in my system. I had low blood pressure because of a heart condition and they wanted to admit me to hospital but I said ”I can’t, I’ve got six kids here”.
‘They called a doctor and he said he’d check medical books and then told me that my stomach acid would kill ‘most’ of the eggs – that is not what I wanted to hear.
‘I keep having visions of them hatching out inside me.’
She took a bite into the fruit (pictured) and felt a ‘crunch’, leaving her so disgusted that the threw up
Ms Wall wrapped the piece of fruit in a piece of tinfoil and took it back to the store where she was offered a new bunch of bananas.
However, she says she’ll ‘never go near one again’ – and has even took the extreme step of banning them from her house.
Ms Wall added: ‘It knocks me absolutely sick. I can’t eat anything now, I managed a piece of toast on Monday and I’ve been drinking cappuccinos because they’re just coffee and powdered milk. I know I’m safe with those.
‘There’s no way I’m having another banana in this house. I can’t even look at them. I can’t face it.
‘I had another banana set to one side for my daughter, she’s five months and she’s just started with some mashed banana in her porridge.
The spider infested banana that left mother-of-six Ms Wall throwing up after she took a bite
‘I don’t want to think about what would happen if I’d have given it to her.’
A Lidl spokesperson said: ‘We were very sorry to hear of this matter, as it is never our intention for a customer to be dissatisfied in any way.
We work very closely with our suppliers, both in the UK and abroad to ensure that the fresh fruit and vegetables available in our stores are of the highest possible quality for our customers.
‘Whilst it is evident that this was not a spiders nest, we were nevertheless disappointed that our expected high standards were not met on this occasion.
The matter was immediately escalated to our Quality Assurance department, who are investigating with the supplier and will continue to keep the customer updated.’