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Tue 4 May, 2004 02:28 pm
An airline passenger received a shock when she found a frog in her in-flight meal, New Zealand authorities say. The 4cm (1.6-inch) whistling tree frog had stowed away in a salad on a Qantas flight from Melbourne to Wellington.
"There was a bit of consternation by the passenger who called back the attendant," said Fergus Small of New Zealand's Ministry of Agriculture. The attendant removed the salad and the frog, which was killed by quarantine staff when the aircraft landed.
Mr Small said frogs had been known to travel in the cargo holds of aircraft, but it was the first time the country's Quarantine Service was aware of one being found in a meal.
A Qantas spokesman told the New Zealand Herald newspaper that the airline had since changed its lettuce supplier and introduced "additional procedures into the salad supply process".
The whistling tree frog is found in south-east Australia and New Zealand. The male of the species has a whistling call.
Why did they have to kill it?
Do they charge extra for that?
They probably had to kill it because it was non-native to where it wound up, and it probably wouldn't have survived the return trip.
Sounds better than most airline food anyway.
not exactly a fly in the soup, is it?
guess she won't be ordering a chef salad any time soon...
So...this doesn't fall into the category of nouvelle cuisine?
There was some talk that this was a new direction in menus for Qantas!
The frog probably thought it was a safe thing - New Zillunders sre only interested in sheep!
margo the cat looks ready to pounce on the poor amphibian...
I wonder whether this topic should have been in the "food" or "travel" forum.
I'm sorry - I can't guarante this menu to all travellers to Australia on Qantas!
RP - be assured this particular cat will pounce on anything!
Well, what do you expect from an airline that doesn't put a 'u' after their 'q'. Now that I think about it, Air Canada has the same problem.
Hey, at least the salad was still Atkins friendly.
No a lotta carbs on those froggies!
hobitbob, are you insulting the French? They DO eat a lot of brioche....
I neber have considered the French diet to be low carb...bread, donchaknow...
I do hear that Franche wimmins enjoy plenty of baguette.
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