Romaine calm: live frog found in discount supermarket lettuce bag

When a group of housemates in Western Australia bought a pair of lettuces in a sealed plastic bag – reduced for quick sale to $1.15 – they got two other things for which they could not have bargained. One was a live frog reckoned to be the size of a man’s palm. The other, a slot on national television. But despite describing it as “the most random thing” they had encountered upon opening a packet of leafy greens from the supermarket, Laura Jones and Billie Le Pine fronted their interview on ABC news breakfast with a series or ready made one liners. “Look, if I was in a French supermarket, I probably would have got a two for one deal on that one,” Jones quipped. Allow TikTok content? This article includes content provided by TikTok. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. To view this content, click 'Allow and continue' . As it turns out, the town on the shores of the Southern Ocean in which that bag of lettuce was bought, Esperance, was named for a French frigate – and its twin city is St Martin de Ré. But far from an intended gastronomical addition, Woolworths said this was an “isolated incident” it was investigating “as a priority”. “Our suppliers have rigorous processes to maintain product quality,” a company spokesperson said. …