Tesco shopper slams turkey and trimmings wrap that has two tiny bits of meat and a few spinach leaves
TESCO shopper Katie Brightwell was disappointed to find that her turkey and trimmings wrap contained only two tiny fragments of turkey, a few spinach leaves and a smear of mayo and cranberry sauce.
The 33-year-old from Sudbury, Suffolk took to the Tesco Facebook page to complain about the seasonal snack.
Posting a picture of the wrap, she wrote: “Wow Tesco! Steady on with the filling in the turkey and trimmings wrap!
“Definitely don’t need any dinner tonight, completely full now.”
She had had shelled out £2.50 for the seasonal snack which supposedly contains turkey, bacon, cranberry sauce, and sage and onion stuffing mayonnaise wrapped in a tortilla.
But, the wrap contained barely any meat or salad, and only the tiniest amount of the promised sauces.
Other shoppers were equally unimpressed, with one sarcastically commenting: “Should’ve saved it for Christmas! That would’ve been Christmas dinner sorted.”
Another thought there may have been some confusion, adding: “Are you sure you didn’t eat it and forget?”
The turkey and trimmings wrap is party of Tesco’s 2019 festive sandwich range which also includes a Yorkshire pudding wrap and turkey curry and bhaji wrap.
According to the wrap’s product description, the wrap is “made using selected ingredients, then expertly hand rolled in a soft tortilla”.
The product’s ingredients list states the wrap should consist of 14 per cent turkey, which is equivalent to around 30g, or 15g in each half of the wrap.
That isn’t very much turkey, but even the turkey in the image doesn’t look like 15g worth.
Tesco said it had apologised to Katie and provided her with a refund for the wrap.
We have requested further comment from Tesco regarding the contents of this wrap and we will update this story when we get a response.
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If you haven’t been completely been put off by Katie’s experience, you can view Tesco’s festive sandwich range here.
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