- A severed snake head found in a can of green beans
- The woman who found the snake head thought it was a burnt green bean
- The woman said her biggest concern was that someone else would get the body
A woman was horrified to find a severed head of a snake floating among the green beans she was cooking.
The nauseating discovery was made at a Mormon church in Farmington, Utah on Wednesday night, February 17, while a group of women were preparing dinner for the elderly members of the congregation.
Troy Walker, who was with some women from her church group, said she was lifting the green beans from the slow cooker when she noticed something unusual. At first, she thought it was only a piece of burnt bean, but upon closer look, she discovered what it really was.
“It looked pretty much like a burnt bean. And then, as I got closer to lift off the spoon, I saw eyes. That’s when I just dropped it and screamed,” Walker said.
She said the decapitated snake head came from one of the several cans of Family Western green beans they bought at Harmons grocery store.
“My biggest concern was that someone else would get the body,’ Walker added.
Christi Smith, who was also cooking with Walker, said the snake is a small one that was clearly cut up.
“Who knows where the other parts of that snake were?” Smith said.
Walker took the empty can and the severed snake head back to Harmons, whose employees were apologetic and gave her a full refund on the 30 cans of green beans she bought. She also sent a photo of the snake head to Western Family.
Western Family is investigating the incident. The company’s financial officer, Pete Craven, confirmed to a news agency the report about a foreign material found in a can of Western Family green beans, but did not say if the material is a snake head.
“Foreign matter is not something we take lightly. We want to know what it is, and we will immediately research and do any level of correction as we can,” he told the Deseret News.
Western Family VP of Quality Control Sharon McFadden said they are trying to determine from which lot the can came from and tracing it back to find out which wholesale locations it was sent to.
They will be removed from store shelves as soon as they are located, she said.
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