Mum-of-six vows to never eat bananas again after biting into fruit infested with 'SPIDER'S EGGS'
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A mum-of-six has vowed to never eat another banana again after biting into fruit infested with ' spider 's eggs'.
And Lorraine Wall, 38, from Liverpool, now worries that the insects will "hatch inside her".
She picked up her usual shop - including fruit - from her local Lidl store in Liverpool on Saturday but was horrified by what she found inside an innocent looking banana.
She bit into the yellow fruit only to discover a ‘crunchy feeling’.
To her horror, she found it was infested with what she believes were spider eggs.
The mum, from Wirral, Liverpool, is already scared of spiders, and said she felt physically sick after her experience, the Liverpool Echo reports.
She 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.”
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Although she’s now able to joke about the incident, Lorraine says she was worried the eggs would hatch inside her.
She 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.”
After recovering from the shock and being given the all-clear by doctors, the stay-at-home mum 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, despite her family’s love of the yellow fruit, she says she’ll “never go near one again” - and even took the extreme step of banning them from her house.
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Lorraine 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.
“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 spider 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.”