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Toad away

Managed to shed the office shackles this week, and motored up to Reading to see those clever guys at RSSL. And let me tell you, what they don’t know about allergens, analysis, authenticity testing etc ain’t worth knowing.

I always make it my mission on such trips to come away with a new piece of knowledge that has hitherto been missing from the tissue mass enclosed within my cranium. And I feel it only fair to share my latest discovery – that is, if you think you’ve found a dead frog in a packet of crisps, and that frog is somewhat larger than said packet, it’s highly unlikely that your suspicions are founded.

Allow me to explain. RSSL once received the aforementioned frog and packet from a crisp manufacturer, having been sent it from an understandably disgruntled customer. However, after subjecting the hapless amphibian to a number of tests – including analysis for salt and vinegar (both of which proved negative) – they discovered that what it did have on it was cat hair. …

Yep, you’ve guessed it. It turned out that the customer’s cat had caught the frog, which had then either crawled into what was to become his salty tomb, or been deposited there by the customer’s toddler. Strangely, though, the fact that the frog was rather too big for the crisp packet seemed to have been lost on the complainant, who wasted no time in returning both to the crisp manufacturer.

Happily, RSSL was able to set the record straight.





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