What Price My Silence?

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Nasty Tuna Company
Sales and Marketing Division
Richmond BC, Canada

To Whom It May Concern,

Today I tried your new product, Yummy Tuna Salad, Salad OLE! for the first time and used the small spoon included with the packaging. I purchased it because of the compact nature of your product, making it easy to transport for lunch and have a minimum of plastic waste, while the can itself can be recycled.

On the third spoonful, I cut the inside of my upper lip while using the spoon provided. The outlying edge of the plastic spoon is so sharp it cut me when I pulled it from my mouth.

The bleeding stopped within a few moments. The injury was very much like a paper cut as that the edge sliced the skin within my mouth clean and quickly as I drew the spoon out with my lips pressed over the utensil. I would expect people to use caution when opening the pull top can of your product since the top is a potential threat for cuts – I grew up in an age of “dangerous consumer goods” like pull top sodas and such, but I never expected the actual utensil you provided to offer injury with it’s intended use.

I am very concerned that this happened. I am considering my options as that I have purchased a large pack of your product from Costco and would not want this to happen again to myself or to anyone else.

I could use my own utensils when using your product but seeing how the provided spoon was part of the selling point for the purchase of your product, I feel that some compensation is required. While my injury was small, I suspect this is not the first complaint you have had regarding this product.

I would like some acknowledgement of this email and a suggested course of action.

Thank you
Dead Robot

Today, I got a coupon for $1 off their tuna, a sushi cook book and a cheque for $5.

I’m going out to buy KLIK!

7 thoughts on “What Price My Silence?”

  1. Furface

    What do you expect eating something called “yummy…” And does the OLE part stand for Olestra or the flavour of Mehico?

    I once got bits of a broken glass in my home fries at the greasy spoon near the trailer park – Go Grand Valley!!

    I almost puked coffee when I saw your picture though – I have one from grade eight I think with the same hair but curly and a similar look – kind of like I already had the entire pork chop in my mouth.

    I’ll have to dig it out and plop it on the blahg.

  3. Busdriver

    Klik? they still make Klik? What about Kam. Do they still make Kam too???

    I haven’t seen either since I was …. like 12.

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