Melbourne woman finds spider in her Woolworths pre packed salad

A MELBOURNE women said she felt “sick to her stomach” when she found an eight legged extra addition to her supermarket prepacked salad.

IT’S the supermarket that bills itself as the “Fresh Food People” — but perhaps not this fresh.

A shopper in Melbourne got a lunchtime shock when a spider tumbled out of her salad made using pre packed leaves from her local Woolworths.

Brooke Wiramanaden, from Narre Warren in the city’s south east, told news.com.au she felt “sick to her stomach” when the arachnid decided to add some crunch to her meal.

She bought the salad leaves at a Woolworths store in Hampton Park in the city’s south east.

She posted the image of the black and brown critter, nestled in the leaves of what otherwise looked like a delicious salad, to Woolies Facebook page

“I was eating my lunch at work and I had pretty much eaten the whole thing when I noticed it,” she said.

Brooke Wiramanaden (above) said it made her sick to her stomach.

“I wasn’t happy and I felt physically sick.”

She said she showed her colleagues her eight legged dinner guest but didn’t keep the evidence.

“I got two packets [of pre packed salad] but I threw everything out as it made me sick to my stomach,” Ms Wiramanaden told news.com.au.

The spider type has not been identified.

Brooke Wiramanaden found a spider in her Woolworths salad. Picture: Facebook.

IT’S not the first time a spider has been caught hitching a ride to the supermarket.

In April, a Townsville woman got an awful fright when she found a mature female redback spider in a head of broccoli purchased from her local Coles.

Tamahra Moore, 32, was slicing a head of broccoli at her home when she spotted the full-grown female spider.

“I was chopping all my vegies up for the week when I saw a flash of black and red, the bloody thing just crawled out,” Mrs Moore said. “I would have probably been better off with takeaway, as I quite easily could have been bitten.”

Queensland Museum principal spider curator Dr Robert Raven said the Redback “looked ready to drop eggs” and could have caused a “serious envenomation”.

“She could have been building a silken nest in the broccoli as it would have provided a warm, moist location for the eggs it may have been ready to lay,” he said.

The Redback spider nestled in broccoli.

Last year, Woolies’ customer Zoe Perry was surprised to find a very unwelcome guest had followed her family home in their shopping bags.

A hairy arachnid snuck its way into a Woolworths’ Italian Style Salad Mix.

Perry posted a video of the critter on Facebook, where it viewed millions of times.

A Woolworths spokeswoman said they had been in touch with Ms Wiramanaden following the incident.

In a response of Facebook the company said, “We’re very concerned about this and take incidents like this very seriously.”

They said the spider salad issue had been “escalated for immediate investigation”.

However, the supermarket didn’t explain how a spider could crawl into a packed salad in the first place.

Neither did they say if customers could be confident “washed and ready to use” salads really were ready for use if there was a danger a spider was lurking inside.

As for the arachnid, well it came to a sticky end. Ms Wiramanaden said it perished.

“It was dead, I’m guessing from suffocation.”

News.com.au has contacted Woolworths about the latest spider incident.