Boy Says He Found Dead Mouse In Chips

Colorado School Backs Eighth-Grader’s Claim; Frito-Lay Is Investigating

(AP)  An eighth-grader said he found a dead mouse inside a bag of Frito-Lay barbecue potato chips he bought in a school lunch line, and his claim appears credible, school officials said.

The boy reported he found the mouse Wednesday at Lewis-Palmer Middle School in Monument, Colo., about 40 miles south of Denver. The principal and a vice principal interviewed his parents and other students who were sitting at the same lunch table and decided the incident didn't appear to be a prank, said Donna Wood, a spokeswoman for the Lewis-Palmer School District.

Frito-Lay spokeswoman Aurora Gonzalez said Friday the Plano, Texas-based company expected to receive the bag of chips soon and will investigate to determine what action, if any, it will take.

“We take these things very seriously because we have stringent quality control in place,” Gonzalez said.

Wood said the school district has temporarily pulled all chips from its vending machines and lunch lines.

Frito-Lay is a unit of PepsiCo Inc.

[musty2u]

Was the mouse barbecue flavored? Eztra protein for the school lunch program.

[delta5243]

well, I guess his parents don't have to worry about paying for college.......

[musty2u]

The cute furry thing probable crawled into the vending machine and chewed its way into the bag. In no way should Frito-Lay, nor the school system be responsible.

[zootallures2]

Well, you like all this corporate and government communist dependancy, so you are at the whim of what they give you and feed you. Enjoy your dead mouse! Put some genetically altered mustard full of chemicals you don't know what they are on it.

BTW: That mouse just might be better for you to eat than the chips. So if you've been eating the chips, why should you be able to sue for the mouse...LOL

[mitywhity]

Who cares?

[feelfree1]

Re: "An eighth-grader said he found a dead mouse inside a bag of Frito-Lay barbecue potato chips"

I find this claim to be very difficult to believe.

If this story proves to be true, then this has to be the first case of anything of nutritional value ever found in a Frito-Lay product.

[jolsonbear]

Potato chips in the school lunch line. Soda and candy machines in the school courtyard. When i was in school, you would be made to stay after school if you were even caught with a piece of candy at school. No wonder SUV's are so popular in the US; it's the only type of vehicle in which you can get fit all these fat a** kids into!

[luckygirl042]

Hey, it can happen. The secretary where I work found chips of glass in her Campbell's Split Pea and Ham soup. She immediately called the company, who apologized and sent her a kit to put the glass chips in. She sent in the glass, and they sent her $5.00 in soup coupons and that was the end of it. She never heard any thing else. She had plenty of witnesses as to where the glass came from. She could have sued and been the subject of a blog like this, but she just bought more soup.
(I wonder if the mouse the boy found was deep fried and salted?)

[neojoker]

Maybe those chips came from New York City, lol.

[bb19631]

I THINK THE REPORTER COULD HAVE FOUND A BETTER STORY TO WRITE, WHO CARES! I BELIEVE ALL JUNK FOOD SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED AT SCHOOL. NUTRICTIOUS LUNCHES ONLY. WE NEVER HAD VENDING MACHINES IN LUNCH ROOM. ONLY LUNCH LINES OR HOME FOOD. OUR GENERATION WAS SKINNY AND ACTIVE.