This is s time-sensitive post which is why I have two entries today.  As I’ve expressed my love for Trader Joe’s in the past, I had a disturbing experience today while eating a sandwich bought from their Midtown location yesterday.  With 3 bites left to go in my Grilled Steak with Onion sandwich, I bit down on something hard.  I didn’t think much about it as I assumed it was a stray piece of bone from the meat or something like that.  As I took out the not-yet-chewed hunk out of my mouth, my eyes lit up.  As you can see in the picture below, there was a plastic shard a tad more than a half inch long in my sandwich.  Thankfully I bit down on it sideways because had that pointy tip been sticking up, it would have impaled itself into the roof of my mouth.

I’m not a litigious person but I feel the need to write to Trader Joe’s corporate office to at least give them a heads-up that wherever these sandwiches are being made, there might have been a blip in their quality control.  Am I being an alarmist or is it my right as a consumer to say “Guys, this doesn’t reflect well on you.  As a loyal customer, I really want to continue with purchasing your sandwiches but now I’m not so sure”?

Serious comments are encouraged.   Sorry for the poor photo quality but if I zoom any more with my cameraphone it becomes even more blurry.