Buzzstuff: Coffee? Tea? Frog?

May 04, 2004

Coffee? Tea? Frog?

I really do want to visit New Zealand sometime. It sounds like a fun place! I will, however, be sure to check my meal on the flight very carefully!

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Australian carrier Qantas said Tuesday it has changed its lettuce supplier after a passenger on a flight from Melbourne to Wellington found a live frog in her greens.

The one-inch Australian whistling tree frog didn't get a chance to hop away. The woman plunked the lid back on her meal preventing any escape.

The Qantas plane's crew notified the Quarantine Service while the plane was still in the air and officials were waiting when it landed at Wellington Airport.

"I'm afraid the frog was euthanized" in a freezer, service general manager Fergus Small told National Radio.

Quarantine officials made a check of the airplane "but no other frogs were detected," he said.

A Qantas spokesman told National Radio that the airline had changed its supplier since the February incident. Tree frogs were common in the area where the lettuce was grown.

Posted by Buzz at May 4, 2004 10:16 AM

Comments

I woulda licked him! See if I caught a BUZZ!

Posted by: Genuine at May 4, 2004 10:27 AM

How did this lettuce get in my Escargo ???

Posted by: at May 4, 2004 11:24 AM

Speed reading 101 - I read "I'm afraid the frog was euthanized" and thought it said the frog was enthused. Then I had vision of a frog hopping madly inside a plastic salad container.

Whoa.

(P.S. - could you help me out with a little argument me and my mother are having over on my blog? Thanks. :) )

Posted by: Iki at May 4, 2004 11:40 AM

I also had a problem with the word euthanized. I thought that euthanasia was for people who were suffering. When did whistling tree frogs become people ? And what was the frog suffering from ? Were people making fun of it because it didn't whistle as well as the other frogs ? Why don't people just say what they mean ?

Posted by: Willie's Buddy Jimmy at May 4, 2004 12:33 PM

It'd be much better if instead of using 'euthanized', they were scream loudly 'WE DONE FROZEDED IT TO DEATH!'

I'd pay admission to watch that.

Posted by: M at May 4, 2004 03:10 PM

I tell ya, it's those bloody Aussies sabotaging anyone flying to New Zealand!

It's just jealously ;)

Posted by: Fi at May 5, 2004 02:47 AM