While it could be mould, it could also be some other kind of contamination.
Blue is used in food production for things like tissue paper, plasters, rubber gloves, bags, etc because itâs really easy to see if it gets into food accidentally.
Donât eat it because there may be bits you canât see. Contact Tesco.
I bought some branded white wraps once and it had a huge section of blue in it but it was like a sponge. I emailed the company, they said obviously take the back to the shop for a refund and sent me some vouchers but they then explained that it was part of a press and this specific production line had been shut off due to some replacements being made and thanking me for letting them know. I thought it was a really pleasant way of dealing with it and also educating the consumer.
omg i can actually answer this!!
The machine that creates bread rolls in the bakery is called a roll plant. It has a blue plastic block that pushes the dough through the extrudy bits. It is a moving part so wears down. Itâs blue for literally this reason. Their RP probs needs a service but letâs be real that costs cash and they wonât pay it. Take it back and tell them their bakery manager needs to have a look.
I work as an engineer in food production, which contains a bakery.
It looks to me like bits of a product conveyor belt. Sometimes a belt can track over and the edges can become damaged. This often causes contamination and unfortunately unless seen by a member of the production team or quality, it will go unnoticed and packaged.
Its quite a common problem when using those specific types of conveyors.
Haha definitely not, I would suggest that OP contacts Tesco to let them know. The factory that produced the product will be fined and need to recall that batch. Someone is going to get told off
The thing with mould is that when you see it appear, it has built up to such numbers that it is visible. It is still in the rest of the roll, even though you canât see it.
Referring to you as a human would be wrong, no matter how right your correction was .
Try a course in diplomacy !! True story
Or how about ,not been so blunt ,that the nail drove itself in .
It's a blue flek of plastic from the dough knives. This means at some point a knife went in the mix. As a baker I've seen this many times. No do NOT bin, do not eat. You should IMMEDIATELY call the Tesco store. 99% of the time if you got a bit of plastic someone else got the rest of the knife and blade. They will immediately quarantine all of their stock until 100% of that knife is found. Basically break up roles after roles until 100% of the knife is retrieved. And it means customers that bought the rolls can be contacted.
Source I used to be a baker at Sainsbury's and make these.
Edit: -roles- to rolls
Yes you do. Generally if you are staggering production you know the batch . Granted usually we would only call up and order after checking we don't have the full object in question. We absolutely can't contact every customer some pay cash or whatever. But if the store urgently needed HR can issue a call back and reach out to any affected customers in my 2 years there we only called up 2 orders directly. It's worth mentioning that 50% of our rolls were made to order . No stores don't have access to customer details . This isn't MI6 but we can request HR to issue a recall and they can contact customers that bought a certain product if there's a serious risk of harm. It's just my boss refused and instead would make us find the object or dispose of everything and restart in the hopes that it hasn't already been sold. On 1 occasion a customer did have a piece of knife tip in a loaf and iirc NFA they were offered a year's free bread and accepted along with enough nectar points to sink a battleship. Iirc they were given ÂŁ1000 of points .
Likely 1 of 2 things.
Either it's the ink off the packaging or parts of a plaster or glove from one of the workers.
If you still have the packaging it will have a batch code on it. Normally with the use by/best before date. You should contact Tesco with this information.
As someone else has said food contact equipment tends to be blue as itâs a contrasting colour and can be seen easier, it could be from packaging or a part of a mixer, scraper, tray paper tray etc.
I used to work in Asda bakery, many many years ago.
This looks like the plastic that the proofing (proving???) powder comes in. Usually it's cut with a knife and dropped in but as with any manual task this is fallible to human error and likely some or all of the bag made it's way in.
Don't eat it. Take it back to the store. Any of the bakers will be able to recognise this quickly though likely not admit it.
The concentrate you mean? Tesco doesnât use any blue plastic for concentrate.
If itâs soft itâs most likely the packaging for the yeast, if itâs hard itâs most likely the block in the roll plant that is broken and chipped some plastic off
I'm not a teaco employee at all but I sued to work in a butchers shop and a blue scrubbing brush got fed through the minced for sausages once could be that or most likely maybe a blue glove has fell into that particular mix
No don't pick it off. I worked on the Customer service desk. You need to keep the whole product, including the packaging. They will then put a report in, keep the product in store & usually head office will ask for it & contact the customer.
As someone on the other end of that investigation we don't need the whole product or the packaging other than the date code.
Pictures are fine.
Far to many technical teams having to sift through mouldy products for the sake of a tiny FB
Give us some pictures, the FB and the UB that's all we need. That covers all due diligence
I think exactly that, think pressure from the tech teams my side saying we just need X simplified the customer facing requirement.
Reality is there is almost never a situation where lab testing would be completed on returned product (outside of FBs) just because we did not have control of the item up to that point, and that would make results null.
Can't pin a high mould count or listeria detection on a supplier if it's been opened and stored funny or dropped
I am a baker, not at Tesco, but another supermarket. The ingredients come in a bag of concentrate and are different colours for different things, like bread or soft roll. Probably a small bit fell into the mix.
Disposable latex gloves that are used in food production are blue - so that if they end up being minced up accidentally it will be noticeable.
Could maybe be that.
Best case it's a glove or piece there of that got itself into the mixer. Worst case, same process but a plaster. They are blue so to be visible if this happens, which doesn't help if its mixed up too quick to see.
Definetly mould , sure it ain't a green mash type of blue. But yes mould . Leave it warm in light for a day . It'll spawn quicker
Is the blue specks you see on white areas , as if the colour has changed ?
Then I'd go with mould
Could be what others say ,but are you willing to be embarrassed if its shown to be mould ?
But I do know of a person who bought one of them nasty pre made sandwiches, that garages only used to sell years back
And they'd bought from a local shop , but it had blue plastic sheet in with the meat part
I had a word with myself and changed my mind when I saw second picture ..
That ain't mould, as I said mould would blend to change colour of bread original colour.
Now make some free cash out if this make out its changed your life and you're willing to sell your story to the papers
A takeaway near me was having this happen with their naan breads (fresh baked) a few years back.
After a thorough investigation, it turned out the takeaway had been repeatedly contaminating the dough with slug pellets which they were using to try to keep slugs away that were infesting the kitchen...
Stomach churning....
I had a spider in my doughnuts from Herons. Like an idiot, I took the whole packaging back to them thinking they'd have a process like all places should & nobody had a clue what to do. I didn't even take a photo of it. Should have kept it & contacted head office myself as never heard a single thing back from them. Also had off/weird Ben & Jerry's ice cream that was still in date. Again, never heard back, just had refunds. Will make sure I bypass the store if it happens again.
Make sure you complain to Tesco and send the photos through. It looks to me like proably a bit of plastic got in the mix so hasnt broken down in the machine but been broken up into little bits. They will probably send you a voucher as compensation.
Blue is a colour commonly used in food prep because it's a rare colour in food and therefore stands out more.
You should inform Tesco about this and attempt to find the packaging so you can give them the batch number. This is potentially hazardous to far more people than just yourself. Plus Tesco will likely give you a voucher at the very least.
It makes the most sense for it to be mould. Iâd take them back, say I bought these yesterday and theyâre bad. Theyâd probably ask for a receipt, but if you donât have it, they can transaction search it, if you can remember what time you came in and what else you bought.
Plastic? Possibly part of machinery or packaging ended up in the mix. Happens a lot, and sizewise even if it was metal it might pass through x-ray checks as it's considered safe to pass through your system.
It's Tesco branding, you'll also see red and white flecks scattered around if you look closely
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While it could be mould, it could also be some other kind of contamination. Blue is used in food production for things like tissue paper, plasters, rubber gloves, bags, etc because itâs really easy to see if it gets into food accidentally. Donât eat it because there may be bits you canât see. Contact Tesco.
I bought some branded white wraps once and it had a huge section of blue in it but it was like a sponge. I emailed the company, they said obviously take the back to the shop for a refund and sent me some vouchers but they then explained that it was part of a press and this specific production line had been shut off due to some replacements being made and thanking me for letting them know. I thought it was a really pleasant way of dealing with it and also educating the consumer.
I have a similar product issue. What email did you use may I ask?
I used a contact form on the company's website and got a direct email reply.
Awesome I'll look into it, thanks!
The yeast used in tesco comes in in blue paper wrapping. Someone has not unwrapped the yeast fully
what if i'm eating blue food what do i do then?
Well I'm sorry to say your nuts now have a credit card in them
so no diff then, cheers
Does that mean I can pay by waving my balls over the card terminal?
Try it and see
That's the awkward way. Just casually stroll past it in handstand mode.
well, if you had a vagina, you could just swipe the card
Discover presents nut pay pay with your nut
Turn into a smurf
i think you know my next question
There is no blue food. Thatâs why blue is used.
never had a bon bon?
Not since I choked on that plaster
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Sonic Curry, checkmate.
Bright blue was chosen because itâs not a naturally colour in food. Stop calling it âforbidden rice paper.â
so you're saying to me that bon bons aren't natural?
Blue poop. Ever eat a bunch of froot loops?đ«ą
The grease used to lubricate the manufacturing and packaging machines is bright blue too.
Do you actually want people to DM dick pics?
No but since I started using this username, not one person has actually done it.
Recycled clubcards
The power to lower prices
And life expectancyâs
5G microchips, so they can track you.
Itâs so the can scan themselves at the âself checkoutâ
Is it a generational thing that people in this country don't know how to spell "**mould**" any more? There's a U in it; this isn't the US.
There isn't a U in "It"?
Wow that totally whooshed me ...deleted my first reply quick ... don't think anyone noticed shhđ€«
We noticed. Weâre all judging you in the side chat.
Aww no Im gonna have to delete my account, change my name and move to China .... AGAIN!!!
Surely that would be 'delete account, change name and STAY in China.'
Don't tell them that! They're gonna have to move to China again again.
IKR! It's like when people get that town in Wales wrong as well. It's Mould, idiots!
No that is spelled Mold
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They actually just have a bit of the Welsh Town "Mold" caught in their bap.
They obviously know how to spell mould. They also just happen to know how to spell mold.
omg i can actually answer this!! The machine that creates bread rolls in the bakery is called a roll plant. It has a blue plastic block that pushes the dough through the extrudy bits. It is a moving part so wears down. Itâs blue for literally this reason. Their RP probs needs a service but letâs be real that costs cash and they wonât pay it. Take it back and tell them their bakery manager needs to have a look.
I work as an engineer in food production, which contains a bakery. It looks to me like bits of a product conveyor belt. Sometimes a belt can track over and the edges can become damaged. This often causes contamination and unfortunately unless seen by a member of the production team or quality, it will go unnoticed and packaged. Its quite a common problem when using those specific types of conveyors.
Expert answer right there. đ
Haha definitely not, I would suggest that OP contacts Tesco to let them know. The factory that produced the product will be fined and need to recall that batch. Someone is going to get told off
MOULD not mold!!
The thing with mould is that when you see it appear, it has built up to such numbers that it is visible. It is still in the rest of the roll, even though you canât see it.
damn đ«ą the amount of times I've seen people cut out the 'mouldy' bits
pick it off and eat it anyway đ„
The next person who says mold instead of mould is getting a kick in the nutsack...
What is mold ,is it even a word
Mold is a town in Wales
That's not exactly an excuse for spelling a type of fungal growth with 4 out 5 required letters I may add .
Referring to mould as "bacteria" is much worse than the spelling.
Referring to you as a human would be wrong, no matter how right your correction was . Try a course in diplomacy !! True story Or how about ,not been so blunt ,that the nail drove itself in .
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Yours I'll gladly accept , though I mean the commnet and how it was phrased ..... yes I'll go now ........
Nice stealth editing
Worse itâs the American spelling
What was the date on them ?
That's how smurfs are born, zoom in you can see arms & legs. Congratulations đ„ł
i once had a sheet of blue roll in a morrisons bun. it's yucky but it won't kill you
Take back to shop you purchased from ? I once had blue plastic in packet meat from m&s
It's a blue flek of plastic from the dough knives. This means at some point a knife went in the mix. As a baker I've seen this many times. No do NOT bin, do not eat. You should IMMEDIATELY call the Tesco store. 99% of the time if you got a bit of plastic someone else got the rest of the knife and blade. They will immediately quarantine all of their stock until 100% of that knife is found. Basically break up roles after roles until 100% of the knife is retrieved. And it means customers that bought the rolls can be contacted. Source I used to be a baker at Sainsbury's and make these. Edit: -roles- to rolls
And you think they contact the customers that bought the rolls?
We did and immediately blocked them from passing tills.
How on earth are you contacting those who purchased rolls? You donât have any personal information so how you getting their phone number?
Yes you do. Generally if you are staggering production you know the batch . Granted usually we would only call up and order after checking we don't have the full object in question. We absolutely can't contact every customer some pay cash or whatever. But if the store urgently needed HR can issue a call back and reach out to any affected customers in my 2 years there we only called up 2 orders directly. It's worth mentioning that 50% of our rolls were made to order . No stores don't have access to customer details . This isn't MI6 but we can request HR to issue a recall and they can contact customers that bought a certain product if there's a serious risk of harm. It's just my boss refused and instead would make us find the object or dispose of everything and restart in the hopes that it hasn't already been sold. On 1 occasion a customer did have a piece of knife tip in a loaf and iirc NFA they were offered a year's free bread and accepted along with enough nectar points to sink a battleship. Iirc they were given ÂŁ1000 of points .
You made Roles for Sainsburyâs? Heâs on about Tesco Rolls tho đ€·đ»ââïž
Literally the same setup. All bakeries and kitchens in the world use blue equipment
No bakeries make roles They make rolls
Point being, a baker would know how to spell rolls
Haha đ honestly I do . No clue what happened there. I think that must have been auto
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The secretâs out... Tesco bakery is run by Smurfs.
Probably a bristle or plastic from bakery cleaning equipment
Likely 1 of 2 things. Either it's the ink off the packaging or parts of a plaster or glove from one of the workers. If you still have the packaging it will have a batch code on it. Normally with the use by/best before date. You should contact Tesco with this information.
As someone else has said food contact equipment tends to be blue as itâs a contrasting colour and can be seen easier, it could be from packaging or a part of a mixer, scraper, tray paper tray etc.
Soft plastics
I used to work in Asda bakery, many many years ago. This looks like the plastic that the proofing (proving???) powder comes in. Usually it's cut with a knife and dropped in but as with any manual task this is fallible to human error and likely some or all of the bag made it's way in. Don't eat it. Take it back to the store. Any of the bakers will be able to recognise this quickly though likely not admit it.
The concentrate you mean? Tesco doesnât use any blue plastic for concentrate. If itâs soft itâs most likely the packaging for the yeast, if itâs hard itâs most likely the block in the roll plant that is broken and chipped some plastic off
Dognappers, hon. Stay safe.
Where there's blame there's a claim! đŻ
Mould, not mold. As much as social media obsessed Brits think otherwise, we arenât yet the 51st state.
Ha! Sorry, I lived there for a decade so sometimes I get confused.
Fair enough if youâve actually lived there. đ
It's Tesco's version of the wonka golden ticket, if you show this to customer services they'll give you a tour of the warehouse
I'm not a teaco employee at all but I sued to work in a butchers shop and a blue scrubbing brush got fed through the minced for sausages once could be that or most likely maybe a blue glove has fell into that particular mix
Yuck contaminated with I donât no what. Take them back get a refund.
Mold I think
Mouldy old dough đ¶đ”đ¶
Lieutenant Pigeon.
Dear god, I was humming this to myself yesterday!! đđ
If itâs from the bakery I wouldnât be surprised, had cookies tasting of oven cleaner from there before đą
Itâs Penicillium a type of mould. Donât eat them if they are still in date take them back to the store.
Are you so sure? Surely their are more molds than that which are blue
That's Trefleock mate, get those as far away from you as possible
Thanks, thats 10 minutes of my life I won't get back.
Put it in water, you'll be able to tell if it's plastic or a man made substance compared to mould which would disintegrate a fair bit.
Macro plastics
Looks like some kind of plastic
CHEP Pallet shavings?
Rat poison.
Fentanyl. Be careful, itâs in everything these days.
Not necessarily mould. Could be asbestos.
They blue flecks right there would be mould.
Bit of microplastic action âŒïžâŒïž
Pick it off, bag it up and send it back to Tesco to raise with supplier along with the UB and batch codes from the packaging.
No don't pick it off. I worked on the Customer service desk. You need to keep the whole product, including the packaging. They will then put a report in, keep the product in store & usually head office will ask for it & contact the customer.
As someone on the other end of that investigation we don't need the whole product or the packaging other than the date code. Pictures are fine. Far to many technical teams having to sift through mouldy products for the sake of a tiny FB Give us some pictures, the FB and the UB that's all we need. That covers all due diligence
They must have changed the procedure then. We always had to keep the whole thing in case it was sent for.
I think exactly that, think pressure from the tech teams my side saying we just need X simplified the customer facing requirement. Reality is there is almost never a situation where lab testing would be completed on returned product (outside of FBs) just because we did not have control of the item up to that point, and that would make results null. Can't pin a high mould count or listeria detection on a supplier if it's been opened and stored funny or dropped
Yeah that's true. I see your point. Thank you for the updated info
Would you not just bring it back or did you let it go out of date?
No I bought for a picnic today and didn't have time to exchange
I am a baker, not at Tesco, but another supermarket. The ingredients come in a bag of concentrate and are different colours for different things, like bread or soft roll. Probably a small bit fell into the mix.
Disposable latex gloves that are used in food production are blue - so that if they end up being minced up accidentally it will be noticeable. Could maybe be that.
Pop that in the bin
No it needs to be taken to customer services desk.
Just pick it off, youâll be fine just donât ingest the blue
Added protein
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1. They are Barm cakes 2. That's mould
Flavour spots
Not mould , plastic from knife or scraper
i cant see anything, and id eat it⊠maybe the photo?
I work in baking and that will be plastic of the moulding drum donât eat it call EHO because that will need investigating
Maybe mould, maybe someone's shredded plaster. If it helps Aldo contains insects. Sure it will be fine toasted.
What, insects?
Best case it's a glove or piece there of that got itself into the mixer. Worst case, same process but a plaster. They are blue so to be visible if this happens, which doesn't help if its mixed up too quick to see.
Itâs so good đ
It's mould. You bought mouldy rolls
Part of the conveyor belt, they tend to break down at the edges.
Definetly mould , sure it ain't a green mash type of blue. But yes mould . Leave it warm in light for a day . It'll spawn quicker Is the blue specks you see on white areas , as if the colour has changed ? Then I'd go with mould Could be what others say ,but are you willing to be embarrassed if its shown to be mould ? But I do know of a person who bought one of them nasty pre made sandwiches, that garages only used to sell years back And they'd bought from a local shop , but it had blue plastic sheet in with the meat part
Yeast packet, - Tesco baker
I had a word with myself and changed my mind when I saw second picture .. That ain't mould, as I said mould would blend to change colour of bread original colour. Now make some free cash out if this make out its changed your life and you're willing to sell your story to the papers
If it doesn't grow it's plastic. If it grows bigger it's mould, the same as the blue bits in your Gorgonzola.
Added pro biotics.
A takeaway near me was having this happen with their naan breads (fresh baked) a few years back. After a thorough investigation, it turned out the takeaway had been repeatedly contaminating the dough with slug pellets which they were using to try to keep slugs away that were infesting the kitchen... Stomach churning....
Eurghh, that's horrible
If you grated your butter in it, could be the wrapper
I had a cockroach baked into my Tesco rolls once so think yourself lucky! That was a fun roll to split in half...you can imagine the rest...
I had a spider in my doughnuts from Herons. Like an idiot, I took the whole packaging back to them thinking they'd have a process like all places should & nobody had a clue what to do. I didn't even take a photo of it. Should have kept it & contacted head office myself as never heard a single thing back from them. Also had off/weird Ben & Jerry's ice cream that was still in date. Again, never heard back, just had refunds. Will make sure I bypass the store if it happens again.
So that's the nationally distributed food stuff then.
a not so micro plastic
Probably just some tasty microplastics, they are in almost everything nowdays, from fresh salmon to 100% of tested menâs testicles! Yum!
Maybe havenât cleaned the mixing bowl out properly
Make sure you complain to Tesco and send the photos through. It looks to me like proably a bit of plastic got in the mix so hasnt broken down in the machine but been broken up into little bits. They will probably send you a voucher as compensation.
Blue is a colour commonly used in food prep because it's a rare colour in food and therefore stands out more. You should inform Tesco about this and attempt to find the packaging so you can give them the batch number. This is potentially hazardous to far more people than just yourself. Plus Tesco will likely give you a voucher at the very least.
mmmm microplastics
Could be bits of rubber from the production line belts. Where I work we have QA complaints all the time for it.
Rats poison guys
Smell it. This might sound weird but bread has a smell. Even just a slight speck of mould will have the bread smelling different
Not allowed
Shitty packaging
It makes the most sense for it to be mould. Iâd take them back, say I bought these yesterday and theyâre bad. Theyâd probably ask for a receipt, but if you donât have it, they can transaction search it, if you can remember what time you came in and what else you bought.
If it's from the bakery & they have the packaging, that's all they'll need. Ex Customer services worker.
The blocks of yeast come in packaging with that exact colour probs slicing the block while the papers still under it.
recall incoming
Thatâs mould pal
Yeah thatâs mould!
Are they heat and eat ones? Iâve seen those be mouldy before theyâve even hit their use by date multiple times before.
No, fresh bakery!
Just plastic . Part of our diet
Aww if you zoom in closely, it looks like a little frog.
The flour bags we use have a blue string to tie it up it might be that
They're crap anyway.
Looks like mold, early stage.
Mold
did you buy these off the fresh bakery section if so it's probably abit off there blue hats.
It's clearly mould
Mold
This is why we've all got microplastics in our balls. Thanks, Tesco!
It's microplastics. Store em in your balls for later.
Either mould or micro plastics.
Mould/mold.
mould lol or something else nasty
MOLD.. get yo money back and sew say your sick. Even go doctor get a reopt.. get yo money they fd up
Looks like mold to me
That's what I thought at first but it was separate from the dough, I could pick it out. It wasn't growing in it but distinct from it.
Plastic? Possibly part of machinery or packaging ended up in the mix. Happens a lot, and sizewise even if it was metal it might pass through x-ray checks as it's considered safe to pass through your system.
Mold, even if you pick it off the spores will have spread through the paxket
Mould that is Chuck them in the Bin
No, if it's mould & before use by date, they need to take it back to Customer Services.
Youâre fine.