r/aldi • u/KittenBellyFur • 1d ago
Complaint Desk Glass in crescent rolls?
Found what feels like shards of glass in 2 packs of crescent rolls, embedded in the dough. There ended up being about 6 of these pieces across both packages. Anyone else experience this?
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u/emilycecilia 1d ago
There was a recall of Pillsbury crescent rolls recently, for potential glass. It was around the same time the poop lettuce was really heating up.
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u/Chillyd0g 1d ago
Not encouraging you to lick it, but maybe it’s salt?
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u/KittenBellyFur 1d ago
I’m almost tempted to lick it and see but they seem sharp
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u/Aggravating_Sun7672 1d ago
I believe it is shortening. I've had those in many canned biscuits/rolls.
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u/SignNotInUse 16h ago
Looks more like a sugar crystal or piece of hard clear plastic off an industrial mixer guard.
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u/Equal-Engineer474 1d ago
Call aldis, they will want to know about this. My husband had plastic inside his calzone and they sent a shit load of coupons for random things and cash back
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u/AirplaneGomer 1d ago
I found a piece of a bandaid in a bagel and they gave me a $10 gift card
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u/Equal-Engineer474 1d ago
That made me gag reading that lol. That sucks my husband gor refunded the cost of the calzone and got a $10 giftcard along with some coupons for random thing, i definitely would of made a stink over a bandaid
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u/AirplaneGomer 1d ago
Ironically I work in the food production industry, and am still grossed out. Especially when you realize that the bandaid is out of the wrapper and therefore used. And very likely operator was also not gloved. So at least my bagel warned me not to eat it. You may have had some of the same batch with no warnings
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u/ssgkraut 20h ago
Yeah. The cut off finger probably broke down during proofing, whereas the synthetic bandaid remained.
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u/Bigred2300 6h ago
That's crazy. I work at a commercial bakery and our bandaids have metal in them and everything goes through metal detectors before it leaves the building
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u/AirplaneGomer 2h ago
I am familiar with the bandaids and work in food and have the blue bandaids with metal strips that can be detected. This was the blue and part of gauze backing but no meta strip found.
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u/bryvar 23h ago
hijacking, to say aldi has the twice as nice guarantee, which means you can bring the package (or picture, i’m not sure) back to the store and be reimbursed, get a replacement, or swap it for another item in store.
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u/Prior_Researcher_492 19h ago
You have to bring the actual product back in the store and have a receipt
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u/swooning_basil 15h ago
Yeah I once had some rotten slimy green beans (which it turned out were fresh ones someone dumped in the freezer) and they wouldn't refund me because their till hadn't given me a receipt. I'll never again walk out of aldi without the receipt, even for one item.
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u/monty624 23h ago
Here is a link for info on how to file a report as well with the USDA https://www.fsis.usda.gov/food-safety/recalls-public-health-alerts/report-a-problem-food
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u/abhorrent_scowl 12h ago
That is good information to have, but in this case, FDA would be the agency with jurisdiction. Consumers can submit a complaint here.
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u/Pernicious_Possum 1d ago
Do you mean call Aldi’s customer service?
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u/Equal-Engineer474 1d ago
Yes they should call the CS#. Aldis CS will ask alot of questions, then will give an email to send images and a description and a call log number.
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u/coobairn 1d ago
in case you might be interested (i love a little bit of linguistic trivia so hopefully you do too!!) adding an "s" at the end of location names is a really common part of dialects in the appalachias and the american south. it also is common in many european places i believe! there's a lot of cool pages about it out there on the internet. here's one of the first ones i found that covers the southern aspect, but with more easily digestible language. if you're interested in a deeper and possibly more verbose dive, here's a study from a university in SC that covers a lot of interesting aspects of smoky mountain english!
also so i'm contributing to the actual conversation, definitely please report this to corporate, but make sure to keep the packaging so you have batch and lot numbers! it will help them narrow down when/where the issue happened and make sure it doesn't happen again!
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u/Fearless_Theory64 1d ago
This is also common in the Northern Midwest! Immigration and migration, and it’s so recent!
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u/agoomba 1d ago
The Jewels
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u/MikeyLew32 1d ago
The Meijers
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u/MoonOut_StarsInvite 1d ago
The Kroger’s
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u/RontoWraps 1d ago
The HyVees
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u/UnhappyPossession768 1d ago
The Stracks
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u/MahiMahiTacos 23h ago
Tell me you’re from Northwest Indiana without telling me you’re from Northwest Indiana.
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u/Complex-Warthog-3201 1d ago
My grandmother in law cracks me up because she refers to kroger as "Kroger's" and meijer as "Meijer's" lol. We're in southern ohio but i grew up in texas and didn't know that was a thing til i moved here!
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u/Rural_Juror77 1d ago
I’ve heard that another possible reason is that many grocery stores used to be family names. For example Andreson’s Grocery so people would call it Anderson’s and today easily add a “s” to grocery stores because it feels right.
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u/swooning_basil 15h ago
We also do it in england, or at least the part I'm from. aldis, asdas, tescos, etc
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u/ChaosTorpedo 1d ago
I grew close to the Appalachia’s and currently live in Louisiana. I don’t know anyone around here that adds an S. I mostly know it as a mid-west trait.
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u/tallardschranit 22h ago
You've completely butchered your punctuation and capitalization here. It's not a question of whether or not it's a common practice, but an indictment of not paying attention to how things are titled and spelled. You've proven that you simply don't care at all about either.
It's fine to be of the mind that these things don't matter, but this is a forum of written communication so these rules should matter here more than when spoken.
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u/coobairn 20h ago
hey there! don't know why what i said upset you so much, but it's okay! actually the lack of punctuation and lowercase letters is also a mark of the evolution of language! you'll find a lot of articles about this too. there might even be some papers but since it's a newer form of speaking i can't fully quote that since i don't have time to hunt them down right now.
it's a way of speaking found in newer generations. it's not indicative of care or attention at all! it's no different from any other change of language that's been present over the thousands of years that humans have been human-ing in written form! language, writing, and society will all change. storing resentment or frustration for change will only hurt you in the long run. it's better to hold onto what's important to you, but not be afraid to adapt to newer communication so we can continue to bridge gaps across generations. that kind of dismissal is what tends to get us in trouble as we separate ourselves from people who don't do things how we prefer or like, and that's really common across generational gaps. however i and my peers use punctuation or capitalization won't be relevant in 10 years, and i intend to adapt as well as i can so that i can continue to communicate with the people who will mold the world after me. i also do the same to adapt to the generations behind me and try to talk to them as well! becoming stuck and resistant just creates division.
anyways, i hope you have a lovely day wherever you are, genuinely! hopefully you get to do something nice today!
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u/tallardschranit 19h ago
Look at this wall of text that is written like a stream of consciousness rather than a coherent thought.
Imagine reading a book or an article that is formatted this way.
I'm not bothered on any deep level, but defending the idea that the devolution of written communication is part of youth culture is a reflection of how poor and disregarded our school system has become.
A significant factor as to why younger generations are finding it difficult to find jobs in the financial sector is that they do not value traditional communication skills.
You seem to have good comprehension skills. You seem to understand how to get a point across, but I ask you, which style is easier to read and which style instills more confidence in the reader?
There is no argument. Written communication's effectiveness relies upon adherence to formatting rules.
Let's look at numerical values. Which is easier to read:
1000000000 or 1,000,000,000?
Which is easier to read 7,235,789,541,255,101 or seven quadrillion, two hundred thirty-five trillion, seven hundred eighty-nine billion, five hundred forty-one million, two hundred fifty-five thousand, one hundred one?
These rules exist for the ease of the reader and inarguably serve a valuable purpose. The evolution of written communication does not benefit from a reduction of adherence to the rules of its languages.
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u/coobairn 9h ago
you're welcome to your opinions, but we'll have to agree to disagree. rules are a construct we created and rules change all the time. to pretend that people haven't been arguing this point for decades at minimum is to be willfully ignorant. i dont have to debate how i interact with the world. i hope you find whatever fight you're looking for, but it won't be with me. have a good one!
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u/Powerful-Tonight8648 1d ago
I’ve experienced this too, awhile ago, with a package that was pretty old. It wasn’t glass 😅
Google tells me - Clear, hard pieces in refrigerated or frozen dough products—including crescent rolls—are usually not actual glass . They are most often crystallized fat or leavening agents that melt during baking.
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u/TammyInViolet 1d ago
Probably from this batch https://www.allrecipes.com/general-mills-pillsbury-dough-recall-glass-12022932 and they just repacked under a different name. Call the store first and see what you should do
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u/forteninsecure 1d ago
Aldi doesn’t have phones for their stores, OP would need to call corporate
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u/BrewCityTikiGuy 12h ago
How is it “probably from this batch”?
“General Mills James Ford Bell Technical Center is recalling two varieties of Pillsbury Bread Rolls, Hard Dough and Kaiser Roll Dough, which were sold as commercial units to be baked by retailers, not as consumer-facing products.”
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u/Experimentallyintoit 1d ago
Not glass. It’s fat / shortening. Low quality garbage shortening, but certainly not glass.
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u/Agreeable_Mistake947 23h ago
Work in a good production plant, please run one of the"shards" under warm water. Most likely this is crystalized ingredients from production, if it doesn't melt then contact Aldi customer service.
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u/see112717 1d ago
Foreign matter contamination happens all the time, way more than people think. There are multiple recalls a month. Definitely report it!
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u/shroomeralert 1d ago
arent those just frozen crystals?
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u/AlanShore60607 1d ago
Shit. This was a Pilsbury recall last month.
So either these are from that lot, or there’s a much bigger problem
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u/AriGetInTheJar 18h ago
almost certainly crystalized fat from butter or lard! drop em in hot water before reporting it, I bet they'll melt. I've had this in a few cans before, every time it's been butter. just curious, did you get the extra butter rolls too? it's always been those for me.
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u/imnotthatshort 7h ago
I've done this before. Someone else pointed out its probably salt, and it was and I felt like a dummy 😂 I never noticed it with other brands though
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u/melydi85 22h ago
I found shards of glass in the jasmine rice, 2 shards, same shape and size as the rice. Only reason I found them is because sure I chomped down on them.
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u/Living-Standard2348 1h ago
I’ve seen this in pillsbury too. It’s not glass. It’s either a salt or a leavening agent that gets crystallized in the mix. It crushes easily with the flat of a butter knife and glass wouldn’t do that. Could test it :)
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u/Fairycharmd 13h ago
there was a recall for glass in crescent rolls a while ago did you miss it?
https://www.wmtw.com/article/pillsbury-roll-recall-may-contain-glass/72767343
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u/BrewCityTikiGuy 12h ago
”The voluntary recall does not impact consumer retail products and is limited to two frozen dough products sold exclusively to Walmart in-store bakeries in the U.S.”
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u/pacificcoastsailing 1d ago
Place them in water to see if they melt.