Pak’nSave customer stunned by 1.1kg rock in bag of potatoes

The customer found a 1.1kg rock in a Pam's bag of potatoes. Photo / @memoriesmind93, TikTok

By Susan Edmunds of RNZ

Foodstuffs says a customer who found a stone in her bag of potatoes can have a fresh bag – and she doesn’t even have to give back the rock.

The woman posted on TikTok that she had just finished peeling potatoes from a Pam’s bag bought from Whakatāne Pak n Save

Among the potatoes was a large rock.

When the Ōpōtiki woman put it on her kitchen scales, it weighed more than 1.1kg.

“You cannot tell me this is a potato because it weighs a kilo and then some,” she said.

Other people had commented on the video that it had happened to them, too.

A Foodstuffs spokesperson said it seemed the potato-shaped, dirt-covered rock managed to sneak through the potato processing gate.

“We appreciate the customer’s surprise – it would have been problematic to peel and there’s obviously not much nutritional value in boiled or roast rocks, so they’ve got every reason to call it out,” they said.

“The store is aware of the situation and will happily give the customer a replacement bag of potatoes, without having to return the original bag, or the rock.”

-RNZ