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23 Hillside View
New Mills
HIGH PEAK
SK22 3DF

19th March 1997

McVities
The Vegetable Kitchen
Admail 827
Fakenham
Norfolk
NR21 0FF


Dear Linda McCartney

I'm afraid that I have a rather serious complaint to make about one of your vegetarian products. Yesterday I purchased a packet of your 4 Deep Country Pies from my local supermarket, and later heated them up for supper along with some oven chips, for my three children and myself. I have to report that in at least one of the pies, the pie eaten by me, was a quantity of meat. It is difficult to believe that with a pie whose ingredients already include water, wheatflour, vegetable oil, onion, rehydrated soya protein concentrate, vegetarian seasoning, modified starch, wheat protein, soya flour, salt, malt extract and sodium, that there would be any room left in it for meat, but meat in it there was. There could very well have been meat in the other three pies as well, but unfortunately my children had eaten them before I had the chance to check. (The speed with which my children dispatched the pies would suggest that they did indeed contain meat, since they are reluctant vegetarians at best, and anything put before them with meat in it tends to go down their throats without touching the sides.)

Needless to say I am very disappointed in your 'vegetarian' pies and certainly won't be buying any more. I would like your comments on this as I may decide to take the matter further with the appropriate authorities.

My regards to Paul - they just don't write them like 'The Frog Song' any more, do they.


Yours faithfully