Frozen food isn't the most exciting of supermarket buys, but one mum's Tesco purchase has had shoppers howling.
Mum Celia Tate found a rather amusing shaped sausage in a pack she had delivered last week and 'couldn't believe' her eyes.
After bursting out laughing and of course sending a photo to her partner, who was out at the time, she decided to share the images online.
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Since then, Celia's sausage has become somewhat of an internet sensation, with her Facebook post receiving hundreds of comments and a TikTok video of the meaty morsel getting thousands of views.
It didn't take long for the jokes to start appearing in the Facebook comments, with shoppers claiming to 'recognise' who the sausage belongs to.
Others commented on the size of the sausage, saying 'must be cold in that freezer'.
Celia, 62, had actually ordered two packs of the £1.60 sausages with her Tesco home delivery on Friday.
"Believe it or not I was actually going to make toad in the hole for tea," she said. "But also make my son a sandwich.
"When I first saw it I couldn’t believe my eyes to be honest, then burst out laughing. I called my son down and he just went 'don’t think I’ll bother with that sandwich now mum'.
"My partner was at the gym so I sent a photo to him. He said get in touch with Tesco as someone’s obviously been messing about with them in manufacturing, it’s blatantly obvious what it’s supposed to be."
Celia, who lives in Sunderland, says her friends found the sausage 'so hilarious', they persuaded her to put it on Facebook and TikTok, where it's 'literally gone mental'.
She contacted Tesco who refunded the pack and told her they will look into the matter.
As for the sausage, it remains uneaten, but she's keeping it for now.
"The sausage in question is still sat in the freezer in a Tupperware dish," she said. "The rest of the packet went in the bin. I actually bought two packets, but I dare not open the other one, god knows what we will find in that one. It’s a good job I don’t offend easy."
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