Fudge isn’t meant to wriggle (Picture: Deadline)

Morrisons messed up a woman’s Christmas order – then apologised by sending a maggot in a box of chocolates.

Really, you shouldn’t have.

Gabriella Ortutai-Hughes, from North Kensington, had gone to collect the meat she had ordered from the supermarket on December 22, but they didn’t have the right size in stock.

To try and make things better, they gave her a box of Cadbury Milk Tray.


Gabriella, 37, presented the box to her family and they all ate the chocolate – then spotted a maggot trying to wriggle it’s way out of a ‘Fudge Duet’.

She took this video, which features the very unwelcome surprise:

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The Learning Support assistant said the experience was ‘upsetting’ and that she was ‘disgusted’ at the thought her family may have unknowingly consumed other maggots.



Gabriella posted a short seven second clip to the supermarket’s Facebook page with the caption: ‘Lovely present I got for waiting one and a half hours for my Christmas order which was messed up, and I didn’t had the crucial part to which would of been £60 worth of chateaubriand.

‘I still left the shop calm until today. Enough is enough.’

One of Gabriella’s children can be heard talking in the background about how he nearly ate the sweet treat, before spotting it.

Gabriella said that after waiting an hour and a half to be given the wrong meat, she was furious but accepted the store’s initial apology.

She said: ‘There was a lovely sales assistant who offered me the chocolates and a bunch of flower as an apology.

‘Thinking that I or my children may have eaten one, disgusted me. I am very upset about the whole situation.

‘I don’t normally order my Christmas food from there, this was the first and last time ever. My children are very upset about the maggot too.’

A spokeswoman for Morrisons said: ‘We would like to investigate this properly to find out what has happened. We would therefore ask the customer to return the item to a Morrisons store at her earliest convenience.’

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