This curry lover reckons he’s discovered a ‘cat’s anus’ in his £1.50 tinned dinner from Tesco, but the supermarket has other ideas.

Andrew Lee, 30, was halfway through eating his favourite TV meal when he found the ‘greyish skin coloured’ tube on the end of his fork.

He said it looked like a ‘belly button’ or a ‘cat’s anus’ and put him off food for two days.

What is this mysterious flesh? (Picture: Andrew Lee/Deadline News)

The mysterious piece of animal flesh was even branded a ‘thing’ by Tesco who later revealed it was in fact a large blood vessel, which appears to have escaped the mincing process.




Andrew, from Swansea, Wales, said: ‘It’s the first time I’ve noticed something like that before.

‘There was the beginning of a tube then it was cut off. There was a bit of string on it too.

‘It’s weird. I don’t think it’s fat – it’s super smooth. The texture is like silk.’

He added: ‘I picked it up on the fork first and noticed the colour was different. It was like greyish skin coloured.

This would put you off your beef curry (Picture: Deadline News)

‘You could tell it wasn’t beef. Well, it could be beef, but not “meat beef”.

‘Normally you don’t get any kind of fat or anything. I’ve never had anything odd in there before.

‘I couldn’t eat for about two days after that. It’s the first diet that’s worked.

‘I normally love the beef curry with some jasmine rice and poppadoms. It’s quite tasty.

‘But I won’t be having those tins again and I won’t look at cats the same either.’

The Tesco ‘beef’ curry on sale for £1.50 (Picture: Tesco)

Andrew immediately complained online after his dinner was spoiled by the ‘weird’ discovery.

Thinking Tesco wouldn’t reply, he wrote a humorous message admitting that losing his appetite was ‘somewhat of a biblical occurrence’.

Andrew said: ‘Tesco even replied calling it a ‘thing’. It made me feel worse if they’re taking it so seriously too.

‘After the Facebook post people were messaging me about it in disgust as if I’d found a new species.’

He added: ‘I showed my partner who was there at the time and he was horrified.

‘I had a tin of tomatoes once and there were caterpillars in there so it works either way. I won’t go veggie anytime soon.’

A Tesco spokesperson said: ‘Our supplier has confirmed that the piece of beef in question is part of a blood vessel.

‘We have apologised to Andrew and have asked him to return the product in question to their local store so we can investigate this further.’

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