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A devout Muslim got a nasty shock when a supermarket mix-up resulted in him biting into a PORK roll - after thinking it was cheese and onion.

Shamrez Razaq, 20, said he felt sick after chomping on the Morrisons' own savoury supermarket pastries which was clearly labelled 'cheese and onion' and 'suitable for vegetarians'.

And horrified Shamrez, who had bought the pack of rolls for his family's tea, was forced snatch another roll from the same pack from his eight-year-old brother's mouth.

Mr Razaq, of Bradford, West Yorks., said: "For centuries my ancestors have not eaten pork - I can't believe this has happened.

"We regularly buy the cheese pastries from there so we never expected it to be pork. Why should we? It just shouldn't happen."

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Speaking about the incident at Morrison's Ingleby Road store, Shamrez said: "I have never, never touched anything like that.

"It was a bad mistake of Morrisons' especially to make in the Girlington area which has such a huge Muslim population. It's unforgivable.

"They have to be extra careful. The rolls were their own brand, baked and packed by them. They are completely to blame.

"The pork and the cheese rolls look exactly the same, you can't tell the difference from the outside. The only difference is the label - and it was wrong."

He added: "My little brother didn't realise at first so I had to snatch it out of his mouth, he's really upset about what he's eaten."

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Mr Razaq had to bin the contaminated plates they were using to eat the pastries and said he took the "offending food" in its original packaging back to the store straight away and asked to speak to the manager.

Speaking about the outlet's response, Shamrez said: "He [the manager] apologised and gave me a refund, a few more pounds than I'd paid which felt like a pay off. I was really disappointed at the lack of customer service.

"It didn't seem to sink in with them the enormity of what their mistake meant to us.

"I wasn't bothered about getting money back. I wanted to know they would be doing everything they possibly can to find out how it happened and to make sure this doesn't happen again."

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Shamrez said he would "never ever forget" the episode and warned: "It might have happened to other Muslim families as well as us who were misled by Morrisons into thinking they were buying non-pork. How can we trust them again?"

A Morrisons spokesperson said: "At Morrisons, we are very aware that for various reasons our customers may wish to avoid certain foods for personal beliefs, and therefore we take the correct labelling of these very seriously indeed.

"We were very sorry to learn that the customer was sold an incorrectly labelled product, and have offered our sincerest apologies.

"We will ensure extra vigilance with regard to the correct labelling of these products, and will closely monitor it to make sure it doesn't happen again."