TEA-time turned into a stomach churner for mum-of-four Jacqueline Walker when a slug-like object slid from a tin of ravioli.

She was preparing a snack for her 11-year-old son Christopher on Friday when she made the unsavoury discovery.

And she feels angry that food giant Princes suggested she send the grisly object - which she says looked like a slug - back to them through the post!

Jacqueline, of Mancroft Avenue, Great Lever, said: "I often give them just a tin of ravioli because when they've been at school I know they've had a decent dinner.

"But as I opened the tin this large jelly like object plopped out. The gravy was very discoloured and the ravioli was white. It really turned my stomach."

Jacqueline, who is unemployed, thought the two-inch object was a slug.

Her husband, Ian, said: "It was like jelly but had large black blobs on it. It was really disgusting. There was also a clump of black stuff in the jelly."

Jacqueline added: " I'm not after compensation - all I could think of is what if they had eaten it?

"I could have served it up without seeing it. That makes me feel ill."

A spokesman for Princes Ravioli said: "We take the utmost care to use only the finest ingredients and maintain strict quality control procedures throughout the manufacturing process.

"We have a Quality Assurance department who continuously monitor the final products to ensure that they meet our stringent specifications.

"All complaints are taken very seriously and in order that we can conduct a fall investigation into this matter, we would ask the consumer to return the can and the foreign matter to Princes. The code on the can will enable our technical people to establish exactly when the product was made and a laboratory examination will be conducted on the foreign matter."

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