Muslim man disgusted after Morrisons baguette blunder

Abdul Haibismillah, who works in the Idle area, bought the incorrectly packaged sandwich from Morrisons, in the Enterprise 5 Retail Park, off Five Lane Ends, last Thursday.

The Bradford-based supermarket giant has since apologised for its mistake.

Mr Haibismillah said: “It’s quite disappointing, I felt disgusted.”

Abdul Haibismillah, 23, who works in Idle has been left disgusted after a blunder by Morrisons, in the Enterprise 5 Retail Park, off Five Lane Ends (Image: Telegraph & Argus)

The 23-year-old has been going to Morrisons for a meal deal pretty much every day for the last six months, as it is close to his place of work.

He said: “Because I’m Muslim, I don’t have anything unless it's HMC (Halal Monitoring Committee) or halal, I always get tuna or a salad.

“I always get a baguette, tuna mayo, cucumber, from the packaging it told me tuna.”

The tuna baguette which actually had chicken inside (Image: N/A)

Mr Haibismillah took the sandwich back to work and thought nothing was out of place, as he could see the sandwich was covered in its usual sauce.

But he was left confused when he bit into the product.

He said: “I’ve taken it back to work, opened it, it was all covered in mayo, I took my first bite, chicken, and I thought ‘am I being funny or is something wrong here’, I checked it.”

Mr Haibismillah looked inside the sandwich and was horrified to see it filled with chicken, which he said was non-halal.

The tuna baguette which actually had chicken inside (Image: N/A)

He has been left shocked that such a big Bradford company made this mistake.

He said: “I wouldn’t go anywhere unless it's HMC, it’s careless from their point of view.”

He added: “It’s different if it said chicken on there, I would have checked if it was halal on the back.”

The ordeal has also put Mr Haibismillah off from returning to the store and he raised the issue with Morrisons the day after his purchase.

But he was left disappointed after he said they offered him vouchers for the mix-up and described it as “disgraceful”.

He added: “Obviously mistakes happen but this is just something else.”

A spokesperson for Morrisons said: “We take the accuracy of our labelling extremely seriously.

“Unfortunately, we have not met our usual high standard and the product in question was incorrectly labelled.

“We have offered our sincere apologies to the customer and assured him we have taken necessary steps to prevent this from happening in future.”