Shopper in Terror As Lid of Chicken Soup From Trader Joe’s Popped by Itself, Raising Contamination Concerns

She revealed that the product was recently bought from the store and yet failed to maintain its shelf life even for a day. She elucidated that the contents in the soup had expanded resulting in the lid popping off. “In the time that I’ve had it in my apartment, it’s expanded so much that the lids, like, been pushed off," she said. It was made clear that the soup was still unopened, yet the distorted packaging became a point of concern for the shopper. In the final bit of the video, Kaitlyn informed her viewers that she was going to “stab it” open. She also questioned Trader Joe’s manufacturing practices by chipping in a little note, “Trader Joe…what y’all got going on the factory?”

Several users flocked to the viral TikTok post and shared insights on the matter. The comments section was flooded with similar experiences from other shoppers. @theUnstuck suggested that “a full refund or replacement” was possible if the shopper took their receipt back to Trader Joe’s. Another comment by @ALyLoVe read, “I got the fall harvest chili from Trader Joe's and it did the same thing in less than 24 hours after purchase and tasted sour. I threw it out.” “I would never trust anything like that to be safe. Especially chicken!” another TikTok user @Ci stated. 

Some other comments under the post attempted to explain what had happened in the chicken noodle soup cup and the grocery store's poor maintenance of the food products it sells. The bloating of the plastic usually indicates contamination by bacteria as they ferment the food contents to release gas as a by-product. The gas is then further trapped within the plastic wrap, causing the swollen appearance, as per the National Library of Medicine. Moreover, Trader Joe’s products have been recalled in light of the listeria outbreak, per the Daily Dot. 

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