Supermarket customers have complained on social media after their mouths were left "cut to pieces" by kale that was laced with thorns.
Several customers from Aldi, Lidl and Co-op have complained to the retailers over the past week after being left injured by the spiky spines.
One customer, Dan Head, complained to Co-op over Twitter claiming his mouth was "cut to pieces" after chomping down on some homemade kale chips.
Dan posted a photograph on August 2 showing two wet pieces of green kale with dozens of pointy, beige thorns sticking out from them.
He wrote: "@coopuk can you explain why the kale I bought in your store has thorns on?
"I've just made kale chips and choked after my second mouthful and my mouth is cut to pieces.
"Very dangerous, luckily it wasn't a young child."
Another Co-op customer, known as @courters_c wrote on Friday: "Sorry to bother you but are you aware your curly kale has thorns in it?
"Just had a dinner nightmare. Ouch."
Injured Lidl and Aldi shoppers also complained about their horrific spikey discoveries on Twitter.
Jessamy Britcliffe posted images showing an opened bag of Oaklands sliced curly kale from Lidl, where the thorned additions can be seen mixed up with normal kale.
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On Monday, she wrote: "LidlGB don't know what the f*** you're selling but this isn't kale and could also seriously injure someone.
"Just spent the past 30 mins picking it all out [of] my curry after both me and my boyfriend hurt ourselves eating it.
"Check what you're selling before you put it on the shelves."
On Sunday, Aldi customer Lizzie Randall posted photographs showing bundles of kale with hundreds of thorns attached.
She wrote: "Trying to understand how these thorns ended up in my @AldiUK kale.
"Hoping no one has accidentally eaten these!"
Aldi customer service apologised under the post asking for further information.
