Bakery response hard to swallow

An elderly man who broke his denture on a piece of metal inside a bread and butter sandwich wants answers.

When Michael O’Donoghue bit the thumbnail-sized fragment of metal in his sandwich it caused his top denture to break away, leaving him without his front teeth since February.

Mr O’Donoghue believed the metal was in a loaf of Mias Bakery bread he bought from Coles South Bunbury.

He said he wanted whoever was responsible for the fragment of metal to pay for his denture to be repaired or replaced.

Mias Bakery chief executive officer Conrad Mias said the metal had been analysed and he was convinced it had not been baked into the bread, however he could not guarantee the fragment had not entered the bag once it left the bakery.

“I have no problem facing the music if I’ve done something wrong, but I don’t believe I have, ” Mr Mias said.

He said loaves of bread at Mias Bakery went through a metal detector which would pick up on metal inside the loaf.

A spokeswoman for Coles said the company was concerned a customer was unhappy with a supplier’s product.

“We recently requested Mias Bakery to get in touch with this customer and we will follow up with this request, ” she said.

Mr O’Donoghue said he was upset at the lack of a response from the companies and embarrassed by the state of his teeth.

“I’m not after millions of dollars, I just want my teeth fixed, ” he said.

Mr Mias said investigations into the origin of the fragment would continue.