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Angry Gemma Kirk-Bonner, 35, said she was ‘disgusted’ by the grim discovery and that she was still waiting for an apology from the fast food giant.<\/p>\n
The teaching assistant said the incident occurred last Wednesday (Oct 18), when she went to a McDonald’s outlet, in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria.<\/p>\n
She bought two fish finger Happy Meals, costing \u00a33.59 each, for her kids, Caleb, one, and Jackson, three, and then took them home for the pair to eat.<\/p>\n
But Gemma said as she was feeding her little baby, she shockingly noticed a smoked cigarette and ash nestled among dozens of fries.<\/p>\n
READ MORE <\/strong> The UK school banned from McDonald’s after pupils abuse ‘staff and customers’<\/strong><\/p>\n Gemma said: \u201cI gave my three-year-old his without looking. \u201cThen I put my one-year-old in his high chair, and I was feeding him by hand. I was picking the fish fingers up for him.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s when I noticed the ash and the cigarette in the box. It was disgusting. I was absolutely fuming. \u201cIf I\u2019d given the box to my three-year-old, he would have tried to eat it. He wouldn\u2019t have known it was different.<\/p>\n \u201cI put on Facebook, \u2018Forget the toy – now comes with cigarette end [and] ash for extra taste’ because I was fuming.\u201d And she now plans to boycott her usual Friday evening trips to the restaurant until the matter is properly addressed. \u201cI normally take my sons on the Friday, but I won’t be doing it this time, that\u2019s for sure. I\u2019m in the process of complaining to McDonald’s head office.”<\/p>\n McDonald’s has been approached for comment.<\/p>\n
Gemma said she later complained to the branch of MacDonalds, on Dalton Road, but said the manager had \u2018rudely\u2019 put the phone down on her.<\/p>\n
She added: \u201cIt has put me off. It\u2019s made me think twice about going to McDonald’s.<\/p>\n\n