A family say they are disgusted that their canned fruit salad came with an unwanted cold-blooded critter.
Sharyn Malcolm's sons Rhyan, 15, and 9-year-old Cameron were looking forward to a snack on Friday afternoon. On opening a Wattie's 425g Pick of the Crop tropical fruit salad can, they said they found a dead reptile.
"It was at the bottom of the can, definitely," Malcolm said. "The tail broke off it."
The tail's resting place was a mystery, and Rhyan initially told his mum. "I'm not sure if Cameron ate it or threw it in the rubbish bin."
The Waihi family first thought the animal was a lizard.