It's enough to make any bread-lover's stomach churn.
While unpacking the groceries with a friend on Sunday, an Australian woman noticed a suspicious looking hole in a loaf of Helga's bread she had bought.
"I said to my friend: 'This bread's got a hole in it, it looks like a rat's eaten into it,'" the woman, who asked not to be identified, said.
The rat had done more than chew through the packaging; when the Townsville woman lifted the bag out she found the rat alive and nestled inside the loaf.
"The thought of a live rat in my loaf of bread and so close to me was pretty gruesome," she said.
