May 19 (UPI) — A customer brought home a bag of lettuce from an Australian grocery store and discovered a live frog among the leaves.
Laura Jones and Billie Le Pine, who are originally from New Zealand, said their roommate returned to their Esperance home from a trip to Woolworths and called their attention to the bag of lettuce he bought.
“He’s the most casual Australian ever, and he’s like, ‘Bro, I’ve got a lettuce, like a frog in my lettuce,'” Jones told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. “It was just out of the ordinary for Kiwis.”
Jones posted a video of the frog inside the bag to TikTok, where it racked up millions of views.
Le Pine estimated the frog was about the size of his palm.
“It’s quite a decent-sized frog for a big adventure,” he said. “It would have probably come from east. Most of our vegetables come from eastern Australia to Esperance. The bag of lettuce does have holes in it to keep the produce fresh, so he had a snack and some air on his way over.”
The frog, which the residents named Greg, was released into a local dam — along with his lettuce.
“That was the most random thing I’ve ever encountered while opening a bag of lettuce,” Le Pine said. “I’m just glad Greg is back in his natural habitat.”
Woolworths issued a statement saying the discovery is under investigation. The statement said the stowaway frog represented “an isolated event with no other reported cases.”