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A mouldy pizza base from Tesco made for one hilariously clueless Twitter exchange

Poor Linda…!

Jan 7th 2016, 6:51 PM 10,540 Views 2 Comments

TESCO ARE USUALLY legendary when it comes to their online customer service. However, yesterday, this complaint came through.

@Tesco ?????? Opened my pizza base to this pic.twitter.com/2zceI93ICv
— Luke Mitchell (@lukemitch111) January 6, 2016

Source: Luke Mitchell/Twitter

The tweet from Luke Mitchell seemed to show a perfectly in-date pizza with a mouldy green base.

He tweeted the two photos at the Tesco account, and a customer rep ‘Linda’ got straight back to him but couldn’t appear to see what the problem was.

This is when things got messy.

Who needs 10,000 characters when Twitter produces this gold in 140? pic.twitter.com/Kw3c5ILlKF
— Sean Spooner (@spoonersean) January 6, 2016

Source: Sean Spooner/Twitter

Poor Linda, just tryna get by. The tweet was retweeted over 3,000 times and soon started to go viral.

But some just felt bad for Linda

@lukemitch111 @Tesco don't talk to linda like that
— A Phil Jones Facial (@Humans_Are_Hell) January 6, 2016

Source: A Phil Jones Facial/Twitter

@lukemitch111 @Tesco On some Twitter platforms only the first photo shows up. I had to check on my phone to see the second & what was wrong.
— Matt Crivelli (@MattCrivelli) January 6, 2016

Source: Matt Crivelli/Twitter

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Tesco were quick to get back to Luke and offer a reimbursement after Linda’s puzzled reply.

#PrayForLinda

9 times Christmas food completely lost the run of itself>

This Twitter conversation between Tesco and a Waterford man is highly entertaining>

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A mouldy pizza base from Tesco made for one hilariously clueless Twitter exchange