First Bunnings, now this: Supermarket is BANNED from handing free smiley meat slices to children in case they slip on it - after onion-gate outraged the nation
- Supermarket banned staff from handing out smiley fritz over 'slip hazard' fears
- Foodland South Australia's Barossa Valley outlet placed sign on display counter
- 'Due to slip hazards, we are no longer able to give out any smiley fritz to children'
- Store said customer bumped her head after slipping on fritz piece on January 3
An Australian supermarket has banned staff from handing out smiley fritz to children over 'slip hazard' fears in the wake of Bunnings' onion-gate saga.
Foodland's store in South Australia's Barossa Valley placed a sign on its meat display counter this week, telling customers the enduring tradition was over.
'Due to slip hazards, we are no longer able to give out any smiley fritz to children,' the sign read.
The store said the ban was in place because a customer bumped her head after slipping on a fritz piece a child had dropped on January 3, The Advertiser reported.
The woman was not injured and didn't require medical treatment.
An Australian supermarket has banned staff from handing out smiley fritz sausage to children over 'slip hazard' fears
Locals slammed the store for 'putting a frown' on the age-old practice.
One told the ABC he was shocked the store 'would succumb… to over-the-top measures'.
'I would imagine 99.9 per cent of South Aussies have a childhood memory of getting fritz at a supermarket,' he said.
'It's worse than the onion saga at Bunnings.'
Another told Seven News: 'It's something that children grew up with years ago, going to the deli and getting their free smiley fritz, but it's no longer. It's sad.'
Nat Cook, a Labor member of South Australian parliament, took to Facebook to label the move 'ridiculous'.
'First it was the Bunnings snag on onion saga - now Foodland has put a frown on smiley fritz banning its gifting to small children due to ''slip hazards'',' she wrote.
'All jokes aside... I think it's ridiculous.'
Foodland's head office was not involved in the decision, but respected the store's right to make it, it is understood.
The store declined to comment when contacted by Daily Mail Australia.
The store said the ban was in place because a customer bumped her head after slipping on a fritz piece a child had dropped on January 3 (stock)
In November, Australian hardware giant Bunnings made international headlines after announcing onions had to be served underneath sausages in sandwiches served at its famous barbeques.
The move came after a man slipped on a slice of the vegetable, which had fallen from a sausage sandwich, leaving him with a damaged hip and 'emotional distress'.
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Just hours later, a nurse claimed slipping on onions from a Bunnings sausage sizzle almost cost her life.
'For me personally that one trip to Bunnings has nearly cost me my career as a theatre nurse, my home and at my darkest time when I could see no future, nearly my life,' she wrote online.
Australian hardware giant Bunnings made international headlines in November after announcing onions had to be served underneath sausages at its famous BBQs
