Snakes and lettuce: shoppers in Australia find venomous snake in Aldi fresh produce bag

After finding the baby pale-headed snake, Alexander White had a troubling thought: What if the snake has come from something else?'

A Sydney couple received a fright when they discovered a rare venomous snake in a bag of supermarket lettuce - but recovered and later used the fresh produce in a salad wrap.

The juvenile pale-headed snake, Hoplocephalus bitorquatus, was tucked into a two-pack of cos lettuce which Alexander White and his partner, Amelie Neate, purchased from an Aldi supermarket in Sydney on Monday.