Viktoria Ed and her family are undoubtedly hoping that the thing they found in their ketchup bottle - that thing that looked every inch a penis - was something else.

The Stockholm family had sat down to dinner. Children Madeleine and Simon layered their rolls with everyone's favourite condiment, as did husband Stefan. Perhaps Viktoria caught the bottle at a better angle, or maybe she's just always had a keen eye for cock, but before she'd put the ketchup on her own rolls, she noticed something in the tomatoey depths.

"It looked like a penis," Viktoria recalls. "Of an adult, if it's human. And medium-sized."

The family says the bottle of Turkish-made Godegaarden ketchup looked untampered with when they bought it, and have no clue how the cock got there.

Police took the cock in for analysis. The shop where the bottle was purchased yanked the rest of their stock in case each bottle had a cock in it.

» Scott Saxon