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Thread ID: 17485 | Posts: 13 | Started: 2005-03-24
2005-03-24 03:46 | User Profile
How do you like this one, Sertorius? :wink:
"SAN JOSE, Calif. - A woman's meal at a Wendy's restaurant brought a whole new meaning to the term "finger food." The woman bit into a portion of a human finger while eating a bowl of chili Tuesday night at the San Jose restaurant, Santa Clara County health officials said Wednesday.
The woman, who asked officials not to identify her, immediately spit out the finger and warned other diners to stop eating, witnesses said.
"Initially she did put this object in her mouth and did bite down on it and wasn't sure exactly what it was," Santa Clara County Health Officer Dr. Martin Fenstersheib said at a news conference. "She's doing OK. Initially she was a bit grossed out it was described to me, and vomited a number of times."
Fenstersheib said the finger had been cooked at a high enough temperature to kill any viruses.
Officials said the fingertip was approximately 1 3-8-inches long and a half-inch piece of fingernail was also found. They believe it belongs to a woman because of the long, manicured nail.
Health investigators seized all of the ingredients at the restaurant and are tracing them back to their manufacturer. They believe the finger got into the chili at an earlier stage.
"We have no evidence of any accident within the employees at the facility itself," said Ben Gale of the Santa Clara County Health Department. "We asked everybody to show us they have 10 fingers and everything is OK there."
The restaurant has had only one minor health violation stemming from a leaky vent, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
"Food safety is of utmost importance to us," Wendy's spokesman Joe Desmond said in a statement. "We are cooperating fully with the local police and health departments with their investigation. It's important not to jump to conclusions. Here at Wendy's we plan to do right by our customers."
[url]http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=817&ncid=757&e=10&u=/ap/20050324/ap_on_fe_st/finger_food[/url]
2005-03-24 18:48 | User Profile
Remember that movie with Rutger Hauer, "the Hitcher" or something like that? Man, that was awesome.
2005-03-24 20:37 | User Profile
Gabrielle,
There has got to be an illegal alien involved in this some place.
2005-03-24 21:16 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Sertorius]Gabrielle,
There has got to be an illegal alien involved in this some place.[/QUOTE]
Yea, notice how they didn't identify the race of the finger? Was the finger white, black, brown?
2005-03-25 08:57 | User Profile
I live about five miles from that Wendy's, and have driven by it many times. I think I ate their once like three or four years ago....
2005-03-27 20:52 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Sertorius]There has got to be an illegal alien involved in this some place.[/QUOTE] This is indeed consistent with Mexican food safety standards, but I wonder if it wasn't just made with imported beef into which a murdered body was disposed. That isn't unheard of in countries run by drug cartels.
Things like this are why I was once a vegetarian. :P
2005-03-27 21:20 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Gabrielle]... Fenstersheib [Dr. Martin Fenstersheib] said the finger had been cooked at a high enough temperature to kill any viruses. ...[/QUOTE] See... there's actually nothing to worry about... really.
:biggrin:
2005-03-28 03:11 | User Profile
That kind of makes you think about some of the stuff you must have eaten in your life. Not just at resturants, but also food from the grocery store.
Yet another reason for me to provide as much of my own food as I reasonably can.
2005-03-28 03:42 | User Profile
It's all just protein.
2005-03-28 04:44 | User Profile
Good Grief at this rate I am going to have to build a chicken coop and start raising my own meat. The meat at the store is so nasty I do not want to eat it much any more.
2005-03-28 14:53 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Faust]Good Grief at this rate I am going to have to build a chicken coop and start raising my own meat. The meat at the store is so nasty I do not want to eat it much any more.[/QUOTE]
Its amazing how much better the beef & lamb that real restaurants somehow manage to procure is compared to what's made available at the supermarkets. My father suggests that decent restaurants get actual beef raised to be eaten, while Safeway relies on rendered dairy cows; this rings true to me. Retail pork still seems to be of reasonable quality, however. I don't eat enough poultry or store-bought fish to be able to comment on these.
2005-03-28 15:31 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Kevin_O'Keeffe]Its amazing how much better the beef & lamb that real restaurants somehow manage to procure is compared to what's made available at the supermarkets. My father suggests that decent restaurants get actual beef raised to be eaten, while Safeway relies on rendered dairy cows; this rings true to me. Retail pork still seems to be of reasonable quality, however. I don't eat enough poultry or store-bought fish to be able to comment on these.[/QUOTE] I recall reading that some upscale restaurants join co-ops where the meat and vegetables are raised and harvested to their specs.
Also, restaurants bid on USDA "prime" and consume most of the supply. The next lower grade is "choice," which is what you are usually getting when you buy an expensive rib roast or filet at the grocery story. Prime is very expensive at the retail level.
2005-03-29 04:21 | User Profile
Kevin_O'Keeffe and SteamshipTime,
I think the consolidation of the meat packing industry in the last few is part of the problem. I have not liked the pork I have been getting lately much either. I am going to end buying all my food at Trader Joe's like some kind of Yuppie. But it is better food than one find at most grocery store.
Trader Joe's [url]http://www.traderjoes.com/[/url]