A woman said she bit into a partial finger served in a bowl of chili at a Wendy's restaurant, leading authorities to a fingerprint database Thursday to determine who lost the digit.
The incident Tuesday night at a San Jose, Calif., Wendy's restaurant left the unidentified customer ill and distraught, said Joy Alexiou, a spokeswoman for the Santa Clara County Health Department.
Employees at the Wendy's were checked and the fingertip didn't come from any of them, officials said, adding that the well-cooked finger may have come from a food processing plant that supplies the company.
Denny Lynch, a spokesman for Wendy's International Inc., based in Dublin, Ohio, (btw, Dublin is a shithole.) said there have been no reports to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration of injuries at any supplier of chili ingredients to Wendy's.
"All of our chili suppliers report no accidents," he said.
Health officials said the fingertip was approximately 1 1/2 inches long. They believe it belongs to a woman because of the long, manicured nail.
Investigators seized the remaining chili and closed the restaurant for a few hours.
Alexiou said the woman, who asked officials not to identify her, is at minimal risk of contracting illnesses from the finger because the chili was cooked. And therefor she shouldn't worry about eating more of the obviously human chili.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... inger_food
In related news, a friend of mine in Ohio worked for a while at a meat processing plant that supplied Taco Bell, Arby's, Wendy's, and White Castle with their ground and burger-type meats. He told me of the horrible conditions of the place, where people were sneezing and a fat guy he used to watch would always lift up his shirt and scratch all over his back with his nails and then immediately get back to work handling chuck-style beef. He also told me that it wasn't rare for them to forget to add essential preservatives and salt by mistake, and the meat would then be ruined after 3 days, but since they [the employee] gets in trouble if they report a mistake, they [he specifically] never said a word about it.
I heard similar stories from a former Oscar-Mayer worker who said sides of cattle would fall on the [cow] piss and shit on the floor and then be put back up on hooks without any cleaning.
Bon Appétit, you cretins.
) but there's a great butcher/deli in town where the bulk of our meat comes from. they sell venison, which is healthy, tasty stuff - if a bit pricey. also do these really lush burgers, which as far as i can tell are basically a good sunday lunch compressed into a pattie.
