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Dead Frog Found in Salad From Chain Sandwich Shop
NBC New York ^ | Tuesday, Dec 31, 2013

Posted on 12/31/2013 10:57:49 AM PST by nickcarraway

A sandwich restaurant chain says it's looking into how a dead frog got into a customer's salad in Manhattan Monday.

The customer found the small frog in her salad from a Pret A Manger store on 47th Street and Sixth Avenue, according to her colleague Kathryn Lurie, who photographed it and posted it to the photo-sharing app Instagram.

Lurie, an editor at The Wall Street Journal, said on Twitter her co-worker wanted to remain anonymous but that "she was pretty shaken, understandably."

It's not clear how the frog got into the salad.

Pret said in a statement: "Our lettuce is sourced from farms that do not use any pesticides on its produce, therefore organic matter does very rarely manage to pass through our production process. We are currently looking into this issue to make every effort that this does not happen again."


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: frog; napl; pretamanger; restaurants; salad
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Frogs are edible and, in fact, expensive.

1 posted on 12/31/2013 10:57:49 AM PST by nickcarraway
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Looks like aquatic-chicken salad.


2 posted on 12/31/2013 10:59:06 AM PST by Rebelbase (Tagline: optional, printed after your name on post)
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To: nickcarraway

You’d have to pay extra for that in China.


3 posted on 12/31/2013 11:01:23 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: nickcarraway

Good source of protein. They would have charged $40 or $50 for this salad in an upscale French restaurant, so what’s this person complaining about?


4 posted on 12/31/2013 11:01:43 AM PST by Arthurio
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To: nickcarraway

Inspector: ‘ELLO!

Mr. Hilton: ‘Ello.

Inspector: Mr. ‘ilton?

Hilton: A-yes?

Inspector: You are the sole proprietor and owner of the Whizzo Chocolate Company?

Mr. Hilton: I am, yes.

Inspector: Constable Clitoris and I are from the ‘ygiene squad, and we’d like to have a word with you about your box of chocolates entitled the ‘Whizzo Quality Assortment’.

Mr. Hilton: Oh, yes.

Inspector: If I may begin at the beginning. First there is the Cherry Fondue. Now this is extremely nasty. (pause) But we can’t prosecute you for that.

Mr. Hilton: Ah, agreed.

Inspector: Then we have number four. Number four: Crunchy Frog.

Mr. Hilton: Yes.

Inspector: Am I right in thinking there’s a real frog in ‘ere?

Mr. Hilton: Yes, a little one.

Inspector: What sort of frog?

Mr. Hilton: A...a *dead* frog.

Inspector: Is it cooked?

Mr. Hilton: No.

Inspector: What, a RAW frog?!?

Mr. Hilton: Oh, we use only the finest baby frogs, dew-picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in the finest quality spring water, lightly killed, and sealed in a succulent, Swiss, quintuple-smooth, treble-milk chocolate envelope, and lovingly frosted with glucose.

Inspector: That’s as may be, but it’s still a frog!

Mr. Hilton: What else?

Inspector: Well, don’t you even take the bones out?

Mr. Hilton: If we took the bones out, it wouldn’t be crunchy, would it?


5 posted on 12/31/2013 11:01:52 AM PST by henkster (Communists never negotiate.)
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To: nickcarraway

6 posted on 12/31/2013 11:02:04 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: henkster

Might as well post the YouTube link....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy6uLfermPU


7 posted on 12/31/2013 11:03:02 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: nickcarraway

She would have preferred a live frog, perhaps?


8 posted on 12/31/2013 11:04:15 AM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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Daughter found a Dragon Fly un a salad at Cheesecake Factory.


9 posted on 12/31/2013 11:04:46 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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Too bad it wasn’t a dead rat in (_)o(_)bama’s sandwich.


10 posted on 12/31/2013 11:04:56 AM PST by Huskerfan44 (Huskerfan44 (22 Yr, Navy Vet))
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“Organic matter does very rarely pass through our production process.”

That’s OK, Hoppy! You are still a frog. Don’t let these haters put you down! You’re more than just organic matter! You’re organic matter that can hop, and they can’t take that away from you!


11 posted on 12/31/2013 11:06:29 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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Could be worse, she might have found half a frog.


12 posted on 12/31/2013 11:08:05 AM PST by dblshot (I am John Galt.)
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To: nickcarraway

And the French immediately surrendered.


13 posted on 12/31/2013 11:08:34 AM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: dblshot

14 posted on 12/31/2013 11:09:02 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: nickcarraway
The salad is first picked, then passed through a chlorinated water plume, shaken the diced through a machine which has a has a 3/4” opening. If he made it that far, Kermit would then be transferred to essentially a clean room where he would be added to eggs chicken etc.

This arrived to the restaurant in 4-5 days. Kermit looks pretty good for at least 6 days expired.

I smell bovine excrement and attempt to win urban lottery

15 posted on 12/31/2013 11:11:03 AM PST by slapshot
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To: nickcarraway

Poor frog . . . led a happy, but uneventful life (probably). Until it ended up in someone’s salad to be whined about . . . .


16 posted on 12/31/2013 11:11:04 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: nickcarraway

Could lead to having a frog in one’s throat, literally. :)


17 posted on 12/31/2013 11:11:16 AM PST by Starboard
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To: nickcarraway

Latest version of the needle in the pizza scam.


18 posted on 12/31/2013 11:13:38 AM PST by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: nickcarraway

It got there the same way a mouse finds its way into a bottle of beer, eh.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GsgVspgy184&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DGsgVspgy184


19 posted on 12/31/2013 11:24:32 AM PST by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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To: Rebelbase

It was probably the Bad Cholesterol in the egg yolk that killed the little thing...


20 posted on 12/31/2013 11:25:19 AM PST by babygene ( .)
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