Posted on 04/12/2018 4:40:17 AM PDT by simpson96
An Illinois woman is suing an Italian restaurant, claiming an order of lasagna left her with “mental anguish” when it exploded with “piping hot” marinara sauce and burned her as she dug into it.
Theresa Thomas filed suit in Cook County Circuit Court, seeking $50,000 from Osteria Ottimo Ristorante in the suburb of Orland Park, the Chicago Tribune reported.
The alleged marinara blow-up happened when Thomas and her husband were having lunch at the restaurant on Dec. 7 of this past year.
“(Thomas) placed her left hand in her lap, picked up a fork with her right hand and touched the tower of layered pasta, meat, cheese and marinara sauce with the fork,” according to the complaint by the plaintiff’s lawyer David Petrich.
“Upon contact with the fork, and without warning, piping hot marinara sauce shot from the lasagna and onto Theresa’s left hand, scalding the skin and causing a large burn.”
The lasagna burn caused Thomas to “suffer great physical pain and mental anguish,” the complaint said.
A rep for the restaurant could not be immediately reached for comment on Wednesday night.
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A similar thing happened to me once, but in my case the lasagna was kind enough to warn me of it's intentions prior to exploding.
Sometimes you get the lasagna
Sometimes the lasagna gets you.
Manga!
A sure sign of microwaved food.
This sounds odd, since at home you have to let lasagna rest for 15 min or so before cutting it or it will ooze over the plate.
I suppose they do it differently in restaurants - I wonder if it was vigorously nuked to warm up a piece, and it exploded on her instead of while in the microwave.
>> I wonder if it was vigorously nuked to warm up a piece, and it exploded on her instead of while in the microwave<<
That is exactly what happened. When you get overly hot food in a restaurant it means it has been nuked not made fresh (might not even be made in the restaurant to begin with).
In that event, take your business elsewhere.
I worked in an Italian restaurant in the 70s. You’d cut a portion of precooked lasagna but it in a boat and slide it into the pizza oven with some fresh cheese and sauce on top. It got HOT. any trapped water could erupt as steam just as from a microwave.
Probably from a leftover pan of lasagna the night before. Tacky.
What are the chances they made it the “special” for lunch?
Money-starved lawyers and greedy women make a good pair.
Obviously they microwaved it. You can actually super heat water beyond its boiling point in a microwave. This appears to be what happened.
Same thing happened to me once with a boxed cardboard frozen ‘lasagna’. My fault. The instructions clearly said to leave it sit for 2 minutes but I didn’t. Got a couple of nasty blisters on the back of my hand and wrist.
Can I sue all the pizza restaurants who have burned the roof of my mouth?
I hate when that happens!
Ten thousand fleas were killed today when a dog exploded. - George Carlin
Well, we know where the Dominican crepe-rollers ended up after that Magic-Pan fiasco.
So basically, she stuck her fork in lasagna and hot juice and oil sprayed out on her. It happens all the time. But get a plaintiff’s attorney involved and all the sudden the lasagna is a bomb waiting to go off and give third degree burns to the poor unsuspecting victim.
It’s Illinois - new pasta regulations and taxes soon to follow!
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