Posted on 09/04/2017 4:08:11 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Customer says she feels 'poisoned' after discovering meat in vegetarian meal ordered at a local eatery
A Jewish woman from Michigan is suing a restaurant for serving her bacon in an omelet that was supposed be meatless.
Get The Times of Israel's Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories FREE SIGN UP That lawsuit was filed on behalf of Angela Montgomery, 30, of Sterling Heights by her attorney Majed Moughni, the Detroit Free Press reported Monday.
Montgomery is seeking monetary damages for emotional and physical distress caused by eating the bacon. She alleged breach of contract and negligent representation.
Pig meat is forbidden under traditional Jewish law.
Montgomery said she found bacon in a vegetarian omelet she ordered on August 25 at a local Denny’s restaurant in Sterling Heights. After taking a few bites, she noticed bacon in the meal. According to the lawsuit, she is a “is a practicing Jew and whose religion forbids the eating of any pork product.”
The waitress and manager both apologized and said the mistake happened because the bacon was stored next to the vegetables in the kitchen, the report said.
Although the manager offered to make her another omelet, Montgomery said she no longer had an appetite.
Montgomery told the Free Press that bacon is “an abominable food.”
“It’s like the most vile, disgusting creature on planet Earth that’s not supposed to go in your body, and I ate it,” she said. “To me, that’s a poisoning. I was poisoned.”
Moughni also filed a similar lawsuit on August 22 on behalf of a Muslim couple from Dearborn, who were served bacon in a cheese sandwich they bought at a KFC in Lincoln Park. Both lawsuits were filed in the Wayne County Circuit Court.
“You can’t allow this practice to continue, whether you’re Muslim or Jewish, and you walk into an establishment and they don’t care about what they are serving,” Moughni said.
Earlier this year Moughni filed a lawsuit against a Little Caesars Pizza in Dearborn for advertising halal pepperoni pizza that he claimed wasn’t halal and contained bacon, the Free Press said.
Same lawyer representing...
Notice that the targets are all national and international chains.
Not worth going after a mom and pop restaurant or greasy spoon. Where’s the press and payout in that?
You can demand $100,000,000 when you are talking with PepsiCo.
They may only giver you $2,000,000 to go away but a local business wouldn’t even be able to give you $20,000.
If you order a vegetarian dish, there should not be meat in it, period. If you order a dish with no nuts because you’re allergic there should not be nuts in it period.
People can get killed because waiters do not pay attention, or the cook doesn’t.
I don’t think it’s lawsuit worthy but whoever put meat in her omelette should be punished. That’s not acceptable in food service. If your customer doesn’t want something and they specifically say they don’t, and you do it. That’s incompetence. Plain and simple.
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This is nonsense.
She has no cause to sue, because she has not been harmed.
If she didn’t willfully consume the bacon, she has not violated Torah.
This is what happens when one follows a man rather than the Word of Yehova.
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Honestly if a dietary restriction is so important to you, whether allergy or religious or what have you, you should not eat out. Because people make mistakes.
Really?
Heh ... well, if true there’s a bit of info the judge will never allow to be heard ... it would completely bias the juries.
“Your honor, I protest!”
“On what grounds?”
“Council is completely destroying my case!”
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>> “With such an over reaction I wonder if she planted the bacon herself” <<
You might be onto something!
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Do people NOT look at their food before they eat it anymore?
The Auto-Baconater ... featuring Gatling munition handling and a compact bacon high speed bacon press that perfectly crisps your meat candy and 200 rounds per minute.
Range: 200 yards are the kitchen table ... as needed.
A loser with no life. Or maybe a professional litigant. We need to know more about this person.
Let’s see - Ann Arbor or Lansing.
They say she ordered a meatless omelet. So they should have served her as she ordered.
In this case, she is in the right.
Montgomery,Montgomery.....hmmmm, I don’t know any Jewish folks with that last name, plenty of Scots though.
A pat of butter on top and you've got a little piece of heaven.
First it’s Anti-fa, now it’s Anti-ba.
Nope. Sterling Heights.
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Agreed. And if physical harm results, all for a lawsuit. But being offended should not be lawsuit worthy.
Good. Give her a refund.
Methinks she doth protest too much! I agree.
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