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.
Tough. Her silly superstition is no reason to extort cash from a restaurant. Now if an employee had asked a muzzy if he wanted bacon on it, now THAT would be a hate crime!!!
I once was in a restaurant when a Sikh accidently ate a piece of meat gristle.
He was so made I felt like his ceremonial knife was about to make a showing!
Why not just check the damn thing before you bite into it?
It’s a fast food restaurant, not a synagogue.
And if restaurants refused to prepare food for those who fear poisoning by bacon, mainly Jews and Muslims, they’d sue for that, too. Prepare your own food if you are forbidden to eat food commonly eaten by others.
It’s times like these that the owners of Denny’s wish Sambo’s was still in business.
Pigs are actually extremely intelligent animals and among the biologically closest to humans.
This suing over a mistaken restaurant order because of a religious proclivity has to stop.
Exactly. If she was so hung up on how her meal was prepared she’d have had a rabbi with her; then too, going to a Denny’s in the first place? Did she know that bacon would be fried on the same surface as her non-pork omelet?
If she strictly adhears to the laws of kosher, then she wouldn’t eat at Denny’s or any other facility that serves pork, shrimp, lobster, diary products with meat ... etc.
A lawsuit?
Stuff like this used to be solved with an apology and a comp’d meal.
So, it’s a lawsuit if Denny’s screws up an order? Wow...
“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.”
If it was raw bacon stored this way, management is in trouble.
If cooked bacon, employees are in trouble.
I’m thinking that if the cooks and servers were making $15.00/ hour this would never have happened. /S
Cra cra
Being a practicing Jew, she should be able to sacrifice a dove at the temple. What’s a dove go for these days? $10.
Go eat with the Moslems and see what happens. They will sue you.
Freak.
Actually it’s the perfect food!
You’ve used the word “queer” twice, very recently.
Isn’t that queer?
Her lawyer should be disbarred
And if she’s pro se, then double her institutional confinement
I used it deliberately to point out strange omissions in the media.
I married into a very conservative Jewish Family.
My M-I-L even had separate dish soap (marked with an indelible brand) for use with the milk or meat dishes.
There were two sets of “everyday” dishes (milk vs. meat)
Two sets of “special” dishes (milk vs. meat)
Two sets of Kosher for Passover “everyday” dishes
and two sets of really nice Passover dishes (milk vs. meat)
The milk dishes were washed by hand, and the meat dishes went into the dishwasher.
I really messed up when I was first invited to dinner and tried to help out by stacking the dishes.
And yet...going out for Chinese Food was a favorite jaunt. Even if one substituted chicken in all the favorite Chinese meals, it is reasonable to suspect that it was prepared in a kitchen that was NOT Kosher, by any stretch of the imagination.
I have NEVER heard of a Jewish person suing a non-kosher restaurant over the non-kosher food.
On the other hand, there are some folks who are SO Kosher they will not eat the Kosher airline food served on El Al, and special order Glatt Kosher (really, really Kosher) meals that are sealed in plastic and served separately.
Now if someone found bacon in one of THOSE, it WOULD be actionable.
Denny’s isn’t even vaguely Kosher.
Everything is cooked on the same griddle, if you are a Jew or a muslim, you can be assured your meal will be cooked on the same griddle that was used for sausage, ham and bacon.
Jews can further be assured that their beef was not properly drained of blood and not necessarily from the relatively nerve-free front cuts of beef, and was cooked on the same griddle that has traces of cheese and butter on it from previous meals.
And Hindus can count on traces of beef in everything griddled.
Vegans? Fugidaboutit!
Deal with it, or eat elsewhere.
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