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Woman bites into finger at San Jose restaurant (human digit in chili!)
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 3/23/05 | Maria Alicia Gaura

Posted on 03/23/2005 5:13:51 PM PST by TFFKAMM

A diner bit into a segment of human finger while digging into a bowl of chili at a San Jose Wendy's restaurant Tuesday night, Santa Clara County health officials said today.

The woman, who asked officials not to name or even describe her, spit out the well-cooked digit and reportedly warned other diners to stop eating. She then became sick to her stomach.

Santa Clara County Health Officer Dr. Martin Fenstersheib said today the woman was horrified "due to the unpleasant sensation of having this (object) in her mouth."

But he said the finger had been cooked at a high enough temperature to kill any viruses, including hepatitis or HIV, and it was unlikely that she will suffer any health effects from her experience, aside from psychological trauma.

The finger was described by Santa Clara County Medical Examiner Dr. Joseph P. O'Hara as cooked but not decomposed. The finger was found in two pieces, a one and three-eighths inch long fingertip complete with the skin whorls used in fingerprinting, and a half-inch long piece of fingernail. The joint appeared to have been torn off, possibly by manufacturing machinery, rather than cleanly cut. Because of its slightly longer than average length and neat grooming, it may have belonged to a woman, O'Hara said....

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: 99centspecial; barfalert; california; chili; cooking; dining; fastfood; fingerfood; floorshavings; food; grossout; ick; ladyfingers; mysterymeat; sanjose; tasteslikechicken; wendys
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1 posted on 03/23/2005 5:13:53 PM PST by TFFKAMM
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To: TFFKAMM

Shades of Upton Sinclair's THE JUNGLE...


2 posted on 03/23/2005 5:15:26 PM PST by TFFKAMM
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To: TFFKAMM

Ewwww.


3 posted on 03/23/2005 5:15:27 PM PST by Nachum ( "Let everyone get a move on and take some hilltops! Whatever we take, will be ours- Ariel Sharon)
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To: TFFKAMM

Seeing as though this was in the bay area she's lucky it was a finger she bit into and not some other appendage.


4 posted on 03/23/2005 5:15:38 PM PST by steveo (Member: Fathers Against Rude Television)
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To: TFFKAMM; cyborg; nuconvert

Whoa! Talk about finger food!


5 posted on 03/23/2005 5:16:05 PM PST by spetznaz (Nuclear tipped ICBMs: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol.)
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To: TFFKAMM

G*R*O*S*S!!!!!!!!!!!!


6 posted on 03/23/2005 5:17:39 PM PST by Frank_2001
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To: TFFKAMM

A Purple Digit, from the anti-war protester woman?


7 posted on 03/23/2005 5:18:33 PM PST by Inge_CAV
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To: spetznaz

It really WAS a ladyfinger!;)


8 posted on 03/23/2005 5:18:44 PM PST by Frank_2001
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To: TFFKAMM

Jimmy hoffa style chili, where's the rest of her?


9 posted on 03/23/2005 5:20:22 PM PST by US_MilitaryRules (My tagline was censored.)
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To: Howlin; Ed_NYC; MonroeDNA; widgysoft; Springman; Timesink; dubyaismypresident; Grani; coug97; ...
Parts is parts...

Just damn.

If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

10 posted on 03/23/2005 5:20:41 PM PST by mhking (If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball!)
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To: mhking

Yummy! Just Damn! On second thought, this is gross.


11 posted on 03/23/2005 5:23:12 PM PST by Raffus (Thanks to all Veterans for their service to our Country.)
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To: TFFKAMM

Are fingers protein, or fibre (if the nail is attached)?


12 posted on 03/23/2005 5:23:51 PM PST by Aussie Dasher (Stop Hillary - PEGGY NOONAN '08)
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To: null and void
Lunch PING

So9

13 posted on 03/23/2005 5:24:14 PM PST by Servant of the 9 (Trust Me)
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To: Frank_2001
It really WAS a ladyfinger!;)

I guess they didnt serve knuckle sandwiches.

14 posted on 03/23/2005 5:24:38 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: TFFKAMM
Kinda bites ya in the boo boo don't it? Image Hosted by ImageShack.us
15 posted on 03/23/2005 5:26:42 PM PST by cripplecreek (I'm apathetic but really don't care.)
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To: TFFKAMM

"Because of its slightly longer than average length and neat grooming, it may have belonged to a woman,"

Hey, they were giving away free Lady Fingers!


16 posted on 03/23/2005 5:28:18 PM PST by nuconvert (No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR)
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To: TFFKAMM
spit out the well-cooked digit and reportedly warned other diners to stop eating. She then became sick to her stomach.

Oh, come on now. There was no need for the dramatic scene. Everyone who has eaten some fast food chili has probably eaten some amputated human digits at one time or another. Heck, just think if it had a ring on it. It would be like getting a free prize with your lunch!

Just kidding. That story was YUCKY.

17 posted on 03/23/2005 5:29:43 PM PST by SIDENET (on station)
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To: TFFKAMM
This finger?


18 posted on 03/23/2005 5:33:52 PM PST by Inge_CAV
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To: TFFKAMM

Hmm, I wonder what you get when you order the chicken fingers at that place...

LQ


19 posted on 03/23/2005 5:38:23 PM PST by LizardQueen
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To: TFFKAMM; nopardons; MadIvan

This makes me want to sing songs from Sondheim's 'Sweeney Todd'...

...it sounds like one of 'Mrs. Lovett's meat pies'.


20 posted on 03/23/2005 5:38:42 PM PST by Happygal (liberalism - a narrow tribal outlook largely founded on class prejudice)
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