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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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To: shibumi

41 posted on 12/31/2013 12:42:44 PM PST by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: nickcarraway

It’s “organic”!

Why the fuss!


42 posted on 12/31/2013 1:06:00 PM PST by BwanaNdege (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. J.F. Kennedy)
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To: shibumi; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ...


43 posted on 12/31/2013 1:06:46 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: nickcarraway

My sister ordered a salad at the local Quiznos. When she took off the plastic cover I noticed a small live cricket hop out. We captured it and let it go outside in the grass. We figured the salad was fresh, at least.


44 posted on 12/31/2013 1:12:56 PM PST by chronicles
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To: dfwgator
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45 posted on 12/31/2013 1:25:40 PM PST by Clay Moore ("In politics, stupidity is not a handicap." Napoleon Bonaparte)
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To: nickcarraway

Protein is good for you.


46 posted on 12/31/2013 1:31:59 PM PST by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: nickcarraway

My SIL used to have a frog get into her washing machine every night. She’d take him outside, go back to the basement, do the laundry, and next day there he’d be in the washing machine again.

She died unexpectedly a couple of years ago and my brother never bothered to take out the frog. The frog only lasted one load.


47 posted on 12/31/2013 1:35:46 PM PST by CH3CN (Gone Galt 05/25/13)
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To: Rebelbase

Pond & Garden the new Surf & Turf!


48 posted on 12/31/2013 1:41:52 PM PST by GOYAKLA (Waiting for the Golden Screw to be removed from Obama's navel and his a$$ falls off!)
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To: nickcarraway

Old joke:
Irate customer: “Waiter! What’s this fly doing in my soup?”
Waiter (takes a look): “Apparently, he’s doing the backstroke.”

In one of the old Abe Lincoln movies there was a great scene where a young Lincoln and his dad visited this old lady in a log cabin up in the hills. She offered them each a bowl of porridge and they accepted. As they were eating and talking, Abe looked in horror as he saw a small frog’s legs dangling from the spoon his dad was about to put in his mouth (great shot, with each leg astraddle the edge). As tactfully as he could, he frantically signaled his dad, to no avail. The camera turned to Abe’s face and you knew he watched his dad eat the spoonful, frog and all.

When they got outside, Abe told his dad he tried to warn him about the frog in the spoon. His dad said that he knew the frog was there, but if he made a scene about it, it would embarrass the old lady, and he didn’t want to do that.

Probably Hollywood hype, but it was a great way to get across how much class the old man had.


49 posted on 12/31/2013 1:43:37 PM PST by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
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To: nickcarraway

Appears to be a toad rather than a frog.


50 posted on 12/31/2013 1:52:25 PM PST by Eaker (Sweat dries, blood clots and bones heal so suck it up buttercup.)
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To: nickcarraway
More than frogs,I usually associate Manhattan with giant cockroaches and bedbugs.Maybe this wasn't a mistake...maybe the owner was half Chinese,half French.
51 posted on 12/31/2013 1:57:48 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Osama Obama Care: A Religion That Will Have You On Your Knees!)
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To: dfwgator

Dew picked and flown from Iraq.....


52 posted on 12/31/2013 1:58:34 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Osama Obama Care: A Religion That Will Have You On Your Knees!)
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To: nickcarraway

53 posted on 12/31/2013 2:17:52 PM PST by Daffynition (It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.)
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54 posted on 12/31/2013 2:21:32 PM PST by Daffynition (It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.)
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To: nickcarraway
Rib--bit!
55 posted on 12/31/2013 2:23:13 PM PST by Perseverando (Obamanation: It's ALL about PEOPLE CONTROL!)
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To: nickcarraway

No creo


56 posted on 12/31/2013 2:25:10 PM PST by wardaddy (wifey instructed me today to grow chapter president beard back again....i wonder why?)
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To: nickcarraway; Tax-chick; Daffynition

Looks like the toad croaked after eating some of that egg yolk.

The diner should have been concerned about those chunks of mystery meat.

Nice touch with the folk, though. Composition is key.


57 posted on 12/31/2013 2:40:52 PM PST by Ezekiel (All who mourn the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: billhilly

That would make me hopping mad.

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Rofl!!!


58 posted on 12/31/2013 2:46:45 PM PST by pax_et_bonum (Never Forget the Seals of Extortion 17 - and God Bless Americaa)
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To: Eaker

Not a horned toad.


59 posted on 12/31/2013 2:48:23 PM PST by pax_et_bonum (Never Forget the Seals of Extortion 17 - and God Bless Americaa)
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To: trisham; DemforBush; cripplecreek

27 posts to get a Michigan Frog reference? You guys are slipping.


60 posted on 12/31/2013 2:58:08 PM PST by Squawk 8888 (I'd give up chocolate but I'm no quitter)
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