Dead Frog Found in Salad From Chain Sandwich Shop

NBC New York ^ | Tuesday, Dec 31, 2013

[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."

[JoeProBono]

[BwanaNdege]

It’s “organic”!

Why the fuss!

[Slings and Arrows]

[chronicles]

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.

[Clay Moore]

[RichInOC]

Protein is good for you.

[CH3CN]

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.

[GOYAKLA]

Pond & Garden the new Surf & Turf!

[Oatka]

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.

[Eaker]

Appears to be a toad rather than a frog.

[Gay State Conservative]

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.

[Gay State Conservative]

Dew picked and flown from Iraq.....

[Daffynition]

[Daffynition]

[Perseverando]

Rib--bit!

[wardaddy]

No creo

[Ezekiel]

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.

[pax_et_bonum]

That would make me hopping mad.

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Rofl!!!

[pax_et_bonum]

Not a horned toad.

[Squawk 8888]

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