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.
Um.... if you didn’t know it was pork, you committed no aveiyrah. No harm no foul. I’d be mad too, but hey, some kitchen workers are idiots. I used to be one so there.
Uh, if she’s really Kosher or vegetarian she would not be eating in a Denny’s. Everything is cooked on the same flat grill. There’s going to be bacon (or bacon fat) in everything cooked there.
Some people are stupid.
I find mayonnaise on a burger to be abominable.
Can’t recall how many times I’ve insisted that it not be included as an ingredient and yet there it is on my food.
And no I don’t send it back. Don’t need my food tampered with by a low wage disgruntled employee who got called out for screwing up the order. I take a butter knife and scrape it off as best I can.
It’s not complicated: if you want a kosher meal at a restaurant, you go to a kosher restaurant. You don’t go to one that serves bacon and cheeseburgers.
Simple line of questioning for a lawyer:
Are you a practicing Jew? If so, do you keep Kosher? If so, why were you eating in a restaurant that serves un-kosher food?
There are very strict laws when it comes to Kashruth (the laws of Kosher food.) One of them is that if Kosher food comes into contact with un-kosher utensils, it’s considered un-Kosher.
Kosher restaurants even have separate meat and dairy kitchens, and the silverware, plates, and utensils can not be mixed.
I don’t think Denny’s advertises that it’s got a Kosher kitchen.
Mark
Do you have anything that hasn’t got Spam in it?
That would actually be a willful sin on her part, and the Mosaic Law makes a clear distinction between doing that sort of thing and suffering a happenstance that might make her ceremonially unclean.
That doesn’t mean she didn’t. Only that the Law treats the one as far more grievous than the other.
Sounds like a jerk. If you can’t eat bacon, don’t go to a place that has...bacon!
If Denny’s lawyer has a brain he or she will point that out. If you and I, who are not experts, know that, surely someone in that law firm will.
Actually. If she were Muslim she’d sue the crap out of the owners. It’s happening in another case.
Meanwhile the spit on top of the bacon went unnoticed.
Wasn’t worth as much I suppose...
Same here. I just scrape it off.
Same with cheese. I ask for a “hamburger with no cheese” because if I don’t say that they assume I said cheeseburger.
Even if I emphasize no cheese, I sometimes get cheese.
I’ll scrape the cheese off if I can. If I can’t, I sent it back.
Cotton Patch has chicken fried bacon these days....
95% chance she’s a self-loathing liberal jew man-hater who voted for Hillary.
The next time I’m in a Muslim restaraunt and order pork, can I sue if they don’t put it on the plate?
Stupidity is among the only unalienable right the left really respects. The DNC would wither without it
Ugh. I can’t abide by the slightest drop of mayonnaise.
The most vile and disgusting creatures on the planet are the ones who don’t like bacon.
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