Posted on 05/26/2023 7:48:52 AM PDT by lowbridge
She trusted the words on the box despite her OBVIOUSLY knowing it wasn't an apple pie.
The child had been served it before so the parent knew what an apple pie looked like.
Scam, IMHO.
She deliberately fed her daughter cherry pie, of which her daughter was allergic? Shame on her! Someone should sue her!
Total set up.
As soon as the pie was cut into, she could tell it wasn’t apple pie, and that it was a cherry pie.
She got her kid sick on purpose.
That is, as you said, if the kid is even allergic to cherries.
I was thinking the same thing. How do we know she didn’t get two pies, and then switch this?
This needs to be thrown out.
Maybe she thought the apples were red delicious. (Yuk, Yuk.)
People like this should be led straight to the Soylent Green machine.
Judge to plaintiff: “Shut yer pie-hole!”
I think that the only color she can see is GREEN...
Speaking as someone with food allergies, I’m hoping she wins this lawsuit. None of my food allergies are severe enough to require hospitalization, but they are definitely miserable. And it is disturbing how often allergies get brushed off. I have to read the ingredients list on pretty much everything, and a lot of them don’t actually list the ingredients, they list vague categories, like “spices” or “natural flavorings”. 2 of my allergies are to certain spices, I need to know the exact spices used, or it’s not safe for me to eat it.
There even are a lot of food service workers who seem to think it’s their job to “prove allergies are fake”, by purposely adding an allergen to somebody’s food.
Maybe a lawsuit will remind people that when you handle someone’s food, you are holding their life in your hands. I’m sorry to be so dramatic, but anyone with allergies has probably dealt with this same problem.
PS: I do think the mother was an idiot for not noticing the pie was red. She may want to get tested for color-blindness.
They couldn’t see that it was not apple when they cut into it?
At that point, you take the pie back and get a new one.
I hope that the ShopRite turns around and sues her. There must be something the can do. Is she color blind? Will be disappointed if ShopRite settles.
I have more than my share of food sensitivities myself but in this case, the mother is to blame and I can understand your frustration with the *it’s all in your head* mentality. It’s gotten me to the point of wishing allergies on them for having that attitude.
Nevertheless, cherry pie and apple pie do not look alike. She claims she *trusted* that the pie was apple because it said so, which implies she could see the difference. Plus, cherries and apples do not LOOK the same. If she was suspicious, she should have checked more thoroughly.
Anyone with these kind of sensitivities needs to be responsible for themselves to a great degree and not blame shift it off onto others.
Her better response would have been to take the pie back and give them the opportunity to make it right. Or she could learn to bake and make the pies herself and avoid this kind of problem, except that it doesn’t win you life’s lottery.
If the kid’s allergy is serious, NO supermarket or mass-produced pies should EVER be given to her. At very least the same equipment may be used on both kinds of fruit. If it is mild, not enough to warrant a lawsuit. Maybe enough for a coupon for two free pies.
So... She gave a two year old an entire uncut pie to eat? She didn’t cut a piece of pie and put it on a plate? AKA “Ghetto Lottery”
How stupid does the mother have to be to cut the pie open and see the cherries and still think it is an apple pie?
I would be wrong but the percentage of kids allergic to cherries is probably much closer to 0.0001%. I suspect the kid wanted an apple pie, mom served up a cherry pie, and the kid like her mother did not want to eat the cherry pie.
The store should check its cameras to see if the mother bought a cherry pie later or before she bought the apple pie. The store should also seek the medical records to document the kid got sick from eating cherries.
I suspect the mother bought an apple pie and then went back to purchase a cherry pie so she could make this ridiculous claim.
Well, there was the recent lottery case where the guy was awarded $14M or something. He’ll never get it, but still.
First I thought it might’ve been one of those small McDonald’s type pies, where really don’t see the filling until you bite into it. But the picture in the article shows the actual pie and the cherry filling clearly.
In any case, she just should’ve just baked her own pie. It’s not difficult.
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