Posted on 03/24/2005 4:59:09 AM PST by KidGlock
Wendy's Customer Bites Into Cooked Finger While Eating Chili
POSTED: 7:14 am EST March 24, 2005
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- A diner's meal at a San Jose Wendy's restaurant brings a whole new meaning to the term ‘finger food.'
Health authorities in California report a woman bit into a human finger while eating a bowl of chili at a Wendy's in Tuesday night. She immediately spit out the finger and warned others to stop eating. Then she got sick.
The county medical examiner said the human finger was cooked but not decomposed. Authorities temporarily closed the Wendy's and seized all the ingredients at the restaurant.
Officials counted all the fingers of the Wendy's workers -- and say none had a missing digit. Authorities think the finger must have come from one of Wendy's suppliers.
Undoubtedly overcooked. Fingers get tough and stringy when you cook them too long. They are quite unappetizing even if you put on extra barbecue sauce.
Wendy's really should do something about its unimaginative cuisine. Something like Buffalo Hot Fingers would be more to the point, with some really sizzling hot sauce and a blue cheese dip.
About half that now.
YUCK !..........we spent about 30K on a remodel of our kitchen a few years back. Girl Friday demamnded one with all the bells and whistles and since then we make a point of fixing all of our own meals. We garden , hunt and fish for most of our food. Canning and food storage has been a lifelong skill our parents imposed upon us that took on habit status.
When traveling I'll go shop at a market and stay in a hotel with a small kitchen vs fast food or a resturant. More along something we like to do vs a phobia. We do hit our local small Mom & Pop Burger joint where we get a dose of greasy cheese burger and a cold beer. But honestly like to cook at home more than these fast food chains and most resturants.
Our finger food is better prepared........:o)
Before I can fully comment on this, I need to know if this was a Domestic or Undocumented finger . . .
this is gross, you would have thought that the supervisor in the production mill would have stopped the works and searched for the finger.
I'll have the order their salad to get one of those.
Ping!
Wonder how much $$$ Wendy's will give her.
Finger Food
Claim: A patron dining at a Wendy's fast food outlet found a human finger in her bowl of chili.
Status: True.
Origins: Claims of human body parts turning up in food products are the most horrifying of contaminated food legends, both because of our very strong societal taboo against the eating of human flesh, and because such a discovery necessarily indicates a human death, almost certainly one that was accidental rather than natural (and which conjures up images of a slow and painful death by industrial accident).
Fortunately, improved health and safety standards in food processing make such occurrences quite rare, and most reports of consumers finding body parts in food turn out to be cases of mistaken identify — something that looks like a human body part is found, upon examination by experts, to be something else entirely. (See, for example, our page about a scare involving a finger supposedly found in a can of menudo.) If recent reports are correct, however, such a grisly discovery has indeed been made.
On the evening of 22 March 2005, a customer dining at a San Jose outlet of the Wendy's fast good restaurant chain discovered what appeared to be a human finger in her bowl of chili. According to the San Jose Mercury News:
Devina Cordero, 20, was with her boyfriend at the fast food restaurant when she said the woman, who has not been identified, began gasping and ran up to her saying: "Don't eat it! Look, there's a human finger in our chili."
Cordero said the object appeared cooked and seemed to have a long fingernail at the end. All three people soon became sick.
"We went up to the counter and they told us it was a vegetable," Cordero said. "The people from Wendy's were poking it with a spoon."
[San Jose police officer Enrique] Garcia said the Santa Clara County Health Department is taking over the investigation. "It was some sort of small mass which appeared to have a fingernail. It's a small piece," Garcia said. "They collected the finger and placed it in a freezer for the health department."
The Wendy's restaurant temporarily closed but reopened later that evening (although they maintained they had run out of chili for the day).
The following day, Santa Clara County health officials announced at a press conference that they had confirmed the object found in the bowl of Wendy's chili was indeed a human finger, and they were planning to trace the ingredients back to the source to determine where it came from, whose it was, and how it got into the chili. The Associated Press reported that officials believe the contamination did not pose any health danger:
Officials said the fingertip was about 1-1/2 inches long and contained part of a manicured nail. The woman, who asked officials not to identify her, immediately spit it out, Santa Clara County Health Officer Martin Fenstersheib said.
"She was a bit grossed out it was described to me, and vomited a number of times," he said.
Health investigators seized all the ingredients at the restaurant and are tracing them back to their manufacturer. They believe the finger got into the chili at an earlier stage and was cooked at a high enough temperature to kill any viruses.
Undoubtedly we will learn more as the investigation proceeds.
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Images of Cartman's "Chili Con Carnival" come to mind.
I agree. If this is true (and not another staged-gross-thing-in-take-out hoax) then there must be a accident report somewhere for the worker is now missing part of a finger. Until that peice of the story is revealed, I'm inclined to think it is a hoax. The person who first owned the fingertip would not have just shrugged it off.
Call me skeptical.
"Health authorities in California report a woman bit into a human finger while eating a bowl of chili at a Wendy's in Tuesday night."
Not only that, they put BEANS in their chili.
Indeed. The Soylent Corporation lives.
It was always said that Dave Thomas cared about the chili more than anything else. See what happens when he's gone?
I know this is just the product on my twisted mind but could they ID the finger by it's fingerprint
What the hell are you talking about?
And why should I care what you or anyone else thinks about how I use the word "cool"?
Out of all the crap going on in the world today, that's the best thing you can find to nitpick?
Not cool.
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
Search continues in Wendy's finger case
A woman bit into a partial finger served in a bowl of chili at a Wendy's restaurant, leading authorities to a fingerprint database Thursday to determine who lost the digit. The incident occurred Tuesday night at a San Jose Wendy's restaurant and left the customer ill and distraught, said Joy Alexiou, a spokeswoman for the Santa Clara County Health Department.
"She was so emotionally upset once she found out what it was," Alexiou said. "She was vomiting."
Employees at the Wendy's store were asked to show investigators their fingers after the Tuesday night incident. All employees' digits were accounted for, officials said, adding that the well-cooked finger may have come from a food processing plant that supplies the company.
"All of our employees have ten digits," said Denny Lynch, a spokesman for Wendy's International Inc., based in Dublin, Ohio. He said there have been no reports to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration of injuries at any supplier of chili ingredients to Wendy's.
"By law, you can't hide that sort of stuff," Lynch said. "All of our chili suppliers report no accidents."
Investigators seized the remaining chili and closed the restaurant for a few hours late Tuesday.
Health officials said the fingertip was approximately 1 1/2 inches long. They believe it belongs to a woman because of the long, manicured nail.
Alexiou said the woman, who asked officials not to identify her, is at minimal risk of contracting illnesses from the finger.
"It's an extremely low chance because the chili was cooked at a very high temperature that would have killed anything in the finger," Alexiou said. Still, she said health officials would ask the woman's doctor to test her blood "to make sure nothing got passed to her."
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They believe it belongs to a woman because of the long, manicured nail.
E-e-e-e-w-w-w-w-w-w!!!
LOL!
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