I'd take a bit of this finger too!
Posted on 03/24/2005 7:08:03 PM PST by XR7
SEARCH CONTINUES - 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."
Nah, ain't it "Finger lick'in good!"
LOL...wrong place, though.
Have you counted them lately?.........
I'd take a bit of this finger too!
LOL, boy does that picture bring back Freeper memories!
I was just mentioning this story to my husband and wondering how someone out there in contact with Wendy's chili could lose a finger and not report it. He theorized that perhaps an accident happened to an illegal immigrant worker at one of Wendy's food supplying plants, thus the reluctance to report the injury to the authorities.
How can anybody say no to a finger that fires a fragmentation bomb! Maybe this was in the Chili!
Has anybody checked Kerry/Edwards?
Well look at the bright side. At least it wasn't any added Carb's in that chili.
Trendy Wendy's.
Don't get out of joint, everyone. They're just testing a new item on the menu: "Chili con pinkie". They still have a few wrinkles to get out of it, but all signs point to a double digit increase in sales.
There will be a new bar set for what it takes to make employee of the month, though.
mmmmmmmm!,
Chicken McHeads. They used to be good! LOL
Regards
"( Don't Forget to check out Bea Arthur in the "Menopause Monologues" coming on NBC this fall)"
That old gasbag went through the change so many years ago, they didn't even have a Perodic Table of the Elements!
Do they have a chapter of the Yakuza in San Jose?
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