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."
Yes yes.... you are absolutely correct.
If this had happened at KFC, the woman would not have a case - their food is supposed to be 'finger-lickin' good.
The chili is OK, but I prefer the knuckle sandwich . . .
The chili probably came from this factory.
http://fsnews.findlaw.com/articles/ap/o/51/03-21-2005/3fa9000424368c5e.html
"She was so emotionally upset once she found out what it was," Alexiou said. "She was vomiting."
I see a settlement - and I wouldn't blame her
Yeah, you were right.
You were out of line. Well, not so much "out of line" as so illogical that one can infer you don't think highly of the general consumer.
Yes, because THAT would make it gross. ;-)
According to IMdb, it's Inigo.
http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0001597/
Mandy Patinkin
The Princess Bride (1987) .... Inigo Montoya
Well, I may not be some guy posting on RT (please don't tell me that's your source) but I do know that in Spanish, the word indigo has the accent on the first syllable, so it would be pronouned EEN-dee-go.
Plus, Inigo is proper Spanish name, and hardly an unusual one at that. It is related to the Latin name Ignatius.
I remember Sixfinger.
Thanks for the memory jog.
Being a former Wendy's employee, I know the process of making the chili. The chili does no come precooked, or pre-made.
There is no way the finger came from the meat, because the raw meat is cooked, then boiled to remove excess grease, and then chopped to roughly the size of a dime.
There is no way (in my mind at least) that it came from the bagged vegetables (which consists of white onions and green peppers) because it would be highly visible and I don't see how it could pass through the manufacturer and then slip the cooks attention.
There is no way it came from the chili base, which is a powder and the first thing mixed in with water, the goal is to get even the smallest "clump" out, and 1 1/2 inches is a mighty big clump.
And that brings me to the last ingredient(s), beans, there are red beans and kidney beans, each in their separate cans. The cans are opened up, dumped into a colander and washed to remove excess "juice." In my mind this is the only ingredient the finger could have come from. It could have been well concealed, and depending on the fingers skin tone, blended right in with the beans.
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