Lawsuit: Bad meatloaf led to the deaths of former West Virginia lawmaker and her husband

Fox News ^ | November 07, 2014/ | Associated Press (AP)

[WhiskeyX]

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – A lawsuit is blaming a restaurant's bad meatloaf for the deaths of a former West Virginia state lawmaker and her husband.

Former Delegate Virginia Starcher's family filed the lawsuit last month against New Albany, Ohio-based Bob Evans Farms in Jackson County Circuit Court.

Bob Evans spokeswoman Hinda Mitchell said Friday the chain will vigorously defend itself in the matter.

Starcher and her husband, Harold, ate part of their meatloaf meals from a Bob Evans in Ripley in October 2012. Their takeout dishes included meatloaf, mashed potatoes and gravy, broccoli and a roll, the lawsuit says.

[WhiskeyX]

“You obviously are a good little robot.”

“What I posted is the real facts, worship whatever you wish.”

“Go back to your case of Bud.”

Your inability to read and comprehend the difference between E. coli caused illness in humans commented upon by the lawsuit in this topic, WebMD, and the Center for Disease Control (CDC) versus the E. coli infections in humans is no excuse for you to dishonestly make such false, disparaging, and juvenile remarks.

[editor-surveyor]

You do tend to take things way too personally.

Most replies on FR are general, not personal.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Thank you! I just mentioned this story on the one about “bad apples” and had not found it mentioned yet. Husband brought it up last hour or so.

[the OlLine Rebel]

I eat at both of them. My dad loves BE and is there every week, people are very nice. Love their turkey-bacon melt sandwich.

LOVE their rolls, although they have cut them down. c. 1985 they were like big muffins, glorious. Now they are just small muffin tops.

Cracker Barrel I love because you can get all a`la carte. Problem is we have none in this region. Just outside it - in all directions! Lots of things we don’t have. So maybe once every 3 years we eat at one.

[the OlLine Rebel]

My parents like the meatloaf. Not nearly as good as hers (or mine, by extension), but they like it OK.

[eartrumpet]

They ate some meatloaf and took some home in October 2012. She died Dec 2012, he died 2014. How was the meatloaf cared for after leaving the restaurant?

[Ditter]

I have never heard of Bob Evan’s but we swore to never eat at Cracker Barrel again. The food is cooked somewhere else and shipped in, they can’t tell you when it was cooked or what is in it. My husband had mystery meat and it was blue and it made him sick. I had something cooked in their kitchen it it was fair.

[eyedigress]

I enjoy CB because I can eat ham and eggs anytime.

I will share that the CB in Coventry, RI is absolutely horrible.

[Mears]

I remember when Mike Wallace went out for meatloaf and got in trouble with the NYPD.

I love meatloaf-——but I make it myself.

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[exit82]

Sorry to hear about your bad experience at Cracker Barrel.

I have eaten at probably 30 of them around the country and I have never had a bad meal.

[Ditter]

Us too, we make the best meatloaf you has ever eaten and we cook several variations of it. I have NEVER eaten meatloaf at a restaurant and I never will because it would not measure up to mine. :)

The Cracker Barrel (blue) meat that made made Mr Ditter sick was beef roast (supposedly).

[CodeToad]

“Cracker barrel can’t be beat by anyone.”

I’ve eaten at a number of Cracker Barrel restaurants. They are definitely in the lower 25% of restaurants. Service is always slow and the food sometimes OK but usually cold, stale, or overcooked and often not what was ordered.

[WhiskeyX]

“How was the meatloaf cared for after leaving the restaurant?”

The news article did not indicate how the food was handled after leaving the restaurant. The basis for the lawsuit was something on the order of the bacterial infection causing the kind of permanent damage to the organs of the elderly customers which would have caused a chain of events resulting in an otherwise premature failure of the immune systems and organs. Once you’ve developed a serous infection of the dangerous form of the E. coli bacteria, it remains present in your body for the rest of your life awaiting for an opportunity to overwhelm a weakened immune system and contribute to organ failures and death.

I haven’t been able to find it on the Internet or YouTube, but I recall one of the networks broadcast a news show purporting to have investigated Bob Evans using downer cattle and hogs purchased from the stockyards at bargain prices for use in their products. So far, I have not found much on the topic or an identification of that news show to determine whatever became of the response from Bob Evans about those allegations.