Woman finds mouse in vegetable soup A woman is startled to find a mouse in her soup at Cracker Barrel. How it got there remains a mystery. By Peter Dujardin Daily Press May 10 2004, 6:36 PM EDT A woman enjoying an early Mother's Day lunch at a Newport News restaurant Saturday discovered a mouse in a bowl of vegetable soup. Carla Patterson was eating with her two sons and her godson at the Cracker Barrel Old Country Store restaurant, on Jefferson Avenue across from the Patrick Henry Mall, when she scooped up a small, black mouse, about an inch...