WARNING!

If you are easily squicked, the story below may bother you.

READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!

Last month in Northern California, a woman dining at a Wendy's restaurant claimed she found part of a human finger in her chili. Ewwwww!!

(Link below to original story)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/03/24/FINGER.TMP

Of course she's seeking a large monetary settlement. Well, it now transpires that she may have put the finger there herself. And...this story just gets even ickier as it goes along...the finger may have belonged to her deceased aunt.

(Link to ABC story below)

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=652223

Aside from the fact that there's not too much some people won't do for money, has anyone else ever found...um...something that wasn't supposed to be there...in their food? And what (if anything) did you do about it?

My mother once found a (clean) shoelace in her shrimp chow mein. And I opened a can of tuna last year to find bloody chunks of fish. And Lord no, we didn't eat it! The tuna is packed raw, then "cooked" in the can. Guess they missed one?

In both cases, we returned the offending items for a refund. So, c'mon. Let's hear 'em!

I once found a lump of plastic in a vegetable finger. Sent it off to Birds Eye with a nasty letter and they sent me £20 of vouchers. Also bit into something hard whilst eating a yoghurt. Spat it out to find it was a small dead beetle like insect! I complained to the company and they said that becasue it was a fruit yoghurt with lupms of real fruit in it, the insect could have been inside one of the pieces of fruit, thus undetectable by their machines etc. So I sent them another letter saying I was considering legal action and they sent me £30 of vouchers!

Maybe not a multi-million pound payoff but ok in my book!

Forgive my ignorance Fetish.

But what is a vegetable "finger?" OMG! You sent it to them? I had a friend who once found a cockroach cooked into a Swanson frozen mexican dinner. He also wrote Swanson a nasty letter.

And they also sent him vouchers. For MORE Swanson dinners. Guess that's their standard operating procedure. Makes you want grow your own food, huh?



:) Sierra

Yesterday in the Harley pub I got a meal with a slug in the lettuce. Didn't really kick up too much of a fuss although I ,aybe should have done, might have got a refund or something. The guy just said 'but there were no slugs in your sandwhich, right?' - kinda missing the point! The manager was apparently 'not there'.

I once found some good quality meat in a MacDonalds Beefburger.
I wrote to them about it and they sent me a voucher for 20 Chicken-A-Whopper To Go Burgers.
Haven't found anything like that since and that was in 1978.

luckily so far im my lifetime i havent ever come across anything like that in my food! unless of course i have and not know about it and ate it :gag: :gag: :gag:

Once found a fly in a bar of Cadburys wildlife, you know the small kids size bar, so wrote to cadbury and enclosed the bar and got a £10 voucher and a big bunch of flowers too!!

i went to a pub (which i will not name) the other week for a pint and some chips , the chips were lovely , except after we had eaten the whole lot and smothered them in salt and vinegar , upon closer inspection of the vinegar there were at least 8 flies drowned in it :gag: ..... we didn't want to go in and complain as its a nice little pub so we just left a little note under it.

years ago when I was little we were eating one of them pkt chicken soups that came in a little box. My dad yelled out as he found half a caterpillar in his soup, it must of been freeze-dried with the herbs in the soup.... yuk... bit of extra meat eh!

I brought a small take-away tub of strawberrys with cream attached to the tub from Tescos.

It stated on the tub that the strawberries were already washed and clean and could be eaten straight away, there was a fork attached on the underside of the tub of cream.

So when I poured in the cream and got half way through eating the strawberrys I thought I saw something move so when I lifted up a large strawberry at the bottom of the tub, there were several earwigs swimming about in the cream.

I swear I almost died on the spot it, made me feel physically sick.

I took the tub with the contents back to Tescos and they gave me £5 and said I could help myself to anything in the store.

Originally posted by Sierra
Forgive my ignorance Fetish.

But what is a vegetable "finger?" OMG! You sent it to them?

:) Sierra

A vegetable finger is like a fish finger but made out of vegetables such as peas, carrots, sweetcorn and potato etc!! What on earth did you think I meant? lol! :loopy:

i had a kebab from a place on city road years ago and took a bite there was something very hard and grizzly , it turned out to be a plastic clothes tag :suspect:
then a while later after finding another kebab place was merrily munching away to find.............................
........................................
................... a chickens foot :gag: :gag: :gag:

i actually never complained, and hubby takes the micky outta me all the time about them
i also broke my tooth on something i have no idea what tho in another kebab from bridlington :suspect:

beleive it or not i do still like kebabs :loopy:

I once found a disgusting locust type creature in a bag of Tesco 'ready to eat' salad, i nearly ate it!!! My mum took it to Tesco the next day and even after all my warnings about "don't give it back to them mum, we'll expose them!" she handed it back to an assistant who gave her a HUGE bunch of flowers for me (probably with a black widow in them or something) and said he would send the offending locust off for analysis in thier 'lab' , so mother handed it over, ugh.
Needless to say the next week another poor young girl like myself found a similer bug in her salad and sold the story to the papers (well told it too them anyway) with the headline in the 'mail being "Tesco the locust supermarket" .

I guess Wendy's is Finger Licking Good as anoter fast food chain used to say. :hihi:

What about that poor man who looked inside a Mcdonalds bap and found one of their hamburgers there. Talk about disgusting!!!

What is worse than finding a cockroach in your food?

Finding half a cockroach!! :hihi:

Part of my investigative duties for years was the annual inspection of liquor serving establishments to make sure they were compliant with license requirements. Inspection of the bar stock often found many dead fruit flys, ants, and house flys in the bottles behind the bar. We would swirl the contents and hold a light under the bottle to see the tornado of dead bugs, much to the horror of the pub patrons seated at the bar! If the bottle does not have a closed cap or screen in the spout, you can bet that it has bugs. Cheers!

There was a story down here quite recently about a 5 year old boy whose parents brought him a happy meal from Macdonalds.

When the lad took a bite he complained to his folks that the burger tasted funny and refused to eat it, the mother just thought he was being fussy so she took it home with her to try and encourage him to eat it later.

Later on that evening the lad had a high tempreture and couldnt open his mouth they rushed him to hospital and discovered that he had contracted some kind of STD in the mouth.

When the hospital examined the burger it appeared someone had added certain "bodily fluids" to the burger, the police were called and the Macdonalds in question investigated and several of the burgers contained the same substance, the person responsible an immigrant from Kosovo was discovered and arrested straight away.

My mum told me this particular story however I have heard stories like this before so I dont know how true they are, maybe they are just made up to shock people, still though its a discusting thought worse than finding an insect I think.

Squashie.

that is an urban legend, and can be found to be debunked if you go to "snopes dot com", the urban legends reference pages

firstly, he would not have started with a fever etc so quickly with an STD, they have an incubation period, of days at least, if not a couple of weeks.

secondly, what probably made him feverish was the bad storage of the burger from the time of purchase, to the time of eating.
Burgers from fast food places like Mc d's and BK / kentucky etc, are designed to be eaten immediately, there and then, not sacved till laer, this is what encourages food poisoning bugs to multiply rapidly.

the "kitchens" are open to view, in places like this, so where would anyone have a chance to obtain some "unsavoury" substance such as this to add to the food?

and why should it be an immigrant that would do something like this? And why someone from Kososvo, paricularly and no other country?

it is similar to the "Kentucky Fried Rat" legend that goes around (which can also be debunked on the snopes' site.

all bunkum

PT

I thought as much Plain Talker, Ugh!!! it would be a disturbing thought though wouldnt it if somebody was sick enough to do something like that.

When my Mum told me I thought it was a little far fetched but shes guliable and believes everything you tell her, I think it was the guys in her work playing an April Fools Day Joke on her.

Shes been telling me not to take my son to Macdonalds ever since the silly mare.

this is an addition to the above post,

here is the URL to get to the urban legends site, and a list of related stories, including the semen stories, and the Kentucky fried rat stories

in line with the foroum's policies, on posting url's, please replace the word "dot" with ... erm..... well, I'll let you figure it out.

http://www"dot"snopes"dot"com/food/tainted/tainted.asp


snopes site is ace for all kinds of urban legends discussions.

PT

What struck me about the story Sierra originally posted, was the fact that the finger the complainant found in the Wendy's chilli was cooked.

He said the finger had been cooked at a high enough temperature to kill any viruses

In addition, the finger was torn off, rather than being cleanly cut.

The digit appeared to have been torn off, possibly by manufacturing machinery, rather than cleanly cut.

The police have now searched this woman's home in the belief that the finger is from the body of the complainant's dead Aunt. If we can make the assumption that the police are correct, and also that she was not a member of staff, then it means she tore a finger off the corpse of a loved one, and then cooked it herself!

In addition, the report says that there were two pieces of finger found in the complainant's chilli; how did she possibly think that it would be conceivable that both bits would end up in the same portion? :huh:

This seems very odd to me; I shall watch for updates from Sierra with interest!

K x

And now,

Just for Kristian. Who wanted an update on this story. ;)

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050409/D89BJV380.html

Let's hope the right person gets the finger!

Enjoy sweetie!

:) Sierra

Originally posted by FetishFairy
A vegetable finger is like a fish finger but made out of vegetables such as peas, carrots, sweetcorn and potato etc!! What on earth did you think I meant? lol! :loopy:

Oh, ok. :hihi:

I knew you didn't mean a real finger, of course. It's just that in the states what you would call "fingers" in England are called "sticks" here.

Like fish fingers...fish sticks. And there are no pureed/mixed veggies called fingers OR sticks here. Pureed veggies are only used as baby food and such.

:) Sierra

Originally posted by Sierra
And now,

Just for Kristian. Who wanted an update on this story. ;)

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050409/D89BJV380.html

Let's hope the right person gets the finger!

Enjoy sweetie!

:) Sierra

Thanks for the update Sierra! :thumbsup:

K x

Latest on THE FINGER FOOD, the woman was arrested yesterday, all lies of course, turns out all the employees had ALL ten fingers in tact.

Seems she's done all this before.

Ooooh! The plot thickens; it was looking that way though from what I'd read. There's a link to the news here. (http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=695380)

Originally posted by Evei
years ago when I was little we were eating one of them pkt chicken soups that came in a little box. My dad yelled out as he found half a caterpillar in his soup, it must of been freeze-dried with the herbs in the soup.... yuk... bit of extra meat eh!

Heh heh...and some of those meat-flavour packet meals are actually supposed to be suitable for vegetarians!


Originally posted by march
What is worse than finding a cockroach in your food?

Finding half a cockroach!! :hihi:

You sick, sick, person :gag:

Up date on the Wend's chili story, hope i get this right !

Seems the finger belonged to a friend of the womans husband, it was severed off at his work place at another time and they dicided to try pull this scam off.

The police are NOT taking this case lightly either as it was a scam against a large company and put some people out of work among other problems it caused.

More to come after trial.

i remember back in the days when i worked in Maccy'ds couple of summers back and there were problems with caterpillers in hte lettuce, it was something to do with it being treated for the bugs but due to weather they managed to get back into the fields and reproduce or something....anyway.... one girl bought a chicken sandwich and found these caterpillers in it.. we were so apologetic and gave her all contact details to complain, her money back and as she was sick offered her something to drink... next day the cheeky moo had told the papers my manager had offered her a drink to wash it down with!!! such lies!!!! was well funny though

This horrid woman has cost Wendy's millions in lost revenue. Turns out Ms. Ayala is NO angel!

Is it just me, or does she look like she's had a nose job? I come from the plastic surgery capitol of the world, and can spot a nose job/face lift/boob job/liposuction a mile away.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0422051finger1.html

She's also facing more than six years in jail time for pulling this little stunt. I hope she's got a good lawyer.

Top 10 Actual Headlines in Wendy's Finger-in-Chili Coverage

10. Diner Puts a Finger on What's Wrong with the Chili
9. Finger Food Leaves Diner with Really Bad Taste; Chili Had Too Much of a Human Touch
8. Wendy's "Finger" Has a Chili Effect on Sales
7. Tipsters Calling Wendy's About Finger in Chili
6. Finger in Chili Not Getting Any Easier to Digest
5. Wendy's Reeling, the Butt of the Joke in Body Part Caper
4. Police Aiming to Point Finger at the Owner of Missing Digit
3. Six-Digit Reward for Origin of Wendy's "Chili Finger"
2. Finger in Chili Stumps Cops
1. Woman Bites Off More than She Can Chew

:) Sierra

US compensation culture - the ultimate conclusion !

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4626232.stm

Originally posted by PottShrigley
US compensation culture - the ultimate conclusion !

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4626232.stm

It does say something about our judicial system though. That woman will serve 9 years in jail in The States, while murderers here are out in less than 7.

They have parole in the USA too so I doubt she will serve the full sentence.

What sort of person has a finger severed in an industrial accident, and then keeps it to sell on?

Mod Note: Update thread merged with original thread for continuity.

I've heard it said that if you eat fast food you eat on average three pubic hairs a year. Three reasons not to eat fast food I'd say.

Originally posted by JonJParr
I've heard it said that if you eat fast food you eat on average three pubic hairs a year. Three reasons not to eat fast food I'd say.

Three more reasons perhaps!

Originally posted by Cutglass
Once found a fly in a bar of Cadburys wildlife


The fly was the wildlife:D.

Originally posted by kathythebean
Three more reasons perhaps!

Thanks Kathy - that's what I meant to write. More haste less speed next time. :)

Originally posted by JonJParr
Thanks Kathy - that's what I meant to write. More haste less speed next time. :)

:o

Don't be taking speed, that's worse for you than fast food!

:P

I once found a bug in my salted peanuts :gag:

I once found a salted peanut in my bugs.

you should try some free range produce - we bought some once whilst away on holiday off a man with a barrow - had a whole zoo contained within - once cleaned tasted great however (the veg not the bugs) and well worth the effort.