http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=817&e=2&u=/ap/finger_food Woman Eating Chili Bites Into Human Finger Wed Mar 23,10:35 PM ET SAN JOSE, Calif. - A woman's meal at a Wendy's restaurant brought a whole new meaning to the term "finger food." The woman bit into a portion of a human finger while eating a bowl of chili Tuesday night at the San Jose restaurant, Santa Clara County health officials said Wednesday. The woman, who asked officials not to identify her, immediately spit out the finger and warned other diners to stop eating, witnesses said. "Initially she did put this object in her mouth and did bite down on it and wasn't sure exactly what it was," Santa Clara County Health Officer Dr. Martin Fenstersheib said at a news conference. "She's doing OK. Initially she was a bit grossed out it was described to me, and vomited a number of times." Fenstersheib said the finger had been cooked at a high enough temperature to kill any viruses. Officials said the fingertip was approximately 1 3-8-inches long and a half-inch piece of fingernail was also found. They believe it belongs to a woman because of the long, manicured nail. Health investigators seized all of the ingredients at the restaurant and are tracing them back to their manufacturer. They believe the finger got into the chili at an earlier stage. "We have no evidence of any accident within the employees at the facility itself," said Ben Gale of the Santa Clara County Health Department. "We asked everybody to show us they have 10 fingers and everything is OK there." The restaurant has had only one minor health violation stemming from a leaky vent, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. "Food safety is of utmost importance to us," Wendy's spokesman Joe Desmond said in a statement. "We are cooperating fully with the local police and health departments with their investigation. It's important not to jump to conclusions. Here at Wendy's we plan to do right by our customers."
Ah, Kwik-e, always posting randomness. I'm always astounded bu how many people "vomit numorous times" in these stories. Did they save the vomit? It's Bullsh... I'm tired of people freaking out everytime something like this happens. When I was in college, I ordered a Pizza Hut Pizza. I ate it. I noticed on the third slice that there were tempered glass shards mixed into it. I pulled them out and SERIOUSLY considered calling that store for a full refund. Geez, these days, I guess I'd only have to say I threw up multiple times and ask for a mil. Idiots. BTW, true story on the glass shards. Happened at Tech.
ROFL well isn't THAT a relief. I know that I hate having viruses on the fingers of my Wendy's chili LOL. Is that REALLY the only concern? Not that there is a human finger in my chili......but if it contains a virus? LOL
Hmmm...actually it would be a concern. If the person whose finger it was was HIV positive, and heat did not kill the virus.....and you end up chomping on the finger....you get the point.
How does losing a finger at a chili making plant not set off alarms and stop production? It's not like you can just lose a finger at work "undetected". I would imagine there would be all sorts of screaming, yelling and blood involved. You would think that other employees would hear and see this, causing them to look into it. Maybe some woman at the plant got caught up in a big grinder and her whole body was chopped up at once, not allowing her time to yell. Maybe the finger is just the first of many body parts that will be found in food over the next few days.
I understand that it is a concern but this statement somehow lessens the incident in my opinion. Kinda like saying...."oh nevermind the fact that you put a human finger in your mouth....the thing to focus on is that its clean" LOL. That is what I meant.
Hey come now. You can't expect negligence leading to cannibalism to have the same importance as a possible tummy ache. Where are your priorities?
Its probably the fact I just finished watching the Sopranos......but the first thing that popped into my head was a bunch of gangsters not knowing how to use the grinder properly.
Hm, reminded me of the guy who bit into a slice of a fingertip a few years ago at Subway. I think he got a couple mil out of the suit. I'm generaly against big suits like that (McDonalds hot coffee), but when it comes to sanitation, resturaunts really need a kick in the ass every once in a while.
So someone biting into a finger deserves a couple of million, but you're against the coffee verdict where the woman suffered third degree burns and required skin grafts?
