Food contamination articles

[snopes]

Woman finds dead frog in spinach

Even Popeye's stomach would probably have churned at the grisly find made by a 32-year-old mother from Vienna who decided to cook frozen spinach for her family's evening meal.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081118...t_081118162615

[MapleLeaf]

She complained to the supermarket where she had bought the spinach and the manager presented her with a free packet of coffee as compensation, Oesterreich reported.

What odd compensation. I wonder if it made her hoppy...

[Eddylizard]

Originally Posted by MapleLeaf

What odd compensation. I wonder if it made her hoppy...

If it was that coffee extracted from weasel (or civet or whatever i don't recall) poo, then probably not.

ETA if she was dining on frog's legs, and happened to come across a piece of spinach in them, would she have grounds for complaint, and similarly receive a free pack of coffee?

[Tarquin Farquart]

Originally Posted by Eddylizard

ETA if she was dining on frog's legs, and happened to come across a piece of spinach in them, would she have grounds for complaint, and similarly receive a free pack of coffee?

I don't know, but it gives me an idea...

[RealityChuck]

Frog's legs . . . mmmmm.

[Brad from Georgia]

Finding half a frog would be worse.

[Eddylizard]

What about the woman's poor daughter? If she had consumed a portion of putrifying frog she could have become seriously ill - she might even have croaked.

[snopes]

A man has sued a Claim Jumper restaurant claiming he ordered French onion soup and bit into a condom instead of melted cheese.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090723/D99JRP181.html

[A Turtle Named Mack]

Oh, no - that means that someplace a guy is trying to unroll a brie onto his willy.

[snopes]

Federal officials are investigating what a couple found in a can of Diet Pepsi: the remains of a possible rodent.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/orl-b...,2492489.story

[snopes]

Comment: Rats in ketchup -

I've heard several times that rats end up bring processed into ketchup -
also I've heard more than one reason as to why and how this happens.

[AndrewR]

Originally Posted by A Turtle Named Mack

Oh, no - that means that someplace a guy is trying to unroll a brie onto his willy.

Are you familiar with Rule 34 of the Internet?

[snopes]

The Food and Drug Administration says a test shows that either a frog or a toad was in a Florida man's soda can, but it's not clear how it got there.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...TAM&SECTION=US

[snopes]

Just as a woman prepared to bite into a footlong chicken teriyaki sub from Subway, she felt something sharp.

It was not a hunger pang, but rather the tip of a 5-inch knife embedded in the roll, said Richard Curtin, the woman's husband.

http://www.heraldtribune.com/article...nto-Subway-sub

[bjohn13]

My manager at work claims he was eating pancakes once with some pure maple syrup. He was enjoying the crunchiness of the maple immensely. He thought it was done deliberately until he checked the ingredients to find out what those yummy morsels of pure crunch goodness were in the syrup. He found that it was made out of pure maple...and the bottle was infested with dead ants.

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

[snopes]

An East Texas woman says she made a gruesome find in her bag of greens she bought at Wal-Mart. The woman says she found a dead frog that literally made her sick to her stomach.

http://www.wafb.com/Global/story.asp?S=11430172

[Ariadne]

Originally Posted by bjohn13

My manager at work claims he was eating pancakes once with some pure maple syrup. He was enjoying the crunchiness of the maple immensely. He thought it was done deliberately until he checked the ingredients to find out what those yummy morsels of pure crunch goodness were in the syrup. He found that it was made out of pure maple...and the bottle was infested with dead ants.

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

This happened to me when I was a kid. It was not pure maple syrup, and I didn't notice due to any unusual crunchiness, but rather I noticed a couple ants on my French toast. When I checked the bottle, there were ant corpses galore suspended in the syrup. It was not due to any factory contamination, however; we had a minor ant infestation and apparently the bottle had not been properly closed.

This happened at least 20 years ago and I still check the syrup bottle before using it.

[Eddylizard]

We found a live frog once in some salad items, but removed it and gave it to a zoo before passing the leafy bits down the supply chain. I guess that's not so interesting though.

No idea what it was - how many kinds of frogs exist I don't know, but it's a lot - the zoo told us it was a European tree frog, which is a bit vague.

[Floater]

Originally Posted by Eddylizard

We found a live frog once in some salad items

Was it boned?