Disgusting reason to steer clear of fast food joints

[Rawkinlocs]

I just read this at another forum:

You Want Fingers with That?
Thu Mar 24, 2005 09:02 AM ET

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A diner at a Wendy's fast food restaurant in San Jose, California, found a human finger in a bowl of chili prepared by the chain, local officials said on Wednesday.

"This individual apparently did take a spoonful, did have a finger in their mouth and then, you know, spit it out and recognized it," said Ben Gale, director of the department of environmental health for Santa Clara County. "Then they had some kind of emotional reaction and vomited."

Local officials launched an investigation after the incident on Tuesday night and the medical examiner determined on Wednesday that the object was a human finger.

Officials are trying to determine if the finger came in the raw materials Wendy's used to prepare the chili, Gale said.

Wendy's International Inc. corporate office did not immediately return a call for comment. Wendy's is the third-largest hamburger chain.

[VeganVixen]

I didnt think I needed anymore reasons.....but alas another one is added to my list -that is SO disgusting I have nothing to say.......

[SedonaSun]

They showed a picture of the finger on the news... so absolutely, totally, freakin' disgusting. Makes me sick thinking of it, I can't imagine having that happen to me. That poor person! (who found it)

What's sickest about this, to me, is that IF it happened in one of the processing plants, then as soon as it happened, well, people had to know--you don't lose a finger and not realize it pretty quickly, so they didn't stop production and at least look for it, much less waste the food he/she was working around?

Of course, it's also (remotely) possible that someone had access to a finger piece (friend of a medical examiner?? Mortician?? Surgeon?? Crematorium personnel??) and planted it in the chili as a joke or a way to bring trouble on Wendy's (I'm talking about someone putting it in the whole thing of chili, not the customer planting it.) I know, that's a stretch, but so is losing your finger at work and nobody bothering to dump the food you were working with.

Just way too gross!

[Sharon in Colorado]

"Then they had some kind of emotional reaction and vomited."


Gee, really? Some kind of emotional reaction?! Nah - that's not possible!

Kelly, I think you could be right about that. I'm learning that you are quite the slueth! If somebody lost their finger in the production line, there'd be no way possible letting that go, you would think. Must have been a dirty trick. I could totally see a disgruntled Wendy's worker doing that.

And I'm sure it was the middle finger. I can just picture the worker placing the finger in the Vat O' Chili, saying "This one's for you, Dave!"

[Rawkinlocs]

Sharon, you SO crack me up sometimes (the part about it being the middle finger was FUNNY! LOL! :D )

I can see someone doing that however, please tell me where would someone working at Wendy's get a human finger from?

I can defintely see the folks where the meat for the chili comes from letting it go...I mean, they let everything else go (diseased animals for example), so why not a finger. I'm pretty sure we've all probably had some ground beef, hotdogs or other processed meat that had something in it we weren't aware of. It's all about the greenbacks baybee...all about the greenbacks.

[VeganVixen]

actually ,now that you bring that up ,today I had squash-getti and the first bite tasted EXACTLY like rotissery chicken -It freaked me out and I stopped -makes me wonder though.....

[DotfromOz]

What's sickest about this, to me, is that IF it happened in one of the processing plants, then as soon as it happened, well, people had to know--you don't lose a finger and not realize it pretty quickly, so they didn't stop production and at least look for it, much less waste the food he/she was working around?

Actually, SedonaSun, it's quite possible that a meat-packing plant cutter didn't realize right away that s/he'd lost a finger. Their knives are so very sharp and the line moves sooooo fast, that that could in fact occur. Not to mention that the workers in such plants are too often illegal aliens who don't want to mention that they've been injured for fear of drawing the attention of immigration to them.

I used to live about 30 miles north of one of the plants that Eric Schlosser mentions in Fast Food Nation. When there was a strong south wind, we could often smell that particular plant where I lived. Really disgusting!

[VeganVixen]

yeah ,alot of times the nerve ending is cut and you cant feel a thing - A knife went all the way through my hand a few years ago and It didnt hurt as much as it looked -blood was EVERY WHERE -horrible ,so they probably saw the blood -unless they temporarily confused it w/animal blood or chili......yuck!

[Sharon in Colorado]

Sharon, you SO crack me up sometimes (the part about it being the middle finger was FUNNY! LOL! :D )



:D

I just searched around for that story, and it was found to be a woman's finger, as the nail was long & manicured. Yeesh. I showed the story to my daughter, who's a Wendy's fan (evil aren't I) and I took out a measuring stick and held it to my finger to show her what 1 1/2 inches looks like. My goodness...it was like HALF of my finger. Can you imagine?

So, seeing that it was a woman's finger, and the nail was manicured, I think we can conclude it probably wasn't a meat packing incident.

There's another possiblity of a woman petting her mad cow and it biting her finger off.

I'm thinking of making my own almond butter now! There's been a few times I've chomped on some shell pieces, and it freaks me out to no end what else could be lurking in there! :eek:

[Autumn]

EW! EW! EW! EW! EWWWWWW!!!!!! *POKING FINGERS IN EYES* Make it stop!! :D

[monkeyboy]

Hi Everyone,

Ah...come on...things happen.

Peace,

M.B.

[VeganVixen]

things happen? yeah like in hannibal movies.........lol :rollseyes:

[DotfromOz]

:D

So, seeing that it was a woman's finger, and the nail was manicured, I think we can conclude it probably wasn't a meat packing incident.



I'm not so sure we can conclude that at all, Sharon. I recall seeing quite a lot of women leaving meatpacking plants at shift change when I lived in the area of several. Obviously, I had no way to know where in the plant they worked, but the industry is definitely not a male-only one.

Perhaps you're correct that they wouldn't be allowed to have long nails, as I'm not certain about that.

[Autumn]

<<Obviously, I had no way to know where in the plant they worked, but the industry is definitely not a male-only one.>>

On the contrary, I believe it is largely a female-dominated one, at least on the lines. Non-food manufacturing production lines are largely female as well.


<<Perhaps you're correct that they wouldn't be allowed to have long nails, as I'm not certain about that.>>

I think that is what she meant. It is how I took it anyway. Or, even if they are allowed to have long nails, one wouldn't be able to keep them long working in an environment like that; they'd always be breaking.

[Sharon in Colorado]

Maybe it was the receiptionist at the meat packing factory. She was involved with one of the meat packers, but one of the female meat packers was making sheep's eyes at him. So the receptionist approached the female meat packer and there was a cat fight.

The receptionist got shoved against a machine and her blouse got tangled up and caught on a lever. While trying to unravel her blouse, the female meat packer lunged at her and the receptionist's hand got shoved under one of the machines while the ground chuck was flying by on a belt, headed for the chili room.

With all the commotion, the receptionist didn't realize she'd lost half her finger for 5 minutes. Everyone searched for the finger for hours - people were tired and completely out of it until someone finally found a bone that looked like a finger and one of the other female meat packers who ran a sewing class during break time, offered to sew it on the receptionist so nobody would get in trouble. The next morning, the receptionist woke up to a sewn-on bone and screamed bloody murder.

By then, the chili had already been shipped off to the Wendy's distributor and that's how the finger with the long, manicured nail got caught in the chili.

The end.

[VeganVixen]

Hi Everyone,

Ah...come on...things happen.

Peace,

M.B.


YEAH maybe to hannibals victims ,lol

[Autumn]

Sharon,
LMAO! Was that before or after she killed the meat packers wife and took off with all the money he had been embezzling at his uncle's meat packing plant and high-tailed it to Switzerland..... well you know the rest. LOL!