I eat more than my share of fast food, but I never eat Wendy's chili. Apparently, this has been a good choice on my part: a Wendy's customer in San Jose, California found a human finger in his cup of chili yesterday.
I tend not to be too grossed out at the occasional reports of insects and random animal parts turning up in food. Yes, it's disgusting when this happens, but I figure I consume various unsanitary and queasy-making things all the time without knowing it. And usually, when these things are publicized, the presence of an offensive bit of detritus can be explained by negligence in processing, or something. What gets me about this particular story is that I can't come up with a logical explanation for how a human finger could have ended up in that batch of chili -- and apparently, neither can Wendy's or the local authorities. Ewww.
Well, I'm guessing a "missing person" got put in the grinder...
Posted by: Philip T. Hunter at March 24, 2005 7:51 PMHot 'n juicy! Man, I am a Wendy's chili eater...at least I *was*!
Hey, remember the old ad campaigns where they guy said, "parts is parts"???
How the hell did this happen..?
Posted by: EgoWhip at March 24, 2005 8:00 PMThe scenario I envision involves some immigrant worker who thinks s/he will get in trouble for "ruining" the chili, so s/he didn't mention dropping a fingertip in it.
I saw an interview with a food safety expert on Good Morning America this morning. She surmised that it must have been the result of an industrial accident in some processing plant where one of the chili ingredients was being prepared. Of course, then she said there hadn't been any accidents reported at any of these plants, and that not shutting down production and dumping the contaminated batch was a pretty huge failure.
Most disgusting additional detail learned this morning: the finger was "well-cooked." Apparently, it was in the chili from the time the batch was assembled, and cooked all day.
Posted by: Stacie at March 25, 2005 8:47 AMi don'y want to eat Wendy's chili anymore.. huhh...
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