Warning:
this is not for those with a weak stomach.......
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posted 03-26-2005 08:04 AM         

I can assure you,,if true,,this is not the fault of Wendy's, rather the meat processing plant from where it came. Having said that,, SELL YOUR WENDY'S STOCK

betcha she won't be biting her nails after this...

posted 03-26-2005 12:49 PM         

The nice thing about Wendy's is the hamburger is never frozen. It comes in large plastic bags from the plant chilled. Each Wendy's has a burger stamper that takes the bulk burger and forms it into the square patties. These are chilled in the cooler until frying on the grill.

So if this finger came from the plant, it made it into a large bag of raw hamburger, through the burger stamper, on the grill, into the leftover pan, through the chili boiler, and into this lady's bowl. IF this burger had actually stayed intact on the grill (my theory is the finger caused the burger to break apart upon grilling) imagine the reaction into biting into the finger in cheeseburger instead.

posted 03-26-2005 01:38 PM         

Just In Time For Lunch ...

Holy smokes, is this gross.

Wendy's chili is not made out of people -- well, it is, but just a little bit.

Santa Clara County health officials confirmed Wednesday that the thing a woman bit on when enjoying her chili at a Monterey Highway Wendy's was, in fact, a human finger. They're not sure whose.

It was about an inch-and-a-half, with a longish, nicely groomed nail.

And while it gave the woman -- Anna Ayala, 39, of Las Vegas -- a bad case of the willies, it likely caused no physical illness, officials said.

That's because the finger was safely cooked, simmering along at 170 degrees with more traditional chili ingredients, such as tomatoes, beef and beans.

About 7:20 p.m. Tuesday, Ayala, in town with her family to drop off her in-laws who live in San Jose, scooped up a mouthful of chili.

It was her first visit to a Wendy's. I'm more of a Carl's Jr. person,'' she said Thursday night.

Suddenly something crunchy was in my mouth,'' she said, and I spit it out.''

After much examination, she and her tablemates realized just what the special ingredient was. Then the vomiting commenced.

Police and county health officials were called to the Wendy's, but no one there was missing any digits.

We had everyone kind of show us they had 10 fingers, and everything was OK there,'' said Ben Gale, director of the county's Department of Environmental Health.

In confirming it was a finger, the county medical examiner also found that it wasn't badly decomposed and had a solid set of fingerprints. Conceivably, officials said, police could lift a print and perhaps match it to a partially fingered person through a database.

For now, officials figure -- since it was a jagged cut -- it may have happened on a meat grinder.

In any case, the county shut the Wendy's for a while and impounded all the remaining chili and all the ingredients used to make it. They hope to track all the fixings to try to find the source of the finger.

Wendy's spokesman Bob Bertini said never in the fast-food chain's 35 years has a body part showed up in the food.

PS/FYI - while I worked as a meat cutter, occasionally we would have two nearby Wendy's run out of burger meat and buy from the grocery store - they didn't care if it was "frozen or fresh" meat when they were about out of business.

posted 03-27-2005 07:59 AM         

Reported to be driving a stock, red, Plymouth Prowler. Last seen at a 'used battery exchange store'. Call 911 if you see this suspect. Not considered armed [with any degree of humor],,,but considered dangerous!!!

posted 03-28-2005 11:44 PM         

I bought a bowl of chili today at Wendy's, and burned my finger in it after the one in it was already burned.