8:54 a.m. March 24, 2005
SAN JOSE – A woman bit into a portion of a human finger while eating a bowl of chili at a Wendy's restaurant, health officials said.
Officials said the fingertip was about 1½ inches long and contained part of a manicured nail. The woman, who asked officials not to identify her, immediately spit it out, Santa Clara County Health Officer Martin Fenstersheib said.
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"She was a bit grossed out it was described to me, and vomited a number of times," he said.
Health investigators seized all 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 and was cooked at a high enough temperature to kill any viruses.
Wendy's spokesman Joe Desmond said the company was cooperating with the investigation.
"It's important not to jump to conclusions," he said. "Here at Wendy's we plan to do right by our customers."
Well, I hope for her sake that they finger it out!!!!!
Had me wondering what might be in my Wendy's lunch today. I skipped the chili. Love those tasty butgers.(https://www.pogocheats.net/proxy/?http://smilies.sofrayt.com/%5elf/burger.gif)
That's a bit horrific thinking about that. I saw the story last night on the news and had to laugh and grimace at, "She's expected to be okay as the finger was fully cooked".
Anyone remember the McDonald's mishap with the chicken sandwhich? A woman ended up sick after eating one- it was thought to be a tumor in the chicken.
Our family was eating at a Ponderosa here in Michigan when my grandfather found a tooth in his corn. I immediately complained to management (and rather loudly I might add) and they shoved about $100.00 of free dinners in my face to remedy the situation. We don't eat there anymore. :-X
Quote from: Snarechick on March 25, 2005, 03:29:17 PM
That's a bit horrific thinking about that. I saw the story last night on the news and had to laugh and grimace at, "She's expected to be okay as the finger was fully cooked".
Anyone remember the McDonald's mishap with the chicken sandwhich? A woman ended up sick after eating one- it was thought to be a tumor in the chicken.
Our family was eating at a Ponderosa here in Michigan when my grandfather found a tooth in his corn. I immediately complained to management (and rather loudly I might add) and they shoved about $100.00 of free dinners in my face to remedy the situation. We don't eat there anymore. :-X
Being a former manager at a Ponderosa in New York, I can attest to that. Want to go to a place where a majority of the time customers aren't given anything to remedy the situation...go there. I've seen almost all of it, that's why I am no longer there. My job was to try and shove gift certificates down people's throats when they had a problem, the GM or owner wouldn't even come out and face the customers. I'd say 80% of the time, if the GM did come out from reading his paper or what have you, he'd just throw the people out of the restaurant. On more than one occasion, I'd see customers leave in tears because of they way they were treated. Except for one time, a guy got pissed at the way the GM talked to his wife and called the cops. Heehee...needless to say, it started with a shoving match in the dining room and the GM ending up in the back of the trooper car. I wanted to laugh so much, until they let the GM go without any reprimand. I can't say all are like that but the one I worked at sucked.
I wonder where the other parts are, I dont want to bite into a hand ???
I've worked in fast food for almost a decade and have seen most all of it. It's very hard to just go to these places and do your job without getting mixed up in their politics too.
I've seen the burger patties dropped on the floor and still served. I've seen the guy who takes out trash, empies mop bucket and doesn't wash hands. I've seen the nasty tomatoes and lettuce they serve that should have been tossed three days earlier. I've even seen the ones that spit in the orders.
Until working in that industry I was a fast foodalholic. I still chance it at times, but would much rather be able to go to back line and make the order myself. I always always always order my stuff plain from seeing the crusty ketchup and stuff on the squirt bottles.
The reality is employees are severely underpaid and the managers only care about sales charts. Most employees could care less about customer satisfaction. For $5.50 an hour who would when you're being expected to get 20 burgers into the bin a minute. Most managers would serve a dead rat with a smile if it put an extra buck in the till. It's sad but true.
I was a great worker and always had a thing for keeping my station clean. I always got offered management positions and always turned them down. When you get into the politics of it, it goes downhill.
I used to have to make the late night bank deposits and briefly got fired and investigated for over $500 that wasn't in the bag next day. It was handed to me under lock and key and was clueless. Finally, it turned out the manager had stolen the money before I ever got the bag to begin with.
Fast food is an evil and chancy place when hungry. Sadly, this goes for most everything.
Adric...
I have been in the fast food industry for over 17 years and yes I am a manager. I take great pride in what I do and what I serve. I suppose I am the minority. I have seen many managers only work for that "bonus". I do not. I share my bonus with my team. I started out in this business at the bottom. I made a little over three dollars an hour, so I know what it's like for the "hourlys".
I guess your post just got my nerve up. But that is what a forum is for..sharing opinions.
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I wish I could have been working with you then Stinky O0. That's the way to have a great business relationship with your workers. I had some bad misfortunes in my time with fast food. I know it's not all bad and wasn't trying to imply otherwise.
With your time in the chain I'm sure you have seen what I was talking about as well. Good workers are very hard to find. When you have a good team, you have a successful business. You can usually walk into a place and tell right away if it's somewhere you'd eat.
Quote from: fasterblaster58 on March 24, 2005, 03:17:51 PM
Well, I hope for her sake that they finger it out!!!!!
LMAO :D
Quote from: fasterblaster58 on March 24, 2005, 03:17:51 PM
Well, I hope for her sake that they finger it out!!!!!
OMG.....too friggin funny
Until working in that industry I was a fast foodalholic. I still chance it at times, but would much rather be able to go to back line and make the order myself. I always always always order my stuff plain from seeing the crusty ketchup and stuff on the squirt bottles.
That's why I tend to eat at Subway when out teaching or running around with my mother....atleast you can see them making your sub. If they drop it and slap it back on, or spit, you can reach across the counter and slap them. ;D
Omigosh.....how "awful" funny.
Five minutes is too long to eat at Subway? I don't think it's ever taken me longer than ten minutes to go in, get my sandwhich, and get out at the various SW's on my four hour round trip teaching. I have spent longer than that in "fast" food drive-ups, and less time having a heart attack eating it. :D
No one has said how well the manicure was.If it was a good manicure, I am sure the finger did not come from a manufacturing shop, the rate of pay is so poor. Now if the nail was polished, well groomed and wearing jewelry(no one has mentioned that)...if this is the case has anyone looked for the rest of the body...You know it could be a mob hit...and everything tastes like chicken. I am only having the salad bar from now on until this is solved. And please stay away from the Catalina Dressing..the red colour could be a sign of a sinister act..
Thank Goodness..BBQ season is upon us!!
Blhue1
Mmmmmmmmm BBQ.(https://www.pogocheats.net/proxy/?http://smilies.sofrayt.com/%5elf/bbq.gif)
I just realized last night that the woman who found a finger in her chili lives about 5 minutes away from me here in Vegas. They did a search on her house yesterday because they think she might have put the finger there herself. They are doing DNA and fingerprint analysis on the entire family now.
Wendy's is also offering a $50,000 reward for identification of the finger.
http://www.kvvu.com/Global/story.asp?S=3184464&nav=2NiwYRHA
"The woman who claims she bit into a human finger while eating chili at a Wendy's restaurant has a history of filing lawsuits _ including a claim against another fast-food restaurant.
Anna Ayala, 39, who hired a San Jose, Calif., attorney to represent her in the Wendy's case, has been involved in at least half a dozen legal battles in the San Francisco Bay area, according to court records."
I saw her on TV, too. Her daughter had her arm in a sling, claiming the cops beat her up durring the search. I'm starting to think this is gonna turn out to be some huge homicide case or something.
It is gonna be a huge scam. She is obviously lawsuit happy. The family that has been so open with the press is suddenly flipping the carema off... And they are telling the media to stay away from them and their property.
From the way the cops have treated her I don't blame her a bit for being mad. They ransacked her apt or house. She claims they treated her and family like animals. One cop supposedly held her at gunpoint. I have no problems believing that. If I had the media hounding me in such a way I'd be doing more than flipping the camera off.
I don't care if she's sued half the companies in the US. I don't think for one minute that she put that finger there. If she did, I will stand corrected. I hope she sues the police dept. and the media while she's at it.
In the meantime, they need to stop pointing 'fingers' and look the places where the chili originated from. :o
Wheres there a blame theres a claim - USA Law soooo funny - :(
OneandOnly? Too true.
She's now complaining about the media? That is her ticket to $$$$$. The more the media plays this up, the more hush money she stands to get in a lawsuit. You'd think that she'd welcome the attention. She should be playing this to the hilt.
I can't quite pass judgement whether or not this is a scam yet. It's leaning that wayfor me. There are some sick minds out there looking for a free ride at any cost.
:o Yuck, this story just is getting stranger and stranger ::)
This Woman Thinks Fingertip in Chili Is Hers
By ADAM GOLDMAN, Associated Press Writer
LAS VEGAS - A woman who lost part of her finger in a leopard attack believes it was her body part that allegedly showed up a month later in a bowl of fast-food chili in California.
A lawyer for Sandy Allman, 59, said she wants to participate in any DNA testing of the finger, which she said she last saw packed in ice in a Las Vegas emergency room. Doctors told her it could not be reattached, and she does not know what happened to it after that, lawyer Philip Sheldon said.
The hospital said it cannot account for the 3/4-inch fingertip, which Allman lost Feb. 23 in the attack at an exotic animal compound at her home in rural Pahrump, about 60 miles west of Las Vegas.
Las Vegas resident Anna Ayala claimed she found a 1 1/2-inch fingertip on March 22 while eating at a Wendy's in San Jose, Calif.
The two women have "absolutely no connection," Sheldon said.
He said Allman realizes her lost fingertip is only half as long as the one that Ayala claims to have found.
San Jose police said DNA tests would be taken to determine the finger's rightful owner.
Once worked at a place a long time ago where I was a bartender. We served salads and a few other items. One of the girls lost one of her press on nails in the salad mix and it was found my a customer who started to munch on it. Yum... that was hilarious. They closed that place down forever ago *later*
i worked in fast food for about 1 yr 12yrs ago. i quit for a couple of reasons which one has nothing to do with food prep so i will leave that reason alone. but its the other reason that i quit as to why i havent worked in the restaraunt business and wont patronage fast food for anything except a soda or possibly and order of fries. the place i worked for would get mad at us and yell at us if we dropped the burger patties and buns on the floor - while putting in the machine that cooked them - picked them up and threw them away. they sed they couldnt afford those kind of losses everyday. we were to pick them up and put them in to cook. thats when i stopped eating at fast food places. recently i tried to do that and ordered a specialty sandwhich coz then i can watch the process from start to finish. i have food allergies and have to special order everything anyway. they always mess up and put double the amount of items i tell them not to put on. so all i go in for is a soda and maybe some fries but not usually and thats only if im with friends that insist on eating there. but anyway, enough jibbering. hagd everyone.
(KVVU) -- The Las Vegas woman that claimed she found a 1 1/2-inch fingertip while eating at a Wendy's in San Jose last month is in custody.
Anna Ayala, 39, was arrested Thursday night in Las Vegas on charges of grand larceny and attempted grand larceny.
A news conference will be held Friday afternoon.
Wendy's International Inc. ended its internal investigation and issued a statement on Thursday afternoon, declaring it found no credible link between the finger and the restaurant chain.
http://www.kvvu.com/Global/story.asp?S=3213382&nav=2NiwYyPv
Quote from: KMK92304 on April 21, 2005, 11:54:56 PM
(KVVU) -- The Las Vegas woman that claimed she found a 1 1/2-inch fingertip while eating at a Wendy's in San Jose last month is in custody.
Anna Ayala, 39, was arrested Thursday night in Las Vegas on charges of grand larceny and attempted grand larceny.
A news conference will be held Friday afternoon.
Wendy's International Inc. ended its internal investigation and issued a statement on Thursday afternoon, declaring it found no credible link between the finger and the restaurant chain.
http://www.kvvu.com/Global/story.asp?S=3213382&nav=2NiwYyPv
This woman needs to be locked up somewhere.
Wendy's Chili (Sans Finger)Â :P
2 pounds ground beef
One 29-ounce can tomato sauce
One 29-ounce can kidney beans (with liquid)
One 29-ounce can pinto beans (with liquid)
1 cup diced onion (1 medium onion)
1/2 cup diced green chili (2 chilies)
1/4 cup diced celery (1 stalk)
3 medium tomatoes, chopped
2 teaspoons cumin powder
3 tablespoons chili powder
1 1/2 teaspoons black pepper
2 teaspoons salt
2 cups water Â
1. Brown the ground beef in a skillet over medium heat; drain off the fat.
2. Using a fork, crumble the cooked beef into pea-size pieces.
3. In a large pot, combine the beef plus all the remaining ingredients, and bring to a simmer over low heat. Cook, stirring every 15 minutes, for 2 to 3 hours.
Makes about 12 servings.
Tidbits
For spicier chili, add 1/2 teaspoon more black pepper.
For much spicier chili, add 1 teaspoon black pepper and a tablespoon cayenne pepper.
And for a real stomach stinger, add 5 or 6 sliced jalapeno peppers to the pot.
Leftovers can be frozen for several months.
yum that sounds good, im going to have to make that...homer do you cook for parties? ;D
sounds like the chili mom use to make
Only my own. (https://www.pogocheats.net/proxy/?http://smilies.sofrayt.com/%5elf/cooking1.gif)
just read an article on the net.....The mysterious finger that a woman claimed to have found in a bowl of Wendy's chili came from an associate of her husband who lost the finger in an industrial accident, police said Friday. it was under the Ap news on yahoo