Do you eat at Wendys??

[DevilDog#1]

Woman Finds Human Finger In Chili

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 24, 2005

(CBS/AP) A woman bit into a portion of a human finger while eating a bowl of chili at a Wendy's fast food restaurant, health officials said.

Officials said the fingertip was about one and a half inches long and contained part of a manicured nail. The woman immediately spit it out, Santa Clara County Health Officer Martin Fenstersheib said.

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.

"She was a bit grossed out it was described to me, and vomited a number of times," Fenstersheib said.

At 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 in an interview with the San Jose Mercury News.

"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," Ben Gale, director of the county's Department of Environmental Health, told the paper.

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. Since it was a jagged cut, officials believe it may have happened on a meat grinder.

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."



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[Trojan]

OMG... .and I love Wendy's Chili.

-troj

[DevilDog#1]

Originally posted by troj
OMG... .and I love Wendy's Chili.

-troj

*Imagines how many FINGAs Troj has had!*

Want REAL Chili go to

[Trojan]

KFC, heh. -troj

[Dr. Bullet]

I don't like Wendy's...If I must do fast food, McDonalds, Chik-fil-a, and Arby's are my picks, though I hit Taco Smell, I mean Bell, every once in a while.

[DevilDog#1]

Originally posted by Dr. Bullet
I don't like Wendy's...If I must do fast food, McDonalds, Chik-fil-a, and Arby's are my picks, though I hit Taco Smell, I mean Bell, every once in a while.

Olive Garden, Chili's, Red Lobster here

[Dr. Bullet]

I said fast food. Real restaurants I like Red Lobster, Joe's Crabshack, Chili's, Zio's, Cattleman's, Shorty Small's...

I never et Olive Garden afore.

[DevilDog#1]

Originally posted by Dr. Bullet
I said fast food. Real restaurants I like Red Lobster, Joe's Crabshack, Chili's, Zio's, Cattleman's, Shorty Small's...

I never et Olive Garden afore.

Was joking about puking guy man! Thought you were taking a sleep. You being old and all you know

[Dr. Bullet]

You have no idea...

I slept in my chair for 10 minutes. I'm contemplating taking a stretch on the couch...or just going to bed early

[Trojan]

hehe, I'm wired up on Folders. I'm prolly gonna crash hard... .-troj

[Dr. Bullet]

I'm about to crash hard. I have to stay awake at least until 8, otherwise my inner clock is really messed up...

If I went to sleep at say 5 or 6, that would put me waking up tomorrow morning at 6, then going to bed early again, and waking up earlier and earlier until I'm waking up in the afternoon and going to bed in the morning...argh.

[DevilDog#1]

Originally posted by Dr. Bullet
I'm about to crash hard. I have to stay awake at least until 8, otherwise my inner clock is really messed up...

If I went to sleep at say 5 or 6, that would put me waking up tomorrow morning at 6, then going to bed early again, and waking up earlier and earlier until I'm waking up in the afternoon and going to bed in the morning...argh.

Listen to some Ray Charles man.

[Dr. Bullet]

You wanna put me to sleep? I fall asleep just thinking about Ray Good music has a trance-like effect on me when I'm tired. Seriously, if I turned on something soft like Sixpence None the Richer or Nocturns, I'd be out so fast...

[DevilDog#1]

Originally posted by Dr. Bullet
You wanna put me to sleep? I fall asleep just thinking about Ray Good music has a trance-like effect on me when I'm tired. Seriously, if I turned on something soft like Sixpence None the Richer or Nocturns, I'd be out so fast...

Of course you can always think about your significant other asking for a diamond necklace and accessories what go with it. Wake you up in a heartbeat

[Dr. Bullet]

Just mentioning my significant other woke me up...I didn't even know I had one

As long as she's good lookin'...

[Trojan]

My clock is day to day. I haven't been normal since bootcamp in 93, lmao...

The first week I was there they kept us up for 72 hours with no sleep, never been the same since... ..-troj

[Dr. Bullet]

Lmao. I try to avoid staying awake for over 24 hours at a time. Tis true I can do it, but you can bet I'm going to be catching up on every night I didn't get sleep. I can function on 2 hours sleep a night for about a week; after that, I'm totally useless.

[DevilDog#1]

Originally posted by troj
My clock is day to day. I haven't been normal since bootcamp in 93, lmao...

The first week I was there they kept us up for 72 hours with no sleep, never been the same since... ..-troj

Hmmm only 72? Must be in the cat squad they kept us working for 7 straight days.

[Dr. Bullet]

[DevilDog#1]

Originally posted by DevilDog#1
Hmmm only 72? Must be in the cat squad they kept us working for 7 straight days.

Darn! I forgot that was right after I bought DFLW game.