WILMINGTON, N.C. - A man who ordered a pint of frozen chocolate custard in a dessert shop got a nasty surprise inside — a piece of severed finger lost by an employee in an accident.
Unlike a recent incident at a Wendy's restaurant in California, no questions of truth have been raised about the finger found in a package from Kohl's Frozen Custard.
State officials went to the shop Monday, and the owner confirmed one of his employees lost part of a finger in an accident with a food-processing machine.
Wilmington television station WWAY reported that Clarence Stowers found the finger in custard he purchased Sunday night.
Stowers, who did not immediately return calls Monday from The Associated Press, told the station: "I thought it was candy because they put candy in your ice cream ... to make it a treat. So I said, 'OK, well, I'll just put it in my mouth and get the ice cream off of it and see what it is.'"
Stowers said he spit the object out, but still couldn't identify it. So he went to his kitchen, rinsed it off with water — and "just started screaming."
Stowers said he planned to contact a lawyer.
Shop owner Craig Thomas said the employee who lost the finger had dropped a bucket while working with a machine that dispenses the custard. He tried to catch the bucket when the accident occurred.
Thomas told WWAY that several employees tried to help the injured worker, and that a drive-thru window attendant apparently scooped custard from the bucket into a pint before being told what had happened.
Joe Reardon of the state Agriculture Department's food and drug division said state officials closed the shop while the food-processing equipment involved was cleaned and sanitized.
:dunno: Wonders something... with all of these body parts out there, how do we check to be sure our Christmas candy canes aren't... well, never mind!!!:dunno:
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Re: N.C. Man Finds Finger in Frozen Custard
I don't know what I would do if I found something like that in my food I would probably freak out. Years ago some friends of mine and I ordered some hamburgers from a Sonic here in Las Cruces and when we got home with them and started eating my friend Dave bit into something hard and chipped his tooth. We tried to identify what it was we knew it was a tooth of some kind but from what kind of animal we didn't know. So he took it over to the University and had it analysed and they found out that it was a tooth from a dog. When he found that out he notified Sonic and they were wanting to settle with him right away. I think they ended up giving him 10,000 and had him sign an agreement that he would not go public with it. But it makes you wonder how many other things have been found in the food of public places that we never hear about like that dogs tooth. I have never ordered another hamburger from Sonic since that happened and that has been over 15 years ago.
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