Here’s a lovely little story from our friends down in Bellbowrie, Australia. It seems that they have a Pizza Hut in Bellbowrie, and that Pizza Hut has cockroaches. Lots of cockroaches. So many cockroaches, in fact, that it baked one alive into a meatlovers pizza.
From the UPI:
Officials said tests revealed the roach found on the take-out meatlovers pizza was cooked alive with the pie.
Yum! brands, the U.S. operator of the Pizza Hut, lost its license for a month and then reopened with “increased cleaning practices,” according to the (Australia) Sunday Mail. The Brisbane Magistrates Court ordered the company to pay a fine of $35,000, and Yum! has said it is sorry for the incident. No word on whether the customer who got the cockroach pizza has stopped screaming yet.
Company fined $35,000 for roach problems [UPI]
(Photo: Adam A. Koch )
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ewwwwww ….
This has to happen more often than you read about it. I’ve seen those pizza ovens, and it seems that even a restauranteur that wants to make a conscious effort to keep the things clean has his/her work cut out for her. All those pies, all those orders, all that minimum-wage inattention, and all that grease – it’s sure to attract a few curious six-legged visitors from time to time. There’s no excuse for finding a roach in your edibles (unless you’re into that sort of thing), but such an event seems not only possible but horrifically likely.
i want a picture next time !
If it were me the answer would be NO.
The Consumerist has my gratitude for not posting a photo with a big roach in it.
@waza: No, no, that’s ok, we’re fine without a pic, thanks…
@MyPetFly: that’s a way better answer than anything scientific. I’m still curious as to how that was determined though.
Wow. I haven’t worked in the kitchen at pizza hut, although I did work a summer at Domino’s….it’s really, really, really more than a little bit difficult to bake a *cockroach* into a pizza. What else is going on in that restaurant?
I bet that wasn’t cheese either.
oh well…i have enough cockroaches at my house, im sure at least once a week one of the little buggers makes his way into my food. no big deal.
lol….poor roach, just swimming for its life amongts the pile of melting cheese, trying to grab on to a sausage to use it as a flotation device, unfortunately the boiling tomato sauce under its feet had damaged the legs and couldnt climb its only way to salvation….
they can make a movie outta this.
and when did they notice that there was a roach? after they bit the pizza or was it neatly laying on the top….”damnit, i didnt order anchovies….wait a minute…what da-fu….”