Snake Head On T.G.I. Friday's Plate Wasn't Cooked With Broccoli
Lab tests are back on the side dish serpent an upstate New York man found on his plate at T.G.I. Friday's (a story we broke, with pictures). The snake wasn't cooked with the broccoli. It wasn't cooked at all.
So how did it get there? T.G.I. Friday's doesn't know, and they're taking it very seriously, according to their press release:
...The object in question was sent to an independent laboratory for testing, and today the lab provided written confirmation that the object in question, a snake's head, was never cooked.It has been concluded that the snake's head was placed in the food at some point after the cooking process.
The man who reported finding the snake head, Jack Pendleton, says he has no plans to file a lawsuit.
Who placed it there? How? Why? The broccoli-loving public wants to know.
Snake's head was placed in food at Friday's [Times Union]
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(Photos: pieterjanviaene, benimoto )
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Could it be... SATAN?
Hmmm... maybe Kristy found another job?
Four words: Hipster Grifter, Shortorder Cook.
Is it possible the customer...? No, it's not possible.
I like this forum - IT'S EXCITING!
I remember back in the 90s when this guy in Japan had 10 or so cockroaches in his pocket (well in a plastic bag of course) and placed them in food to get free meals..
He didn't get caught until someone actually saw him placing it and then found more cockroaches in his pocket...
But would someone be carrying snake heads for this? I don't know...
I guess TGIF should check with the folks who ordered the "X-Men Origins: Wolverine's Rattlesnake Snickity Snack" to see if it was light in snake content....
@firestorm888: It was just one of those surpise toys you find at the bottom of a happy meal box. Or maybe more like the prize in a box of cracker jacks.
@sbcpunkrocker: good point! i will be sure to boil my snake heads the next time i put them in my broccoli.
i mean i learned how to microwave my band aids! why didn't i think of this!
@mariospants: Having worked in several kitchens back in the day, I'm certain that if someone in the kitchen wanted to intentionally screw with her food, it wouldn't nearly have been so blatantly obvious. Of course, no rational person would walk around with a severed snake head with them, just so they can plant it in their meal, either.
Definitely a very odd situation now...
AIG and Comcast. It was a conspiracy.
By the person who ordered the food. That is my bet. Rough economy makes jerks do even the most desperate things to get money and not have to work.
Ooooooops. Customer now going to jail I assume...
Do we know that the broccoli was cooked?
...no. No we do not!
@sbcpunkrocker: These economic times are tough. Let's go sue!
You know, I'm a lawyer, and I guess I get especially pissed about fruads like this because it makes people think legitimate suits are b.s. too.
I demand independent lab results.
I found this fishy all along. I live where most of the winter broccoli comes from in the US, and it's too cold here, even up to the late harvest time, for snakes to be out (and if anything, they would be in the sun, not hiding down in a plant in a wet field). And broccoli's cut by hand, so I would hope they would have noticed a snake in there. And I didn't buy how they could have cooked it and not seen it...
This is why food issues shouldn't make news until the health dept and some labs can gather more data. A large portion of the claims are people looking for publicity, money or free meals. Anyone in the restaurant biz knows this, but here goes the media reporting this crap. Now a restaurant/chain will have sales go down thanks to poor reporting. Good job. Ive seen a decent hamburger chain go down thanks to local newspapers when a lady put something in her food and claimed it came like that. Sure the newspaper printed a retraction, but sales went so far down that they had to close. People lost jobs.
You think after the Wendy's finger-in-the-chili thing went bad, people would learn this trick is really not too smart...
@sbcpunkrocker: I recall a scheme where the mouse someone found in their fast food turned out to be one of those frozen albino laboratory mice that are available for purchase at a pet store to feed to pet snakes.
Of course proving someone put a foreign object into the food does not prove who did it - a food worker with a grudge/playing a prank, or a customer seeking a settlement. That takes further detective work.
That's why all the states need some kind of FELONY food tampering law so they can at least throw that in if not assault ,attempted poisoning or criminal mischief .
FELONY FOOD TAMPERING especially in a day and age of diseases and terror attacks
Not only broccoli-loving public wants to know. The snake-loving public wants to know, too.
Also, broccoli-loving snakes.
@firestorm888: This joke was already covered in the last thread about this, but thanks for playing. Here's a copy of the home game ...
Wait, was the lab owned by the broccoli manufacturer? I smell a cover-up...
Sounds like T.G.I. Fridays is trying to blame the customer without actually saying the words.
@savdavid: But... the implications of this plot are too sickening to believe. ;_;
Wouldn't HAIR be a little less disgusting and easier to come by? Or even a bug. Euuugh.
didn't we learn anything from the idiot with the finger?
Didn't the person this happened to say they didn't wanna sue, or pursue any action?
@HeyBickley: Well, putting aside the customer says they don't intend to sue. Finding a hair in your food would maybe net you a free meal, it's not quite as traumatizing as finding, well, bigger things that shouldn't be there. I've never heard of any place getting sued over hair in the food either, frivilous or not.
@Kogenta:
Of course they don't intend to sue. THey weren't expect to get found out by the lab tests. At this point, they wouldn't win and would likely be countersued.
@Easton21:
And it sounds like they have good reason to blame the customer. They should sue his ass and present this evidence in court.
Because they weren't expecting the darn thing to be sent to a lab and analyzed. It's just like those Wendy's people with the finger. Once science is on the case, they're screwed. At this point, he's probably just praying this goes away and he doesn't get sued by the restaurant.
@sbcpunkrocker: There are other possible motives. I wonder how much bad publicity is worth to the competition...
this guys girlfreind was a former employee who was fired. he is also friend's with a former employee, who was FIRED. Not convenient at all.
Maybe it was the GI Joe movie promotion tie in. Cobraaaaa!
Maybe it was the secret ingredient? Allez-cuisine!
I'd say that the customer put it in there, but he has no plans on filing a lawsuit. The only thing he got out of it was a free meal. And if that's the case, TGIFridays would spend more money taking him to court than they would be out on the price of the meal.
@Samuel Chun: People carrying cockroaches should be executed. Period. People carrying snake heads on the other hand need a psych evaluation and a free trip to Gotham's Arkham Asylum.
Mmm!!! Dericious dericacy in some parts of the world!
Someone wanting a settlement?