food-tampering

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Woman Bites Into Razor In Walmart Brand Ice Cream
By Ben Popken on February 9, 2011 10:00 AM   101 Comments
A woman has cut her lip on a razor that was at the bottom of her cup of Walmart brand Peanut Butter Stars. When she called to complain, the customer service rep told her, "I'm sorry, I hope your day gets better." More »

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Woman Finds Sleeping Pills In Beef Bought At Walmart
By Ben Popken on September 23, 2010 2:00 PM   68 Comments
Butcher! There's a sleeping pill in my beef! A woman is upset after buying meat at Walmart for stroganoff, only to crack open the beef and find two sleeping pills inside. More »

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Food Tampering Craze Hits Calgary As Copycats Join In
By Chris Walters on April 5, 2010 2:45 PM   17 Comments
Maybe Calgary's residents didn't like being eclipsed by the Olympics, or maybe there's just an awfully high number of bored crooks living there. Either way, the city has now reported 11 cases of food tampering, mostly involving shards of metal inserted into food items, in grocery stores across the city since January. More »

TGI Friday's Snake Head Incident Becomes A Cold Case
By Laura Northrup on June 18, 2009 7:18 PM   12 Comments

—>The decomposed snake head that a Clifton Park, NY man discovered in his side portion of broccoli has reached the end of its strange, unappetizing journey—for now. Since Consumerist broke the story back in May, there have been no leads.  More »

Snake Head On T.G.I. Friday's Plate Wasn't Cooked With Broccoli
By Laura Northrup on May 8, 2009 10:21 PM   68 Comments

—>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.  More »

Slate Investigates If It's Really Illegal To Fart On A Sandwich
By Chris Walters on April 19, 2009 3:26 PM   64 Comments

—>Nina Rastogi decided to look into food tampering laws in the wake of our Domino's Pizza story last week. It turns out you can spit in food in Ohio without fear of jail time so long as you don't have a communicable disease. Ohio is clearly the place to work if you are an angry restaurant employee, and the place to avoid if you're a diner who easily angers waitstaff.  More »

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