Severed Finger In My Sandwich Claim Investigated

Culture & Society Forum

October 21, 2006 2:49 p.m. EST


Russell McSpadden - All Headline News News Writer
Chowchilla, CA (AHN) - California health officials began inspecting a local Subway food chain after a woman claimed she found the remnants of a half-inch human digit in her hoagie. Subway officials are also looking into the origin of the foreign object, hoping the claim is a hoax.

The woman's claim in reminiscent of a particularly damaging accusation levied at a Wendy's franchise last year. That incident, the old finger in the chili scare, turned out to be a hoax, but it cost the food chain an estimated $2.5 million in bad publicity and sales, a company spokesperson claimed.

Two health inspectors arrived at the Subway sandwich station on Thursday and found that no employee had lost their finger.

According to Jill Yaeger, director of the Madera County Environmental Health Department, the object was sent to a laboratory for testing and a police report was filed.

"The Subway restaurant chain takes every customer comment seriously," said Subway spokesman Kevin Kane. "We don't know what the foreign object is yet."

Subway's national headquarters is said to be investigating the incident.

After the Wendy's incident turned out to be a hoax, the husband of the woman who made the claim was sentenced to 12 years for purchasing the finger from a co-worker who had lost the digit in an accident.

California (eCanadaNow) - A woman from Chowcilla, California is saying she found part of a human finger in her food from a Subway restaurant.

Health officials are now looking into the accusation. Two state health inspectors visited the franchise on Friday.

They found that all workers in the restaurant had all of their fingers.

The finger was sent out to a lab for further testing.

The restaurant’s manager told the Fresno Bee that it didn’t look like anything human, but more “like a thick piece of fat.” She said Subway’s national headquarters would investigate.

In 2005, a woman had claimed that there was a finger in her bowl of chili from a Wendy’s in San Jose. It was later discovered that the allegation was a hoax designed to get money from the franchise.

Like people just cut their fingers off at work and go on working, hoping that customers will not notice their severed finger in the sandwich.

They don't go to the hospitial to get it sewed back on, they continue on with making sammich's.*










*sammich is a Heck!ism, copyrighted 2006

So...are people pointing the guilty finger (heh) at Subway or the woman?

I feel a poll is in order.

Just out of curiousity....where in the hell are these people getting human fingers?

Officials probe finger-in-sandwich claim

http://www.inreview.com/topic-39154.html

Always trying to one up me, eh DW?

-HECK!

What gets me is that they are not sure if it actually is a finger yet. You would think that would come first.