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A man in Switzerland found an oyster shell bearing the spitting image of Jesus. He said he found the shell when the oyster stuck to his hand "as if God was calling him." Recent secular sightings include a French fry that looks just like Abraham Lincoln and a nacho chip shaped exactly like the state of Texas.
The people who put their wondrous discoveries up for auction are merely banking on the gullibility of the public, but there's no guarantee that the pullet Pope will bring in the big bucks. Others, like the woman who allegedly found the finger, are counting on businesses settling potential lawsuits out of court. And innumerable "urban legends" resurface from time to time to gross out new audiences. You may have heard of some of them.
Take the woman who claims to have bitten down on a condom that had been in her clam chowder at a restaurant in Irvine, CA. (I've always heard that good clams should not be rubbery.) The restaurant denied responsibility, so the woman filed a lawsuit. In Newport News, VA, a woman found a batter-dipped chicken head among her McNuggets, and advised everyone to double-check their food orders.
Taco Bell restaurants have been the subject of one of those it-really-happened-to-a-friend-of-my-second-cousin's-neighbor stories. It seems that a woman in Youngstown, OH, or San Jose, CA, or Boone, NC, ate at a local Taco Bell, and the next day her gums and/or throat were swollen and/or bloody. When she went to her dentist (or doctor), he found cockroach eggs from the Taco Bell food had infested her body, and would have hatched inside the lining of her mouth had she not gone for treatment. Yo quiero cucarachas!
KFC has been the urban legendary purveyor of Kentucky Fried rodents. One old lady purportedly noticed teeth while eating what she thought was a piece of chicken. When she pulled back the extra-crispy crust, she discovered she was eating a rat. The poor woman had a heart attack and died, and her relatives sued the Colonel.
Some of these food stories are true and truly disgusting. In Arizona, a Jack-in-the-Box worker blew his nose on a burger ordered by a Phoenix cop. The cop started to eat the Jumbo Jack and noticed "a clear, sticky substance" on his burger, chin and finger. The snotty employee was arrested. And fired.
Kroger has admitted to a few incidents of tiny frogs being canned right along with its store-brand green peas. A Kroger representative said, "These things can happen, but it's not a very common occurrence." They offered one woman a $100 Kroger gift certificate by way of apology. My guess is that she didn't use the certificate to restock her pantry with canned vegetables.
Happy eating!
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