In 1906 The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, exposed the dark secrets of the meat-packing industry. Readers were shocked to learn of the secret ingredients in their sausages: rats, human fingers, and garbage shoveled off the floor. The public outcry the book provoked indirectly led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration, which regulates the food industry. However, the public is still sensitive about the idea of undesirable foreign objects ending up in commercially prepared food.
Fried Mouse (2003)
In September 2003 a man was eating a three-piece combo meal at a Popeye’s Fried Chicken in Baltimore when he bit down into a deep-fried mouse that had somehow gotten lodged in between the skin and the meat of the chicken.
Clam Condom (2002)
In Feb. 2002 a woman was eating a bowl of clam chowder at a McCormick and Schmick’s seafood restaurant in Irvine, CA when she bit down on something rubbery. She thought it was a piece of calamari, but when she spit it out into her napkin she discovered that it was a condom.
Chicken McNoggin (2000)
On the night of November 27, 2000 a woman in Newport, News Virginia bought a box of chicken wings at a local McDonalds (the store was test-marketing fried chicken wings). Upon taking the meal home, she discovered an unpleasant surprise: a breaded, fried chicken head was included with the wings.
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