Rat tail in my pizza

[KayLaw]

Last night we ordered several pizzas and when I took a slice from one, I saw something like a twig sticking out from the the remaining pizza. I pulled it out and it was, unmistakably, a rat's tail. My husband called the company to complain and corporate headquarters will call him back within three business days.

Today one of my sons competed at a Math Counts event, and what did they serve but pizza made by the same company! Of course he wouldn't eat it and I mentioned what had happened to another mom. She proceeded to tell me a story about a local Japanese steakhouse that served her husband a Coke that had roach hiding at the bottom of the glass. Another friend's father ordered a bowl of clam chowder at a seafood chain and found the clam he was chewing was someone's gum.

Does this sort of thing happen to everyone? The rat tail that came with my order last night had been baked which has me wondering what the rat was doing in a hot pizza oven and where's the rest of the rat?

[brainshrub]

1. Only thing better than a rat-tail pizza:

TWO rat-tail pizzas, washed down with a glass of roach-cola. Now thats good eatin'!

[Demonaut]

31. Thats nasty

[DuctapeFatwa]

2. You must go to the company immediately and pay for the extra ingredient

honesty is always the best policy.

[DuctapeFatwa]

9. oh, and take a local TV film crew along

just so you'll have proof you did not try to rip the pizza place off.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

3. My ex's father found insect legs in his Chinese food.

when he complained, the manager said, "you spray and spray and they keep coming back!"

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. Well, hopefully, restaurants and food processors are as careful as they

can be, but animals parts, and people parts, are invariably gonna get into the food.

Even flour has a legally mandated allowable amount of rat and mouse poop than be in it.

Not to excuse anything that happened to you - especially the roach a glass, the waiter should have looked first before pouring, but roaches get into everything, and if it's busy, yeah, I can see people just grabbing glasses as they come, assuming they're clean, and pouring stuff into them.

The rat tail could have been chopped off by a piece of machinery near the pizza making thing, fallen onto the dough, perhaps between the dough coming out of the roller and before the sauce is poured on, and thus, there it was left to be.

It's gross, and we don't want to support negligence, but it's gonna happen.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

8. That kind of stuff is always in the back of my mind when I eat out

I find myself picking through my food when I get it. No wonder I don't eat out often.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

5. Oh yeah? Nasty, but what about this story...

One of the Chinese restaurants around here has been closed and opened 4 times for finding human SEMEN in the food!!!!

:puke: There goes my lunch...

[KayLaw]

13. OMG!

If this is a competition, you win! Goodbye shrimp in lobster sauce.

[no_arbusto]

35. You must live in one of the 15 towns I've lived in during my lifetime

The good old Chinese restaurant story gets me every time. Everyone "knows" of at least one of these Chinese restaurants. As someone who knows a health inspector, I can tell you this is total BS. If something like this were to occur ONCE there would be SERIOUS criminal repercussions. Do you really think a place would be allowed to reopen ONCE, let alone 3 times? Wait, the little scummy Chinese restaurant is actually run by the Chinese mob and they are able to pay off the health department right?
http://www.snopes.com/food/tainted/tainted.htm

You know marijuana is illegal because of similar stereotypes involving "savage" foreigners right? I'd expect this on FreeRepublic but not here.

[Lars39]

6. Should have called the health dept. for an immediate shut-down

of that place. They need inspecting very badly! It's not too late to call.

[KayLaw]

12. Wow

I read all the replies to my husband and we laughed but now he has out the phone book looking up the number for the Health Department. We're really not looking to get rich from a rat tail though I would like a refund. I'm a former restaurant manager and know how these things go, but you're right, we should report it to the authorities.

Someone actually answered my husband's call, and the person said someone else would call us right back.

[Lars39]

15. Glad you're pursuing it !

Hope you kept the evidence.

[Kamika]

7. omg your rich

SUE

[Intelsucks]

10. I think mouse tails taste better myself... But that's just me.

;-)

[sasquatch]

11. The averadge american eats a half a cup of insects over the course of a...

year.:puke:

[Intelsucks]

14. A friend of mine told me a long time ago, that the government will

allow for something like 1% (not totally sure about that number, so don't hold me to it) insect content in cereal. I think it was in one of his college classes. Yum!:9

[frylock]

17. you would have to eat 30 bowls of mini-wheats..

to reach the total percentage of insect parts in one bowl of Total™.

[Skittles]

23. lol......................frylock

freaking hilarious :7

[alwynsw]

16. Was that the Atkins pizza you ordered?

Remember, rat pies were a common thing in both Europe and the US in days gone by.

I grew up on a farm. I'll wager I ate things that many would call disgusting. We called them dinner.

[flamingyouth]

18. WHY did I click on this thread?

I knew I was just asking for trouble. ;-)
:puke:

[southerngirlwriter]

19. Was it Domino's?

I worked for them. Call the local franchise office's customer care line and scream. They'll call you back in minutes. Have a lawyer's name ready. You deserve megabucks.

[KayLaw]

33. We never use Dominos

It was Pizza Hut.:(

[ConcernedCanuk]

20. Reminds me - - What's worse than finding a worm in your apple ?

,
,
,


half a worm . . .


:evilgrin:

[mykpart]

25. The thing that's worse than finding a worm in your apply

is finding a vein in your hot dog!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

21. Ugh! Could you please tell us the restaurant & location?

I'd personally like to avoid it...

My husband and I had bad scallops at a Chinese restaurant once. After tasting them, and finding them unfit, the waitress asked if I wanted something else! We went home without paying and called the Health Department. They didn't have their refrigerator cold enough.

Another story: Years ago, friends of mine and I were eating at a Chinese restaurant in Baltimore, and one of my friends found a roach in her food. When she complained to the waitress, she answered, "Are you sure you don't want it? It's only a little one."

[KayLaw]

32. Sorry, GoddessofGuiness

I didn't mean to take so long to answer you. It was a Pizza Hut in Florida.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

36. My son loved Pizza Hut when he was little...

I wonder if the rodent was local, or shipped in from the main distributor...

[Donkeyboy75]

22. Never eat Wendy's chili

I remember being a boy growing up in Columbus and there was a news story about a disgruntled employee who shat in the chili. Eleven people got sick.

[Skittles]

24. DEAR GOD DONKEY

:puke:

[mykpart]

26. I sometimes deliberately used to put roaches

in my first husband's food! Believe me, he deserved it.

[ironflange]

27. What I tell people is this:

No matter what disgusting thing you find in your food, you will have, in the past, eaten something much worse and never even known it. This is an absolute guarantee.

[aquaman]

28. If you have ever worked in a restaurant

You will never eat in one again. I never eat out anymore.

[fortyfeetunder]

38. You are right

I had a relative who as a young adult worked on a segregated train as a cook, as was the custom, he certainly couldn't eat on the cars. After what I heard what he did to cooked oatmeal, and having sweet potatoes cooked in (accidental) rat broth, eating out just doesn't do it for me....

[mykpart]

29. I have been told that roaches

love chocolate so much there is no way to keep them out of it. Consequently when you eat chocolate you are eating roaches, so much so that most people who are allergic to chocolate are actually allergic to roaches.

[K8-EEE]

30. Dead Mice Floating In The Popcorn Butter At Sears....

In the days when Sears had popcorn....my friend worked at the snack bar and changed the butter pump deal and literally gagged when she saw all the cooked mice, escargot style...she has no idea how long they had been there or how much popcorn was eaten with the "special" butter...

[ikojo]

34. All I can say is ICK!

One of my former co-workers said she was at a salad bar and found a booger in her salad. Needless to say she did not eat the salad.

Oh gross!

Is this from a national pizza place? I know for legal reasons you cannot name names but just tell me whether it's national or local to your area.

[KayLaw]

37. It's Pizza Hut

I'd rather not say which one because if there is a rat problem, I don't want to give them the heads up before the Health Department visits them, not that they monitor this site or anything, but who knows?

[VernerVK]

39. Re: Bad quality control

"what the rat was doing in a hot pizza oven and where's the rest of the rat?"

There's only one way the remnant of a rat can be found baked in a pizza - the rat must have been cooked in the pizza. Which means that the pizzas from that company was probably made of in-house processed mincemeat in lousy quality control work environment. Y'all or another customer probably ate the rest of the rat...

[davsand]

40. They say confession is good for the soul.

Here goes:

Many years ago I worked at an Arbys and I ran the meat slicer quite a bit of the time. The deal is you have to be fast at making sandwiches and you have to weigh the meat so that each portion is accurate in each sandwich. I saw any number of accidents with that slicer--they kept it VERY sharp.

One day, just before reporting to work a lunch rush, I painted my nails (which I kept long back then.) I know that my nails were all equally long when i began that shift. About 200 sandwiches later, I looked down and realized that about a quarter of an inch of my thumbnail was missing--polish and all.

I took that slicer apart, and I stripped every part off that machine--but that thumbnail was GONE. Somebody got it in a sandwich--I am convinced.

The manager knew about it--I told her as soon as I realized it--but by that point who knows what sandwich it was in...

I still have guilt feelings about it except for the fact that I am happy it wasn't about a quarter inch of my THUMB that got lost in that sandwich.

Laura