We have to eat. We do.
We need food and water to survive.
Since the time of the cavemen, getting our food can be a dangerous proposition. It remains a danger today.
Take heed. These stories could happen to you.
They could happen to me.
On to the first one. A man allegedly found a dead mouse in his can of Mountain Dew. He took his story to Pepsi, and they investigated the claim. They had an expert reveal in an affidavit that the drink was so acidic it would have dissolved the mouse after 30 days.
This is highly disturbing on so many levels. But. I will say to all those Dew drinkers out there. Bottoms up, my friends.
But then there is this.
A guy in Florida named Fred Denegri found the remains of an animal in his Pepsi can. This time, the FDA took a look at things and confirmed it was a dead frog.
But Pepsi wasn’t giving in on this. They claimed the frog must’ve hopped in there after he opened the can.
Bottom line? I’m sticking with Coca-Cola products.
Anytime you buy food or eat out, the entire deal is dicey.
Just recently, in the headlines, a woman bought a Walmart pizza. When she opened the packaging to cook the pepperoni pie, she found the plastic wrap had been chewed, and some of the pizza had been eaten. There were also mouse droppings in the box.
Truthfully, I’m not surprised we don’t see this more often. I know mice. They like to eat. Don’t we all? And apparently, for the Walmart mice, Thursday nights are pizza nights. So. Yeah. There’s that.
Here’s one I don’t have to worry about, as I don’t eat candy. Not because it is bad for your teeth, but I’d truly be worrying about teeth in this case.
On New Year’s Day 2010, Sue Calhoun decided to snack on a Milky Way candy bar. She bit down on something hard and thought it was a peanut. But no. She quickly realized it was someone’s tooth.
But hey. Have no fear. Those big spenders over a Mars Candy made things right. They gave Sue coupons for some free candy. I’d have said a big “No thanks.”
These kinds of stories go on and on. Many of them turn out to be false. However, disturbing numbers are truer than true.
Like the true story of what happened to Clarence Stowers. He got some frozen custard from Kohls. First mistake.
Second mistake? Eating it.
But as he ate that custard, he got a bonus — a part of a severed finger landed in his mouth too. No one questioned if Clarence was telling the truth. One of the workers at Kohl’s Frozen Custard had severed part of his finger in an accident with a food processor.
I’m not quite sure how it went unnoticed. But custard has a way of covering things up.
Another good reason not to eat custard.
Never trust the custard.
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“When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.”
― Herman Wouk
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“I only fear danger where I want to fear it.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
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“If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it,
then there is no need to worry. If it’s not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.”
― Dalai Lama XIV
(The Dalai Lama never ate custard from Kohls, I bet.)
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Hungry? Not so much.
