I don’t buy olives from those open barrels; sure they have enough vinegar and salt to further preserve a drunken sailor – and kill anything – but the idea of leaving them out is microbiologically kinda creepy.
Here’s a video from Grub Street via My Upper West, the second rodent video in a month to emerge from this particular Fairway, and the last one featured a full-grown rat with nothing adorable about it scurrying through the aisles. We’re also informed on good authority that the Red Hook Fairway has birds living inside, “near the yogurt.”
Vincent Kluska, a 24-year-old car body worker, found a mouse head in a can of Carrefour brand green beans, while preparing his lunch in Annemasse in the Haute-Savoie, France, reported RTL.
The young man noticed something strange in the pan where he was cooking his beans. "I thought something had fallen into the pan," he said, "I looked closer: it was a mouse head with a mustache and hair and a mutilated body. "
Vincent, very surprised, admits he retched. "I couldn’t believe it, it’s crazy. Sometimes you hear things like that but when it happens to you it’s unbelievable." The young man was still in shock from the strange discovery and couldn’t understand how this mouse head made its way into the can. The surprise was all the more unpleasant because Vincent had already started eating the can of beans the night before. "The worst part is that I didn’t notice anything different. I went at it head down," he said disgusted.
The Carrefour Market in Annemasse (Haute-Savoie) opened an investigation to determine the origin of this foreign body. "Customer service contacted the client to apologize and to thank him for the alert," said the store, adding "Despite the exceptional nature of this situation, to avoid any inconvenience to another client, Carrefour has decided to recall the remaining lot on the market."
I was pushing a cart full of groceries to the end of the parking lot before loading up the bike trailer when a wheel suddenly locked and I stopped.
A bemused shopping cart gatherer said, “You can’t take shopping carts off the property.”
“I’m not, just loading my trailer. How did the wheel automatically lock as I left the property, some kind of invisible dog fence?”
“It’s all satellite–controlled. Shopping cart theft is a major expense.”
So while Bubbles on the Trailer-Park Boys would be thwarted in his selling-refurbished-stolen-shopping-carts-back-to-supermarkets business by the high-tech gadgetry, he’d come up with another scam.
Scientific American reportsPepsiCo, the soft drink’s parent company, defended itself against a man who claimed he found a dead mouse in a can of the citrus soda. Experts called in by PepsiCo’s lawyers offered a stomach-churning explanation for why it couldn’t be true: the Mountain Dew would have dissolved the mouse, turning it into a "jelly-like substance," had it been in the can of fluid from the time of its bottling until the day the plaintiff opened it, 15 months later.
Forget legal disputes over canned vermin. The new question has become: Is Mountain Dew really so corrosive that it can dissolve a mouse carcass? And if so, what does it do to your teeth and intestines? Is Mountain Dew’s classic slogan — "It’ll tickle yore innards" — the world’s most sickening understatement?
Key to Pepsi’s legal argument is that there’s no chance a mouse’s corpse could survive, intact, for 15 months swimming in Mountain Dew. While published studies have not been conducted on how rapidly Mountain Dew would dissolve a mouse, there is plenty of evidence to suggest that the neon green soda can eat away teeth and bones in a matter of months, and would likely do quite a number on a rodent.
"I think it is plausible that it could dissolve a mouse in a few months," said Yan-Fang Ren of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, who has studied the effects of citric acid on bones and teeth. "But dissolving [the mouse] does not mean it will disappear, because you’ll still have the collagen and the soft tissue part. It will be like rubber."
According to Ren, Mountain Dew contains citric acid, a substance naturally found in citrus fruits that exists as a powder in its purified, industrialized form. Most citrus sodas mix in the stuff to give drinks their tangy bite, while most colas, such as Coca Cola and Pepsi, incorporate phosphoric acid for the same effect. Consequently, these drinks have a low pH value around 3 (very acidic). Coca Cola, with its dark coloring and non-fruity flavor, may be the soft drink most often compared to battery acid, but in 2004, a well-known study led by dentist J. Anthony von Fraunhofer found that citrus sodas like Mountain Dew and Sprite erode tooth enamel around six times faster than colas.
Defenders of Mountain Dew sometimes argue that orange juice contains as much or more citric acid as the neon green soda. "It’s basically true," Ren said. "The pH of orange juice is between 3.5 and 3.8 — also very acidic. From what our experience is, yes, the rate of decay would be the same."
However, juice presents a small tradeoff: It erodes teeth, but it also provides vitamin C. "Orange juice has a healthy aspect, so people should continue to drink it," Ren said. He suggested minimizing the contact between the juice and your teeth by taking large gulps rather than small, frequent sips, then washing your mouth out with water. Or, you could use a straw.
From the deeply weird files, Associated Press reports a Utah man faces an animal cruelty charge after a Facebook video surfaced showing him eating what appeared to be a live baby rat.
Thirty-one-year-old Andy Ray Harris of Tooele was charged with the misdemeanor in April after authorities viewed the video.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals reported it to police.
The video shows a man putting what appears to be a tiny, hairless rat in his mouth, chewing it up and swallowing it.
An Australian woman got a nasty surprise when she cracked open a can of rum and cola to honor her grandfather – a dead mouse.
The Northern Star newspaper has reported that Casino mother-of-four Linda Foster drank the can of Bundaberg rum only to find a mouse in the bottom of the can.
Miss Foster, 26, bought a six-pack of the drop, which she intended to drink with her family following the funeral of her grandfather, who was a life-long drinker of the product in question.
"I hardly ever drink," Miss Foster said.
"Straight away I vomited – it was disgusting, absolutely revolting."
Miss Foster said she tried repeatedly to contact the company that produced the beverage on its consumer feedback phone number, which is printed on the can, but despite leaving messages received no response.
A spokesperson for the company which produced the drink said it was "committed to the highest standards of product quality and all our products undergo rigorous quality assurance testing at every stage of the production process."
Officers raided the Bucktail Lodge last week in search of code violations and shut down the popular races.
The sleepy country bar was also cited for several health violations from the on-site rodents, old food and trash in the building’s basement. The owners said those citations were absurd too.
"Nobody gets beyond the pool table over there, even if they’re drinking a beer, so if a mouse can jump out of there (race track) go run and drop a turd in his beer he’s doing something," said Scott Beach, owner of the Bucktail Lodge.
When the mice aren’t competing, they are adored as pets in the family’s apartment above the bar.
A mouse fell onto a patron’s lap at Logan’s Roadhouse in Normal, Illinois after an apparent fall from the ceiling.
The incident happened April 29 while the person was eating at Logan’s, 313 S. Veterans Parkway, according to a complaint filed Monday with the McLean County Health Department. Logan’s had already called pest control prior to the department receiving and following up on the complaint, said agency spokeswoman Erin Tolle Link.
"They are being very cooperative in taking the steps necessary to correct the issue," she said Friday.
As I continue to search out my inner Jimmy Buffet or Keith Richards, I was saddened to hear that a Duval Street bar and restaurant in the Florida Keys was busted by state authorities on Thursday for having a dirty kitchen.
Stephen Forse, 41, bought the Hovis Best of Both loaf at a Tesco grocery store and had already used several slices when he made the gruesome discovery, The Sun reported.
The father of four, from Oxfordshire, central England said: "I felt quite ill – and even worse when an environmental health officer said the tail was missing. I wondered if we’d eaten that earlier."
None of the family fell ill. Premier Foods were fined £16,821 ($28,000) for failing to maintain acceptable standards at their site in Mitcham, south London. A spokesman said: "We apologize profusely."
There were several empty tables around the garden at a Shake Shack in New York City the other night, and that, according to Grub Street New York, was because at least three mice kept emerging from the plants and approaching tables like beggars.
Three or four parties cluelessly sat down only to notice the furry fiends and either moved their tables away or scampered off with their tails between their legs. Of course, this isn’t anywhere near as scandalous as a chef caught tonguing toads; Shake Shack is located in a public park, after all, and mice have been spotted before.
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