As soon as I saw this article in the UK's best newspaper, I started hyper-puntilating. GOLD, I thought and couldn't wait to begin gleefully butchering the English language.
Just a question though. $3 Mil seems a fair slug, how do plaintiffs decide on the size of the gouge?
Fingertip 'found in salad'A WOMAN is reportedly suing a New York restaurant for £1.5 million after allegedly finding a fingertip and nail in her salad.
Marina Andriynannikova claims she bit down on something hard while munching the takeaway dish at her home last week.
In the lawsuit - filed in Manhattan State Supreme Court - she says she purchased the dish from Rue 57 Brasserie in Manhatten on August 19, according to wnbc.com.
In the court papers Andriynannikova says the manager of the eatery went to her home and says staff knew a kitchen worker had cut his finger.
Then, for the sake of it, I googled and arrived at America's best newspaper ...
'FINGER FOOD' FREAKOUT AS DINER BITES HAND THAT FEEDS HERA Manhattan woman has filed a $3 million suit against a Midtown restaurant after she ordered a salad that was finger-licking bad.
In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Marina Andriynannikova said she chomped on a human fingertip while eating a beet salad from Rue 57 Brasserie.
The restaurant and its lawyer didn't return calls for comment. Andriynannikova's lawyer, Steven Newman, declined to talk.
The suit says the nail-biting incident happened on Aug. 19 of last year, when Andriynannikova and her fiancé got some takeout from the restaurant, which is on the corner of Sixth Avenue and 57th Street.
Once inside their nearby apartment, her fiancé offered her some of his salad. She enjoyed it — until she said she "bit on something hard."
"At first, I didn't realize what it was. Then I noticed a nail and some flesh," she said.
The couple called the restaurant, and a manager went to the apartment. "He was refusing to accept what it was" — until he discovered a short time later a staffer who'd prepared it "had cut his finger," Andriynannikova said.
The suit charges the restaurant with negligence — and also blames the unidentified employee for failing "to determine the location of his severed fingertip."
Way to go, Post!
True story: In my childhood I was alarmed one evening...whilst eating dinner...homemade meatloaf! Dad complained about this tough particle of carrot he'd been chomping on then produced the offending matter for family scrutiny. My mother had "failed to determine the location of her missing (false and red-varnished) fingernail". It had come off in the early stages of preparation (presumably) then been baked. More alarming to me was her thrill at finding it and the desire to immediatedly re-unite it with the other nine in the set. I've been suspicious of diced carrot ever since. With a fresh coat of varnish you couldn't even tell which one.
Posted by: Nora | 27 August 2004 at 16:40
Tell me Nora, in the long and cringeworth tradition of fingernail inspired aggravation, did the cherry varnished blighter screech on your dad's teeth?
Posted by: T.T | 27 August 2004 at 16:55
No screeching...just the clack-clacking of dentures as he tried to dislodge it.
Posted by: Nora | 27 August 2004 at 17:11
Just as gruesome. Hopefully common-sense prevailed and he dislodged it with a dessert spoon and not a steak knife. Or a splade.
Posted by: T.T | 27 August 2004 at 17:16
Did you sue Nora?
Posted by: boynton | 27 August 2004 at 19:33
Tony- this is just the 'tip' of the iceburg ('scuse the pun) but where the ***k has your site disappeared to? Mate, i reckoned you had gone from the radar, what is occuring and why the chaNGE?
Go 'Mons , by the way.
Posted by: Simon p. | 28 August 2004 at 06:39
I thought it was the customers who were supposed to leave tips for the staff, not the other way around...
Posted by: TimT | 29 August 2004 at 20:38
Just read Nora's comment. Reminds me of when I was at Boarding school and would occasionally find small stones in my meal...
Posted by: TimT | 29 August 2004 at 20:43
Me? Sue boynton? I'd hate to be called litigious. Tim - I once found a slater in a dim sim I was munching into and fortunately it was a whole one.
Posted by: Nora | 29 August 2004 at 21:29
Tim, you must have gone to the same boarding school as me. I'm the only person I know who loves creamed corn.
Nora, what's a slater?
Posted by: T.T | 30 August 2004 at 13:13
A wood louse.
Terrapins like to eat them 'on the hoof'.
Posted by: Nora | 30 August 2004 at 19:18
Terrapin? I'm not familiar with turtles' dining habits. Nor with their hitherto unknown ability to catch a hoof to eat off.
Posted by: T.T | 31 August 2004 at 18:07