Woman Sues After Finding Condom In Soup

[Kuchana]

Forgive me if I chuckle :tongue:

Woman Sues After Finding Condom In Soup
Nov. 10 (AP) — Four women sued an Irvine restaurant after one of them said she found a condom in her clam chowder when they dined there last year.
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Laila Sultan said she was eating at McCormick & Schmick's Seafood Restaurant on Feb. 26, 2002, when she bit into something rubbery.

"We said, `Of course. You're chewing on a clam,"' said Paula Wild, one of her dining companions. When she spit it out, Sultan, 48, said she discovered it was an unwrapped, rolled-up condom.

She said she spent the next 15 minutes in a restroom, vomiting, and has since seen a psychiatrist and taken medication for depression and anxiety.

Sultan, Wild, Cindy Hammond and Annamarie Sigala, who were all having the clam chowder that day, filed suit, claiming negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Their case is scheduled for trial Jan. 12.

A lawyer for the restaurant said McCormick & Schmick's has no idea how the condom got into the soup. "It's as big a mystery to us as it is to anybody else," said attorney Patrick Stark. "We are going to argue there is absolutely no evidence to suggest the restaurant was the source of the condom, or any employee of the restaurant."


McCormick & Schmick's, a privately owned chain that owns 42 upscale restaurants in 19 states, sued the company that supplied its clams. A judge ruled in favor of the supplier last September. Sultan, who lives in Stanton, said she had visited the restaurant before and never had a problem.

On this occasion, she said, she and her companions ordered drinks, appetizers and soup, but sent the soup back because it was lukewarm. When she got it back she found the condom.

[yoMAMA]

dang...i would sue them, too!

:tongue:

[SunWuKong]

She said she spent the next 15 minutes in a restroom, vomiting, and has since seen a psychiatrist and taken medication for depression and anxiety.

oh please....

[hooligan]

the clam chowder? a little salty.

[rice cracker]

I thought that noodle was too chewy...

[ronin]

that's why you never send the food back to the kitchen!

lucky for them, they could SEE what was put in.

[Emperor_Mike]

Reminds of the "decomposing snail in ginger beer" case.

[amietron]

that's fucking disgusting.

[Irezumi Kiss]

"Waiter, where's my chowder? I ordered it thirty minutes ago!"

"It's coming, it's coming!"

:tongue:

[chaoticharmony]

"Waiter, where's my chowder? I ordered it thirty minutes ago!"

"It's coming, it's coming!"

:tongue:

Oh gross.

[applehead]

i would've vomited all over my table.

[sOKaLiBoY]

Heh I guess the clam chowder was extra creamy that day. Don't feel so good......

[kasia]

oh please....
he could have aids.

[mr. x]

i just saw a condom in my community college parking lot (deanza) and sometimes i see em in wrappers laying around but this one was not

so i kinda wonder how it got there, i mean i doubt if anyone's got the balls to eff in the parking lot in broad daylight

[chaoticharmony]

i just saw a condom in my community college parking lot (deanza) and sometimes i see em in wrappers laying around but this one was not

so i kinda wonder how it got there, i mean i doubt if anyone's got the balls to eff in the parking lot in broad daylight

I don't know, people are getting pretty bold these days. I guess the beach and the park in broad daylight aren't cutting it anymore.

[kasia]

so i kinda wonder how it got there, i mean i doubt if anyone's got the balls to eff in the parking lot in broad daylight

um. why?

[mr. x]

um. why?
well, i wonder what used condoms are doing in the parking lot thats all

concerned citizen

course they were in my junior high too, and i live in the most unghetto area ever

[kasia]

well, i wonder what used condoms are doing in the parking lot thats all

concerned citizen

course they were in my junior high too, and i live in the most unghetto area ever
no, i meant why you would doubt that anyone has the balls to do it during the day. esp. considering it's a j.c. parking lot.

[mr. x]

no, i meant why you would doubt that anyone has the balls to do it during the day. esp. considering it's a j.c. parking lot.
j.c.?

iono, when i see people in the cars they are usually just kicking back

[SynRG]

"We are going to argue there is absolutely no evidence to suggest the restaurant was the source of the condom, or any employee of the restaurant."


Hmm.


On this occasion, she said, she and her companions ordered drinks, appetizers and soup, but sent the soup back because it was lukewarm. When she got it back she found the condom.

Hmmmm.

As wrong as it is, it's usually a rule of thumb that you never ever send food back (unless of course like you get the wrong thing, that's ok), ESPECIALLY in the states.

Reminds me of a story when my family when back to the U.S... we were at Applebees and my mom's soup was lukewarm. She wanted to send it back, and was being extra bitchy to the waitress too... and I was like horrified. After the waitress left I'm like "Mom, you're going to get spit in your food now" and she went ballistic on me. She just couldn't even grasp the concept that someone working in the food industry could possibly do something like that.

All I can say is... i hope the heavens were smiling on my poor mother that day... I was so embarrassed...

[Faithless]

That's nasty...

People have the time to "get busy" while making your order?
Well, it was unwrapped, but supposedly rolled up. Could have been a sex-act pre-empted.

Somebody definitely needs to be fired.

[kitty]

i will send food back if there's a very good reason why it's no good -- especially in chain stores because they have explicit policies against doing anything bad to the food.

it's your right as a consumer to not pay for something you don't feel was what you ordered for. like a pineapple juice that hasn't been properly diluted from the concetrate stock. or a sauce on a steak that tastes like ass, making everything around the food horrible. if you can't eat it... you shouldn't have to pay for it.

[Cipherous]

not a bad idea for a porn video

[Irezumi Kiss]

i just saw a condom in my community college parking lot (deanza) and sometimes i see em in wrappers laying around but this one was not

so i kinda wonder how it got there, i mean i doubt if anyone's got the balls to eff in the parking lot in broad daylight
How do you know they did it during the daytime? Was it still "warm?"
:biggrin:

Reminds me of a story when my family when back to the U.S... we were at Applebees and my mom's soup was lukewarm. She wanted to send it back, and was being extra bitchy to the waitress too... and I was like horrified. After the waitress left I'm like "Mom, you're going to get spit in your food now" and she went ballistic on me. She just couldn't even grasp the concept that someone working in the food industry could possibly do something like that.
If that makes your ass hairs stand up, you should read THIS book...it'll make you think twice about going out to eat!

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0747553556.03.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

[Faithless]

i will send food back if there's a very good reason why it's no good -- especially in chain stores because they have explicit policies against doing anything bad to the food.

it's your right as a consumer to not pay for something you don't feel was what you ordered for. like a pineapple juice that hasn't been properly diluted from the concetrate stock. or a sauce on a steak that tastes like ass, making everything around the food horrible. if you can't eat it... you shouldn't have to pay for it.
That person should have raised some real shit, too!

"Ew, ew, ew! There's a condom in my soup!"

The place would have cleared out.