food poisining incident

I ate at a Fridays in Columbus Ohio a couple of years back. Had ice tea with my meal which I sweetened with a packet of sugar. While drinking I felt something in my mouth. It was a torn off, raggety, french manicured fingernail. YUCK! I spoke with the manger showing him the fingernail and I have to admit, he handled the whole situation very well. Very apologetic but he admitted he was puzzeled where the fingernail could have come from since their employees were mandated to keep their nails short and unpainted. I thought it may have come from the ice bin but we figured out that it very well may have come from the sugar packet I had dumped in my tea. When you think about the number of prepackaged items a restaurant incorporates into its food stuffs it's a wonder things like that don't happen more often.

I am not sure I would eat the robusto sauce the rest of my unnatural life either

I appreciate everyone's concern and I would (do) share the same concern. Both the establishment and Health Department are working to ensure our safety and that this was an isolated incident.

That is excellent news. Thanks for that update!

This doesn't qualify as a food poisoning incident, but defintely falls under "contamination"....we were on location shooting a TV spot several years ago and purchased a couple "flats" of bottled drinking water for everyone on the crew....about half the bottles (sealed, no less) contained pieces of sticks, twigs and leaves...needless to say, we received a full refund.

I suffered my first (hopefully last) bout of food poisoning last August at a well-known chain restaurant in the East End of Louisville from a Caesar Chicken Wrap. I've NEVER been so suddenly and violently ill in my entire life. Within 2 hours, I knew something was very wrong. I rushed home and had my husband call a client of mine who is a physician. She called in two prescriptions for me and I survived the ordeal. By the time I felt well enough to talk on the phone, it was 48 hours post-incident. I probably should have gone to the hospital and should have let the "system" handle the process of running tests and alerting the Health Department, etc. But, two days after the fact, it seemed rather pointless to try to pursue the matter. Trust me, I've avoided mayo-based dressings ever since and I haven't been tempted by a wrap in almost a year!

Lois