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Man Says Snake Head Found in Broccoli

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CLIFTON PARK, New York (May 7) - A diner at a restaurant in upstate New York says he got a little something extra with his broccoli — a severed snake head.
Jack Pendleton told The Times Union of Albany that he was at the T.G.I. Friday's restaurant in the town of Clifton Park on Sunday when he spotted something gray mixed in with his vegetables. He realized it was a snake head the size of his thumb, with part of the spine still attached.
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"I start to turn it over. I see this gray-green patch," he told The Times Union.
"I could see these black, rotted eye sockets on the top," he added. He said the head had part of spine attached.
"I stopped eating," he said in The Times Union. "I told my girlfriend, 'I think this is a head.'"
Pendleton says he snapped a photo with his cell phone camera and called the waiter over. He says he has no plans to sue.
A spokeswoman for the Carrollton, Texas, chain says it's investigating. It wasn't immediately known what kind of snake it was.
Pendleton and his girlfriend weren't charged for their meals.
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RRWRRW

10:52 AMMay 11 2009

AOL needs to update its stories. It was reported over the weekend that the snake's head was tested by a lab...it had NOT been cooked, ie, it had to have been added to the broccoli after cooking. There is a criminal investigation for food tampering going on now. So this isn't just a simple case of a critter getting caught during harvest/processing. It's foul play. The only question is....who's the 'player'.? My money's on the guy who 'found' it.

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Fc4u2do

06:22 AMMay 11 2009

Sure,,he found a snakes head in the food served to him,,,,L.O.L....And they found an ******* in their resterant........

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PLFarrar

09:44 PMMay 11 2009

I once found a whole grasshopper inside a can of field peas. I'm sure it was processed the same as the peas. Still, I tossed it before heating and eating them. Hey, I grew up on a farm. I know critters live in the plants that are later harvested for our food. Its natural. No big deal if a few slip through the cracks during processing.

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JMD19B

06:45 PMMay 10 2009

Why do I keep clicking on articles like this??? You'd think I'd know better! When Wendy's had their fiasco with the "alleged" finger tip found in the chili I couldn't eat there for a very long time, now this? I'm just gonna eat toast the rest of my life and never dine out again...

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BNPM09

05:46 PMMay 10 2009

We were eating at the Rainn Forest and my daugter felt something in her mouth. I told her to spit it out and it was a piece of glass. Thank god she didn't bite on it or swallow it. They gave us her meal for free and my daughter received a free dessert.

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TobAmerican

05:20 PMMay 10 2009

That's a great idea to get a free meal in this damaged economy. Finger parts anyone?

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RebGalFlorida

05:00 PMMay 10 2009

If the broccoli was grown in Flordia (which I suspect it was) then it was probably the head of a chameleon (lizard) which was intertwined within the broccoli. Anyone who cleans and cooks broccoli at home knows that it would be easy for a small lizard to get itself inside a head. No doubt the person harvesting the broccoli simply "lopped" off the rest of the body while severing it with a small vegetable machette. I am sure that the broccoli had a "cursory wash" and was then steamed and when cooked, the vegetable relaxed causing the head to fall beneath the pile of broccoli. No big deal...some people actually do eat lizards...harmless (just a little gut churner for most). Reb

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StormRebel

02:08 PMMay 10 2009

I was surprised (pleasantly so) by him NOT suing, also... I agree with another poster who said this society has been a "what can I get out of it" type of thing... personally, I've ordered Mrs. Field's chocolates before -- and found a piece of METAL inside one of the pieces! While I didn't consider suing (since I did NOT break a tooth on it... may have been different had there been dental bills) -- but when I called them -- they acted like they didn't believe me! Made me MAD -- it's not like I was asking for anything -- except maybe an APOLOGY.

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Covyzoo

01:59 PMMay 10 2009

I don't believe that this snake head was just there. I believe that he put it in there. It is good that he didn't sue because it would have been discovered that he planted that snake head. It is another story that was concocted like the amputated finger in Wendy's chili.

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Edsfishfun

01:52 PMMay 10 2009

It is a protien source. It would have cost double in a asian food joint!!!

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