Finger In Arby's Sandwich: Teen Spat Out 'Rubbery' Digit
http://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/index.ssf/2012/05/it_was_just_nasty_says_14-year.html'It was just nasty,' says 14-year-old boy who found finger piece in sandwich from Jackson, Michigan Arby's
JACKSON, MI -- When her son exclaimed he found a piece of a finger in his Arby’s junior roast beef sandwich last week, Jamie Vail thought the 14-year-old was goofing around.
He wasn’t.
In his last bites, Ryan Hart said he tasted something like rubber. It was tough to chew, and he said he spit the piece of flesh from his mouth.
“I was like, ‘that gots to be a finger,’” he said Wednesday evening from his Blackman Township home.
"Gots"
Meanwhile, these are the jokes already taken...
— "Gristly discovery," the Washington Post wrote in a headline.
— "Normally, the customer gives the server a tip," another person wrote on Facebook.
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I worked at an Arby's while I was in college, and I saw more than one accident on the slicer. Usually it was when they were cleaning the blade, but not always. I saw an Assistant manager lay her hand open one day during a lunch rush because she just got distracted for a split second. It was not only bad for her, but she bled on the slicer and it had to be completely torn apart and sanitized while customers waited for their food.
I rarely ran slicer because it creeped me out, however, occasionally I'd get pressed into duty. The company had a policy back then (dunno if they still do--I assume they must...) that you had to be at least 18 yrs old to work on the slicer simply because it was so dangerous. One lunch rush I was pressed into duty. I had just done my nails and was less then thrilled about it because, as you might imagine, that work is hard on a manicure. I had just spent quite a while putting "Tropic of Copper" polish on and I thought it looked quite nice and I actually grumbled at the shift manager about it. Anyhow, about halfway through lunch rush I looked down and the top half inch of my thumb nail was GONE! I'd missed the end of my finger, but some poor person probably got a huge chunk of Tropic of Copper covered fingernail in a sandwich!!! We never found out for sure because nobody ever complained!!!
I refused to run slicer after that.
Laura
