Tooth and nail meet over McDonald's burger
Published: 8 Jan 10 10:49 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/24270/20100108/
A trip to McDonald’s for Gothenburg resident Yusuf Bercil proved more than he could chew after biting into his burger and chomping on a nail two-centimetres in length, Metro reports.
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After taking a first bite, the nail pierced through his gum but the 47-year-old didn't realise what had happened. A painful second helping revealed something sharp had become stuck in his mouth.
”The pain was indescribable,” he told newspaper Metro. Bercil was able to carefully remove the object and was shocked to discover it was a sharp metal nail, about two centimetres long.
”It was stuck between my teeth and gums,” he said. ” I managed to get it out but then I threw up. What if one of my children had got the burger instead?”
Staff at the McDonald’s restaurant in question are unable to explain how the nail ended up in the food.
”We saw the whole thing happen,” manager Axel Gustafsson admitted. "We have started an investigation and informed our suppliers but can only apologise.”
The incident has left Yusuf with a fear of fast food. ”We are going to make home-made burgers from now on,” he added.
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The McDonald's "hot coffee" suit was a joke. She actually had the cup of coffee wedged between her legs while she was driving her car. The spill burned her loins - ouchy... What a dumbass!
The problem here is that some nut thought it might be fun to see what happens if you bury a large nail in a hamburger. Thank god there is a simple solution:
Send every hamburger through an airport-type security screener before being served.
Turns out she put the finger in the chili herself. The finger came from a family friend who had lost it in an accident but had kept it in a jar in his house as a keep sake. He gave his finger to our "victim" to pay off a gambling debt to the family.
Her lawyers, who spent weeks spewing venom at Wendys, were never heard from again........
After reading the above story, I surmise that the incident truly happened, according to the Manager's acceptance and the apology followed; however, no one knew how the nail ended up in the burger - And this reminds me of the "Killer Coke Conspiracy", or "A thumb in the Beverage Can".
By the way, Good Luck to Yusuf for future burger bites at McDonald's and beyond. To the rest of us, let's just keep up the good work by realizing that humans do mistakes and may be the waiter or the cook did that mistake. Unless we realize our humanness and our nature of being forgetful sometimes, we will surely never be good human beings.