ever find a 'strange object' in your food?

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October 24, 2004 -- EXCLUSIVE


A young Manhattan woman split open her breakfast muffin — only to find what seemed to be a condom baked inside.

Theresa VanHorn, a 29-year-old writer at MTV Networks, said she was eating a carrot-nut cream-cheese-topped muffin from her office building's bodega on West 50th Street when she found a piece of latex baked into the crumbly delicacy.

'I ate almost half the muffin before discovering it,' VanHorn said. 'Then it was like slow motion when I pulled it out — I was screaming.'

Since the incident last Tuesday morning, she said she's lost her appetite.

VanHorn called the Health Department to report it, but was told not to bother.

'Go ahead and throw away the evidence,' a representative told her over the phone, VanHorn said.

'We won't get to your complaint for days, or maybe weeks.'

The representative added that the department routinely gets complaints of foreign objects in food and doesn't have time to deal with them all immediately.

The owner of the bodega — which does not bake or alter the muffins it purchases from Sensible Edibles bakery — said he would stop carrying the bakery's products.

The well-known bakery in Long Island City, Queens, stocks the shelves of nearly 300 upscale local delis and most hotels in the city — including The Plaza, according to David Moarsi, its owner.

Moarsi denied his company was responsible for creating the questionable muffin — despite the muffin's picture and name being listed as a product on his business' Web site.

Sensible Edibles 'is wall-to-wall inspected every two months,' Moarsi said. 'We haven't had one small complaint since 1992,' when the bakery opened.

The owner of the bodega, which also receives muffins from another supplier, International Delight, provided inventory records showing the muffin had been supplied by Sensible Edibles.

Two International Delight employees contacted by The Post confirmed that the company does not make cream-cheese-covered muffins.

In the meantime, VanHorn is considering legal action, and Moarsi wants a lab to analyze the muffin — at a cost of nearly $600 — to prove whether or not it came from his bakery.

A city Health Department representative examined it on Thursday, but said the New York state Department of Agriculture and Markets would continue with the investigation.

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Re: ever find a 'strange object' in your food?

My friend found a fingertip of a rubber glove in her omalet when we where in IHOP!

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ok, this may gross alot of people out, but on the news a couple of years ago, they showed a Mom holding up a piece of chicken that came with her daughter's chicken tenders from McDonalds.... and it was a Chicken's Head!! it was so disturbing,,, i think they sued McD's.

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Ok, I am SO never eating in a rstaraunt again!

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ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew

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Posted by neeniebean86

ok, this may gross alot of people out, but on the news a couple of years ago, they showed a Mom holding up a piece of chicken that came with her daughter's chicken tenders from McDonalds.... and it was a Chicken's Head!! it was so disturbing,,, i think they sued McD's.

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I remember that

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Posted by myrockette

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October 24, 2004 -- EXCLUSIVE


A young Manhattan woman split open her breakfast muffin — only to find what seemed to be a condom baked inside.

Theresa VanHorn, a 29-year-old writer at MTV Networks, said she was eating a carrot-nut cream-cheese-topped muffin from her office building's bodega on West 50th Street when she found a piece of latex baked into the crumbly delicacy.

'I ate almost half the muffin before discovering it,' VanHorn said. 'Then it was like slow motion when I pulled it out — I was screaming.'

Since the incident last Tuesday morning, she said she's lost her appetite.

VanHorn called the Health Department to report it, but was told not to bother.

'Go ahead and throw away the evidence,' a representative told her over the phone, VanHorn said.

'We won't get to your complaint for days, or maybe weeks.'

The representative added that the department routinely gets complaints of foreign objects in food and doesn't have time to deal with them all immediately.

The owner of the bodega — which does not bake or alter the muffins it purchases from Sensible Edibles bakery — said he would stop carrying the bakery's products.

The well-known bakery in Long Island City, Queens, stocks the shelves of nearly 300 upscale local delis and most hotels in the city — including The Plaza, according to David Moarsi, its owner.

Moarsi denied his company was responsible for creating the questionable muffin — despite the muffin's picture and name being listed as a product on his business' Web site.

Sensible Edibles 'is wall-to-wall inspected every two months,' Moarsi said. 'We haven't had one small complaint since 1992,' when the bakery opened.

The owner of the bodega, which also receives muffins from another supplier, International Delight, provided inventory records showing the muffin had been supplied by Sensible Edibles.

Two International Delight employees contacted by The Post confirmed that the company does not make cream-cheese-covered muffins.

In the meantime, VanHorn is considering legal action, and Moarsi wants a lab to analyze the muffin — at a cost of nearly $600 — to prove whether or not it came from his bakery.

A city Health Department representative examined it on Thursday, but said the New York state Department of Agriculture and Markets would continue with the investigation.

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Where did you get this article from? TIA

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Re: ever find a 'strange object' in your food?

I once had a cooked cricket in my low mein.
Bluch!

Re: ever find a 'strange object' in your food?

Once in college my roomate had a piece of wood in her food at Olive Garden. It wasnt gross but she got her meal for free.

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shards of glass in my dessert plate.

Some fisherman's place in Roslyn of all places.. I was so freaked.

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i once found ashes (like cigarette ashes) at the bottom of a diet soda i was drinking out of the bottle. my mom once found glass shards in the baby food she was feeding to my sister!

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i was drinking a mudslide from fridays and was thinking to myself 'boy this has a lot of crushed ice in it' i decided after halfway through to look AND IT WAS BROKEN GLASS>>> i couldn't believe it..the manager had the nerve to bring me another mudslide stating that this one didn't have any glass!!!!

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Posted by myrockette
A young Manhattan woman split open her breakfast muffin — only to find what seemed to be a condom baked inside.

Theresa VanHorn, a 29-year-old writer at MTV Networks, said she was eating a carrot-nut cream-cheese-topped muffin from her office building's bodega on West 50th Street when she found a piece of latex baked into the crumbly delicacy.

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Is she sure it was cream-cheese frosting she was eating ....

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Posted by Jan05Bride

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Posted by myrockette
A young Manhattan woman split open her breakfast muffin — only to find what seemed to be a condom baked inside.

Theresa VanHorn, a 29-year-old writer at MTV Networks, said she was eating a carrot-nut cream-cheese-topped muffin from her office building's bodega on West 50th Street when she found a piece of latex baked into the crumbly delicacy.

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Is she sure it was cream-cheese frosting she was eating ....

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Lol!!

When she noticed it was a condom, i hope she spit..and didn't swallow!

OK now i'm the gross one, sorry!!!


My brother found a moldy tea bag at the bottom of his lipton iced tea...he is still receiving certificates for free lipton products and it happened a year ago!

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Posted by Jan05Bride

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Posted by myrockette
A young Manhattan woman split open her breakfast muffin — only to find what seemed to be a condom baked inside.

Theresa VanHorn, a 29-year-old writer at MTV Networks, said she was eating a carrot-nut cream-cheese-topped muffin from her office building's bodega on West 50th Street when she found a piece of latex baked into the crumbly delicacy.

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Is she sure it was cream-cheese frosting she was eating ....

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I actually gagged while typing that.... so gross but that's all I could think as I was reading the article

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I found a dead ladybug in my salad in one of the cafes at Hofstra last year!

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I think you need to post this on the slim down thread. It certainly has put me off food for the evening