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.
woozshle
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Re: ever find a 'strange object' in your food?
Saturday the 23rd, there was a ROACH in my FMIL's cranberry & vodka at Jekyll & Hyde in Midtown. (she didn't notice til she finished it). the jerky kid tried to replace the drink, then offered her a double, they finally took the last round of drinks off (not that anybody was going to drink them).
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I bought the Crispy Cream donuts boxed at the grocery store and I swear on this, I soon as I opened the box at home a bee came flying out, I was like what just happend.
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I was at Applebee's eating a salad, and it was so good. Then I thought I had a peice of plastic in my mouth. It was hard but chewy. So I took it out of my mouth and looked at it. I almost fainted. It was a peice of someone's thumb. About half an inch long. OMG, I'm getting that nauseated feeling again. So the manager comes by and he only credits the salad, not my drink or my other friends who also stopped eating. Then says, 'Well, It can't be someone's finger since no one in the kitchen is bleeding.' All that made me think was that 1. They get their lettuce pre-cut, and 2. there must have been blood on the lettuce that I was eating and 3. Why didn't they throw away all of the lettuce this poor guy was working on? Needless to say, I haven't been to Applebees since.
