"Quick! Get A Terrarium!" -- Instead of "Quick! Get A Lawyer!"
No, you really don't have to sue when there's a mistake with your food.
From the LA Times' Veronica Rocha:
A woman found a tiny live frog in her packaged salad. Now it's a family pet.
A bit from the story. Upon sighting the tiny amphibian:
The 37-year-old Corona resident immediately ran to the bathroom and threw up her dinner.As thoughts about her health swirled in her head, she said, her husband shouted, "It's still alive!"
He rushed the small frog, about the size of a dime, to the kitchen sink and rinsed off the salad dressing, Garfinkel said.
The frog was stiff, so in a last-ditch effort, her husband started rubbing its belly -- a trick he had seen in a widely circulated video.
Seconds later, the amphibian was roused from its tahini-lemon vinaigrette daze.
Awww...
A photo by the woman this happened to, Betty Garfinkel:
Happily ever after:
I don't know. A live frog in my salad might merit a lawsuit. Nothing should be alive in a salad.
Conan the Grammarian at August 26, 2017 9:13 AM
At least it wasn't a poison dart frog.
I R A Darth Aggie at August 26, 2017 9:42 AM
Garfinkel might be a good name for a frog, too.
A live frog in the salad might merit a new salad, if you could convince whomever packaged the salad that the frog was in there to begin with.
Old RPM Daddy (OldRPMDaddy at GMail dot com) at August 26, 2017 9:44 AM
French delicacy, no?
Or is that just the legs?
charles at August 26, 2017 10:32 AM
A live frog is also a good indicator of the quality of the environment where the plants used in the salads were grown.
Plus, they got a new pet.
Sixclaws at August 26, 2017 10:40 AM
I'll agree with Sixclaws comment
Mine is that it looks like the brown variation of a Pacific Treefrog, although I can't be positive
yet another Dave at August 26, 2017 11:54 AM
Was it crunchy?
https://youtu.be/Qs8KNgT-kqo
BlogDog at August 26, 2017 6:19 PM
"Nothing should be alive in a salad."
Except the vegetables, of course.
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at August 27, 2017 10:49 AM
No. Once they're picked, they should no longer be alive. Fresh, but not alive.
In fact, as a general rule, food should be dead before being served.
"I prefer my oysters fried; / That way I know my oysters died." ~ Roy Blount, Jr.
Conan the Grammarian at August 27, 2017 12:11 PM
"Once they're picked, they should no longer be alive."
Pfft. Man up and enjoy the screams of the leafy greens as you masticate them into pulp.
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at August 27, 2017 12:20 PM
Plants aren't sophisticated enough to die just because they are picked or even chopped up. The individual cells will live for days (unless you cook them), and when they die, the plant matter rots.
markm at August 28, 2017 7:40 PM
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