Nonstopdrivel
15 years ago

ON THE MENU: GREEN BEAN SERPENTINE SURPRISE
Part of snake found in bag of frozen green beans 
By MATT JOHNSON | Vernon County Broadcaster | Posted: Friday, March 26, 2010 12:00 am


[img_r]http://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/lacrossetribune.com/content/tncms/assets/editorial/3/b0/190/3b01900c-3890-11df-b1f3-001cc4c03286.preview-300.jpg?_dc=1269577801[/img_r]VIROQUA - Cindy Guist was helping her mother, Lillian Geary, prepare meals for the week Monday when she poured frozen green beans from a bag into a bowl - and one "bean" didn't look right.

In fact, had these been fresh from the garden, it likely would have slithered in the bowl.

It was a section of garter snake, the same diameter as the beans and mechanically cut to about an inch in length like the rest of the bag's contents.

The beans had been bought at a major chain store and packaged by the Bells, Tenn.-based Pictsweet Company.

A "grossed out" Guist searched the entire bag but found no other parts among the beans.

"Where did the rest of the snake go?" she wondered.

Well, a family in Houston, Texas, might have found the head last month.
According to a Fox News report, Ernestine Jamison was preparing Pictsweet frozen cut green beans in February when she noticed something unusual.

"When I saw it was a snake's head, I just threw it down and called my kids and said, I got a snake's head in the green beans,'" Jamison said.

"Everybody said, Oh Lord, you've got a snake head in the green beans!'"
Sarah Jamison, 15, grabbed her camera and took video and pictures of their uninvited dinner guest.

"I saw big eyes with a mouth open and a tongue coming out," Sarah said. "It looked like it was ready to attack."

Media worldwide picked up the story of the snake's head in the green beans.

Geary and Guist weren't as dramatic about their find. Still, the snake already has taken its toll.

"I don't think I'll be eating green beans anytime soon," Guist said as she showed the snake section. "It just sort of makes your skin crawl."

Guist said they took the beans and snake piece Thursday back to the store, which contacted Pictsweet. Pictsweet then called Geary and they are discussing the matter, she said.

A Pictsweet vice president did not return a telephone message left Thursday.


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Wade
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15 years ago
My guess:
1. Beans are picked mechanically in some way.
2. Beans are cut into pieces mechanically in some way.
3. Beans are washed mechanically in some way.
4. Beans are frozen and packaged mechanically in some way.
5. Said mechanical devices are designed to pick out long semi-curving things from other things, some of which are also long and semi-curving (i.e. bean plant stems).
6. Occasionally one of said machines mistakes an improper long semi-curving thing for a proper long semi-curving thing and pass it along to the next machine.

Actually, the story suggests that the machines judge pretty well. After all, only one piece of the snake made it past all of them. :)

If you think about it, it's fairly amazing that this doesn't happen a lot more often. Those machines -- and their designers -- are pretty smart.

("Machine tools" -- one of the most under-appreciated industries in an advanced society.)

Of course, the law being what it is, some judge/jury will find tha "mental distress" suffered by the bean-package opening family to be worthy of actual and punitive damages.

What we really need is a machine tool designed to separate useful people from lawyers, academics, politicians, and the rest of the useless snakes.
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
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dfosterf
15 years ago
Rat head in beer brings lawsuit 

After a hard day's work on his Crystal Beach home, Everett Johnston just wanted a cold beer.
He grabbed a Tecate Light out of his fridge and began to sip. But, Johnston said, something didn't taste quite right. He said his wife looked in the bottle and noticed a rat's head floating inside.
Johnston filed a lawsuit recently in Galveston County against FEMSA Cerveza (CCM), the Mexican maker of Tecate, as well as Heineken, which distributes the beer in the United States, among other defendants. He's citing the severe psychological damage he says he has suffered.
The 59-year-old retired firefighter said Thursday that all he wants is an acknowledgement of his intense suffering how in the moments after drinking the beer two years ago he wondered whether he would live or die.
The first thing came to my mind was it was a rodent that had eaten rat poison, Johnston said.
He remembered a story about a man who drank something contaminated with rat urine and later died.
I can't explain it, he said. That kind of fear was something I had never experienced before.
In a written statement, Heineken said: While we cannot discuss the specifics of these claims due to company policies surrounding active litigation, we stand behind the quality of our products and those we distribute. CCM is a world renowned brewer with the highest standards for safety and quality.
A worker at FEMSA said no one was available to comment Thursday, and a company spokeswoman didn't return an e-mail message.
Johnston said he began vomiting after drinking the beer and went to a hospital where he had X-rays and blood tests. He said he has since saved the contaminated beer in his freezer.
Johnston added that eating out of a can now is traumatizing to him and he has trouble eating when food isn't prepared directly in front of him.
He also said his suffering made him incapable of caring for his elderly father-in-law before his death.
Counselors have told Johnston there's not much more they can do for him, yet he said the pain continues to gnaw at him. He said he'll donate anything he wins in the lawsuit to charity.
Johnston's lawyer, Roy Elizondo III, said neither Heineken nor FEMSA has been responsive to his attempts to resolve the matter out of court.
Some day someone could die from stuff like this, Elizondo said.



Poker night.

I'm buying bottles. Clear bottles. Domestic. I think I'll bring a glass.
Formo
15 years ago
Thank God I quit drinking beer.. LOL

Anyway, about the snake/green bean thing.. That wouldn't have bothered me. I probably would have made light of the fact, but then throw the snake bit away and cook up those beans. You know, when you cook up stuff, it kills any harmful bacteria and such.. so there's no harm done.
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Nonstopdrivel
15 years ago
I was taking a walk the other day and an unusually long garter snake crossed my path. My savage little Chihuahua wanted to tear its head off, but I restrained her. I figured even little snakes have a right to live.
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15 years ago

Rat head in beer brings lawsuit 

After a hard day's work on his Crystal Beach home, Everett Johnston just wanted a cold beer.
He grabbed a Tecate Light out of his fridge and began to sip. But, Johnston said, something didn't taste quite right. He said his wife looked in the bottle and noticed a rat's head floating inside.
Johnston filed a lawsuit recently in Galveston County against FEMSA Cerveza (CCM), the Mexican maker of Tecate, as well as Heineken, which distributes the beer in the United States, among other defendants. He's citing the severe psychological damage he says he has suffered.
The 59-year-old retired firefighter said Thursday that all he wants is an acknowledgement of his intense suffering how in the moments after drinking the beer two years ago he wondered whether he would live or die.
The first thing came to my mind was it was a rodent that had eaten rat poison, Johnston said.
He remembered a story about a man who drank something contaminated with rat urine and later died.
I can't explain it, he said. That kind of fear was something I had never experienced before.
In a written statement, Heineken said: While we cannot discuss the specifics of these claims due to company policies surrounding active litigation, we stand behind the quality of our products and those we distribute. CCM is a world renowned brewer with the highest standards for safety and quality.
A worker at FEMSA said no one was available to comment Thursday, and a company spokeswoman didn't return an e-mail message.
Johnston said he began vomiting after drinking the beer and went to a hospital where he had X-rays and blood tests. He said he has since saved the contaminated beer in his freezer.
Johnston added that eating out of a can now is traumatizing to him and he has trouble eating when food isn't prepared directly in front of him.
He also said his suffering made him incapable of caring for his elderly father-in-law before his death.
Counselors have told Johnston there's not much more they can do for him, yet he said the pain continues to gnaw at him. He said he'll donate anything he wins in the lawsuit to charity.
Johnston's lawyer, Roy Elizondo III, said neither Heineken nor FEMSA has been responsive to his attempts to resolve the matter out of court.
Some day someone could die from stuff like this, Elizondo said.

"dfosterf" wrote:



Poker night.

I'm buying bottles. Clear bottles. Domestic. I think I'll bring a glass.



When I was in college... Patrick's on Main Street Green Bay gave out t-shirts if you drank a beer with a goldfish or minnow in it.. so what is the big deal with a little rat's head.. lol.

BTW.. I had several of those damn shirts.. that along with the barber chair that went upside down.. lol
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dfosterf
15 years ago
I have lived my life under the concept of "kill 'em all, and let God sort 'em out" when it comes to snakes.

I didn't have time to dick with the "red on yellow, friendly fellow, yellow on black...yada yada yada .... " however it goes.

I don't like friggin' snakes. (I like eating them, just don't like seeing them.)

Some might perceive me as afraid of snakes. My wife, for example.

Bitch is, I have kinda got out of the killing business, and the very last thing I killed was a family of garter snakes--I'm pretty sure they were garter snakes---at the time, right up until they were all dead, I had no qualms.

It still bugs me a little that I did that.

Now I sweat this big black snake that might have mosied into my garage last year, and I DO have something living in my attic, it COULD be a squirrel and/or squirrels, but as far as I'm concerned, it's that black snake.

I don't like it. There is some poetry in all of this somewhere.
Nonstopdrivel
15 years ago
Foster, let not your conscience trouble you. Sleep in peace. You're just fertilizing the soil when you kill them, right? 😉
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