A 22-year-old woman had eaten most of her lunch salad at a Red Robin in Jackson Township, Ohio, Tuesday when she put a morsel into her mouth that turned out to be the tip of a human thumb.
Here’s the best line: “The health department says the woman actually consumed part of the fingertip, thinking it was a piece of gristle.” Do salads normally have gristle? Except in Germany, I mean.
This story made the rounds a few weeks ago, but I just heard about it last weekend — over dinner, natch. I found two versions of the story online; the quotes above are from the second: