Mouse in Hot Dog Bun - Update
Friday November 7, 2008
The lab results are in.
A PR firm for Arnold Bakers emailed me a copy of a certificate from Maryland food testing laboratory Strasburger & Siegel stating that microscopic analysis has determined that the "rodent" found baked into a hot dog bun by a Charlotte, NC man was, in fact, "starchy residue."
Specifically:
Update: WCNC-TV News in Charlotte reports that the FDA is also investigating the matter. More...
Previously: Mouse Baked into Hot Dog Bun? Lab Results Due Next Week
A PR firm for Arnold Bakers emailed me a copy of a certificate from Maryland food testing laboratory Strasburger & Siegel stating that microscopic analysis has determined that the "rodent" found baked into a hot dog bun by a Charlotte, NC man was, in fact, "starchy residue."
Specifically:
1. The extraneous matter was conclusively identified as product build-up.Pretty straightforward. No comment from state health officials as yet, though presumably they're still conducting their own investigation, having been totally left out of the loop on this one.
2. The gray streak on the roll appeared to be the result of this product build-up having contacted the side.
3. There was no evidence (hairs, excreta, stains, etc.) of rodent contamination on or in the rolls or the submitted extraneous matter.
Update: WCNC-TV News in Charlotte reports that the FDA is also investigating the matter. More...
Previously: Mouse Baked into Hot Dog Bun? Lab Results Due Next Week
Comments
If that was a rodent, then I’m shocked at the pressure dough creates when baked and the malleability of hot mice.
It was a mouse/rodent .. and of course .. the bakery etc .. will do their best to cover up the fact ..
Personally .. i feel sorry for the little mouse/rodent ..
Could it have been a fish? Sounds a bit fishy if you ase me.
Look at the photo. You can tell it’s all bread. It just happens to look like a mouse. Specifically, look at the neck, it’s a fold in the bread. Some people just fill the need to cause a uproar.
It’s Jesus. Seriously! I have a potato chip with the image of Jesus and a stain on my living room wall that is the Virgin Mary!
Seriously, folks. It’s just excess bread. Our brains are trained through the millenia to try and find patterns in what we see, and that LUMP OF BREAD looks SLIGHTLY like a mouse. No hair, no bones, no internal organs, no wet parts. Ergo, NOT A MOUSE.
Your 15 minutes are done. Thanks for playing.
Put it on ebay,some idiot will pay hundreds to add it to their “oddities” stash.
My mouse, Pre, ran away. I think I know where he went. He was a mischief maker and I am 100% certain that he thought it would be funny to sculpt himself out of dough and bake it so he could have a buddy. Oh Pre….you’re so weird!
The guy who bought it is an executive. I’d fire any exec that stupid in my company. Of course most execs are just “up there”. The floor workers are the ones who keep the companies profitable inspite of the stupidity of the execs.
Sapientoni:
And what if the person who found the “mass” was a “floor worker” instead of an executive? Would you have the same opinion? Would you fire the “floor worker” for being so stupid? It sure looks like a mouse to me, and no, I’m not an executive or a floor worker.
Now we know why Wall Street needed a bailout.
ok , so its not a mouse ,hmmm…sounds like maybe baking pans not being cleaned so very well to cause ” excess pan accumulation” to be baked into buns.
It was most definately a mouse…..You would have to have been there as I was! The smell was overwhelming…It had whiskers, a tail and a very pained expression on it’s face.
Who do you think paid the laboratory who said it was not a mouse????
so, the guy got a $500 gift cert and $2000 donated to charity in his name? I’d rather have the $2000 in cash, and $500 donated to a charity in my name.