Posted on 02/11/2008 7:44:49 AM PST by Alouette
Two shop-owners were today fined for selling chocolate cake - which had been sprinkled with human faeces.
A horrified customer ate the foul-smelling gateaux but noticed that it didn't taste or smell "quite right" and handed the cake to public health scientists.
The analysts soon established that the sweet treat was covered in faeces and legal proceedings against the shop owners were started.
Shop owners Saeed Hasmi, 25, and Jan Yadgari, 23, were fined £1,500 for selling food unfit for human consumption.
The pair - who ran the Italiano Pizzeria in Roath, Cardiff - admitted the charge but did not say how the chocolate cake was contaminated.
The takeaway is a favourite with late-night revellers and students living around the takeaway close to Cardiff University.
A spokeswoman for the public health department in Cardiff City Council said: "The person who bought the cake realised it didn't taste or smell quite right so they reported it to us.
"Subsequent examination by the public analyst and national public health service laboratories confirmed the presence of faecal matter.
"There were bits of it all over the top of the cake.
"We cannot say for definite what kind of faecal matter it is, although it is very likely it was human. It would have to go through a DNA test for us to know for absolutely sure."
Hasmi and Yadgari at first denied the charge but pleaded guilty at Cardiff magistrates court before the trial.
Hasmi, of Roath, Cardiff, and Yadgari, of Adamsdown, Cardiff, were each fined £1,500 and ordered to pay £200 costs.
After the case Hasmi said: "It was not our fault but I don't want to talk about it.
"I'm not working in the food industry anymore. I want to do something else.
"We are sorry for the people who ate it," he said.
The case has taken 18 months to come to court and the pair have both left the Pizzeria.
Shams Mehrabi, who took over the Italiano Pizzeria in March, condemned the actions of the two men. He now has hygiene certificates on the wall and said: "I have the highest standards.
"This is a completely different business now. We have a lot of happy customers - we won't be selling chocolate cake."
Superintendent Parrot ate one of those!
No kidding. *Gag*
Think about all the time and effort it would take to pull that off. Just absolutely sick.
Gastrointestinal Jihad??
Shaving Cream
Be nice and clean
Shave everyday
And you'll always look keen.
Seeing the names of the owners, I’m sure the Most Blessed Koran directs people to do things like that to infidels.
This stinks to high Heaven.
If they admitted it, then they know how it happened.
And dang if I can see an "accidental" way.
Muzzie *** toppings with your pastries, gentlemen?
Mohammed made me do it.
"I'm not working in the food industry anymore. I want to do something else.
Translation: I'm bored with poisoning people... I want to blow them up.
Considering the names of those involved, it stinks to Allah and Mohammed, feces be upon him (in this case literally).
Oh, don't go!
Benny Bell!
Nice to see that, as is the case in New York and New Jersey, Muslims are taking over the pizza business in the UL as well.
turd ping
Jesse Jackson said he used to spit on the hamburgers of White People.
“Crunchy Frog” anyone?
“We use only the finest baby frogs, dew-picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in finest-quality spring water, lightly killed, and then sealed in a succulent Swiss quintuple smooth treble cream milk chocolate envelope and lovingly frosted with glucose.” Circular reasoning is employed to explain why the bones are not removed: “If we took the bones out, it wouldn’t be crunchy, would it?”
That’s it. I’m never buying a cake again. Luckily, my wife makes a chocolate cake much better than store bought.
“I’m not working in the food industry anymore. I want to do something else.”
Bomb vests??
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