Posted on 08/10/2013 4:11:29 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
Maggots found in Atlanta airport sandwich, food inspections enhanced
ATLANTA — Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport officials tell Channel 2 Action News they are enhancing the way they inspect restaurants inside the airport after a man showed Channel 2 Action News a sandwich he purchased from an airport vendor had maggots.
The passenger told Channel 2's Amy Napier Viteri he bought a sandwich at an airport restaurant Wednesday morning. When he opened it he said he was stunned to find maggots on it.
Joel Woloshuk says he got out his phone and recorded video of the bugs crawling on his focaccia sandwich after boarding a flight to Miami for work Wednesday morning.
The video shows maggots crawling in and on the food he bought at the Café Intermezzo franchise location inside Terminal B at Hartsfield-Jackson.
"What I thought was parmesan and the parmesan began to move," Woloshuk told Viteri.
Woloshuk kept the sandwich and showed Channel 2 Action News the maggots when he got back to Atlanta Wednesday night.
He said he called the restaurant and asked to meet with a manager but no one was available that night.
"This is not wilted tomato; this isn't a moldy piece of bread. These are maggots," Woloshuk said.
Viteri reached out to Café Intermezzo and spoke with its president by phone, who said they truly regret the isolated incident occurred.
In a statement he said the problem "could not have been generated on our premises."
He said the problem started at its bread supplier with whom it has cut ties.
"All products from the vendor were removed. Not a single crumb or slice of bread from the vendor remains in the facility," the statement said.
That supplier told Viteri by phone it doesn't believe the problem started in its facility, which a Department of Agriculture inspector visited late last week.
The bakery said at this point it's still supplying other airport vendors. In a statement, the airport told Channel 2 Action News it's "awaiting results of the investigation to determine further action."
Woloshuk said a restaurant manager offered him a refund, which he declined. He said he just wants to be sure this won't happen to anyone else.
"My intent is my fellow traveler. I'm in this airport weekly and it makes me pretty angry," Woloshuk said.
Cafe Intermezzo and airport officials told Viteri they take food safety and cleanliness very seriously.
The Department of Aviation does its own inspections of concessions monthly and an airport spokesperson told Viteri starting Friday, it's giving managers of every airport restaurant ultra violet inspection lights so they can independently inspect food shipments.
The Department of Aviation will also start touring food suppliers in the metro area and report any violations to the corresponding authority.
The Clayton County Board of Health told Viteri Tuesday it found no citable violation at the franchise location when they inspected it Friday based on the complaint.
When I’m going, I usually try to buy some Chik-Fil-A take-out. Once I get there, I get out of the airport as fast as I can.
Those vegetarians sure do get upset pretty easily, don’t they? :=)
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More likely folks fired from McD’s for spitting in the burgers.....
“One roach burger please,and hold the larvae.”
We sometimes refer to ‘em as live rice here TX. “Never eat live rice”!
A union sandwich?
They probably need to consult the UN. The UN has ordered the peasants of the world to eat more insects for protein in order to reduce carbon emissions .... the larvae are the baby stage of some insect.....
“I’ve never seen maggoty bread.”
I have — just a few weeks ago. I was frying some cheap whole wheat in butter, next to some eggs. It had “been around”, but looked fine, until the little critters squirmed up away from the heat and did a little dance. If I had put it in the toaster, I’d have never known. These were not fly maggots, they were moth maggots.
I suggest that the UN eat insects and give us their actual food.
in VN the bsnh mi vendors featured bread with the extra protein. one becomes acustomed to it (along with not chicken not beef not pork filler)...
“Not so loud, sir, or everybody will want some”......
the maggots do not smell....the garbage in your can thet they are eating is what smells.
Thats not Italian.
Thanks for the reply that it’s just an Atlanta thing.
If you lurk for an hour or so, they break into poetry: gives them away every time.
and it just there, either. The "guy" that drives the roach-coach that stops at the local Cat dealership is definitely one: looks vaguely Hispanic, speaks with a French accent, and dresses like 1970s San Francisco.
yuk,,,,,I like rice with broccoli now i’ll probably look at the rice and think of live rice.....thanks ;o(
I found bits of broken glass in a meatball sandwich once and a piece of metal in some take-out Chinese food.
I think I’d rather have the maggots.
Ever get a look at what’s handling that airport sandwich?
Customer, “What’s this maggot doing on my sandwich?”
Food worker, “Looks like the Tango to me.”
Remember Angel Martin pulling that stunt? He "treats" Jimmy to a big dinner at a fancy restaurant and then plants worms on his plate after he is finished eating. Angel wails plangently so that all the other guest can hear him. The ostensibly horrified and contrite manager (and apparent owner) invites Angel (and a sheepish Jimmy) into his office, to rectify the matter. Once the door shuts behind them, the manager's demeanor changes from groveling to threatening, telling Martin that if he doesn't pay up he'll have him thrown in jail, and if he ever shows up at this restaurant again, he'll personally "take care" of him.
Ping.
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