Woman finds mouse in vegetable soup

Daily Press ^ | May 10 2004 | By Peter Dujardin

[mylife]

Woman finds mouse in vegetable soup A woman is

startled to find a mouse in her soup at Cracker Barrel. How it got there remains a mystery.

By Peter Dujardin Daily Press May 10 2004, 6:36 PM EDT

A woman enjoying an early Mother's Day lunch at a Newport News restaurant Saturday discovered a mouse in a bowl of vegetable soup.

Carla Patterson was eating with her two sons and her godson at the Cracker Barrel Old Country Store restaurant, on Jefferson Avenue across from the Patrick Henry Mall, when she scooped up a small, black mouse, about an inch and a half long, with her soup spoon.

Patterson, who already had eaten several mouthfuls before she came across the rodent, let out a scream. "It was just shocking," said Patterson, of Hampton, who went outside while several restaurant staffers talked with her to calm her nerves. "Anybody would be shocked by it." Several other patrons got up and left the restaurant in the middle of their meals.

One patron who was in the restaurant at the time said about 20 other diners got up and left, while Cracker Barrel spokeswoman Julie Davis, at the company's headquarters in Lebanon, Tenn., near Nashville, said six customers left. Cracker Barrel has ordered all of its 497 restaurants in the country to stop serving the vegetable soup while the matter is investigated.

[mylife]

Aint Crapper Barrel the greatest?

[thoughtomator]

Hey, mouse is a vegetable now!

[pax_et_bonum]

That's a Mother's Day she'll never forget.

[Argus]

Was she charged extra?

[Brooklyn Kid]

That's BAD.
The vegetarian diners will probably sue.

[BenLurkin]

Where's PETA when she needs them?

[humblegunner]

Ah, you got meat in soup? You pay more! Chop chop!

Oh, wait, Cracker Barrel isn't oriental...

[Notasoccermom]

Sadly, there was a day when this might have been funny, the diner would have laughed it off , accepted a refund and perhaps felt a little bit nauseous but perhaps eventually get up nerve to eat there. All involved would have tried to figure out how the mouse got there and tried to prevent it from future happenings. We all know in this day and age she just got the golden ticket-if indeed she can prove the mouse was there not by her own doing. And of course let's not forget the lawyer who will be rewarded for her "pain and suffering."

[verity]

Preferable to finding a moose in your soup!

[Cultural Jihad]

Almost as bad as having that conscience of humanity, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, spit in it.

[Nik Naym]

Well, then I guess it wasn't REALLY vegetable soup after all, now was it?

[Thinkin' Gal]

Ping.

[paul51]

I don't thinl their business will be too good this summer

[Siegfried]

PATRON: Um, waiter... what is this mouse doing in my soup?

WAITER: Hmmm. It looks like zee backstroke!

[rimshot]

[mombonn]

Where are the jokes like - Waiter, what's that mouse doing in my soup?

The backstroke.

[headsonpikes]

Coming next - Tofu Mice, for the veggy crowd.

[leadpenny]

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[VadeRetro]

We all know in this day and age she just got the golden ticket-if indeed she can prove the mouse was there not by her own doing. And of course let's not forget the lawyer who will be rewarded for her "pain and suffering."

The only question now is how many millions will she sue for. We could make a pool on it.

[RightWhale]

"Anybody would be shocked by it."

My cat brought home a vole, kind of mouse-sized wild creature, and laid it at my feet. The vole was merely stunned and after a while got up and wandered off under the desk. The cat watched from a distance to see what I would do. The next morning the vole was found drowned in the cat's water bowl. The cat was sitting staring disgustedly at the water bowl and gave me a look like it was my fault.

[Petronski]

Was the mouse fresh and succulent, or tough and stringy? A Michelin star could be at risk.