Posted on 06/18/2007 3:20:10 PM PDT by Between the Lines
CHINA GROVE, N.C. – Captain’s Galley, the restaurant linked to an E. coli outbreak in Rowan County, has been shut down after health officials confirmed that a goat was slaughtered inside the restaurant.
The Rowan County Health Department announced today they learned of the slaughter from an anonymous tip by a former employee, which was confirmed by management and ownership.
They’re not saying the slaughter is the exact cause of the E. coli outbreak, which sickened 20 people and killed one woman. But health officials say it is biologically plausible that the goat slaughter may have been the source of the outbreak.
Officials say it happened in the kitchen sometime between May 11 and May 20, after the restaurant was closed for the night. It does not appear that goat was served to customers.
It is possible, however, that kitchen utensils used to slaughter the goat may have been used later on in other food preparation, but that has not been confirmed.
The former employee who reported the incident worked at Captain’s Galley at the time of the slaughter, but is no longer employed there.
The restaurant management and their attorney did not protest the health department’s decision to shut them down. The owners say they are appalled by the acts of a few employees and have taken appropriate action against those employees.
Health officials said eight cases of E. coli, a bacterial infection of the stomach and intestines, have been confirmed, and another 12 are probable. Everyone who got sick ate at the restaurant between May 26 and June 3.
Faye Sides, 86, ate at the restaurant with family members after church on May 27, and she died last week. Both the health department and the owners of Captain’s Galley restaurant expressed their deepest sympathies to the Sides’ family.
Slaughtering goats in unhygienic conditions reminds of a religion not to be named.
Oh no! It’s the chupacabra!
The Doobie Brothers warned us about this.
Bill Groggins goat
was feeling fine
ate three red shirts
right off the line.
Bill took a stick
gave him a whack
and tied him to
the rail road track.
The whistle blew
the train grew nigh.
Bill Groggins goat
was doomed to die.
He gave three groans
of awful pain.
Coughed up the shirts
and flagged the train
What happened with the goat before slaughter?
Questions.
But will “they” throw the owner in jail for hiring these damned illegals? NO. Will the people who got sick and the family of the person who died get ANY “satisfaction.” No. It’s all about protecting the freakin’ illegal alien who shouldn’t have been here in the first place. Much bringing their 3rd world hell hole practices to our country. That is, if we even HAVE a country any more.
They’re going to kill us all. I eat at home more and more these days.
>> Illegal what? Iraqi, Iranian, Mexican? What happened with the goat before slaughter? Questions.
Good questions!
At least, we can be pretty sure it wasn’t some voodoo sacrifice. I think THOSE goats have to be virgins.
This press release is from Teddy Kennedy’s office:
These undocuments workers were just, ah, slaughtering, ah, the goats, ah, that, ah, Americans couldn’t be bothered to slaughter. Their undocumented food, ah, preparation, ah, methods, are of little concern and are, ah, not, ah, likely, ah, to have been, ah, the course of E. coli in, ah, the, ah, restaurant any more, ah, than the undocumented workers, ah, not, ah, washing their, ah, hands was.
And, ah, at least they weren’t, ah, stupping, ah, the goat as, ah, might have happened, ah, in their, ah, indigenous, ah, lands which, ah, may, ah, be the reason, ah, they are seeking, ah, ah, ahsylum, ah, in the, ah, United States.
Haste la victoria!
The goat was in the country illegally?
Also, virgin like in 72 virgins?
Yeah, he fired them and they promptly got jobs at the restaurant next door. That'll show them!
A goat in the “Captain’s Galley” restaurant? I guess it’s the only place the “help” could find a proper knife and/or a place to get rid of the guts &c.
>>A goat in the “Captain’s Galley” restaurant?<<
This is ba-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-d.
Now, I know I will never eat out again.
A good goat’ll do that.
That’s what I was thinking. Hispanics don’t usually slaughter goats for food.
Yes, he was smuggled into the country by a coyote in a '68 Road Runner.
Mexicans also eat goats....
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