Mercury must be going retrograde right now in the restaurant business, because everything just seems to be going wrong.
Last week, in Antioch, California, a toddler got a surprise in his sippy cup: a margarita. Although he was later rushed to the hospital after he grew drowsy and started vomiting, he is doing just fine.
The culprit? Apple juice and bulk margaritas stored in identical plastic jugs. You’d think Applebee’s would have learned its lesson after serving a 5-year-old a Long Island Iced Tea just last year. And P.S.: premade cocktails? Yuck.
Meanwhile, in North Carolina, a tragic outbreak of E. coli took an 86-year-old woman’s life. And the restaurant the outbreak was traced to? Health officials are closing it down because a goat was reportedly slaughtered there sometime in the weeks before the diners got sick. It was killed for food, not for religious or cultural reasons.
The goat was slaughtered between May 11 and May 20, [Rowan County Health Director Leonard] Wood said. Restaurant customers got sick between May 26 and June 3.
Hopefully, the dates quoted are due to a discrepancy in people’s memories, and not because it actually took nine days to slaughter that goat.
Not to undermine the tragedy of the elderly woman dying, but Miriam’s “nine days to slaughter that goat” was the funniest thing I’ve read in a long time.
Sean (goat free in NC)
What on earth were they doing with a goat as FOOD?
Because goat is delicious.
Mercury is in retrograde in Cancer, the sign of food and real estate.
9 days to slaughter a goat? Are they a Halal meat restaurant?
This is insanely hilarious from a yaroo (the vegetarian) stand point.