SOMETHING TO CHEW ON

[flerk]

Woman Sues Over Condom Found in Soup
           
       By Jeff Gottlieb, Times Staff Writer

An Orange County woman is suing an Irvine restaurant, saying she found a condom in her clam chowder.

Laila Sultan, 48, said she was eating at McCormick & Schmick's Seafood Restaurant on Feb. 26, 2002, when something rubbery stuck to her tooth. "We said, 'Of course. You're chewing on a clam,' " said Paula Wild, one of three friends with her ? all eating clam chowder, and all of whom have joined the lawsuit.

Sultan spit out the offending material. She said it was an unwrapped, rolled-up condom. "There was no question what it was," Wild said.

"We're all adult women. Believe me, I've seen one in my lifetime."

Sultan said she ran to the bathroom and threw up for 15 minutes.

The case is scheduled for trial Jan. 12. Sultan and Wild, along with Cindy Hammond and Annamarie Sigala, are suing for negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

The question is: How could a condom get into the chowder?

"It's as big a mystery to us as it is to anybody else," said Patrick Stark, attorney for McCormick & Schmick's.

The restaurant sued American Roland Food Corp., which supplied the clams. A judge ruled in favor of the supplier in September.

"We are going to argue there is absolutely no evidence to suggest the restaurant was the source of the condom, or any employee of the restaurant," Stark said. "Either it came from [the four women] or it was thrown in as a practical joke by another patron at the restaurant."

The condom itself was seized by the restaurant manager, the women said. They said he told them the insurance company had instructed him not to return it or let them photograph it.

Stark said that because the condom was rolled up, "it was clearly unused" and for that reason hasn't been tested.

The lawsuit says the condom was "a possibly used one."

Sultan and Wild said the women have tested negative for HIV. McCormick & Schmick's is a privately owned chain with 42 upscale restaurants in 19 states.

Sultan lives in Stanton and works as a reservations agent for a travel company.

She said she had been to the McCormick & Schmick's previously and had never had any problems. She said the women ordered drinks, appetizers and then soup. Because the soup was lukewarm, they sent it back. When the food returned, Sultan said, she bit into the condom.

Sultan said that the condom discovery has caused psychological trauma and sent her to a psychiatrist for a year and a half. She said she has taken a variety of medications for depression and anxiety.

"I can't touch fish," she said. "I can't smell fish. I get sick. I can't eat soups anymore." She said she has lost her appetite for sex and food, and lost about 10 pounds.

"I went through hell," she said. "I don't know how to describe it."  

 

[JCVaughn]

I don't know that it would have caused the lasting trauma as detailed above, but I would have beat the crap out of everyone connected with the establishment.

And I haven't been in a real fight since... oh, fourth grade.

[Delvie]

LOL


What a stupid monkey!"

"We're all adult women."

So then... get over it already.

She said she had been to the McCormick & Schmick's previously and had never had any problems.

Imagine that

Sultan said that the condom discovery has caused psychological trauma and sent her to a psychiatrist for a year and a half. She said she has taken a variety of medications for depression and anxiety.

I'll wager that she had psychological problems long before she chewed rubber. This incident just gave her the window of opportunity for guilt free attention.

"I can't touch fish," she said. "I can't smell fish. I get sick. I can't eat soups anymore."

2 thoughts:

1) I'm a clam chowder freak. Never in my life have I had any clam chowder that tastes like fish. Even when I ate bad clams... it didn't taste or smell like fish. Argument dead "Lie"la.

2) I've eaten a cockroach in spaghetti & almost swallowed a worm in my grapejuice before. I've found worms in cans of creamed corn & a fingernail at the bottom of a glass of tea. The only psychosis it gave me was a refusal to ever eat @ TGI Fridays & to look in my fruit drinks before I take a swig. I doubt I am some genetic freak who has a phenomenal brain because I can laugh off mishaps as a big OOPS. Why are so many people traumatized by the simplest of things these days?

"I went through hell," she said. "I don't know how to describe it."

Try: "DRAMA"

Can you imagine if this woman had been abused as a child or had serious trauma? This woman's drama is almost as ridiculous as George Bush's daughter's plight recently.
She was taking a shower in a University dorm when she over heard what she perceived to be a couple in the next shower stall using a vibrator. She was so "disgusted & horrified" that she had to stop her shower & run back to her room & call daddy.


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1st of all,  it ended up being a shaver, but STILL... somebody's using a sex toy... SO WHAT? She can do drugs & use fake ids to purchase alcohol but the thought of two people having sex sends her running? Maybe I am too callus(sp) but, some peoples phobias & traumas seem just a little too petty.





But then again... I did watch a Leonardo DeCrappio movie once. I have been horribly scarred ever since.


Thanks for the humorous post flerk

;)

[Weldon]

...She said she had been to the McCormick & Schmick's previously and had never had any problems.

Well good.  Becuase if she had eaten there before and gotten a rubber in her food, then that would kind of take the steam out of this incident!

She said the women ordered drinks, appetizers and then soup. Because the soup was lukewarm, they sent it back. When the food returned, Sultan said, she bit into the condom.

O.K...
I have 2 theories here.
1)  They didn't just 'send it back'.  They may have made quite a deal about it.  They may (or may NOT) have been a real pain in the ass to deal with previously.  So either the the WaitPerson or the Cook decided to give them something to REALLY 'chew on'!

2)  The Cook digs her.  
...He's just not to saavy with the come ons.   ;D

She said she has lost her appetite for sex and food, and lost about 10 pounds. 

Well, that's 'Good News/Bad News' for the Cook, isn't it.
She's now a cheap date and fits into clothes 2 sizes smaller, however he ain't gettin' any!   ;)