Secrets of the City

Which raises the question: Are those really capers that they’re adding to the salads there?

Dude, I literally just got back from the Au Bon Pain City Center. And am eating my mac and cheese. Was.

Ewww.

“the woman said she was not speaking with the press at this time”

We’ll only be hearing from her lawyer.

I think you can never fully trust these stories.

DUDE.

Don’t take this story personally, Rat.

related story. we were @ a relative’s house on Monday and our kids were in the pool. my son grabbed one of those “noodle” flotation devices (a foam stick about 6′ long and 3″ in diameter with a hole that runs down the center for the entire length) and slapped the surface of the water with it trying to splash my daughter. As he did it, something flew out of the end of the noodle and landed at the edge of a pool. apparently a mouse crawled in the center hole to die in the days leading up to the party and died in there. end of swimming as it was way grosser than the Baby Ruth in Caddyshack.

It May be a hoax but it really killed my appetite. So…

Awesome.

I’m still eating the pastry I purchased from there.

Some poor word choices appear on the Au Bon Pain website’s nutrition page:

“Each of our menu items offers a Nutritional Guide at just the click of a mouse.”

http://www.aubonpain.com/nutrition/

As much as there have been hoaxes where people fake such incidents, there have been real, non-hoax incidents as well. In one Iowa case from a few years back, a lizard was found in a chain restuarant salad, apparently sliced up with the head of lettuce it apparently had sought refuge in.

It’s ridiculous to believe that insects, small animals, random detritus, etc… won’t end up in our food at some point.

Dude, don’t waste that salad, it’s totally freegan.

Heard through the grapevine that the woman works for Westlaw. If I were Au Bon Pain, I’d work extra hard to make this go away.

I know that things like this happen, but that’s a good sized mouse to miss.

And if the employees missed it, then Good Lord someone needs a new pair of eyes.

I was grocery shopping recently when I saw a mouse run across the bananas. Screamed like an eight year-old girl and then told the employees.

Two dudes came running over to see the mouse run back across the bananas. They laughed and tried to kill it ON TOP OF THE PRODUCE. Ugh.

I haven’t been back.

Quote: “Heard through the grapevine that the woman works for Westlaw. If I were Au Bon Pain, I’d work extra hard to make this go away.”

The lawyers who work at Westlaw are the bottom of the bucket – people who can’t get real attorney jobs. I wouldn’t fear them too much. Now if the woman worked for Dorsey…

Pretty sure you better have some witnesses to the opening of said salad or you could be on the hook for some hefty lawsuits yourself for posting such a pic.

She does not work at Westlaw. The woman who ordered this salad is a Target admin in the City Center location. I received a copy of her e-mail to Au Bon Pain as well as two photos of the salad from a family member who also works in Target HQ.

I say this fully cognizant that it will do nothing to dissuade those who’d rather believe it is yet another urban legend. Additionally, Au Bon Pain is full of customers this week as though nothing ever happened.

So, what kinda dressing do they put on that?

I read a comment that she took two bites, stuck her fork back in the salad and realized it felt “squishy”, looked down and there was the mouse.

FOR REAL?? COME ON…

I don’t know about anyone else, but usually the first thing that I do when I purchase a salad, or anything else for that matter, is to take the top off is to toss it around alittle; kinda like when you pour a bowl of cereal, you stir it up a bit and pode at it, right? I mean really…who just dives into their food like that.

correction on the typo

**poke

I myself would have definitely noticed a mouse in my salad. Before I even take a bite of my salad, I put my dressing on then mix it up and cut it up more if needed. I have never heard of anyone actually having something like that in there salad and not knowing it. That’s a little Crazy.

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