9.03.2009

A frog in the Pepsi

FDA says residue is frog or toad; how did it get in Pepsi can?

Excerpt:

The "disgusting" blob that Fred DeNegri's wife says she poured out of his Diet Pepsi can was probably a gutted frog or toad, the Food and Drug Administration said.

DeNegri was grilling in his backyard tiki bar in Ormond Beach, Florida, when he popped open a can of Diet Pepsi, took a big gulp and started gagging, his wife, Amy, said.

He emptied out the can down a sink but something heavy remained inside. His wife took over and shook the can over a paper plate until something resembling "pink linguini" slid out, followed by "dark stuff," Amy DeNegri said.

"It was disgusting," said Amy DeNegri, 55. "And now, what started out as a normal afternoon in our tiki bar has blown up into this crazy thing."

The DeNegris took pictures before calling poison control and the FDA, which showed up the next day to examine the can in question and collect it for lab testing.

The couple received a copy of the completed report last week from the Food and Drug Administration Office of Regulatory Affairs, which concluded the foreign matter appeared to be a frog or a toad.

"The animal was lacking internal organs normally found in the abdominal and thoracic cavity," the report notes.


Comment: My guess is that it was NOT introduced at the plant. Something else is going on here!

2 comments:

  1. Hmmm... I think this may bring more light to what it means to "having a frog in your throat."

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  2. I used to work in a bottling plant and I think it is completely possible that this frog got into the can prior to being capped. The cans are like regular drinking glasses when filled up and the round top is affixed further down the line. As for some organs being absent it is entirely possible that they were just eaten away as pepsi is extremely acidic and would of course disolve the softer organs first.

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