WILMINGTON, N.C. - A man who ordered a pint of frozen chocolate custard in a dessert shop got a nasty surprise inside — a piece of severed finger lost by an employee in an accident.

Unlike a recent incident at a Wendy's restaurant in California, no questions of truth have been raised about the finger served up to go at Kohl's Frozen Custard and found later at home by Clarence Stowers.

Officials from the state departments of agriculture and labor went to the shop Monday, and the owner confirmed one of his employees lost part of a finger in an accident with a food-processing machine. It was not immediately clear how the severed finger got into the custard.

Wilmington television station WWAY reported that Stowers found the finger in frozen custard he purchased Sunday night.

Stowers, who did not immediately return calls Monday from The Associated Press, told the station: "I thought it was candy because they put candy in your ice cream ... to make it a treat. So I said, 'OK, well, I'll just put it in my mouth and get the ice cream off of it and see what it is.'"

Stowers said he spit the object out, but still couldn't identify it. So he went to his kitchen, rinsed it off with water — and "just started screaming."

Stowers said he planned to contact a lawyer.

Shop owner Craig Thomas did not immediately return a message left by the AP Monday.

Joe Reardon of the Agriculture Department's food and drug division said state officials closed the shop while the food processing equipment involved in the accident was cleaned and sanitized.

In March, a Las Vegas woman claimed she bit down on a 1 1/2 inch-long finger fragment while dining with her family at a Wendy's restaurant in San Jose, Calif.

Investigators have since called her claim a hoax and charged her last month with attempted grand theft related to millions in dollars of financial losses Wendy's has suffered since news of her claim broke.
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You know... you lose a finger so you just don't go ahead and serve the food. This to me is just human stupidity at its finest. I mean, wouldn't you think if you cut off your finger you would LOOK for it? Seriously now, take you thumb out of your butt and let your brain breath!

so they're positive it's true? eww... I agree, who would be so dense to not notice that their finger is missing? Help the poor guy who thought it was candy...

So we have a finger in Wendy's Chili (Turned out to be fake, but never the less...)
A man finds a finge tip in his sandwich at some fast food restuarant (the name is escaping me at the moment), the chunks of cow flesh in the drinking water....AND NOW a finger found in a pint of frozen custard!??! What is going here people?

CNN

Sounds like people don't consider their fingers to be that important to them anymore.

This story first posted here:

http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=39829

Well whatta ya know...I'd go there and read it but your monstrously large font is unclickable.

Just like the white-guy discrimination case, these people are probably lawsuit happy. (glad I disappointed my parents and didn't go to law school) Yeesh

Merged topics.

too terror

i dont feel sorry for the guy who found the finger....i feel sorry for the one who lost it

the worst part was him putting it in his mouth & sucking all the ice cream off of it thinking it was a piece of candy