Rat Poison Found At Sizzlers but why complain, the salad bar is all you can eat.
I haven’t seen a Sizzlers here in the States for years. Or a Ponderosa, for that matter. (A similar steak buffet restaurant, if you aren’t familiar with it.)
Ironically, their only locations in the Midwest are all around Omaha. Which makes sense, considering how hard it must be to get a good steak at a local restaurant in Omaha…
There’s one here, in Seattle. Actually, it’s in Dogpatch… I mean Tukwilla. We drive past it on the way to a friend’s house quite often. The parking lot is always full.
We haven’t been tempted.
We still have Sizzlers in Australia?? I thought they all closed down years ago. I haven’t seen one for ages.
The article says there are 28 of them in Oz. I am shocked.
Maybe someone thought it was Skinny & Sweet. The boxes look quite similar (except for the skull and crossbones).
And the black rat outline.
I’m stumped. First, I’m surprised that sauce Bolognese has ever been found inside any “TheSizzz’” anywhere, ever. And … it’s a feature of the salad bar? Is there a pasta section? I don’t know what TheSizzz’ business plan is in Australia (aside, apparently, from a general corporate directive to KILL! KILL! KILL!), but in the U.S., twenty years ago when you could still find one here, it was a very short step up from Po – from the places that painted black lines on the meat so customers could persuade themselves that it had been grilled rather than microwaved.
My inexpert opinion: the woman described as being “not a suspect” is a suspect. (1) Nobody got sick and/or died, so the poisoning was either way underdone and/or reported instantly, before anyone could be harmed. (2) Nothing got poisoned to which everybody in the building didn’t have access. (3) 5 p.m. is very, very early: it’s about as soon as the dinner shift starts and (correct me if I’m wrong about local custom) much too early to have many customers. (4) The story doesn’t report what kind of rat poison, if any, is stocked by TheSizzz there (and were I the editor, these are questions reporters would know to ask if they liked their jobs) or if it consists of green pellets. (5) No matter what the answer to (4) is, there aren’t many* food * products that look like green pellets that TheSizzz would use. Cardamom pods? No. Capers? Not an ingredient in any soup I’ve heard of, nor in sauce Bolognese, but just maybe an item on the salad bar (they’re kind of expensive to just put a bowl of them out there). Green peppercorns? Too expensive for a chain restaurant to bother using (in sauces and soups at least, and probably at all). What else? I’m assuming that rat poison does not look like green peas, either fresh or frozen. But if anyone can come up with a credible green pellet-like food product that a chain restaurant might use, please speak up. (6) Again, I’d fire the reporter. How was the earlier green pellet discovery reported, and by whom and to whom? Same woman? Does anybody in the whole chain recognize this woman? She might have drawn attention with an exceptionally loud complaint? (7) This reporter will never work again: were the green pellets in the two incidents actually the same thing?
Oh, well. There’s more here than is being reported, but the sheer amount of stuff that’s left out irritates me more than the prospect of being poisoned. But I don’t live in Brisbane, so that’s easy for me to say.
Sizzler’s not uncommon around here.
You do have to pay close attention to whatever you put into your mouth. I once got a bolt in the salad bar. (Manager’s special - we all ate for free that night)
You mean they didn’t import the ecoli they serve here?