# Wendy's gives a woman the finger! In their chili! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 24, 2005, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendys-gives-a-woman-the-finger-in-their-chili/296029 "2005-03-24T13:17:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendys-gives-a-woman-the-finger-in-their-chili/296029/1 "2005-03-24T13:17:53Z")
[Words fail me](http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/03/24/chili.finger.reut/index.html) I’m glad a vegetarian. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendys-gives-a-woman-the-finger-in-their-chili/296029/2 "2005-03-24T13:20:31Z")
> [@Annie](#): > > I’m glad a vegetarian. Wendy’s makes salads too. Eat slowly. ---
**Author:** ![poeticyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6bbea6/32.png) [@poeticyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/poeticyde)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendys-gives-a-woman-the-finger-in-their-chili/296029/3 "2005-03-24T13:20:58Z")
Mmmm…chili. Finger lickin’ good… :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendys-gives-a-woman-the-finger-in-their-chili/296029/4 "2005-03-24T13:36:22Z")
I _thought_ it sounded familiar. [Claim: A human finger was found in a can of menudo. Status: False.](http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/menudo.htm) Even if, according to [CNN.com](http://CNN.com), the medical examiner did establish that this one was a human finger and not a piece of cow connective tissue, it’s entirely possible that she put it in there herself. Purpose: income-generating lawsuit. So I’d hold off on the Wendys-flaming until it pans out. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendys-gives-a-woman-the-finger-in-their-chili/296029/5 "2005-03-24T14:00:54Z")
So many lines; so little time: Shh! Everybody will want one! Well, that proves there’s meat in there! Finger-lickin’ good (\*I bow to **poeticyde** The chili with something extra! Come to Wendy’s for finger food! Betcha can’t eat just one Collect the entire series! Start building your Human Being today! Match the fingers, win a prize! ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendys-gives-a-woman-the-finger-in-their-chili/296029/6 "2005-03-24T14:13:32Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > I’m glad a vegetarian. Because it would be impossible for a severed finger to end up in a vegetarian dish? > [@Ben Gale](#): > > “Then they had some kind of emotional reaction and vomited.” Ben Gale: Director of the Department of Environmental Health for Santa Clara County and Fifteenth Level Wu Shin Master of Understatement. ---
**Author:** ![badbadrubberpiggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendys-gives-a-woman-the-finger-in-their-chili/296029/7 "2005-03-24T14:22:09Z")
> [@Duck Duck Goose](#): > > I _thought_ it sounded familiar. > > [Claim: A human finger was found in a can of menudo. Status: False.](http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/menudo.htm) > > Even if, according to [CNN.com](http://CNN.com), the medical examiner did establish that this one was a human finger and not a piece of cow connective tissue, it’s entirely possible that she put it in there herself. Purpose: income-generating lawsuit. > > So I’d hold off on the Wendys-flaming until it pans out. According to [this site](http://www.thewmurchannel.com/news/4313153/detail.html) , it’s true. ---
**Author:** ![Good\_Egg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/96bed5/32.png) [@Good\_Egg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Good_Egg)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendys-gives-a-woman-the-finger-in-their-chili/296029/8 "2005-03-24T14:35:50Z")
If they could prove it was Dave Thomas’, she could sell it on e bay\>. ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendys-gives-a-woman-the-finger-in-their-chili/296029/9 "2005-03-24T14:52:00Z")
Best line of the story: > [@](#): > > Officials counted all the fingers of the Wendy’s workers – and say none had a missing digit. Cop: _One, two, three…_ ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendys-gives-a-woman-the-finger-in-their-chili/296029/10 "2005-03-24T14:57:15Z")
QUOTE: As for the Wendy’s restaurant, it was closed for a short while but health officials let it reopen, saying it is now a safe place to eat, KNTV reported. Marge Simpson: I can’t begin to tell you what’s wrong with that statement. ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendys-gives-a-woman-the-finger-in-their-chili/296029/11 "2005-03-24T15:42:35Z")
Oh my… :eek: aAGagAGagAGagAGgAGgaGAGAGAGaaaaAAA!~ ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendys-gives-a-woman-the-finger-in-their-chili/296029/12 "2005-03-24T15:51:14Z")
The thing is, Wendy’s Chili is usually made of the hamburgers and so on that get cooked and left on the grill for too long. This worries me. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendys-gives-a-woman-the-finger-in-their-chili/296029/13 "2005-03-24T16:04:19Z")
I haven’t eaten Wendy’s chili since the time we got some at the drive-thru, took it home, and opened it to find the entire surface of the chili covered with discolored staples. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendys-gives-a-woman-the-finger-in-their-chili/296029/14 "2005-03-24T16:07:23Z")
> [@Dung Beetle](#): > > I haven’t eaten Wendy’s chili since the time we got some at the drive-thru, took it home, and opened it to find the entire surface of the chili covered with discolored staples. That’s weird, but sadly, probably not that uncommon. Once my mom found a huge industrial-size metal staple in her Alice Springs Chicken at Outback Steakhouse. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendys-gives-a-woman-the-finger-in-their-chili/296029/15 "2005-03-24T16:14:23Z")
I’m constantly finding lard in my Frosties. And rusty razor blades. When I was 15, I worked at a Wendy’s for a few months. They had a policy of keeping at least some burgers cooking on the grill at all times, to quicken prep times. Dried out patties went into a bin, IN STORE, where we chopped the meat, then added it together with the sauce mix (which I believe was powdered), and water. So… WHERE DID THE FINGER COME FROM? It’s not like the chili is made in some huge chili making plant. It’s done on site. Unless Wendy’s has changed drastically, which is a possibilty. So, and this is what worries me most, if the finger was indeed real, someone had to add it in. Check out the employess, see if any of them work for the Yakuza, or any other digitally enhanced orginizations. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendys-gives-a-woman-the-finger-in-their-chili/296029/16 "2005-03-24T16:20:43Z")
> [@E-Sabbath](#): > > The thing is, Wendy’s Chili is usually made of the hamburgers and so on that get cooked and left on the grill for too long. > > This worries me. Costumer: Waiter!, menu please… mumble mumble… Oh, it all looks so tasty I would like to try a bit of everything. Waiter: One order of chilli right away, sir! ---
**Author:** ![Spree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@Spree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spree)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendys-gives-a-woman-the-finger-in-their-chili/296029/17 "2005-03-24T16:31:17Z")
How in the world digit get in there? I just can’t finger it out! ---
**Author:** ![KeithT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@KeithT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KeithT)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendys-gives-a-woman-the-finger-in-their-chili/296029/18 "2005-03-24T16:43:02Z")
“Do you like it, Scott? I call it ‘Mr. and Mrs. Tenorman Chili.’” Just where _is_ Eric Cartman? ---
**Author:** ![GaWd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@GaWd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaWd)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendys-gives-a-woman-the-finger-in-their-chili/296029/19 "2005-03-24T16:45:01Z")
Wow, good thing the local Wendy’s are too far from my house these days… I once found a bunch of shotgun pellets in a steak at a local restaurant after I bit down hard on one… Sam ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendys-gives-a-woman-the-finger-in-their-chili/296029/20 "2005-03-24T16:46:29Z")
This may have been a ‘pull my finger’ gag gone horribly wrong. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendys-gives-a-woman-the-finger-in-their-chili/296029.md?page=2)