# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendys-gives-a-woman-the-finger-in-their-chili/296029/21 "2005-03-24T16:48:19Z")
Huh. Well, I guess there’s somebody out there who _can’t_ pluck yew. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendys-gives-a-woman-the-finger-in-their-chili/296029/22 "2005-03-24T17:19:49Z")
Doncha just love chili con carne? ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendys-gives-a-woman-the-finger-in-their-chili/296029/23 "2005-03-24T17:22:18Z")
My initial reaction was “Bullshit!” Unlike staples and bugs and rats and other stuff allegedly cooked into fast food, a human finger will be missed. Especially by the person who lost it. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendys-gives-a-woman-the-finger-in-their-chili/296029/24 "2005-03-24T17:28:40Z")
I’m thinking BS too. Maybe it’s not even a finger, sort of like that wang someone found in their drink that turned out to be wang-shaped fungus. Not that I want a fungus in my drink or chili either… ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendys-gives-a-woman-the-finger-in-their-chili/296029/25 "2005-03-24T17:36:05Z")
> [@Podkayne](#): > > Because it would be impossible for a severed finger to end up in a vegetarian dish? Well, yeah. Kinda by definition. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendys-gives-a-woman-the-finger-in-their-chili/296029/26 "2005-03-24T17:40:13Z")
> [@JSexton](#): > > Well, yeah. Kinda by definition. This is just sooooo ridiculous. Kinda by definition, chili doesn’t include human fingers either. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendys-gives-a-woman-the-finger-in-their-chili/296029/27 "2005-03-24T17:45:38Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > 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! Yum yum, gimme thumb! ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendys-gives-a-woman-the-finger-in-their-chili/296029/28 "2005-03-24T17:46:57Z")
Ya gotta’ hand it to 'em. Did the cops think to check the fingerprint? ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendys-gives-a-woman-the-finger-in-their-chili/296029/29 "2005-03-24T17:47:46Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > This is just sooooo ridiculous. Kinda by definition, chili doesn’t include human fingers either. So ridiculous as to be laughable, even? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendys-gives-a-woman-the-finger-in-their-chili/296029/30 "2005-03-24T17:57:21Z")
> [@Duck Duck Goose](#): > > 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. No offense to you, **DDG** , but if that were the case, where on earth would she find a human finger? :eek: ---
**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, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendys-gives-a-woman-the-finger-in-their-chili/296029/31 "2005-03-24T17:57:47Z")
> [@JSexton](#): > > So ridiculous as to be laughable, even? Almost as if it were a joke? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendys-gives-a-woman-the-finger-in-their-chili/296029/32 "2005-03-24T18:03:23Z")
> [@Podkayne](#): > > Almost as if it were a joke? 🙂 It does hold an uncanny resemblance to a jest, yes. ---
**Author:** ![Gadfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@Gadfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadfly)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendys-gives-a-woman-the-finger-in-their-chili/296029/33 "2005-03-24T18:04:42Z")
> [@poeticyde](#): > > Mmmm…chili. Finger lickin’ good… > :eek: You want a finger? I can get you a finger. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendys-gives-a-woman-the-finger-in-their-chili/296029/34 "2005-03-24T18:06:13Z")
> [@JSexton](#): > > So ridiculous as to be laughable, even? Oh, I get it. I was whooshed! See because there’s no meat in a vegitarian meal but there is meat in chili (con carne. There’s no meat in plain chile) so OF COURSE it makes sense that, by definition, there’d be a finger in the chili and not the vegitarian meal! Hanaha. . . Nope, still don’t get it. I guess I’ll remain whooshed. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendys-gives-a-woman-the-finger-in-their-chili/296029/35 "2005-03-24T18:07:52Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Oh, I get it. I was whooshed! See because there’s no meat in a vegitarian meal but there is meat in chili (con carne. There’s no meat in plain chile) There is plenty of meat in Chile. Many cows and people there. Probably no meat in their chili, though. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendys-gives-a-woman-the-finger-in-their-chili/296029/36 "2005-03-24T18:10:57Z")
As I understood it, the joke was that a vegetarian dish that has a finger in it not longer fits the definition of _vegetarian_, because finger=meat. ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendys-gives-a-woman-the-finger-in-their-chili/296029/37 "2005-03-24T18:12:02Z")
I hearded that MacDonalds’s puts the worms in there big macks. And their was this kid who eated the pop rocs and drinkded the 7up and his stomack sploded. ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Cooper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@Agent\_Cooper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Cooper)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendys-gives-a-woman-the-finger-in-their-chili/296029/38 "2005-03-24T18:27:56Z")
> [@Gadfly](#): > > You want a finger? I can get you a finger. Nail polish and all. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendys-gives-a-woman-the-finger-in-their-chili/296029/39 "2005-03-24T18:31:39Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > if that were the case, where on earth would she find a human finger? :eek: [Peter Griffin] I got it on eBay. [/PG] ---
**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, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendys-gives-a-woman-the-finger-in-their-chili/296029/40 "2005-03-24T18:36:49Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > where on earth would she find a human finger? :eek: By my (admittedly crude) calculations, there are approximately 60 billion human fingers on earth. I don’t think it would be that hard to find one. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendys-gives-a-woman-the-finger-in-their-chili/296029.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendys-gives-a-woman-the-finger-in-their-chili/296029.md?page=3)