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Woman Finds Mouse in Soup on Mother's Day
Posted on: Monday, 10 May 2004, 06:00 CDT
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A woman out for an early Mother's Day lunch at the Cracker Barrel restaurant found a mouse in her vegetable soup. The woman had already eaten some of the soup on Saturday when she scooped up the mouse.
The discovery prompted the chain to immediately halt the serving of vegetable soup at the Newport News restaurant as well as nationally, a corporate spokeswoman said Monday.
"As soon as the problem was discovered, we stopped serving the product," Julie Davis said from Cracker Barrel's suburban Nashville, Tenn., headquarters.
The mouse, less than 2 inches long, is being tested to determine whether it got into the soup at the store or was already in a soup package when it arrived from a vendor.
"We want to know how this happened," Davis said.
The Newport News store had received its regular pest control service on April 13, she said.
Davis said Cracker Barrel deemed the discovery so serious, President Donald M. Turner was involved within hours of the discovery to direct the company's response.
"I can't stress enough how seriously we view this," Davis said.
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Information from: Daily Press