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Woman Sues Over Condom in Her Clam Chowder
Tue Nov 11, 8:16 AM ET Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo!


LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Waiter, there is something worse than a fly in my soup.


A California woman who found a condom in her bowl of clam chowder has sued the upscale restaurant that served it to her -- saying she has suffered depression and anxiety from the shocking discovery.


But an attorney for McCormick & Schmicks Seafood Restaurant in Irvine, California, says the eatery has no idea how the condom got into Laila Sultan's food.


Sultan, 48, and her three companions are suing the restaurant for negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress in a case that is expected to go to trial early next year.


"I thought it was calamari or shrimp or something so I chewed one more," Sultan told local KCAL-TV on Monday. "It felt rubbery. I told my friends, 'My God, there's something in my mouth.'"


Sultan said she spit the offending object into a napkin and at first thought it was a latex glove. Then her friend realized what it was.


"I said, 'Oh, my God' and ran into the bathroom with another friend of mine and I started throwing up," she said. "I threw up everything I ate there, every single thing, I threw up in the bathroom." **LMAOLMAOLMAO**


But Patrick Stark, an attorney for McCormick & Schmicks, told the Los Angeles Times that its staff had no idea how the condom got into the chowder, adding: "It's as big a mystery to us as it is to anybody else."


"We are going to argue at trial there is absolutely no evidence to suggest the restaurant was the source of the condom," he told the paper. "Either it came from (the four women) or it was thrown in as a practical joke by another patron at the restaurant."

UPDATE!!!!

Restaurant Settles Condom-In-Soup Lawsuit
Tue Jan 13, 9:05 AM ET Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo!



LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Seafood restaurant chain McCormick & Schmick's has settled a lawsuit brought by a California woman who said she suffered severe emotional distress after she discovered a condom in her clam chowder, a company spokesman says.



The settlement Monday was reached the day the Portland, Oregon-based chain was to go to trial in Santa Ana, California. The settlement terms are confidential.


"The case has been resolved... in its entirety in a manner acceptable to both sides today," McCormick & Schmick's spokesman Brian Douglas said. "The parties have chosen to resolve it without further court intervention. Both sides are happy with the outcome."


The privately held company, which operates 42 restaurants nationwide, maintained that Laila Sultan's claims that she suffered anxiety and depression were "frivolous."


"We still believe that's the truth but in this day and age it's the price of doing business," Douglas said. "You have to deal with scenarios like this."


Sultan, 48, said the trouble began Feb. 26 when she and three companions sent their soup back to the kitchen to be reheated while dining at the Irvine, California, restaurant.


Sultan said she was treated rudely by the waiter, and when she began eating the soup she encountered a chewy, rubbery object that she first thought was calamari or shrimp, she told local media. She spit the offending object into her napkin and discovered it was a rolled up condom, she said.


"I said, 'Oh my god' and ran into the bathroom with another friend of mine and I started throwing up," she said.


The restaurant chain launched an investigation but had no idea how the condom got into her soup, Douglas said.