Did you hear the story about the woman from Utah who found a severed mouse head in a can of green beans?
The Arkansas company which makes the beans offered the woman $100 if she pledges to not take legal action. The official letter from Allens Inc of Siloam Springs, Ark., describes this as a gesture of good will.
Good will my butt! Marianne Watson isn’t interested in their offer stating “I won’t sign it under any circumstances,”.
She was never interested in taking legal action, but she did want to “put enough media attention on them that they either withdraw those cans or do something other than what they’re trying to do, which is shut me up.”
Watson was cooking lunch for two sons Sunday when she said she found a severed mouse head in a can of Allens Cut Green Beans, which had been purchased at a Wal-Mart store in American Fork. Nothing was eaten.
Allens spokesman James Phillips said the mouse probably was picked up during the harvest and did not originate in the canning factory. He called it an isolated incident.
“We apologize as much as we can, but we also do everything known from a technology standpoint and personnel standpoint to prevent it from happening,” he said. “But inevitably, occasionally, things like this occur.”
A recall is not necessary, Phillips said.
“This would not reach the level of exposing people to illness because the product is rendered commercially sterile,” he said in a phone interview. “Every can is cooked to a predetermined temperature and time.”
Watson said she may have the mouse remnants and green beans tested. She has refused to return them to the company.
“I was thankful I had a little soup earlier because I couldn’t eat after seeing that,” she said.
Isn’t that disgusting?
