A Mouse Autopsy – Cracker Barrel Soup Fraud
Cracker Barrel has been vindicated.
A month ago, on Mother’s Day (actually the day before), a woman in Virginia claimed that she had found a mouse in her soup at a Cracker Barrel restaurant. She stated that she found the mouse after eating some of the soup. She subsequently went to the company, and offered an admission of guilt and pictures of the mouse for $500,000. (Story from The Virginian-Pilot)
The authorities were called, and the company set up a meeting with the woman and her son. She was arrested and charged with extortion and conspiracy to commit a felony.
The Cracker Barrel folks were pretty comfortable, though. They had already performed a mouse autopsy.
It turns out that the mouse died of a skull fracture, was not cooked (along with the soup, presumably) and when they cut open the mouse’s tiny lungs they found no soup. (What career path do you have to take to become a mouse forensic surgeon? Will we now get to see Quincy, M-O-U-S-E on TV?)
Cracker Barrel had pulled their vegetable soup from ALL stores nationwide after this happened. (Story from May from Knight Ridder) The story went nationwide as well, and I’m sure that the Cracker Barrel folks had a hard time.
Hopefully, the blogverse will be publishing retractions to the thousands of posts that this generated.
No More Ladies Night in NJ
The NJ State Division of Civil Rights has ruled that “Ladies’ Night” in bars in the state is illegal.
For those of you not familiar with the concept – Ladies’ Night was a special night each week where the bar allowed women free cover charge and reduced drink prices.
This article from the Home News Tribune details the story.
Apparently, David R. Gillespie filed a complaint several years ago, stating that the promotion was illegal because it discriminates against men.
I’m a little torn on this one, because it really is discriminatory. However, the whole idea was created to draw women into the bars in the first place on slow weeknights, in order to give men a reason to be there (and to buy drinks). Mr. Gillespie has managed to shoot his entire gender in the foot on this one.
Don’t worry – the Governor (who’s fighting for his job at the moment) is against this ruling, calling it “bureaucratic nonsense”.
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