14 DAY TRIAL // A New York City woman found a slithery extra ingredient in the salad she had ordered from a Manhattan chain restaurant on Tuesday afternoon.
Robin Sandusky, a 31-year-old theatre agent, bought a kale salad with avocado and onion from the Guy & Gallard deli on West 40th Street and found a severed lizard head among the greens after it was delivered to her Chelsea office.
“I'd taken like 15 bites, and I sort of turned it over. I could see the scales and the little lines of the mouth, and the arm hanging off,” the woman said.
“I could see the grime hanging out the back of its head. It was disgusting,” she added.
Sandusky says she is a regular costumer of that restaurant and ordered many salads before, but she always received only the ingredients she had asked for. It seems that the deli's employees were more generous this time.
Huffington Post informs that the firm issued an apology and offered Sandusky a refund and a voucher for a free lunch, which she refused, by the way.
“Our lettuce is sourced from farms that do not use any pesticides on its produce, therefore organic matter does very rarely manage to pass through our production process,” a spokesperson for Guy & Gallard mentioned, adding that the company is looking into the issue.
Maybe the customer should look at the bright side of the incident: at least they gave her protein!