Philadelphia, PA – Earl Hartman was a little rattled by something he says he found in a can of green beans: a snake head.
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The Philadelphia man said he found the reptile head on his plate Wednesday night, right between a chicken breast and buttered noodles. He said it came out of the green bean can.
“When I sat down, I noticed something didn’t look right,” Hartman said. “It didn’t look like a green bean.”
Hartman said he called the Pathmark store where he bought the beans, and got a call back from Seneca Foods in upstate New York, where the vegetables were canned.
Rich Savner, a spokesman for Carteret, N.J.-based Pathmark Stores Inc., confirmed that a customer reported finding a “foreign substance” in a can of green beans, but said officials had not determined what it was.
The store conducted spot checks of other cans, but nothing out of the ordinary turned up, Savner said. Similar cans were removed from the shelves as a precaution.[AP]
We at VIN tried to confirm which brand this particular can of greenbeans was produced for, as some of them carry the OU hechsher. A Pathmark spokesperson, however, did not want to confirm to us which one it was.