Cockroach eggs in saliva glands????
Stefan Fricke
I've got the following UL from a friend. Is it true?
Stefan
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Yet another reason I don't eat at Taco Bell....
This girl was really in a hurry one day so she just stopped
off at a
Taco Bell and got a taco and ate it on the way home. Well,
that night
she noticed her jaw was kind of tight and swollen. The next
day it was a
little worse, so she went to her doctor. He said she was
just having an
allergic reaction to something and gave her some cream to
rub on her
jaw to help. After a couple of days, the swelling had just
gotten worse
and she could hardly move her jaw. She went back to her
doctor to see
what was wrong. Her doctor had no idea, so he started to run
some tests.
He scrubbed out the inside of her mouth to get tissue
samples, and he
also took some saliva samples. Well, he found out what was
wrong.
Apparently her taco had a pregnant cockroach in it that she
ate!!!! The
eggs then somehow got into her saliva glands and she was
incubating
them. They had to remove a couple of the layers of her inner
mouth to
get all the eggs out. If they hadn't figured out what was
going on, the
eggs would have hatched inside the lining of her
mouth!!!!!!!!!! She's
suing Taco Bell, of course!
For those of you who don't believe this story, the article
can be found
in the Nov. 19th NY Times.
Clayton Cochrane
I asked an Oral Surgeon at the New York Presbyterian Hospital (formerly
Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center). It is impossible.
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Clayton (what's that crunch in my bean burrito) "Cockroach" Cochrane
JoAnne Schmitz
wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I've got the following UL from a friend. Is it true?
[Taco Bell UL]
Interesting, I hadn't seen the following before, did I just miss it?
>For those of you who don't believe this story, the article
>can be found
>in the Nov. 19th NY Times.
It's not there, of course.
JoAnne "maybe the roaches ate it" Schmitz
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Sam E. Trenholme
>
>>For those of you who don't believe this story, the article
>>can be found in the Nov. 19th NY Times.
The snopes page mentions this line, and then describes how a search showed
up nothing.
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K. DASKAWICZ
Clayton Cochrane wrote in message ...
>I asked an Oral Surgeon at the New York Presbyterian Hospital (formerly
>Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center). It is impossible.
>Clayton (what's that crunch in my bean burrito) "Cockroach" Cochrane
>> Yet another reason I don't eat at Taco Bell....
>> This girl was really in a hurry one day so she just stopped
>> off at a
>> Taco Bell and got a taco and ate it on the way home. Well,
>> that night
>> she noticed her jaw was kind of tight and swollen. The next
>> day it was a
>> little worse, so she went to her doctor
>> what was wrong. Her doctor had no idea, so he started to run
>> some tests.
>> He scrubbed out the inside of her mouth to get tissue
>> samples, and he
>> also took some saliva samples. Well, he found out what was
>> wrong.
>> Apparently her taco had a pregnant cockroach in it that she
>> ate!!!! The
>> eggs then somehow got into her saliva glands and she was
>> incubating
>> them. They had to remove a couple of the layers of her inner
>> mouth to
>> get all the eggs out. If they hadn't figured out what was
>> going on, the
>> eggs would have hatched inside the lining of her
>> mouth!!!!!!!!!!
This is so obviously preposterous, I can't believe it.
Even if it were possible, biologically, for this cockroach scenario to take
place, that still would NOT prove that the cockroach had been consumed at
Taco Bell. Epidemiology, scientific method, etc. all come into play here.
The old concept of if B happens after A, that does not prove that B was
caused by A ........
(Why do I read this stuff? It only aggravates me! <S> )
-KD
Frank Looper
JoAnne Schmitz wrote in message :
>>For those of you who don't believe this story, the article
>>can be found
>>in the Nov. 19th NY Times.
>
>
>JoAnne "maybe the roaches ate it" Schmitz
Even if it were in the Times (and having followed JoAnne's posts, I believe
her that it wasn't), that wouldn't necessarily make it true. BS can come
from the most reputable sources, such as the flyer that the local police
insisted be put on the door of every store in the city limits warning of the
dangers of flashing your headlights at unlit oncoming traffic (You know the
rest, and they really did put this UL up as the gospel truth).
Frank