PUBIC HAIR IN HAMBURGER

I was eating at a Jack in the Box and found a pubic hair in my buscuit
egg and bacon sandwhich. It was so disgusting, the hair was in the egg
on the edge of the bread. I want to subpeona for the security tape and
sue Jack In the Box. What I didn't do is keep the sandwhich, it was
too nasty to think about. I got my money back for that and two Jumbo
Jacks with cheese. I don't think I ate one though becaue i was just
eating the white of the egg on the edge of the sandwhich, thank god.
lol

Ummm yea, could I get that back?

Sincerely,
Burger King Grill Manager

I don't know about you, but I've never had a pube get to be a few
inches long...could it be a head hair from a black person perhaps? Or
at least someone with dark curly hair... I'd find that more likely to
believe than someone garnishing your food with a winky hair.

Let me just say that I think you are handling this very well. 1st of
all, you found a pubic hair in your food. Eww, totally disgusting. You
start by calling the store manager who passes you off to the regional
manager who gave you to Risk Management who said that they can't tell
where the hair came from. What kind of screwed up mess is that? I
completely sympethize with you. They don't even care! I'd be calling
my attorney too.

I can see where you may be upset in finding an foreign object in your
food. But I am trying to figure out exactly what kind of damages do
you think you might deserve. As a Physician, I understand your
concerns of health issure, but suing is not the answer unless you are
now an ambulance chaser as well. Hoping to get a few bucks in return.
May I ask if you reported the situation at the time of your visit or
episode. Why did you not just call the health dept or take a cell
phone pix to make just cause of the issue, you know the black & white
documentation of your word against theirs. My feelings on health
issues are very high since I too am in the medical field, but talking
to an attorney for damages. Damages!! You as a Physician should be
able to handle anything that comes across your plate. That is what's
wrong with our society today everyone is sue happy. Yes, law suit
happy!
Get a grip, accept an apology and go on practicing. Just remember
what goes around comes around. You may be an accident waiting to
happen. Put that shoe on your foot. Damages! WOW,,LOL

As a physician, you should be the first to know that the origin of the
hair in question can not be determined merely by looking at it and
announcing that it is tapered and curly, many hairs on the human body
are tapered and curly. In fact, The examination of human hairs in the
forensic laboratory is typically conducted through the use of light
microscopy. This examination routinely involves a two-step processthe
identification of questioned hairs and the comparison of questioned
and known hairs.

It is because of this process and your claims to be able to skip past
it and make a scientific decision based on your "visual knowledge",
that I highly doubt your claims to be a Medical Doctor. It is also
the same reason why the regional manager didn't buy your story either.


You might want to just come clean and be truthful in the future when
you find hair in your food, or like many other "Medical Doctors" make
the decision to avoid fattfast food restaurants altogether.

I don't usually rip apart people's grammar, but I call shenanigans
here based simply upon the fact that this person does not have the
grammar of one with an advanced degree.

I can't really place it on the possibility that the OP is of foreign
descent, either. The grammar isn't suggestive of English as a second
language- It is simply poor.

Are we to assume that the OP KEPT the alleged pubic hair (yuck)? I ask
because my sister is an attorney and would probably laugh herself
silly if someone came to her with this kind of complaint but no
physical proof of the "alleged public hair". Come to think of it, I'M
laughing now just thinking about it.

This hair could have been from someone's head, someone's beard or
moustache, even off of someone's arm. I would imagine it would require
microscopic inspection to determine without a doubt that it was a
pube, and I think that a physician would know that.

that's hot

i am a retired ublic health officer.

notify your local helth dept. & ask for an inspection of their food
handling!

if your a "physician".. dont you know how fattening BK is in the first
place? hmmmmmmm.. and coming to think of it.. i dont see how a strand
of hair "falls" out of a burger like you said it does..

Beard hair can look a great deal like pubic hair. I was a waitress
for a million years and every so often a customer would find a "pubic"
hair in their food. In every instance, it turned out to be beard hair
from the cook. Our restaurant finally made facial hair a no-no and
the problem ceased. It's still icky, but at least it wasn't pubic
hair.

Not to defend him, but this is in Re: All those who note the
discrepancy.

Let's say that I find a bug in my food once (Because hair wouldn't
nauseate me terribly so.). Icky. I throw it out, complain, no big
deal.

but when I think about eating food with a bug in it, it makes me
sick.

It didnt HAVE to happen, he was thinking 'God, I feel so sick when I
think of that hair possibly being in my mouth." Does that make sense?
Its like 'Think about what would've happened if I hadn't found it!"


Course, I still call shenanigans on the pubic hair, although the
'tapered' thing puzzles me... The only hairs I know which are tapered
are Gorilla Hairs (According to CSI), but they aren't terribly long.
Maybe it was a dog hair? (spade like root, but short since dogs' hairs
dont grow constantly, thus resembling taperness)

I'll stop theorizing now, heh.

I have been to a burger king before and found just a normal hair. But
you found a pube?!?! i would be soooo disqusted to eat im sorry that
it happened to you! i would have had the manajer see who was working
when this happened.

I think I would have, simply, thrown everything out and never
returned. I'm just not a complainer. It is disgusting to have
anything other than the "food" in your food.

So that everyone knows, I have never sent Burger king any letters from
any attorneys. I have also never asked them for any settlement as a
result of this. All that I asked for was an official apology.
Burgerking officials have done nothing to respond.
Too bad. My intent was to inform the public about the treatment that I
received when I tried to file a legitimate complaint.
Maybe, I was very irate and it came out as such in my letter,
however the facts remain and I will stand by them.

"If I find a noodle, I'm sending it back."

Some of you might know what I'm talking about.

I haven't weighed in on this one yet, but...

What does it really matter if it's a hair from a head, a back, or the
pubic area? It's a hair, which does not belong in food.

That said, these things happen. We get grossed out. And then, we
move on. While I suppose it's possible that there is more danger of
diseases from pubic hair than head hair, something makes me think that
the danger isn't enough that we need to draw a line that says that
head hair (while gross) is passable, but public hair is a major
issue.

In other words, all this talk about tapered is not important. What's
important is that there was a hair in the food, that the manager
listened to you, and the risk management person listened to you.
Based on the little that you said here, it sounds like the
conversation with Ms. Franco took a downturn only because you wanted
to make a big deal over it being a pubic hair. It was a hair. It
doesn't belong in food. The risk management person needs to know only
that. To you, you deserve an apology from the local store manager.
Nothing more, certainly not the CEO. And this absolutely is NOT
something to sue over. That's crazy! Again... hair doesn't belong in
food. People are grossed out by hair in food. However, people don't
usually suffer serious "damages" from hair in food.

If being grossed out was a reason to get a lawyer and go to court, I'd
have sued the fast food places long ago for serving yucky food. I
feel nausea just thinking about Chicken McNuggets. Should I get a
lawyer?

Lastly, while I find it delicious, in a Schadenfreude way, to hear
about how Dr. Jose had his licenses suspended, I'm not sure that how
SOME people responded to this is fair. Yes, it does show that he has
a history of being a less-than-upstanding member of society. Yes, it
casts doubt on his medical skills. Yes, it suggests that he may STILL
have issues that would cloud his judgment. However, how SOME people
dealt with this information distracted from the main point. Which is,
again, that hair doesn't belong in food, but Jose has overreacted.

Jose, as a tip: had you not pulled out the "I'm a doctor" thing, this
wouldn't have been an issue. While we know you were just trying to
show that you had reason-to-know that it was really a pubic hair, it's
irrelevant. Unless you have above-average knowledge of actual heath
cases (e.g., if you were an epidemiologist for a health department)
where people have become seriously ill from pubic hairs, but not from
head hairs, it would have been best to leave out both the doctor thing
and the public thing.

As a patient of a good local dr, prescribe yourself a better place to
eat.

Can you imagine this loser doctor?

He'd be telling a patient "You have deadly cancer. You'll be dead in
a month. But if you think you have problems I FOUND A PUBIC HAIR IN
MY HAMBURGER!"

OK, first of all, stop writing yourself scripts for psychotropics off
your own DEA number! It'll reduce the paranoia drastically!

Second, if the manager looked horrified at your discovery, it was the
fact that it was a hair at all. Be it pube or head follicle, it's
still gross.

Unless you had a microscope there with you to closely examine the
hair, there is little chance you could prove the hair was indeed pubic
hair.

My husband is Lebanese and all of his hair is very curly and kinky.
Many times when I shower after him, there are small hairs on the floor
of the tub and I couldn't tell you which came off his scalp or which
came from his groin. They are identical in color, texture and length
(my husband keeps the hair on his head trimmed very close to his
scalp).

As much as that is probably an "overshare" it illustrates the point
that some people do have facial hair or scalp hair that is very
similar to public hair and would thus make it virtually impossible to
identify just by sight.

While overall, the situation was unfortunate, you seriously took it
too far. It's not as if they deliberately put the hair there.

No wonder the risk management lady stopped calling you, she must have
thought you were carrying things a bit too far as well.

For the sake of your sanity, consider yourself apologized to and let
it go.

This is to reply to all of the people who find joy in my
embarrassment and shame. Yes, my medical license is currently under
suspension, and yes,I could have reapplied 90 days afterwards, however
I have chosen to look towards other avenues in life's journey. The
reapplication could have happened in March of 2004, but I did not
choose to do so at that time. I am still eligible to reapply for my
medical license at any time I choose.
Thanks for kicking a man when he's down.
They cannot however, take away my education, nor my medical
degree. Hope you or your family never has a problem, so that you will
not be so hasty to pass judgement.
Please forgive my grammer and punctuation on my first letter, as
I wrote it in the dark, very early in the morning and was pressed for
space. Before you criticize someone, you should be certain your
grammer is correct.
You have obviously never read a Dr's note as we all tend to write
in shorthand, which I tend to do also. I am working on this.
But back to the issue at hand. I would not have filed this
complaint in the first place, if I felt that I was in the wrong. I
knew that it would be very embarrassing and open me up to all sorts of
accusations and revelations.
What I found falling out of my burger is what I truly believe to
be a pubic hair. I feel that at some point it must have been in my
mouth, as I would have had to have pulled it out of the hamburger to
fall.
When I showed the hair to the manager on duty, you could see the
look of horror on his face, as he realised what he saw. If he did not
think it was what he thought he saw, why did he immedeiately apologize
and without my asking, call his regional manager, who also apologized
to me, based on what his manager informed him, indeed looked like a
pubic hair.
I made a mistake in leaving the hair with the manager and Ms.
Franco(the risk manager) informed me without getting any type of
professional opinion that it could not be determined where it had come
from. If burgerking(dimunitive form of BurgerKing) really cared to
find out, why haven't they? What are they afraid of? With something
this potentially explosive, I would have made certain to CMA.
I also told Ms. Franco to check her video cameras for any
evidence that it may have been planted. She did not do this.
I am willing to undergo any lie-detector test that burgerking
wants, in case they do not believe my story, and to settle any doubts
that anyone may have.
Yes it was nasty, and yes I am extremely pissed about the way I
was treated by uncaring burgerking officials. Will I die from this,
probably not. But
I am going to make sure burgerking gets to the bottom of this, gives
me a satisfactory explanation and an official apology.
No one in the store had curly hair on their head matching the
specimen, and I am willing to undergo any DNA testing needed to prove
it was not my hair.
I have nothing to hide! So if you think this is a scam, you are
truly mistaken. Demand information from burgerking, I am sure they
will be completely forthright with you. I'd be interested to know.
Also, a taper is a cone type of shape, which gradually
tapers(hence the name) to a fine point.
This is the same shape that new hairs have, once they have come out of
the hair follicle. New hairs are typically not shed from the head, but
rather from other areas that have a high turnover. People typically
do not have new hair growth, which they shed, from their head.
This is in contrast to a cut hair which typically has a
cylindrical shape. This is for the people who did not understand this
concept of the difference between tapered and cut. (Cosmotologist?)

http://www.tmb.state.tx.us/news/press/2003/121703.php

Apparently, my link below didn't work.

BACA, JOSE JESUS II, M.D., EL PASO, TX, Lic. #H9187
On 12-12-03 the Board and Dr. Baca entered into an Agreed Order
suspending the physician's license until such time as the physician
appears before the Board to provide evidence and information that he
is competent to safely practice medicine. The action was based on the
physician's self-reporting his chemical abuse and relapse.

are you two talking about?

about Tina's only meaning in life being to be mean to others... at
least it seems to be all she takes joy in... it has nothin to do with
you, don't worry :)

Right. You're a hot shot doctor who can't write a decent letter.

And if you're REALLY a doctor then you know that people have been know
to have hair on their heads that are a "few inches long and tapered
and curly."

I guess he prefers it shaved :)

On a more serious note, this letter may have been accepteda little
better had you not jumped to the Pubic hair conclusion...

Thank you so much for finding that for me! I was wondering where I
left it. Could you please send it back to me?

You are a "physician"? Then please learn to write a proper letter
with correct punctuation, capitalization and spelling. And for God's
sakes find out where the space bar is.

This is fun! I am thoroughly enjoying reading PFB today...it's been a
laugh a minute!!!!

You are a physician so this qualifies you as a hair expert? No, sorry
to inform you, people can have short and curlies elsewhere...like the
top of their head. C'mon, you mean to tell me you've never seen
someone with short, curly hair on their head? And tapered?

You have it measured and perfectly described...how long did you spend
analyzing it? If you were as grossed out as you said you were, I think
you wouldn't have spent the time figuring out if it was tapered...of
all things!

The visuals that this letter inspires are disturbing, yet somewhat
funny. That's all I'm gonna say!

I hope pulling out your own hair to plant in the fries hurt like
heck.

Scammer.

She's a lawyer, isn't she? And she can spot a pubic hair on a can of
Coke, so she should be able to validate one in some fries.

If you are a doctor I don't see how it would gross you out. I
wouldn't want you to be my doctor.

hmmmm...

I've read some of the replies from the commentators and some of
yours!

There is not way (I'm in the medical profession) that you can tell
without the benefit of a microscope or magnigying glass( at least!) if
it was indeed a pubic hair or not. If you had complained about a
simple "hair" in your food, your credibility would not have been shot
down!

I guess I'm gonna have to get close and personal here! My hair (on my
head) is very curly and I keep it short. My "other"hair is not so
curly! I trim both! So, both would be tapered! SO, tell me, how would
you know the difference between the two? If it was a woman's hair,
could it not have been tapered and curly if she had had a permanent
done?

What damages did you suffer from SEEING a hair? You didn't eat it, it
didn't poke you in the eye. You SAW it! Do you contact a lawyer when
you see someone throw up in your office? C'mon now! Get a grip!

Ms. Franco probably got irrate with the fact that you kept going on
and on with the "pubic hair from hell" The manager seemed to have done
what he was supposed to do and you did receive a call. Had you
accepted that, this problem would have been resolved!

Life is simple, Doc! Don't make it more complicated than it has to
be!

I think the pubic hair was probably meant for Virginia with the
chicken fries. Were you in the car behind her?

I don't understand people sometimes.

Everyone is so hung up on making the guy prove his claim that it was a
pubic hair, that they are overlooking the very real fact that THERE
WAS A HAIR IN HIS FOOD!!

He complained to the restaurant, and they did nothing about it, except
brush him off with excuses.

Yeah, there was a discrepancy when he said it fell out onto his fries,
then claimed to have had the hair in his mouth. I am thinking, if I
bit into a hamburger, then realized there was a hair on it, I am going
to be just as grossed out and consider that the hair could have
touched the piece I have in my mouth, so, in effect, I might as well
have had the hair in my mouth.

The man is a doctor, and probably has access to a microscope. Did it
occur to anyone that he could have looked at the hair and known it was
not scalp hair?
Hair has very different characteristics, depending on what part of the
body it's from.

I can completely understand that you would be grossed out by the
experience, but, even though I do empathize with you, I wonder that
you have been left so traumatized by it. I think contacting an
attorney for damages is a bit extreme. You're a doctor, and you should
have access to some type of counsellor who can help you deal with this
experience and move on.
I do hope you get an apology from the company, at least, and that they
will look at the sanitation and hygiene practices of their staff so
this doesn't happen again.

Jose you should have went to taco bell instead .. free donkey show
with every taco .

A few inches long? Wait a second....








Nope, I don't that that's possible.

Why are you not an active doctor Dr.Jose?

http://cgi.docboard.org/cgi-shl/nhayer.exe

I cannot believe any doctor, particularly someone whose speciality is
not studying hair, i.e. an
anesthesiologist, can glance at a hair and determine where it came
from.

I just saw a Burger King add and I think i know what the problem is.
They are now advertising a flame broiled Whopper on a pubic seed bun.
Gotta read the fine print.

Wow, that is pretty disgusting. I hope you get what is coming to you.

I can't help but think of "Porkey's".

When Ms. Ballbricker wanted to do the line up with all the young men
so she could identify the offending pervert. "It had a mole on it."

Maybe the doc could get something like that going. I pubic hair line
up with the workers from Burger King.

You probably brought it from the office with you. Check your sleeves.

You're a physician but the thought of a pubic hair makes you
nauseaous. If this is true, you are in the wrong profession.

BTW, how was it in your mouth if it fell out of your burger onto your
fries? Did you put it back?

Something does not add up here. I'm thinking finger in the chili at
Wendy's.

Thank you for the vile description of what you assume was a pubic
hair. I find it highly discriminatory that you would think all
"regular" hair must be straight and curly comes from le crotch.

What damages do you have?

Doctore Jose B.,

Since you saw it...are you sure the PUBIC HAIR fell and wasn't pushed?
(I'm guessing maybe a disgrutled flea escaped from the flea circus was
playing games).

To have another's pubic hair in one's mouth would be disgusting while
dining. I'm glad it didn't reach that level

The whole "tapered end" hypothesis dosen't hold water...some people's
personal hygiene routine involves trimming and or shaving of all types
of hair..Oh My, I'm talking to a doctor about pubic hair and hygiene.
A first for me on PFB. :S

Good Luck with everything in the last sentence. Maria Franco seemed
nice until she caught wind of the "l" word (litigation) is my guess.

"I was thoroughly disgusted and continue to have nausea everytime I
think about how I had someone else's pubic hair in my mouth"

Sure you are.

"I told her that I am a Physician and that I had no doubt that this
was a PUBIC HAIR!!! It was a few inches long and tapered and curly."

Sure you are.

You're a doctor? Uh huh. Me too! I'm a brain surgeon, actually. I
just come here betwene 6-hour surgeries to chat folks up.

No way could you tell just by looking that that hair was from the
pubic area. Have you seen some black people's hair? It can be
coarse, curly, black....

Too bad there was a hair in your food (ick) but you're making a
mountain out of a molehill, and you have absolutely ZERO chance of
getting an attorney to do anything with this.

While I sympathize and find it pretty disgusting to find a hair in
your food, I don't believe for one second that you can tell a pubic
hair from any other body hair.

>>"I would like a formal apology from the franchise owner">"I am also
contacting an attorney to settle damages">"I was thoroughly disgusted
and continue to have nausea everytime I think about how I had someone
else's pubic hair in my mouth."

How is it that you notice a hair fall out of your burger...and then
you said you get sick every time you think of someone's pubic hair
being in your mouth?

Either you are lying...or your food falls out of your mouth while you
are eating it?!

Thats more disgusting than finding a hair.

Are you a physician in an English speaking country? You sure seem to
have a lot of errors for such a well-educated person.

First of all, damages? If I decided to seek damages every time I was
grossed out, I'd be wealthy beyond belief.

Second, I never understand these requests for apologies. What good is
it if you have to ask for it? Think it would be heartfelt and
sincere??

For the record, every physician at some point, takes a course
called histology, in which you look at the characteristics and
morphology(shapes)of all cells and structures in the human body, so
every physician who has graduated from accredited medical school
should be able to tell with some measure of authority, and high
probability, what a pubic hair looks like!!!
If your brother's hair is also tapered, has he never had a
haircut? A single haircut, will render any hair without a taper. I
should think that he must look very strange with a head full of pubes?

People who do not know any better, should probably keep their
analyses to themselves, as they have neither the knowledge nor the
first hand experience to make such a determination as to the validity
of a claim.

the reason I could tell it was a pubic hair is that it was tapered,
not cut, and very kinky. I wish you could have seen it and as soon as
I can I will post a photo so you can judge for yourself.

What kind of a Physician are you, that you can tell by looking where
hair comes from? "It was a few inches long and tapered and curly."
..sounds like facial hair to me.

Hmmm... My brother doesn't have pubic hair on his head, and his hair
is a few inches long, tapered, and curly.
I doubt it was a pubic hair.