Feverish efforts are underway to find out who gave Wendy’s the finger — a San Jose, California Wendy’s restaurant that is.
Police are looking into all kinds of leads into who could have given the finger to a bowl of chili — and the list must be long, because millions of Californians give the finger in their cars every day.
The latest news on how authorities have this case under their thumb comes to us via the San Jose Mercury News:
San Jose investigators searching for the owner of the finger found in a bowl of Wendy’s chili determined this much today — it didn’t belong to the Nevada woman who had her finger tip bit off by a grumpy leopard in February.
When asked to comment, the leopard said:”BURP!” But we digress:
Much speculation had been swirling around nine-fingered Sandy Allman, whose lost finger-tip looked very similar to the one that turned up last month at a Wendy’s restaurant in South San Jose.
She last saw it at a Las Vegas hospital. Anna Ayala, the woman who found the finger in her chili, also lives in Las Vegas.
But the story ends there.
At about 3 p.m. the Nye County Sheriff’s office sent a copy of Allman’s fingerprints to San Jose investigators. After a quick look, the agency determined they didn’t match.
This case has proven two things:
- When Wendy’s says it serves “finger food,” they don’t kid around.
- This gives a new meaning to the phrase “fast food joint.”
UPDATE: If you can point the finger at the person who owned the finger you can finger figure Wendy’s will give you a reward — $100,000 in fact. (For THAT I’ll cut off my own finger…)
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Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.