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edbermac

(15,938 posts)
Sun Aug 25, 2019, 04:39 PM Aug 2019

SC coroner confirms that Dairy Queen burgers are not made of human flesh.

The entire ingredient list for a Dairy Queen burger, the company says, is beef. From cows. Not from humans.

Dairy Queen had occasion to clarify this on Friday, after a federal raid at one of its South Carolina restaurants set off a flurry of conspiracy theories about the fast-food chain.

“At DAIRY QUEEN, we are very proud of our 100% beef hamburgers," the company wrote on Twitter. "We serve a high-quality hamburger with no additives or fillers.”

The mayhem seems to have begun Wednesday, when federal agents surrounded a Dairy Queen location in Greenwood, S.C., as part of an investigation that also led them to a home and a convenience store, the Index-Journal reported. The restaurant manager, Saif Momin, told the newspaper that a corporate inspector informed him that someone had complained about “human meat being inside a burger.”

“If that was the case, they already would have shut me down,” Momin said, according to the Index-Journal.

Rumors apparently sprang from Momin’s comments with such force that an Index-Journal reporter found himself calling the Greenwood County coroner for an official statement that human beings were not, in fact, cooked into Dairy Queen’s hamburgers.

“I promise you, I’ve never had anything of that nature asked of me. I’ve never suspected anything like that. I can honestly say that’s the first I’ve heard of it, and I don’t see any validity in that at all,” County Coroner Sonny Cox told the Index-Journal. “There’s little to no chance of anything like that ever being able to happen.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2019/08/24/dairy-queen-burgers-are-not-made-human-flesh-county-coroner-is-forced-confirm/

They're not? I'm taking my business elsewhere!

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SC coroner confirms that Dairy Queen burgers are not made of human flesh. (Original Post) edbermac Aug 2019 OP
What do they think happened to the king? jberryhill Aug 2019 #1
They just lost a customer Dennis Donovan Aug 2019 #2
And this is NOT The Onion. eom guillaumeb Aug 2019 #3
"South Carolina -- too small to be a republic and too large to be an insane asylum" struggle4progress Aug 2019 #4
No human bodies, but some missing road kill is possible in rural SC... Sancho Aug 2019 #5
And how did this customer recognize this was "human meat??" Rhiannon12866 Aug 2019 #6
The finger nail sticking out of the pickle. Dennis Donovan Aug 2019 #8
!!! Rhiannon12866 Aug 2019 #10
Perhaps they shouldn't have named that new burger the Donner Party Double Patty...nt Princess Turandot Aug 2019 #7
It's not human flesh it's just soylent green Fullduplexxx Aug 2019 #9
omg... this country........... Takket Aug 2019 #11
Maybe this is related to a story I read about a butcher who backed into a fan Cirque du So-What Aug 2019 #12
OMG, LOL MoonRiver Aug 2019 #15
Some say it would be an improvement. Sneederbunk Aug 2019 #13
I don't eat any meat, human, bovine or other. MoonRiver Aug 2019 #14
Maybe people in SC aren't eating humans, but procon Aug 2019 #16
Aw man, I generally prefer mine with some fava beans and a nice chianti! Initech Aug 2019 #17

Cirque du So-What

(25,932 posts)
12. Maybe this is related to a story I read about a butcher who backed into a fan
Sun Aug 25, 2019, 05:03 PM
Aug 2019

He got a little behind in his orders.

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