I smell a rat! Woman finds rat head in fried chicken meal

A few unsettling photos have emerged of what appears to be a fried rat’s head. Rosemary Thomas, posted the photos to Facebook, claiming that she discovered the so-called rat’s head in her Popeyes chicken. The incident allegedly occurred at a Harlem Popeyes restaurant located at 2730 Frederick Douglass Boulevard on West 145th Street. Thomas wrote […]

A few unsettling photos have emerged of what appears to be a fried rat’s head.
Rosemary Thomas, posted the photos to Facebook, claiming that she discovered the so-called rat’s head in her Popeyes chicken.
The incident allegedly occurred at a Harlem Popeyes restaurant located at 2730 Frederick Douglass Boulevard on West 145th Street.
Thomas wrote in the post that she was at the fast food chain with her sister, daughter and niece.
‘This is clearly a rat and they have the nerve to have a 5 rating by the department of health,’ she wrote in the Facebook post.
‘My daughter is traumatized. I had to take her to urgent care last night, vomited with diarrhea all day.’
Thomas also wrote that she sent the photos to local news outlets but received no response.
The restaurant was last inspected in April of this year and received an ‘A’ grade, according to the New York City Department of Health’s website.
In 2014, inspectors noted a critical violation that said there was ‘evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas’.
Also in 2014, as well as 2015, inspectors wrote that the restaurant was ‘not vermin proof’ and had ‘conditions conducive to attracting vermin to the premises and/or allowing vermin to exist’, the website shows.
The health department told DNAinfo that they received a 311 complaint Monday morning about the restaurant and sent someone to investigate.
Renee Kopowski, a spokeswoman for Popeyes, told DNAinfo that the corporate office has reached out to the franchise owner about the incident.
She told the site that it’s not common to find unusual items in the chain’s chicken, adding that  most times they turn out to be chicken organs.
Kopowski said the company will be in contact with the supplier to figure out what happened.
She told DNAinfo that the franchise owner is upset regarding the incident.
According to Kopowski, the health department had not found anything unusual in the restaurant.

Culled from dailymail.co.uk