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Warning: The story you are about to read may be unsuitable for some readers. It involves three key elements often found in gross-out stories: a hapless European tourist, steak and a tampon.
Well, I thought I had heard all of the restaurant service person-revenge stories out there, but this one definitely takes the cake, even if it isn’t true. German tourist Axel Sanz-Claus was visiting New York when he stopped over at the Bill and Bear Steak House at the Waldorf Astoria to enjoy an appropriately tourist-y meal last Friday. Unfortunately, he got more than he bargained for when he bit into his steak and (allegedly!) discovered that he had actually bit into a used tampon. Yep, that’s right. With menstrual blood and everything. Sanz-Claus claims he almost ate the used tampon (which, having had some experience with tampons, doesn’t say much for either his palate for fine steak or the restaurant’s quality of beef) but he then spit it out and vomited in the restaurant’s bathroom. The restaurant even called an ambulance and the German tourist was whisked away to New York Presbyterian Hospital where the item was confirmed to be a used tampon. Sanz-Claus was checked for hepatitis and was told to go get himself tested for AIDS in two months. Naturally, Sanz-Claus is completely disgusted by what happened and it is pretty safe to say that his New York vacation has been pretty much ruined.
The Waldorf-Astoria, which owns and managed the restaurant, has said that they are conducting an internal investigation but that they have reason to believe that “the circumstances surrounding the incident are highly suspicious.” It is slightly suspicious, once you get over the omg-factor. ABC News, who broke the story, has a video of Sanz-Claus holding a canister with the tampon in question inside of it and it does not look like a tampon that has been placed inside food or like anything that someone would ever mistake for steak (I would go into detail but…ugh…you can watch the video yourselves and tell us what you think). But then again, why do we cynical American immediately assume that the guy is lying? Are we that accustomed to tampon-free dining experiences that we don’t even consider the fact that maybe–just maybe–there is a menstruating sociopath serving up steak in the Waldorf-Astoria? I mean, it could happen! Either way, we bet that every single waitress in Manhattan will be treated very well by her customers this next week.
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OH HELL NOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Eeeuwww.
But (whether it be true or not) that headline made me laugh a lot.
Well…a lot of these stories turn out to be frauds, don’t they? Like that person who found the severed finger in their chili and tried to sue Wendy’s, but it turned out that they put it there themselves.
they put it inside a steak? and he bit into the steak instead of cutting it into a bite sized piece and actually looking at it as he stabbed it with his fork? and if it was a steak how did he instantly know it was human blood and not from the piece of cow he had just tried to chomp on.
Those were my thoughts. My bet is that this guy planted it himself and is planning to sue for big bucks. Either way…..NASTY!
i’m not buying this story…seems way too unlikely. he wouldn’t see white cotton in his steak when he cut it? and at the waldorf-astoria of all places? i mean, it’s not chili’s. seems suspicious.
First though: EEEEW EWWWWWWWWW EW EW EW EW EW EW.
Second thought: Wait….this is the Waldorf Astoria. Not Seedy Jim’s Diner on the side of the road.
We Americans think he is lying because seriously, tampons look and taste nothing like steak. And Germans love their meat; they, if anyone, should immediately know the difference. Like, I know what a tampon looks like. The cotton kind of throws of any color of meat (because hey, he could like his meat rare, or just have thought ‘damn, they undercooked it again’).
This story isn’t the least bit believable in my mind. How did they get the tampon in the steak without it showing and how in the hell did he bite into it without knowing what it was? Did he NOT look at his food when he got it? Things just don’t add up. But if it WERE true, that’s just nasty and wrong.
Sounds a bit hinky to me. How does a tampon get INSIDE a steak? Several things about this story just don’t seem to fit.