"Bubonic plague spread generally occurs through direct contact with infected tissue or bodily fluids, bites from infected rodent fleas, or inhaling infected droplets. The disease is most commonly spread through the bites of infected fleas. Bubonic plague spread can also occur when someone handles infected materials or an infected animal..."

[plague.emedtv.com]

@Imaginary_Friend: the plague was from fleas, this was just the foot.

Seriously, this is gross as hell but whatcha gunna do?

It happens. We all wish and hope that it doesn't happen to us but it has to happen to someone. Thank god the mice are running around and this wasn't a poisioned, fell dead into the vat mouse.

You go ahead and enjoy your mickles; don't mind us weirdos who prefer our food without disease-carrying rodents.

When did the mentality that life (and food) would be completely risk free set in? and, that when one of the risks we take don't pay off (not preparing our own food) we get to punish someone else?

We've gotten flat out stupid with our expectations.

At least they are honest.

@clocker: You need Mickey Mouse to deliver it.

Although, honestly, even deli pickles, you occasionally get a drowned mouse in the barrel. It happens.

@m4ximusprim3: Yeah, that would make America much better. Rat feet in our food and companies telling their customers to go screw themselves. If I wanted to live in country like that, I'd just move to France.

m-i-c, k-l-e,
m-o-u-s-e!

It's the mickle mouse fan club!

Awww, look at that cute little pickled mouse. Damn you, Consumerist, I want one too!

The Slovenian pickle company's labels should say, "may contain mice feet" or "mickles" [thanks Dwayne Dibbly!] as an additive or flavor enhancer. That way, people who are on a mickle restrictive diet can avoid these products and not choke on their own vomit once they realize a clammy, preserved mouse foot is sliding down their throat.

@BugMeNot2:

I think a lifetime's supply of mousefoot-free pickles would be an appropriate award. ;)

I can't believe I'm the first one with that joke.

Comparing a human finger to a mouse foot is really stretching for a comparison. Why not just got with human fetus to make an even stronger visual?

Seriously though... the point is that stuff will indeed happen. And if the mouse foot did cause any (or have the potential to cause) harm, then someone should definitely have to pay.

But it didn't. The only "harm" it caused was probably disgust, which the consumer has every right to be, and likewise has ever right to never purchase pickles, or that brand of pickles, ever again.

She doesn't, however, get to pretend the foot is a winning lottery ticket (even though it is probably just as rare) and get paid out for something that the company most likely did everything it could to prevent.

Stuff does happen, and its nice to see that there exists places in this world where you can't just sue everybody.

Good to see that their food safety laws are complete shit. Sure, salmonella doesn't survive the pickling process, but what about hardier contaminants, such as E. coli?

I don't think I would have used the word "normal," but yes, gross as it is, stuff like that happens. Plus, if I were going to buy pickles, I'd stay with a non-Slovenian brand in the first place.

Yeah, I realize that a lot of food we eat are accidentally contaminated with bugs & tiny animal parts and that there is an acceptable limit, but come on! Where does one draw the line? What if I found a human finger in my jar of pickles? Or a fried chicken's head in my KFC bucket?

Sorry, accident or not... someone has to pay when i discover an obvious contaminant in my food!

jimmy johns has thee BEST pickles! .....and sandwiches. seriously though i think they put cocaine in their bread, cuz that shits addictive.

Ben, the two of us need look no more
We both found what we were looking for
With a friend to call my own
I'll never be alone
And you, my friend, will see
You've got a friend in me
(you've got a friend in me)

Ben, you're always running here and there
You feel you're not wanted anywhere
If you ever look behind
And don't like what you find
There's one thing you should know
You've got a place to go
(you've got a place to go)

I used to say "I" and "me"
Now it's "us", now it's "we"
I used to say "I" and "me"
Now it's "us", now it's "we"
Ben, most people would turn you away
I don't listen to a word they say
They don't see you as I do
I wish they would try to
I'm sure they'd think again
If they had a friend like Ben
(a friend) Like Ben
(like Ben) Like Ben

@Landru: hilarious! the best one liner i've read all day!

@snoop-blog:

I'm with you...I'm going to finish off the jars that we have in the house, but I'll never buy them again.

@GitEmSteveDave: Is that a mouse in your pickles, or are you just happy to see me?

Man, I wish the US worked like this. A well written and well deserved STFU letter is exactly what this country needs more of.

And here I was thinking Slovenia wasn't as advanced as us.

I like how straight forward and honest they are. Like, "This stuff happens, it won't kill you."

The special additive line, I hope, was a stab at humor.

lesson here is: don't buy pickles from slovenia!