Why are you a dick?@bustit22:

Point being, I was later told that you can get food poisoning up to 48 hours after you eat the offending food, and almost none of us can point to having eaten just one perishable food in two days. So I'm not surprised Au Bon Pain treated you like a crazy and hung up on you. Not that they should have done that, just that they know damn well they can do it and get away with it, and the bad rep for hanging up on one concerned customer will be much less than anything they'd have to do if they admitted to serving even one tainted sandwich. I'd considering contacting airport management directly and letting them know one of their food service leasers has employees who need a refresher course on food safety. They probably care considerably more about the risk of people getting sick in their airport and giving their fellow passengers a memorably bad time flying out of that airport, and chances are they could put more pressure on that Au Bon Pain location than you could alone.

@backbroken: Except for the frickin 10% drink tax.

Hey, at least the boobs were "no charge". Not many places give you complimentary fun bags, anymore....

Present company excluded, of course. I'm talking about everybody else.

@thesabre: Amen brotha.

2002 - "The billions of dollars the casino will bring in will provide much needed property tax relief."

2009 - Actual result: A handful of seniors will have their property taxes reduced by a couple hundred dollars.

Don't even get me started on the fact that this same group of seniors who are getting all of the property tax relief paid a pittance in property taxes for 50 years because the house they bought back in 1950 wasn't reassessed until 2000.

Yet we can't figure out why Allegheny County bleeds young professionals.

I'll take those if you don't want 'em...

@oakie: what exactly are you supposed to do... if in case I do see them.

right.

half of you virgins wouldnt even know what to do if you saw some boobs in real life.

the other half would feign shock and mental anguish, then try to sue.

I have to: CHARGEBACK!!! You obviously had ordered a side of boobs and Au Bon Pair failed to provide them.

A (slightly long) word of warning about Au Bon Pain franchises (particularly those in airports):

Upon graduating from college in Southern California, I prepared to hop on a United Airlines flight to head back home to Chicago. I had to catch a connecting flight in Dallas before I made it to Chicago. While in the Dallas airport, I picked up a plain chicken sandwich from their Au Bon Pain since I hadn't had the chance to eat anything more than toast since I woke up that morning. The sandwich looked fine and the service wasn't at all memorable.

After boarding the plane, I began to sweat and feel generally ill. About two hours or so after I ate the sandwich, I was vomiting every 20 minutes for the next 15 hours, 2 of which were trapped in an airplane with United flight attendants yelling at me because "I wasn't allowed to vomit inside an airplane."

We called Au Bon Pain's Dallas airport franchise supervisor and all the corporate contacts we could find, but each one of them hung up on us as soon as we uttered "suspected food poisoning."

I know it is nearly impossible to link food poisoning to a particular meal, but having not eaten anything else but whole wheat toast, the link seemed particularly strong in this case. Too bad the managers, supervisors, and corporate staff didn't want to hear any negative feedback.

My suggestion? Avoid airport Au Bon Pain's like they're the plague. Because they might give you food poisoning that mkaes you wish for an early death.

@bradanomics: Alex Trebek: It's not "Ape Tit." It's A Petit.. (shakes head) ...Never mind! Let's just go to "Animal Sounds" for $600.

Would have been a much more interesting story (and potential lawsuit) if customer had been a woman, and the clerk just tagged her by feature rather than name.

Or maybe on slow days, they don't ask your name for the orders (do they ever at au bon pain as they do at starbucks ? not sure) and just have a "catch all" key for women?

I Don't like any of these options.

As a guy... I am not sure what this means

I'm not judging you, but from the sound of your post, I don't think you'll be getting exactly the kind of pictures you're expecting.

You got the right food, so clearly it was a successful identifier. I'd need pictures of your chest to be sure.

@backbroken:

And by "we", surely you mean SEPTA and the senior citizens? Ed Rendell FTL. :-(

I will be flying out of there for work in a few weeks. I am SO stopping for my side of boobs.

Why is this "Digg"? It's an honest mistake.

@bustit22: Is it wrong that I think it is funny that your username contains a combination of "bust" and "tit" given the headline?

BOOBS FTW

@smoothtom: Yes. But don't worry, the new casino opens in a few months and we won't ever have to pay any taxes ever again forever.

What sucks more is for businesses it has to get reported separately (more paperwork headache if you do business in and out of these counties, which I do), a lot of times you'll see the standard 6% tax as one line item and the extra 1% for Allegheny/Philadelphia.

An innocent cash register gaffle, or a clever marketing campaign?

[quote]When I saw the receipt, I knew you guys would want to see this..[/quote]

WRONG! Your story is stupid.

Where do you think the Milk came from? :-)