I know I'm going to get in all manner of trouble for saying this, but that woman's facial expression just screams 'Drama Queen realizes she's just hit the lawsuit lottery on this one'.

I guess I'm 13 years too late in reporting the hair I nearly choked on when I was a kid. It was in my cereal while I was watching Saturday morning cartoons. It was in my Malt-O-Meal Golden Puffs [www.malt-o-meal.com]

But reflecting on it, I guess it wasn't as bad as this: [www.nbcaugusta.com]

Luckily for me, I like to rotate my cereals because I can't stand the same flavor for more than a month.

If only they'd added "1 dead frog" in the ingredient/contents section in the back, all would've been fine. Tsk Tsk.

I hope these are two separate thoughts - because it really shouldn't take the two of them to refund $3 for a bag of salad.

Now don't make me give you the same lecture I gave 180 high schoolers today about why frogs are good. Because I will. I'll do it!!!

Now I wonder if the frog originated from my salad...that would be so cool. ^_^

I work making salads at a local supermarket (for the time being) and we get salads returned every so often with bees, flies, and other fun bugs. We use pre-washed Dole lettuce.

Nature of the beast.

I worked at a camp many years ago. We'd get cases of iceberg lettuce and sometimes they'd have live frogs. We'd take them to the creek and set them free.

Didn't think anything of it about serving the lettuce either; we'd wash it.

So you're differentiating between a jump and a hop? That's just splitting hares.

@korybing: If the frog was not indigenous to the area, releasing it would have been a bad idea, but okay.

@HogwartsAlum: I hate spiders too, especially the ones that jump. Uggggh.

@korybing: "I thought the story was an amazing show of consumers not going nuts over something simple."

But the consumer STILL must have alerted the news media (so they did go a bit nuts), because I doubt highly that the retailer called the local media and told them to send a camera crew because a woman was coming into the store with a live frog that she found in her lettuce.

@MostlyHarmless: The last time that I watched CNN was during the start of the Iraq war when they had the ride-along reporters. I guess I am not missing much!

I thought the story was an amazing show of consumers not going nuts over something simple. Crops grow outside, sometimes animals get in them, sometimes people can't weed out all the animals and sometimes you get a frog in your greens. It won't kill you.

LOL to all of you.

I feel sorry for the frog if you put him in a salad spinner, but I guess it's a free carnival ride.

@MostlyHarmless: To warn us of the impending doom... when animals strike BACK!

@pecan 3.14159265: I don't know that they have the equipment for that. Poor little guys

The IT man shot a rubber band at me this morning and it fell on my head. I freaked out because I thought it was a great big spider!

@Smashville_now with Monster Energy: I shake by bag of frogs around to make sure there is no lettuce!!

@maddypilar: probably true. Amphibians are among the first things to be harmed by the chemicals due to the permeable skin.

@palland0: not yet, not yet.

@Smashville_now with Monster Energy: Well, then you're just giving the frogs inside whiplash.

@palland0: i love that they were med students.

@squinko: Well, clearly that is a mutant frog.

[animal.discovery.com]

@Yurei: Hearted for remembering the whole Monty Python sketch! (and for giving me a much needed grin at work)

I'll admit, after seeing these, when I buy bagged lettuce, I shake the bag around to make sure there are no frogs.

@MostlyHarmless: Zuh?

Carla,
I don't think the SOURCE of your salad is the problem.
When food is grown in the wild, you can get all sorts of critters in your salad no matter where you get it. Carla, your problem is that you don't WASH your food.
Bagged greens != fully prepared food.
WASH YOUR VEGGIES.

... you also shop at WalMart, so eating a dead frog should be a step UP for you. :-p

@Yurei: I don't know what that is from but it has a distinctive "Monty Python-esque" quality to it.

Praline: Am I right in thinking there's a real frog in here?

Milton: Yes. A little one.

Praline: What sort of frog?

Milton: A dead frog.

Praline: Is it cooked?

Milton: No.

Praline: What, a raw frog?

Milton: We use only the finest baby frogs, dew picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in finest quality spring water, lightly killed, and then sealed in a succulent Swiss quintuple smooth treble cream milk chocolate envelope and lovingly frosted with glucose.

Praline: That's as maybe, it's still a frog.

Milton: What else?

Praline: Well don't you even take the bones out?

Milton: If we took the bones out it wouldn't be crunchy would it?

Praline: Superintendent Parrot ate one of those.

Parrot: Excuse me a moment. (exits hurriedly)

Milton: It says 'crunchy frog' quite clearly.

Praline: Well, the superintendent thought it was an almond whirl. People won't expect there to be a frog in there. They're bound to think it's some form of mock frog.

Milton: (insulted) Mock frog? We use no artificial preservatives or additives of any kind!

Praline: Nevertheless, I must warn you that in future you should delete the words 'crunchy frog', and replace them with the legend 'crunchy raw unboned real dead frog', if you want to avoid prosecution.

@Kimaroo - Fortified with Kittydus Purrularis:Heh - I dunno, I think a dead critter (other than the kind you expect to be in your supermarket purchases) is still going to qualify.

And I do think frogs are cute. Just not, you know... dead in my salad greens.

Im sure there no frogs, bug, ants or any other animal shitting in her ghetto garden... ::eyeroll::

@chiieddy: not uncooked snails. See: rat lung worm and other parasites

Do not look directly in the eyes of the ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD.............

@Kimaroo - Fortified with Kittydus Purrularis: look up "monkey frogs" they don't jump as much. they crawl most of the time.

You may find that jumping is less creepy.

@pecan 3.14159265: I'm ok with frogs as long as they either can't get me (Like if they're in a tank) or if they're really far away from me.

The jumping creeps me out too.

@Gracegottcha: Well I hope someone told her of her error before yall left her. lol.

@squinko: No, they're not. I've always hated frogs. It's because they jump. And the eyes. It's also about the eyes.

And perhaps, more importantly, the kind of things CNN PREEMPTS to cover these things?

@RedCatLinux: That would only be if she found parts of a frog in her greens.

@pecan 3.14159265: It is alright...unless you planned on having a salad for lunch.

@Kimaroo - Fortified with Kittydus Purrularis: Frogs, snails, snakes and other criters too.

The question that I have to ask is 1) why did the local news think that this was newsworthy, and 2) why did CNN think it was newsworthy.

A severed finger in my salad worthy of making the news
A frog found in a can of soda - worthy of making the news (unless it is frog flavored soda).
A frog found in an organic product, while it may be gross, not worthy of making the news. Issue a refund, and perhaps some product coupons and move on.

Great, now my daughters have another excuse not to eat their vegtables,
"A frog might be in there!!!"

@pecan 3.14159265: Subtlefrog was alive and well this morning on Twitter, I think she's alive and well...unless those nasty high schoolers killed her and put her in this bag of salad!!!!

@pecan 3.14159265: That's a really.. really.. subtle frog. (You know, to be hidden in the greens.)

Our regular Subtlefrog is out teaching some fancy schmancy thing today.

Could we get some kind of warning with that photo? Uggh, I hate frogs. I really do. And I haven't even had lunch yet, so this is not helping.

Was I the only one who read "Gory Mustard Greens"?

Oh God, oh God! Where's subtlefrog?! Has anyone checked up on subtlefrog?! Can anyone confirm subtlefrog's current location and status?!

Little does she know that if she grows greens in her own yard outside.. there will be frogs there too!

@MostlyHarmless: LOL!!!! Awesome.

And thank God it was a bag of Glory Mustard Greens. I know some frogs that get really sick when they get meat slipped in.