Mouse in hot dog bun or just dough?

Bruce Van Dyne of Charlotte, North Carolina found this mouse-shaped form in a bag of Arnold Bakers hotdog buns. The company released a statement claiming that it's "pan accumulation, a deposit of hardened dough, on a hot dog roll."
"Company says mouse in bun just dough"

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realyst

Easiest way to find out is to cut inside and see if there’s a meaty filling.
Lady Strathconn

I hope there is a publicized outcome to this story. It doesn’t look like a mouse (a real one anyway) to me, it just looks mouse shaped.

My aunt was eating chocolate covered bridge mix once and one of the pieces was a tooth. Someone’s molar. She brought it back to the store though, so we don’t know what happened.
Anonymous

So basically, the guy gave up the “mouse” and had an independent bakery lab analyze it, and agree with the company that it wasn’t a mouse, but bakery residue? Here’s where I begin to question (taken from the article link): ” The company has sent it to be tested at a lab to be sure”

I call shenanigans on the entire matter. It looks like a mouse, it looks like it has EYES, and regardless of having fur or not (since it was probably in the mixer, and probably BAKED off), it’s a mouse.

I would have NEVER let that thing out of my sight. I would have taken more pictures, and sliced it open. Then taken pictures of innards. Bread products don’t possess intestines (unless you’re a fan of haggis).
dbarak

#19 posted by Lady Strathconn

“…eating chocolate covered bridge mix…molar…”

Well it WAS bridge mix after all. I would have returned it because I didn’t get someone’s bridge in it. ;)
theradiostillsucks

I sure hope not, because Arnold are one of the few classy bakers (read: no high fructose corn syrup) I can find in most grocery stores.
Evan Rappaport

I got some rolls from that company and mine had the virgin Mary in it.
Daemon

The mouse god works in mysterious, and tasty, ways.
LB

I found a bug embedded in a Twinkie once.

Did not eat it, but still finished off the rest of the box.
WeightedCompanionCube

No kidding, I found the Flying Spaghetti Monster in my bowl of spaghetti and meatballs.
Sekino

Ugh… Even though this doesn’t look furry enough to be a real mouse, I’m just about moused-out for a month. There was a news report of this family finding an entire mouse inside their block of cheese.

Even though the irony is blatant (and rather funny), my appetite is not yet back to normal.
Tom Hale

I’m interrupting this comment line because it is becoming too silly. I now demand that something entirely different be discussed.

Carry on.
dbarak

#11 posted by Tom Hale

Hey, how about those Phillies?
TJ S

#11:

Any new news on that Indian lunar orbiter?
Cupcake Faerie

Mmmmmmm meeses to pieces!
Tom Hale

Oh I could definitely go for good Philly Cheese Steak Sub right now. I’ve heard many out of towners say our Memphis version is nearly as good as the real thing.

You did mean those Phillies, right?
dbarak

#14 posted by Tom Hale

“You did mean those Phillies, right?”

Well, the baseball time, but I’m sure that if they lost the series, they’d be sandwich filling by now.
dbarak

#15 posted by dbarak

Er… “team,” not “time.”
Clumpy

Most cultures consider a tiny armadillo a sign of good fortune.

In the Philippines I once ate a cricket that had been baked into an egg brownie.
dbarak

That’s a Mickey Mouse excuse if I ever heard one.
Anonymous

The Indian god Ganesh uses mice for transport (no kidding… it’s a god, it can do whatever it wants. Stop laughing!)

Ahem. So this is a sacred bread. Do not destroy it please.

I kid. It’s an illusion, jeez. Like pictures in clouds.
BritSwedeGuy

IT’S THE VIRGIN MARY!
REMOVE CRITICAL THOUGHT AND PRAISE THE LORD!
Anonymous

Cutting it open is the only way they’ll know for sure!

For the record though, mice and various bugs do show up in commercially packaged bread. I don’t even have to say “a friend of a friend saw it”. I was there when she sliced open a loaf. GROSS.
soupisgoodfood

With such a crappy image, there is no way to tell. I suspect that if this was real, there would be a hi-res photo of it floating around on the net.
jennybean42

@2
Yeah, I thought it was kinda cheesey myself
dbarak

You know, that actually looks like it could be a lizard, although I don’t think it’s that, either.
KWillets

My next bread will have a dough mouse in it.