What Kind Of Snake Was It?
Posted by: Loren Coleman on May 9th, 2009
Jack Pendleton took this cell phone picture of a snake head served at a T.G.I. Friday’s. If he had been taking a photo of a Bigfoot, we would have to call this a blobsquatch. I guess the blurry nature of this image allows me to refer to it as a blobserpent.
Anyway, Pendleton spotted something gray mixed in with his vegetables and realized it was a snake head the size of his thumb, with part of the spine still attached.
T.G.I. Friday’s now says the severed snake head found in one of their dishes of broccoli at an upstate New York restaurant was likely planted in the meal. It has been determined it was raw, and added to the broccoli after the vegies had been cooked. Humm…
Diner Jack Pendleton said he found the small snake head mixed in with his vegetables at T.G.I. Friday’s in Clifton Park, New York, last Sunday, May 2, 2009. The Ballston Lake man said he thought at first it was a mushroom. Yummy.
The Carrollton, Texas, company ~ T.G.I. Friday’s ~ waited until, naturally, Friday, May 8, to announce they have asked the New York State Police to open a criminal investigation into product tampering. Spokeswoman Amy Freshwater says the snake head was sent for testing at an independent laboratory that confirmed it had never been cooked and was added to the cooked broccoli.
Freshwater says the company doesn’t know who put the head in the meal.
I wonder if it was a freshwater snake?
Actually, I am curious; I hope they tell us what species it is, someday.
About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
Looks like a desegmented broccoli python to me. =} It could also be the dreaded blobserpent. :)~
Maybe it’s a new species of snake unique to the T.G.I. ecosystem. It is a vital component of the restaurant food chain 🙂
Hi all. It looks like a slow worm (legless lizard) to me common in most parts of England. Wonder where they get there veg from. Most is imported these days so could be anything if it came in with the veg.
No harm in eating a snakes head. The eyes alone will see you through the day
(BOOM! BOOM!)
I found it’s scientific name:
Hoaxoticus phruadus axxholeistis
I must say—this is very gross…
Hopefully the investigation will yield results.
Hopefully. 🙂
If you look closely at the head, I used a magnifier, it almost looks semi mummified.
Tony L/
Mummified or cooked, it is still possible that it is just a stunt to get press coverage. They pay people big money for stories like this and this story was EVERYWHERE in the UK.