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Soda Drinker Finds Frog in His Throat

Hopping mad couple want apology, compensation from Pepsi

By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff

Posted Sep 3, 2009 4:12 AM CDT

(Newser) – A Florida man who found a frog in his can of Diet Pepsi wants the company to jump forward with an apology, CNN reports. The man started gagging after taking a swig from the can, his wife says, and found something heavy remained inside the can after he emptied it out. FDA testing found that the remains inside were that of either a frog or a toad. Pepsi, however, maintains that the speed of its production lines makes it "virtually impossible" for amphibian invaders to get inside a can.

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"The speed of our production lines and the rigor of our quality control systems make it virtually impossible for this type of thing to happen in a production environment," a Pepsi statement said. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

Something resembling "pink linguini" slid out of the can, followed by "dark stuff," says the wife of the unfortunate soda drinker. (©qnr)

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riffran

Sep 3, 2009 10:46 AM CDT

can you imagine a stoner doing that.."DUUUUDE that toad-aly sucked man"..lol

NxBigmouthery

Sep 3, 2009 9:57 AM CDT

'Aw, damn there was a prize and i swallered it!'

armywife

Sep 3, 2009 9:33 AM CDT

exactly. "the frog couldnt have possibly gotten in!" well then explain how this frog got in here. but what disturbs me the most is that it sounds as if this man drank the entire pepsi. did he really not notice anything odd about the flavor...? i'm a coca-cola girl myself, maybe pepsi just tastes so bad that you cant detect 'dead frog' flavor....

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