Frog or Toad in Pepsi Can
According the Food and Drug Administration, the disgusting blob that Fred DeNegri’s wife poured out of his Diet Pepsi can was probably a gutted frog or toad. Fred DeNegri’s wife, Amy said that her husband popped open a can of Diet Pepsi, took a big gulp and started gagging. Something heavy remained inside when he tried to pour out the can’s contents and when his wife tok over and shook the can over a paper plate, something that resembled a pink linguini slid out followed by “dark stuff.”
Before calling poison control and the FDA, the DeNegris took pictures. The FDA showed up the next day to examine the can in question and collected it for lab testing. The couple received a copy of the completed report last week from the Food and Drug Administration Office of Regulatory Affairs, which concluded the foreign matter appeared to be a frog or a toad. The report noted that the animal was lacking internal organs normally found in the abdominal and thoracic cavity, which connotes that the remaining parts may be in other cans.
According to Pepsi spokesman Jeff Dahncke after FDA did a thorough inspection on the Orlando facility that the results affirmed the company’s confidence in the quality of their products. The FDA was also unable to determine when or how the specimen entered the package. When asked if Pepsi believed it was not responsible for the animal getting into the can, their spokesman said that they have addressed the facts of the investigation and stated their position.
The DeNegris, on the other hand, are hopping mad over Pepsi’s handling of the matter and are seeking legal advice to examine their options. Amy DeNegri said she hasn’t heard from Pepsi Pepsi since the day after the incident occurred. She was quoted as saying: "I want to see Pepsi fess up to it and compensate my husband for the negative publicity they have caused. I’m easy, but they’re the ones that are making it hard."
