Kentucky restaurant shut down after roadkill found in kitchen

[MatriculatingHank]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow...160225525.html

Customers at the Red Flower Chinese Restaurant in Williamsburg, Ky., alerted authorities after they spotted something they probably wish they hadn't: restaurant employees wheeling roadkill back to the kitchen.

The roadkill was apparently a deer stuffed into a trash can. "There was actually a blood trail they were mopping up behind the garbage can," customer Katie Hopkins said. "There was like a tail, and like a foot and a leg sticking out of the garbage can, and they wheeled it straight back into the kitchen."

Local health inspector Paul Lawson was called in to investigate. Lawson said the restaurant owners told him they didn't know they were doing anything wrong. "They said they didn't know they weren't allowed to do that. So that makes me concerned that maybe they could have before. They didn't admit to doing it before." The owner said he didn't plan to serve the deer to customers—instead he planned to use it to feed his family.

The restaurant has been temporarily shut down but will be eligible to reopen as soon as it passes another health inspection and proves it has been washed and sanitized.

[Al Bundy]

Originally Posted by FAX

Oriental restauranteurs have a big advantage over us with this kind of thing. Once something is stir-fried or tempuraed to death, it's damn difficult to tell what it is. And since few people have knowingly eaten road-kill, they probably can't differentiate between an asphalt entree and chicken.

Clearly, this is all part of a vast Sino-gastro conspiracy to covertly acclimate Americans to blacktop breakfasts so that we eventually and subtly develop a persistent and overpowering craving for four-lane foodstuffs which will ultimately cause millions of vehicular deaths each year as people begin searching the interstates for gravel grub.

FAX

THAT made me laugh.

[SAUTO]

Originally Posted by tooge

I picked up a deer that a car several hundred yards in front of me hit once. It wasn't dead when I pulled up, but I put it down and then took it to a processor and had some damn good jalapeno bratworst and summer sausage made out of it.

let me preface this by saying I am NOT on this list, but there is a list at our sheriffs office of people who will come pick up deer hit in the road. Fresh kills only though. Hell the officer usually doesn't even put the deer down if it's still living. They just let whoever comes to get it take care of that.
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[Frazod]

I don't see anything wrong with picking up a FRESH one for personal eating. Hell, that's some serious money saved right there.

But Mystery Mongolian Roadkill ain't what I'm paying for when I order Mongolian Beef at a restaurant.

[Radar Chief]

Originally Posted by JASONSAUTO

let me preface this by saying I am NOT on this list, but there is a list at our sheriffs office of people who will come pick up deer hit in the road. Fresh kills only though. Hell the officer usually doesn't even put the deer down if it's still living. They just let whoever comes to get it take care of that.
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They'll do that around here too.

[SAUTO]

Originally Posted by frazod

I don't see anything wrong with picking up a FRESH one for personal eating. Hell, that's some serious money saved right there.

But Mystery Mongolian Roadkill ain't what I'm paying for when I order Mongolian Beef at a restaurant.

agreed.

prior to living here, country, I wouldn't have ever dreamed there would be a LIST of people wanting to come deal with that shit at all hours.
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