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CLEVELAND, Tennessee - A Steak 'n Shake restaurant is being sued by a couple who claim it served a hot sauce that sent their son to the hospital.
Tim and Mary Katherine Gann say a restaurant server gave their minor child a bottle of Blair's Mega Death Sauce for his chili and encouraged him to eat some.
Lawsuit claims Mega Death sauce injured child - World - NZ Herald News (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10682292 - broken link)
Does this mean that everyone who gets congestive heart failure can sue all the restaurants that put salt in their food?
I'm not a doctor, but it looks to me like the kid had an allergic reaction to something that would cause no harm at all to the great majority of people who have no particular sensitivity to it.
no.1: why is a New Zealand paper writing about this? so people all over the world can realize how rediculous Americans are? (as if that isnt a problem already)
no. 2: how old is this minor? like 4 or 16? cause i have a 4 yr old and there is no way on this green earth i would let him eat something i knew wasnt good for him, nor would i allow any stranger to persuade him to eat anything.
I've had the Blair's sauce called After Death - it has pepper resin in it. There are warnings on the bottle not to use it undiluted. I scoffed. I dipped a skewer in it and laid it on my tongue. It was so hot that it literally burned a skewer-shaped welt on my tongue that took a week to heal! And I'm no lightweight in the hotsauce department.
$50,000 in punitive damages? Sounds like they're just trolling for cash. Are they claiming their kid is suffering from hot sauce PTSD? Steak & Shake should pay the kid's hospital fee as an apology, and then everybody should go home and wise up.
The hottest sauce I ever had was a habanero sauce in Belize, man I don't understand how anyone could have eaten that ****. I'm no hot food rookie either I lived in Thailand for two years and had plenty of barely edible hot, but whatever they had in that jar in Belize was almost a joke. Bleh.
Minor child could mean 17 years old.
If he was over 13, he was old enough to try it on his finger first.
If he was under 13, his parents should have tried it out fist.
The article makes it sound like a server handed the bottle to a 4 year old.
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And I'm no lightweight in the hotsauce department.
