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“So wait, what does the ‘shell’ part of shellfish stand for?”
A New York woman went to a cafe/restaurant called Blue Moon Restaurant and apparently decided that the mussels marinara dinner sounded particularly appetizing. While eating said mussels, she accidentally ate a piece of shell that had snuck its way into her dish. The woman says that she wound up choking on the shell, which ultimately ended up puncturing her throat, leading to an infection and a 12-day hospital stay. Which of course led to a $750,000 lawsuit against Blue Moon.
The restaurant’s attorney argued that the woman should have been a little more careful in wolfing down her food, since meals with shell fish often contain bits of shell (a sort of assumed risk argument, if you will). An Acting State Supreme Court Justice agreed, dismissing the woman’s lawsuit for failing to prove that the meal was defective.
This obviously means you need to be careful when eating shrimp, crab, lobsters, etc. So if you want to avoid the chance of such injuries, say “no” to shellfish and “yes” to mermaid!
