KFC 'chicken twister' causes brain damage, says 11-year-old, suing
Filed under: Food, Consumer Complaints
We knew KFC wasn't health food. And we know that our modern, faceless, efficient corporate food culture leaves us vulnerable to contamination and the threat of food poisoning. But brain damage? Yes, according to 11-year-old Australian girl Monika Samaan, whose lawyers are accusing the fast food chain of selling her family a salmonella-contaminated chicken twister (fried chicken in pita bread), which they say subsequently caused salmonella encephalopathy and salmonella septicaemia.
Monika shared the KFC Chicken Twister with her parents and older brother in Villawood, a suburb of Sydney, in 2005. They all became ill, but then-7-year-old Monika collapsed. She was rushed to the hospital and soon she was changed utterly from the happy, bright, active girl she was.
Now she has spastic quadriplegia and acquired profound intellectual disability and liver dysfunction, brought on, say her doctors, by a very rare form of the common salmonella.
Her lawyers are making a case that the restaurant had a history of recklessly unhygienic practices, such as dropping chicken on the floor and then serving it to customers, and are seeking more than $10 million in damages from Yum! Brands' Australia unit, which claims it was not responsible for the salmonella poisoning.
Unfortunately for KFC, this comes in the wake of other Sydney KFC units being fined AU$73,125 for a number of breaches of food hygiene laws, including not having cleaned fryers for several months. Few customers of KFC will be impartial, it seems, in the face of really nasty kitchens.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 9)
8-04-2009 @ 6:43PM
christina said...
wow u can get brain damage from kfc awesome oh sorry
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8-03-2009 @ 2:42PM
mark said...
lol this is the funniest story ever she became a retard from eating kfc.lol
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8-03-2009 @ 2:59PM
Kathy said...
It is amazing that someone who has the basic intelligence to turn on a computer could be so ignorant.
8-03-2009 @ 3:00PM
George Heitz said...
Umm Ya you are an idiot
8-03-2009 @ 3:26PM
maximum joe said...
Wow, and another coward posts and gets his jollies by watching people take offense to his mindless comments. Stay behind that monitor mark, because if you ran around in the real world opening your mouth, you would get thrown a beating.
8-03-2009 @ 3:33PM
marigwanna420 said...
mark.... screw these people.... youre right..... this story is fkin hilarious
8-03-2009 @ 3:47PM
robert said...
There is a difference between retardation and brain damage.
I'm guessing you WERE born that way.
8-03-2009 @ 3:45PM
shan said...
I'm not going to flatter you by giving your comment too much attention but Mark...imagine if this were your own daughter or son. Would it still be such a big joke to you? I hope that you would never have to experience something like this yourself. Please...just grow up
8-03-2009 @ 4:54PM
Barb said...
That was sooooo mean.
8-03-2009 @ 6:07PM
Tonya said...
Unbelievable, why would you think anything about this story is funny??? This child was severly injured, drastically changed for the rest of her life and many people were hurt as a result of this. I can't even begin to imagine what happened to you in your childhood for you to think this is funny. And you think she's a retard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
8-03-2009 @ 6:20PM
Josh said...
ass
8-03-2009 @ 7:17PM
mikey said...
marigwanna, please don't meet mark and have babies. There is enough stupity and ignorance creating problems in the world already.
8-03-2009 @ 7:37PM
Courtney said...
yeah, JERK sounds like you had a tainted chix wrap too! Hopefully someday something worse happens to you. The funny part is, MARK probably works at KFC. NO WONDER WHY THIS @$$HOLE IS SO IGNORANT. you (mark) probably don't even know what that means. IDIOT!!!!
8-03-2009 @ 7:23PM
jack said...
At least she has an excuse Mark. What is yours?
8-03-2009 @ 7:39PM
cOURTNEY said...
MARIGWANNA420 is sooooooooo desparate for friends or some kind of attention she agrees with this LOSER mark to try to stir up some controversy. Wow, she's one BAD@$$ 14 YEAR OLD that obviously smokes pot. jk. LOL ..YOUR MAKING POTHEADS LOOK BAD!
8-03-2009 @ 8:14PM
BoredinOC said...
too bad your mother didn't believe in abortion
8-03-2009 @ 8:34PM
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8-03-2009 @ 9:18PM
Sara said...
MSG found in most foods can cause brain damage, not to mention obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. Now that I've lost weight, I have vowed NEVER to eat fast food again due to the TOXINS found in them. I started working out in the mornings on an empty stomach, eating healthy, home cooked meals, and taking all natural Acai-eez and my excess weight just started falling off. Thirty pounds later, I realize it was food choices that had caused me to gain weight. With Acai-eez I lost the weight and was able to re-evaluate my life choices to make the best HEALTH choices. If you are interested in losing weight go check out Acai-eez sight at http://www.acai-eez.com I also recommened everyone reading about MSG and its harmful causes. MSG is in ALMOST ALL prepackaged/fast food now. Get in the best shape ever, start making proper food choices, and get Acai-eez.
8-03-2009 @ 11:14PM
kay said...
The word "retard" is so cruel. Your attempt at a joke was hateful. What if that had happened to someone you loved?
8-03-2009 @ 11:30PM
kim said...
do not use the word retard! totally intolerable. mark there
is nothing funny about this.
you should go work in a special needs home or school
you would think twice about using that word.
how dare you!
the only ****** is you.