'Waiter, there's a worm in my food.' 'Can I eat it'?

Nation's Restaurant News, April 28, 2003

GUANGZHOU, CHINA -- A restaurant manager here tried to play down an embarrassing situation with a diner by eating the evidence.

According to the Hong King edition of China Daily, the manager was called over to the table of a customer who complained that there was an inch-long worm in his vegetable dish.

The manager picked up the worm and swallowed it. Then she wrote on the bill, "The worm is edible. I have eaten it."

The municipal council, with which the diner filed a complaint, was unimpressed. It ruled that there is "no such thing as an edible worm" and ordered the restaurant to reimburse the man for his meal.