A woman from Michigan gained notoriety after she said the Subway sandwich she purchased smelled like “sewage” and included excrement.
Kelsey Coyne, a student at Michigan State University, wrote about the alleged incident on TikTok, where it garnered over 2 million views and 18,000 comments. You may watch the video here.
Foodborne illness, which is frequently brought on by tainted food, causes up to 128,000 hospital admissions and 3,000 fatalities per year in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
The CDC also estimates that over 48 million Americans become ill from a foodborne illness every year; some of these persons decide to sue the restaurant they think was responsible for selling them tainted food.
Another popular video made by a supposed ex-Panera employee went viral in June and advised viewers to “not trust the chicken.” A man revealed how fast food ice cream machines can give customers sick in another video.
“I’m actually embarrassed by this whole situation and I’m even more embarrassed that I’m using TikTok to try to fix it,” Coyne said in the viral video. “But I find that it’s the best way for companies to actually fix a problem.”
Coyne asserted that she recently purchased a sandwich from a Subway store in Lansing, Michigan, on the video.
She said, however, that the parking lot smelled like “sewage” when she went there to eat her sandwich.
“I had a bite and I took it home to eat it there,” she said. “I go and take a bite and I smell the exact same s**t. Look in the papers in between the two wrappers on the sandwich is literal s**t. There’s feces.”
The authorities took a specimen to examine the substance in a lab, but Coyne said she is unsure if it was dog or human faeces. The night of the alleged event, she claimed she complained to Subway, but she claimed she never heard back.
A spokeswoman for Subway told Newsweek that the restaurant is investigating the claim in conjunction with the health department and local authorities.
“On Monday, September 12, the local health department released its inspection report, concluding that the remnants seen on the sandwich wrapper were chocolate from a cookie and the case has since been closed,” the statement said.
