October 27, 2004

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  EWW!-BERRY MUFFIN

  
  

  By LINDSAY POWERS

  
  

  October 24, 2004 -- EXCLUSIVE

  
  

  A young Manhattan woman split open her breakfast muffin - only to find what seemed to be a condom baked inside. Theresa VanHorn, a 29-year-old writer at MTV Networks, said she was eating a carrot-nut cream-cheese-topped muffin from her office building's bodega on West 50th Street when she found a piece of latex baked into the crumbly delicacy. 'I ate almost half the muffin before discovering it,' VanHorn said. 'Then it was like slow motion when I pulled it out - I was screaming.' .

  
  

  VanHorn called the Health Department to report it, but was told not to bother. "Go ahead and throw away the evidence," a representative told her over the phone, VanHorn said. "We won't get to your complaint for days, or maybe weeks." The representative added that the department routinely gets complaints of foreign objects in food and doesn't have time to deal with them all immediately.

  
  

   

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