A Hasidic woman claims her Shabbat was ruined last week when she bit into a dime that somehow got buried in a pint of Häagen-Dazs chocolate ice cream she bought at the Williamsburg Duane Reade on Kent Avenue.
Sara Abraham told the Brooklyn Paper that she tasted something "metallic" a few bites into the ice cream last week, so she spat it out and discovered the errant dime. “I felt something in my mouth and the ice cream didn’t have a good taste from the start. Two hours later, I still felt a metallic taste in my mouth," she said." Her husband Isaac says he called the Duane Reade to complain, and an employee there said they pulled the ice cream from the shelves and gave it back to Häagen-Dazs "to be safe." But when we spoke to a manager at the Duane Reade this morning, he laughed when we relayed Abraham's story and asked if they were still carrying the ice cream. "That's crazy! Nobody's ever complained or said anything. We haven't returned any ice cream," he said.
Isaac Abraham also says that a Häagen-Dazs employee told him to ship the dime to their quality control center in California, but he's not buying it: “I’m not an idiot—if I send the dime then my story would melt away with the ice cream,” he said through an attorney. “Luckily, she didn’t break a tooth. Who knows where the dime came from or who touched it before it went into the ice cream?” We were unable to get a hold of Häagen-Dazs for more information, but are willing to bet that a lawsuit isn't far off...for Duane Reade or the ice cream giant. Still, it's hard to muster up that much sympathy over a frozen dime, when there are people out there finding snake heads and tampons in their food, too.
