No Mouse: Frog or Toad in Pepsi Can

Here is an update to the Fred and Amy Denegri suspected “mouse in the Pepsi” story that I wrote about several weeks back.

[Pepsi says,]”‘The FDA conducted a thorough inspection of our Orlando facility and found no cause for concern. In this case, the FDA simply was unable to determine when or how the specimen entered the package,’ he said.”

[…] [Amy says,] “The report proves that something was in there. We didn’t do it,” she said. “Obviously, it was too big for us to push inside that small hole.”

[…]The couple doesn’t intend to sue Pepsi, but Amy Denegri said they are receiving legal advice about the matter…[more]

Read moreI think we all knew something was in the can. That wasn’t the debatable aspect of this case.

I do think it is strange the couple is receiving legal advice, if they have no intention to sue. What would be the point of it?

On the flip side, you would think the FDA would investigate through other experts how long it would take for something like this to decay to the state they received it. The rate of decay should give an approximate date of introduction to the can, which would either “pre-” or post date the can back to the Pepsi plant. That would go along way in helping everyone, but then again, maybe they can’t get that precise. I wish they would talk more about this, because a lack of an answer makes me wonder if they could be hiding something. Science is usually pretty precise. Is one can not worth it? Or is there more to this that Pepsi doesn’t want out?

Yet, when I think of a frog or a toad in a Pepsi plant, it seems highly unlikely they would survive getting in the door, and getting on a line–let alone make the perfect jump on to a can, let alone getting inside one. A mouse would seem much more plausible, because they are nimble, but frogs and toads are not. Frogs and toads are much more likely to get squashed, because they are slow to move. I wonder how many frogs or toads have been seen inside a Pepsi plant?

Look here at some of Florida’s frogs and toads.

It appears for now that this one will remain a mystery.

What do you think?

UPDATE: 9-3-2009

CNN is reporting this:

1. The animal was lacking internal organs normally found in the abdominal and thoracic cavity,” the report notes.

2. The retired school staffer [Amy] says she and her husband are seeking legal advice to examine their options. “I want to see Pepsi fess up to it and compensate my husband for the negative publicity they have caused,” she said. “I’m easy, but they’re the ones that are making it hard.”

This article says that pepsi runs 1,200 cans on the production line a minute.