Woman Discovers Mouse in Vegetable Soup

A woman found a mouse in her vegetable soup as she was eating a Mother's Day lunch in Newport News, Virginia. The Cracker Barrel restaurant where she was dining immediately halted the serving of vegetable soup "at the Newport News restaurant as well as nationally."

"As soon as the problem was discovered, we stopped serving the product," Julie Davis said from Cracker Barrel's suburban Nashville, Tenn., headquarters. "We want to know how this happened," she said. "The mouse was found in a vegetable soup, but everybody knows that a mouse is a fruit, and not a vegetable. I can't stress enough how seriously we view this." Davis added that in the past tomatoes had found their way into Cracker Barrel's vegetable soup, but "since tomatoes are often considered a vegetable, it wasn't much of a problem."