She could only keep quiet for so long.
The scam drew international headlines and made millions of people think twice about ordering a cup of chili from Wendy's. Now the woman at the center of the "chili finger" case is talking about the infamous finger-food crime.
In 2005, Anna Aayala was dining at a San Jose Wendy's restaurant when she claimed she chomped down on a partially-cooked segment of human finger. The fast food chain suffered an estimated $21 million in lost business.
Her husband, Jaime Plascencia, got the severed finger from a co-worker, who lost it in an industrial accident. Both Ayala and Plascencia pleaded guilty. Aayala was sentenced to nine years in prison but was released after four years on good behavior. There's one condition to her release: She's not allowed to step foot back in the place that made her famous.
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She's been out of prison for about a year and living in San Jose but until now, she's kept quiet. Plascencia is still serving time for his role in the scam. Aayala is coming clean now. In an exclusive interview with CBS-5 this week, she apologized to the food chain and revealed a deep secret.
"I cooked it," Ayala said of the severed digit. During the interview, she said she prepared the piece of ring finger at her Las Vegas home then drove it to San Jose, where she dropped it into the chili.
Aayala told the reporter other prisoners and even guards ridiculed her and called her names because of the scam that landed her behind bars. "I learned my lesson and I just want to move on with my life."
JustSomeButtStuff on September 12nd, 2018 at 00:34 UTC »
Went WAYYY too far with this one. A bug, a band aid, a mouse... sure .. but a human finger. They were obviously going to backtrack that bullshit finger to its source. The scam in her head had to be: "Jamie has that friend who lost a finger. Finger are gross. It would be totally unacceptable if I found one in my Wendy's chili. They would wanna keep that quiet. They would pay me to go away and keep my mouth shut." THE PERFECT PLAN... [2 days later] the story makes local and national news. TV reporters want interview.
"Do you think we went too far?"
nocontroll on September 11st, 2018 at 21:40 UTC »
So many things would be less likely to be so disprovable. My immediate thought would be "You can find out if anyone lost a finger on the production line" or test to see how long the finger had been severed for and see the timeframe and track it more accurately like that, just a bunch of things, especially because its human it'd be looked at so much more closely.
I mean, put a mouse in there, a piece of dog shit, a roach, a chemical like bleach or something that could hypothetically be used, a piece of plastic, a nail, metal, bandaid, fuck put anything else in and accuse them.
A finger just seems stupid and a bit much
and the finger ended up most likely getting her more time in prison, not just because of fraud but because of Wendy's reporting they lost 21 million in sales, I don't know if a bandaid or a piece of metal or a roach would get the same response from the public (I dunno though)
all4reddit on September 11st, 2018 at 21:08 UTC »
I'm glad to see the amputated finger was still useful.