Snake Head Found in Can of Beans
PHILADELPHIA - Earl Hartman was a little rattled by something he says he found in a can of green beans: a snake head. The Philadelphia man said he found the inch-long head on his plate Wednesday night, right between a chicken breast and buttered noodles. He said it came out of the green bean can.
“When I sat down, I noticed something didn’t look right,” Hartman told WCAU-TV. “It didn’t look like a green bean.”
Hartman said he called the Pathmark store where he bought the beans, and got a call back from Seneca Foods in upstate New York, where the vegetables were canned.
Rich Savner, a spokesman for Carteret, N.J.-based Pathmark Stores Inc., told Mr. Hartman that he had purchased Seneca’s new “Beans and Snakeparts” product. Hartman confirmed Savner’s suspicion by checking the label of his can.
“Sure enough, there it was. The can shows a snake coiled up on top of a large pot of baked beans.” said Hartman. “I’ll have to read the lable more closely next time.”
Seneca foods has introduced the Beans and Snakeparts product in response to the large obesity problem the United States currently faces. Snake meat is one of the only meats known to be high in protein and antioxidents, while being extremely low in fat. Seneca’s snakes are raised in a controlled environment and are fed high protein corn meal as well as cow meat. Seneca stresses that their snakes do not eat mice or rats.
