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A Florida woman is suing Chick-fil-A over “black” chicken nugget meat she says made her sick and sent her to the hospital for abdominal pains before she was diagnosed with gastrointestinal illnesses.
Shi’Terra Sharp alleges in her lawsuit that she bought the chicken nuggets from one of the fast food restaurants in Brooksville on Jan. 8, 2020, and brought them home to eat. As she was consuming the chicken nuggets, she found the meat of the nuggets was black in color.
After eating them, Sharp became “violently ill, was nauseated, vomited until he had no strength left to do so, suffered from cramping, nausea and diarrhea, and sustained great injury to her mouth, throat, stomach and digestive system and underwent great pain and suffering for some time,” according to the lawsuit, filed on Thursday in Orange County.
She has sought treatment for her “constant, unrelenting abdominal pain and cramping, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, including, but not limited to, hospital admissions at which time he was diagnosed with gastrointestinal illnesses.”
She alleges the company, Holland Hospitality, LLC, which operates the eatery there, breached its duty by negligently failing to adequately inspect and ensure its food was fit for human consumption before selling it.
The lawsuit seeks more than $50,000 for “bodily injury and resulting pain and suffering, disability, mental anguish, loss of capacity for the enjoyment of life, expense of hospitalization, medical and nursing home treatment,” the lawsuit said. “These losses are either permanent or continuing in nature, and the plaintiff will suffer said losses in the future, to wit, permanently.”
A representative for Chick-fil-A did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Law&Crime.
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