A Miami man is suing a restaurant claiming that the restaurant staff failed to warn him about not eating the tough, pointy leaves of an artichoke.
The most ironic twist to this story is the man is named Dr. Arturo Carvjal. Yes, he’s a doctor with a family practice in Hollywood that wound up in the hospital with severe abdominal pain and discomfort after eating an entire artichoke.
A copy of the court document, illustrates that Dr. Carvajal is seeking more than $15,000 in damages from Houston’s Restaurant, its parent Hillstone Restaurant Group, and the restaurant’s general manager for “bodily injury, resulting pain and suffering, disfigurement, mental anguish, loss of capacity for the enjoyment of life,” and health care-related expenses.
The document states that the restaurant servers did not ask Dr. Carvajal whether he was familiar with how to eat the “Grilled Artichokes” special he ordered, nor did they explain that the outer leaves should not be eaten. Later in hospital, an exploratory laparotomy procedure discovered he had artichoke leaves in his small bowel.
“It takes a sophisticated diner to be familiar with the artichoke,” Dr. Carvajal’s lawyer, Marc Ginsberg stated. “People might think that as a doctor, he’d know how to eat one. But he was thinking it was like a food he might have eaten in his native Cuba, where you eat everything on the plate.”
News Source: Globe and Mail
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