Jack Pendleton took this cell phone picture of a snake head served at a T.G.I. Friday’s. If he had been taking a photo of a Bigfoot, we would have to call this a blobsquatch. I guess the blurry nature of this image allows me to refer to it as a blobserpent.

Anyway, Pendleton spotted something gray mixed in with his vegetables and realized it was a snake head the size of his thumb, with part of the spine still attached.

T.G.I. Friday’s now says the severed snake head found in one of their dishes of broccoli at an upstate New York restaurant was likely planted in the meal. It has been determined it was raw, and added to the broccoli after the vegies had been cooked. Humm…

Diner Jack Pendleton said he found the small snake head mixed in with his vegetables at T.G.I. Friday’s in Clifton Park, New York, last Sunday, May 2, 2009. The Ballston Lake man said he thought at first it was a mushroom. Yummy.

The Carrollton, Texas, company ~ T.G.I. Friday’s ~ waited until, naturally, Friday, May 8, to announce they have asked the New York State Police to open a criminal investigation into product tampering. Spokeswoman Amy Freshwater says the snake head was sent for testing at an independent laboratory that confirmed it had never been cooked and was added to the cooked broccoli.

Freshwater says the company doesn’t know who put the head in the meal.

I wonder if it was a freshwater snake?

Actually, I am curious; I hope they tell us what species it is, someday.