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After Joel Woloshuk purchased a foccaccia sandwich from Cafe Intermezzo at the Atlanta airport, he said he discovered live maggots crawling on the bread.
Look before you eat.
A passenger at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport was stunned to discover maggots crawling on top of a sandwich he ordered at a terminal restaurant last week.
Joel Woloshuk purchased a focaccia sandwich from Café Intermezzo and when he opened the box after boarding his flight to Miami, he noticed something moving on the bread.
“I’m looking, what I thought was parmesan, right? And the parmesan began to move,” Woloshuk told WSB-TV.
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“I’m looking, what I thought was pamesan, right?” traveler Joel Woloshuk said. “And the parmesan began to move.”
Repulsed by the sight of his maggot infested lunch, Woloshuk took out his cellphone and shot video of the insects.
“That’s what I was served for lunch,” Woloshuk says as he pokes one of the plump maggots with a straw.
Woloshuk kept the sandwich and called the restaurant to inform them of the problem when he returned to Atlanta.
“This isn’t a wilted tomato, this isn’t a moldy piece of bread, these are maggots,” Woloshuk said.
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Woloshuk notified the restaurant, which says it had changed its bread supplier as a result of the complaint.
Cafe Intermezzo blamed the bread maker for the maggots and told WSB that it had found a new supplier.
“All products from the vendor were removed,” the company said in a statement. “Not a single crumb of bread from the vendor remains in the facility.”
Woloshuk said he refused the restaurant’s offer of a refund for the sandwich. Better still would be if the cafe could simply erase his memory of the whole episode.
“I’m in this airport weekly, and it makes me pretty angry,” Woloshuk told WSB-TV.
