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This cockroach story is absolutely not true (see
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Cucaracha

La Cucaracha

Claim: The cause of swelling in a girl's jaw is
determined to be cockroach eggs she got from eating a
Taco Bell taco or licking envelopes.

Status: False.

Example: [Collected on the Internet, 1998]

You'll never eat fast food again!

This girl was really in a hurry one day so she just
stopped off at a Taco Bell and got a Chicken soft taco
and ate it on the way home. Well that night she
noticed her jaw was kind of tight and swollen.The next
day it was a little worse so she went to her doctor.
He said she was just have an allergic reaction to
something and gave her some cream to rub on her jaw to
help.

After a couple of days the swelling had just gotten
worse and she could hardly move her jaw. She went back
to her doctor to see what was wrong. Her doctor had no
idea so he started to run some test. They scrubbed out
the inside of her mouth to get tissue samples and they
also took some saliva samples. Well they found out
what was wrong.

Apparently her chicken soft taco had a pregnant roach
in it that she ate!!!! The eggs then some how got into
her saliva glands and she was incubating them in her
mouth. They had to remove a couple a layers of her
inner mouth to get all the eggs out. If they hadn't
figured out what was going on the eggs would have
hatched inside the lining of her mouth!

She's suing Taco Bell! Of course.

Origins: McDonald's and KFC have long had their
special yucky food contamination legends, so it's
about time Taco Bell got their own. Although informal
versions of this wild tale circulated on the Internet
as early as March 1998, it was November of that year
before the text quoted above This cream will fix you
right up! made its appearance in inboxes everywhere.
Later versions of the e-mail end with the tagline "The
article can be found in the Nov. 19th NY Times."
Disabuse yourself of the notion that anything remotely
resembling this tale appeared in that publication on
that day or any other. (The only roach story in the 19
November 1998 New York Times was a piece by Douglas
Martin, titled "City Said to Use More Pesticides Than
Farm Counties." It contained no mention of Taco Bell
or roaches being found in food and was merely a story
about pesticide use in the city and its possible
dangers.)

We're supposed to take this scary e-mail as yet
another warning about the lurking dangers of fast food
prepared by faceless automatons working for monolithic
corporate chains. To wit, the lack of attention and
cleanliness allows icky bug stuff to get into our
food. Not only is bug stuff gross, the legend says,
but it can make you physically ill — and we're not
just talking nausea.

Logistically, though, this one falls down flat on its
face. Even if the medical details were correct (and
they're woefully wrong), how would the teller know
that the roach had come from a Taco Bell taco? Had the
poor girl eaten nothing else for the previous several
days? There's no mention of her saving the remnants of
her meal, much less of anyone's examining them. Even
if the victim had retained some taco scraps, since she
allegedly ate the roach along with the taco, what
evidence would be left behind to discover?

How did the eggs manage to get out of this "pregnant
roach" and into the girl's salivary glands? Expectant
roaches carry their eggs in a largish brown sac called
an ootheca, a firm-walled egg case attached to Mama
Roach's posterior. A roach ootheca is about the size
of dried bean, not something that could be worked into
anyone's gum line.

Did mama fortitously lay her eggs a split second
before the grinding of a hungry girl's teeth shuffled
Mrs. Roach off this mortal coil? If not, how did
mama's eggs amazingly survive the crush of masticating
molars that did her in? And how could the eggs enter
the salivary glands, from which saliva (of course) is
generally flowing out?

Our horrific little story also stars a doctor who
prescribes a topical cream for a swollen jaw
supposedly caused by an "allergic reaction," and who
"removes a couple of layers of inner mouth" to get at
an obstruction in the salivary glands. Maybe we're
wrong to classify this one as a contaminated food or
insect infestation legend — it sounds more like a
scary indictment of our medical system.

A related "roach eggs" scare that began circulating in
2000 involved envelopes rather than tacos as the means
of transmission:
If you lick your envelopes . . . You won't anymore!

This lady was working in a post office in California,
one day she licked the envelopes and postage stamps
instead of using a sponge.

That very day the lady cut her tongue on the envelope.
A week later, she noticed an abnormal swelling of her
tongue. She went to the doctor, and they found nothing
wrong. Her tongue was not sore or anything. A couple
of days later, her tongue started to swell more, and
it began to get really sore, so sore, that she could
not eat. She went back to the hospital, and demanded
something be done. The doctor, took an x-ray of her
tongue, and noticed a lump. He prepared her for minor
surgery.

When the doctor cut her tongue open, a live roach
crawled out. There were roach eggs on the seal of the
envelope. The egg was able to hatch inside of her
tongue, because of her saliva. It was warm and
moist...

This is a true story . . . Pass it on
Everything said about cockroach eggs earlier still
applies. This incarnation of the tale is every bit as
much a hoax as the taco one.

In May 2000 someone thought to add further snippets of
implied credibility to the e-mail quoted above,
namely:
This is a true story reported on CNN.

Andy Hume wrote: Hey, I used to work in an envelope
factory. You wouldn't believe the things that float
around in those gum applicator trays. I haven't licked
an envelope for years.

This is a true story . . . Pass it on
First of all, the story was not reported on CNN.
Pasting such authoritative-sounding taglines into the
text of hoaxes circulating on the Internet in an
effort to give them credibility is commonplace, and
this is just another case of some nameless prankster
doing just that.

Second, no one knows who "Andy Hume" is, so why give
his supposed comments about working in an envelope
factory any credence? It ain't all that tough to make
up a comment and a name to go with it. If "Andy Hume"
works for CNN, it's news to them. Searches of news
databases for any reporter of that name turn up one
who writes for The Ottawa Citizen, and wider searches
turn up a British sports figure who also carries that
name. There was also a Washington reporter, Sandy
Hume, who killed himself in February 1998. But there's
also no reason to assume any of those folks penned the
comment circulated to bolster the credibility of the
"envelope" e-mail.

Last updated: 8 March 2005

The URL for this page is
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/tacobell.asp

Urban Legends Reference Pages (c) 1995-2006
by Barbara and David P. Mikkelson

--- RICARDOJR CALIOLIO wrote:


---------------------------------








------- Original Message -------
Sender : IRICAVAILE DALISAY
Staff/SEPHIL(IT)/Samsung Electronics
Date : Sep 27, 2006 15:32
Title : NEVER LICK ENVELOPES


NEVER LICK ENVELOPES


A woman was working in a post office in California.



One day she licked the envelopes and postage stamps
instead of using a

sponge. That very day the lady found a cut on her
tongue. A week later,

she noticed an abnormal swelling of her tongue. She
went to the doctor,

and they found nothing wrong. Her tongue was not sore
or anything. A

couple of days later, her tongue started to swell
more, and it began to

get really sore, so sore, that she could not eat. She
went back to the

hospital, and demanded something be done. The doctor
took an x-ray of her

tongue and noticed a lump. He prepared her for minor
surgery. When the

doctor cut her tongue open, a live cockroach crawled
out!!!!



There were cockroach eggs on the seal of the
envelope. The egg was able to

hatch inside of her tongue, because of her saliva. It
was warm and

moist...



This is a true story reported on CNN





Andy Hume wrote:



Hey, I used to work in an envelope factory. You
wouldn't believe

the....things that float around in those gum
applicator trays. I

haven't licked an envelope for years!" I used to work
for a print shop

(32 years ago) and we were told NEVER to lick the
envelopes. I never

understood why until I had to go into storage and
pull out 2500 envelopes

that were already printed and saw several squads of
cockroaches roaming

around inside a couple of boxes with eggs everywhere.
They eat the glue on

the envelopes.





PLEASE PASS THIS ON, TO YOUR FRIENDS. After reading
this you will never

lick another envelope or stamp again









IRICA VAILE S. DALISAY

IT Staff

Information Technology Group

Samsung Electronics Phils. Mfg. Corp.

Blk 6 CPIP Brgy. Batino Calamba Laguna 4027

Office No : 63-49-545-1144 loc 253

Fax No : 63-49-545-9014

Cel No : 63-915-549-3925
/!BODY>




-----------

Ricardo R. Caliolio, Jr., CoE

Production and Infrastructure Support Staff

Software Development Section Staff

Information Technology Group


OpticalMediaSolutionDivision
Samsung Electronics Philippine Manufacturing
Corporation

Block 6, Calamba Premiere International Park,

Barangay Batino, Calamba City, Laguna, Philippines
4027

Phone No.: (63) (49) 545-1144 Loc. 252/259

Mobile No.: +639208088027

Alternate Email: ric.caliolio@...



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