You may want to hold off on reading this one if you haven’t had, or are in the middle of eating breakfast:

MARCH 3–Ronald Neilly was working at an International House of Pancakes in Hallandale, Florida one Sunday morning when he accidentally cut off a fingertip while preparing an order. Neilly, 35, was immediately rushed to a local hospital by Department of Fire Rescue workers.

But the severed fingertip–nail intact–could not be located by his fellow kitchen employees. Until, of course, it soon turned up in the fried chicken green salad being consumed by Nadine Robinson, 42, who was having brunch with her family after attending services at Calvary Chapel in Fort Lauderdale.

This sounds horrifying. Slightly worse than thinking about what those giant football-shaped stuffed french toast/diabetes-bringers they were hawking late last year. The I.F.S. might need to consider a change of affiliation to Coco’s or, dare I say, Denny’s?