The closest I ever got to being a lawyer was flirting with a married one once, so I'm not going to comment on the legal wisdom of Dennis Kucinich's suit against congressional cafeteria operators for leaving an unpitted olive in his sandwich three years ago. He bit the pit. The pit hurt him. (Bad, too!) But in light of this awful miscarriage of justice, I recall once learning that many foods are allowed to contain a certain amount of "foreign matter" from the processor.


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