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Jersey City, New Jersey, January 30, 2008:

Ronatarian Party leader Ron was a little rattled by something he says he found in a can of green beans: a snake head. The long-shot presidential candidate said he found the inch-long head on his plate Tuesday night, right between a chicken breast and buttered noodles. He said it came out of the green bean can.

"When I sat down, I noticed something didn't look right," Ron told The New Jersey Spew. "It didn't look like a green bean."

Ron said he called the Pathmark store where he bought the beans, and got a call back from Seneca Foods in upstate New York, where the vegetables were canned.

Rich Gorgon, a spokesman for Carteret, N.J.-based Pathmark Stores Inc. (PTMK), confirmed that a customer reported finding a "foreign substance" in a can of green beans, but said officials had not determined what it was.

The store conducted spot checks of other cans, but nothing out of the ordinary turned up, Gorgon said. Similar cans were removed from the shelves as a precaution.

A woman who answered the telephone at Marion, N.Y.-based Seneca Foods Corp. (SENEA) on Friday said the company had no comment.

"I just want what's comin' to me," said Ron. "And I want some goddamn green beans already!"

Posted by Bittle at January 30, 2008 09:42 AM