TV’s Shaw Likely Won’t Be Bolting His Food

Sat., Dec. 16, 1995

Jim Camden Staff Writer

Everyone needs more iron, but that’s not what television anchor Randy Shaw had in mind when he bit into a carry-out filet-o-fish sandwich from McDonald’s on Thursday night.

The sandwich, and Shaw’s back molars, went crunch. Along with the bun, tartar sauce and white fish cake was a half-inch metal nut.

After taking a few pictures with a handy video camera, Shaw took the sandwich back to the restaurant at 29th and Regal to give the dome-topped cap nut to the worried manager.

“I feel more sorry for them than I do for me,” Shaw said. “The manager was so shaken by it.”

Perhaps that’s because the hamburger chain had another report of a strange object late last month.

A woman in Coeur d’Alene said she found a bandage in her hamburger from a Coeur d’Alene McDonald’s.

Shaw checked with his dentist on Friday and was told there apparently is no permanent damage. He got a little ribbing, like KHQ-TV co-workers saying he was attacked by a nut, or phone callers wondering if there was some special significance to “The Nutcracker” music playing while they’re on hold.

Franchise officials told Shaw on Friday they found the likely origin of the nut. It apparently worked its way loose from a bolt in the storage cabinet for the fish filets, Shaw said. It was driven into the fish square by the tongs a worker uses to pull the filets out to cook them.

McDonald’s officials refused to return several calls from The Spokesman-Review for comment.

Shaw said, however, they called him several times.

“They were very, very nice about it,” he said. “I can’t carry a grudge. I’d eat there again.”

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