Man finds severed finger in ice cream

A MAN who ordered a pint of frozen chocolate custard in a US shop got a nasty surprise inside — a piece of severed finger lost by an employee in an accident.

Delaware state officials are trying to determine how a worker cut off part of his finger and how the severed piece wound up in the customer's ice cream at a shop that was cleared by the state after a similar accident last July.

Clarence Stowers said he bought the ice cream at the Kohl's shop on Sunday and opened it at home. He saw an object in the custard and put it in his mouth, thinking it was a piece of candy.