Man sues over seven-inch knife in his Subway

A MAN who found a seven-inch blade in his Subway sandwich said he would sue the firm for $1 million yesterday.

New Yorker John Agnesini, 27, found the large serrated knife baked into the bread of his lunch and claimed the melted plastic from its handle caused food poisoning.

“After taking a few bites I could tell something didn’t taste right,” Agnesini said. “I felt something hard on the bottom of the bread. I turned it over and could see the knife baked inside.”

He said the sharp edge of the steel knife was facing upward and extended into the half of the sandwich he had begun to eat.

“It’s shocking. You see this metal knife. I mean, it’s one thing seeing a hair or something,” he said.

“If I didn’t look at it, could you imagine what would happen? I could’ve slashed the side of my mouth.”

He was not badly injured, but became violently ill with “severe stomach issues” for three hours and a doctor told him he had the symptoms of food poisoning.

Agnesini said this could have been caused by whatever contaminants may have seeped into his food, possibly from the melted plastic handle of the knife.

He added that the knife was “filthy”.

His lawyer, Yetta Kurland of Kurland, Bonica & Associates, said: “It is outrageous that someone would have to worry about swallowing a metal knife and it is unthinkable that Subway, which makes fortunes off its campaign of ‘Eat fresh’, would allow this to happen.”

A Subway spokesman, said: “At Subway restaurants, we take food safety and customer comments very seriously. As a pending legal matter, we cannot discuss this further.”