Frog Found in Co-op Lettuce Wins Fame and Fortune

Prospect Heights mom and Park Slope Food Coop member Yvonne Brechbuhler got a little something extra in a head of organic lettuce she recently brought home: a little green frog “no bigger than the tip of her pinky finger," according to the Daily News. Brechbuhler discovered the frog (pictured) only when she took out the lettuce to make a salad – after it had been in her refrigerator for three days. She insists that her fridge has no frog infestation and speculates the frog hitchhiked in the lettuce from South Florida, presumably seeking fame and fortune in the big city.

It’s a classic story: The frog – named Curious by the family – hit the jackpot straight off the truck, not only making a big splash with the media but also avoiding impalement between a fork and a crouton. Expect the animated movie rights to be optioned soon, followed by Curious sightings at Bungalow 8, a Curious hip hop collaboration with Jamie Foxx, rumors of romantic links to Drew Barrymore, and the inevitably fatal Frogger-esque DWI car crash.

In the meantime, Curious will be accommodated in style by a Brooklyn animal facility that specializes in reptiles and amphibians until he’s adopted by some sharp young CAA talent rep. Interested parties can make inquiries at the Sean Casey Animal Rescue. But don’t rush into anything, Curious! Hollywood isn’t like the Brechbuhlers' kitchen – they’ll eat you alive!

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By John Del Signore in Food on January 24, 2008 1:24 PM

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bluemonday

i think we have a case of an illegal immigrant on our hands...

IceCreamNewYork

But Kermit and the Muppets already took Manhattan!

Snoopy

I found a few snails in my escargot a while back. I told the waiter about it and he laughed. No tip for him.

drewo

I hope she gave it a nice big kiss!

JoeSchumacher

Slugs is a great bad movie about killer slugs. One victim meets his end after accidentally ingesting a slug that's in a salad.

My family grew almost all our own fruits and vegetables when I was a kid. Having a garden that size you quickly learn why farmers use shitloads of pesticides. There's all sorts of critters in those veggies.

Rocknrope

I found a slug in the cauliflower I purchased from the Grand Army Plaza greenmarket. Unfortunately it didn't photograph as well as the coop frog, so I tossed it in the trash.

Film rights are still available if anyone is interested.

La Leone

I love you, little lettuce frog. And emily dickinson, I like you in platonically appreciative way.

emilydickinson

I'm more of curmudgeon I'd say.

jibbly

Or the people that run the Park Slope Co-op are a bunch of jerks. ;)

Or yes, Em is angry. Entertaining and angry, my favorite kind!

trout

you are an angry person, emilydickinson

MaiaW

Funny, I had a pretty big snail that hitched a ride in a houseplant I once owned that would munch on the dead leaves...Sadly, she eventually fell in between the pot and the basket holding the pot and, well, no happy ending here :(

smitty

My mom found a snail in her salad once at Sizzler. We should have sold the movie rights.

HughGass

WHAT ABOUT HEATH LEDGER!@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

emilydickinson

I wish that frog was poisonous and killed every person at the Park Slope Co-Op. I have never met a nastier, more entitled, smug, abusive and joyless group of people than the folks who run that place. No wonder why the frog hitched a ride out.