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"About halfway through, I bit in and felt something hard and crunchy." That’s what NYU senior Benjamin Jarosch declared after eating part of a found muffin, and he wasn’t talking about a walnut: his innocuous-looking blueberry muffin was stuffed with three razorblades. Jarosch and his buddies had discovered the muffin, along with four others, wrapped in tin foil, upon arriving in the classroom.
It seems they were left over from a previous class and were "props" used by a student to demonstrate "ideas of absurdism and randomness." Professor Heidi White forgot to discard the muffins when class was dismissed, and the professor for the next class knew nothing about the muffin's sharp surprise.
Jarosch’s muffin was the only one with razorblades, and despite eating half of it before noticing anything unusual, he survived uninjured. “I spit them out before they cut. It could have been a lot worse, there's no doubt about it," Jarosch told the Sun.
Photo illustration courtesy Peter Lucak/Washington Square News.
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You know what lesson I learned when I was like ... two? Don't eat random food that you find lying around and don't know where it came from.
Beat me to it, cwbuecheler. WTF.
This kid is an idiot. How did he get into NYU? He just ate a random Muffin he found? Makes total sense...
If only getting rid of Freegans were this easy.
yikes! but who the hell eats found food without giving it a thorough inspection??
Uh yeah can someone explain to me why this kid was eating random muffins lying around a classroom at NYU. He deserved to eat a muffin filled with razor blades, retard!
Next this kid will eat some yummy looking rat poison he "found" in a corner of a basement.
If you found a rather delicious looking muffin - in your cushy private school - you'd thoroughly pick it apart to make sure it didn't have razorblades in it? Would you then have all the crumbs screened for potential toxins? Give the kid a break.
He found a muffin, he ate a muffin... probably rather carefully given he wasn't injured by the razorblades stuffed in it.
Tuition at work.
NYU students pay way too much money in tuition to have to be exposed to art. Cooper Union, which is free, is for poor artists - or at least kids who purposely dress like peasants.
chris
i think you're missing the point.
I'm not assuming the kid's an idiot or anything the same some folks here are - college kids do dumb stuff, it's a part of being a college kid, and I did my share of dumb stuff at that age.
I just thought it was funny that he and his friends chose to eat some random muffins they found lying around. I mean ... at the very least, I'd assume they belonged to someone.
I'm glad he didn't get hurt. Lucky dude.
Oooo!! Floorpie!!
Well, in his defense, you might imagine it was left over from part of some end-of-semester event that had food. There were supposedly four muffins sitting around, and scrounging from other people's spreads is indeed an essential college experience.
I'm more concerned about the class. What was this supposed to demonstrate? "Ideas of absurdism and randomness?" Hope that student feels like shit now.
Maybe he had a serious case of the munchies. Pot smoke does mysterious things to one's thought process. Other than that, the kid is an idiot.
OK, come on. Who here hasn't eaten leftover donuts or sandwiches or something they found in their lunchroom at work? This was a classroom, it's not like he was eating food he found lying on the sidewalk.
hey, someone left free gum under the desk!!! score!
He can use the razor blades to slash his wrists when next semester's tuition bill comes due.
Chris, I would like to peek inside your mind for a moment just to see how you are picturing “cushy private” NYU. Are there oriental rugs and discreet but watchful-eyed butlers?
I went to NYU and, like any college, it’s full of idiot kids who I might or might not want handling my baked goods. There’s quite a stretch between having crumbs screened for toxins and simply choosing not to eat abandoned, unwrapped foods of undetermined provenance, whether you find it at a cushy private school or some city school teaming with hoi polloi.
The kid already got a break – he bit into a muffin full of razor blades and was lucky enough not to get hurt.
who decided to make this a news story? Did the kid who was dumb enough to eat a random muffin then decide to tell gothamist about it?
what a great way to pay the $50K tuition you need to attend NYU: sue after "finding" muffins left over from a previous class full of razor blades... now why didn't I think of that?
Yeah...I don't really see the big deal. I go to college, and occasionally, when I enter a classroom, the previous class has just finished eating cookies or brownies, and they leave the leftovers behind for the next class to finish off. This kid's not an idiot. Getting dibs on the the previous class's leftovers if you get to class early enough is a regular occurrence. To be fair, though, usually when you enter the room, the professor from the previous class is just on the way out, and offers up the baked goods.
It's really no different than walking into a conference room in your workplace and helping yourself to the bagels and pastries left over from the last meeting.
The only real stupidity I see here is leaving a classroom and forgetting to throw away muffins full of razor blades.
Or putting razor blades in a muffin in the first place.
If he would have eaten the muffin properly, with a knife and fork, he would have discovered the razors. I guess they don't teach proper manners at NYU.
Well, the razor blade muffin was pretty stupid to begin with, that's true.
OK, come on. Who here hasn't eaten leftover donuts or sandwiches or something they found in their lunchroom at work?
I haven't. Unless someone offers up their leftovers I would assume that food left in the lunchroom is days old and thus unpalatable or unsafe or else someone recently left it there and may want it later thus taking it would be stealing.
there's always a leftover 6ft hero left in those NYU classrooms. I think that's where their tuition goes.
And, I went in there as a guest.
Here in the mechanical art studio of the big advertising agency, we dispose of our daily blades in an old coffee tin.
The muffin idea is far more creative, if more crumbly...
Things white people like. Leftover, blatantly adulterated baked goods. I guess it's still smarter than standing on that long ass line at Magnolia for a cupcake..
I agree with a couple of the commentators that it's reasonable to think that the muffin was a leftover snack from the previous class. Now, if it was the only muffin left, I might have been hesitant to eat it.
At least the razor was part of a presentation, not a creepy random act like the early 1980s when our parents had to inspect all Halloween candy b/c freaks were putting pins and razors in candy bars.
The blame here goes to the person WHO PUT A FUCKING RAZOR BLADE in a food item and left it sitting around.
I'm sorry, I know we all on Gothamist love any opportunity to make fun of others we deem less worthy of living here in New York, especially rich college kids. But c'mon. If I put a razor blade in a muffin for some sort of class demonstration, it's my responsibility to make sure I throw it away.
And no, I probably wouldn't have eaten that muffin, but I don't think it's out of this world for someone to have eaten it. It's not like it was lying on some sidewalk on the Bowery for God's sake.
This is the first thing I thought of when I read this story-
http://youtube.com/watch?v=1tcR19y7GPM
yeah, you people are right, how silly. kinda like when you harrass the wait and/or kitchen staff at your new trendy find for the week and brush aside the thought, i wonder if they'll rub their balls all over the stuffed quail because i'm such a prick?? yes i will.
I urge all New Yorkers to leave "NYU muffins" all over the place in Lower Manhattan. Sooner or later, we'll get a 'hit'.