Oatmeal 'sticks' to throat: Lawsuit

NEW YORK, March 7 (UPI) -- A New York health-oriented restaurant is being sued by a customer who claims a metal fragment in his oatmeal stuck in his throat and required hospital care.

Dominick Loizzo, 28, claims in a Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit he choked last December on his standard breakfast of oatmeal and bananas and felt "extreme pain" when the object lodged in his throat, the New York Daily News reported Wednesday.

The personal trainer said in his lawsuit doctors removed a "a stick or shard of a spoon or other utensil" from him after his visit to Pump Energy Foods.

Loizzo's lawyer, Yetta Kaurland, told the New York Post the suit seeks financial damages, but did not elaborate.

"It's incomprehensible that something like this could happen at a restaurant that prides itself on being so health-conscious," Kaurland said.

Reporters' calls to the chain of five Manhattan restaurants that advertises its menu as full of "perfectly healthy, well-balanced meals" were not returned, the reports said.