So that's what I planned to do today. By way of research, I Googled the words "stir-fried rodents" and got something like 12,000 hits, including recipes I cannot share in a family newspaper.

Again, I'm kidding. When Giuseppe Ferri bit into his "cheese and tomato sandwich" he found a secret ingredient -- a dead lizard. "I looked down and saw a lizard tail sticking out of the side of the sandwich," he is quoted as saying.

"I could see these black, rotted eye sockets on top," the diner is quoted as saying, "I told my girlfriend, 'I think this is a head.' "