If they offered a sincere apology and asked you what they could o to make it right (including offering to pay for your doctor bills), then offered something like the $50 certificate I think everything would be square. I fucking hate frivolous lawsuits. That being said, if they just openly try to buy you off and not concerned with your health and/or possible doctor bills, then you have every right to sue them for health endangerment. I don?t think you would get much out of them, but at the very least you could get them under the radar of the health inspectors.
A funny story kinda like yours but w/o the pain: My brother and I went to KFC here once, he got a large coke. As a habit, he always pulls off the top/straw so he can drink directly from the cup. While we were in the drive through he opens up the coke and there are about twenty to thirty live roaches everywhere inside. He threw up everywhere (quite gracefully I might add!). The manager at the KFC, with his most utmost kindness and wisdom above all, offered to give him a $20 certificate. 20 bucks. At a place that just served him live roaches. Yummy.
