Today’s Lawsuit of the Day isn’t particularly funny or salacious. It’s just… strange. From the New York Times (scroll down to final item):

Three taste testers say they were injured as they sampled an experimental sweetener while working for Cadbury, the British candy maker.

The three testers, all women, sampled the substance during a stint as $10-an-hour testers at the East Hanover, N.J., research center of the company’s United States subsidiary, Cadbury Adams, according to three lawsuits filed in Morris County, N.J. Their reactions were different, but each said the sweetener left a burning sensation that changed her ability to taste or eat certain foods, the lawsuits contend.

Katharine Beyer, spokeswoman for Cadbury Adams, said she could not comment on the litigation, but said that the substance, which she declined to name, was not on the market.

Thank God for that. Moral of the story, ready for insertion into a fortune cookie: “Do not swallow sweet-tasting mystery substances.”

(In bed.)

Taste-Test Lawsuit [New York Times (last item)]