article_snippet.sent: One diner found she meal had extra crunch  this week when she found 50 pearls inside the baked oyster she was feasting on.
article_snippet.sent: However, when she spat out the mouthful she was chewing she discovered a pearl in the palm of her handher hand.
article_snippet.sent: Not what I ordered: Toni Elliot, 53, (right) found she meal had extra crunch this week when she found 50 pearls inside the baked oyster she was feasting on at Puckett's Boat House in Franklin, Tennessee Tennessee .
article_snippet.sent: Eric Horton, who was serving Elliot at the time swiftly grabbed a container to collect 50 pearls inside the baked oyster up from Eliot's dinner plate.
article_snippet.sent: However, she continued to pull pearls out of she mouth, and the only thing we were missing was a string because she found 50 pearls in this one oyster.'
article_snippet.sent: Sometimes diners find one pearl in a mollusk but anything more is extremely rare..
article_snippet.sent: Producing pearls is an oyster’s way of protecting itself against foreign substances, such as a parasite or piece of shell.
highlights_snippet.sent: However, when she spat out the mouthful she was chewing she discovered a pearl in the palm of she hand .
  