Coroner debunks wacko conspiracy theory involving Dairy Queen and 'human meat'

Dairy Queen's 100-percent beef guarantee is more relevant than ever.

That's because, as the manager of a South Carolina Dairy Queen says he recently learned, someone made an official complaint of "human meat being inside a burger" at his Grill & Chill location. The manager would like to definitively say that's not true, while the Greenwood County coroner affirms there's "little to no chance of anything like that ever being able to happen," Greenwood, South Carolina's Index-Journal reports.

The rumor mill started up last Wednesday when federal officials conducted a joint raid on the Dairy Queen and arrested two people for running an unlicensed money transmitting business. Neither manager Saif Momin nor any of the store's employees were charged, the Index-Journal reports.

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Yet somehow, the raid got tied to rumors an apparent health complaint of "human meat being inside a burger" at the Dairy Queen location, Momin told the Index-Journal. "If that was the case, they already would have shut me down," Momin said of the allegation. The Index-Journal then asked coroner Sonny Cox about the matter, to which he said "I can honestly say that's the first I've heard of it, and I don't see any validity in that at all." And in a tweet, Dairy Queen was sure to affirm that its burgers have "no additives or fillers," human or otherwise.

At the end of the investigation, one important question was left unasked: How did a customer know what human meat tasted like in order to lodge this complaint?