24-02-2016 19:40 via salon.com

Woman bites rare pearl while dining at Italian restaurant

ISSAQUAH, Wash. (AP) — A woman bit down on a rare pearl while eating a meal of clams and other seafood at an Italian restaurant in Issaquah.KOMO-TV reports (http://goo.gl/ohETuU) Lindsay Hasz and her husband Chris were eating at Montalcino Ristorante Italiano recently when she bit into something hard in her entree.Hasz says she wasn't sure what it was but put it in her pocket and went home to do research.She took it to a gemologist, who determined it was a Quahog purple pearl worth about $
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