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Two Blount County women have sued Sonic Drive-In for $500,000 after, they claim, being served food with human blood on it.

The civil suit was filed Thursday by Connie Gibson, Calderwood Highway, Maryville, and Brittany Gibson, Ellejoy Road, Walland, and names Sonic Drive-In, Sonic Industries Services Inc., and Sonic Corporation as defendants.

According to the suit, the two were eating at the Sonic Drive-In located at 411 Foothills Mall Drive, Maryville, on July 29, 2008, and ordered chicken dinners from the restaurant that included Texas toast.

“After a portion of the Texas toast had been consumed, plaintiffs Connie Gibson and Brittany Gibson discovered human blood on the toast,” the suit alleges. The suit does not say how much blood was found on the pieces of Texas toast.

The two reported the bloody toast to the restaurant’s manager and to the Blount County Health Department — a representative from the Health Department went to the restaurant the next day and “confirmed that an employee had a bleeding cut on her finger during the time that the plaintiffs purchased food,” the suit claims.

“The defendants acted intentionally, or so recklessly, in that their conduct in allowing the blood-tainted food to make its way into plaintiffs’ body is outrageous and should not have occurred,” the suit continues.

No response filed

The two women say in the suit that they have undergone testing for “potential infections” and are still being monitored for any side effects of eating the toast.

The suit calls for a trial by jury and is seeking $250,000 in compensatory damages and $250,000 in punitive damages.

No response had been filed on behalf of the defendants as of Friday.