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When life gave former Chicago police officer Jim Mullen lemons, he didn't let it get him down.

The 44-year-old quadriplegic, injured in 1996 when he was shot in the face and the bullet went through his cheek and lodged in his spinal column, instead makes applesauce. He started Mullen's Chicago's Finest Apple Sauce, made from his mother's recipe, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.

He breathes through a ventilator, moves with a breath-controlled wheelchair and needs around-the-clock care, but the applesauce entrepreneur, whose addictive product "tastes like apple pie without the crust," sells Mullen's Chicago's Finest in about area 60 stores, including Whole Foods.

"People might buy it once because of my story or my situation." Mullen told the paper "But they don't keep buying it because of Jim Mullen, paralyzed police officer. They buy it because of Jim Mullen, kick-ass applesauce."

I don't eat sushi, so I'll have to take the Chicago Sun-Times' word on this.

Seems that Chicago-area restaurants that serve red snapper aren't really serving red snapper at all, they're serving cheap substitutes! And it wasn't an isolated case. In fact, samples were bought from fourteen different restaurants in the city, and none of them were actually red snapper. They found this out by doing DNA tests.

Coming this fall: CSI: Sushi.

The FDA calls it fraud and they are investigating.