just remembered this one, when i was about 14 I bit into a cookie that was 2/3 cardboard. My mom mailed the company a nasty letter along with suspect cookie. About two weeks later we got a huge box of sample products and a ton of coupons. still i don't think i've had a mr christies chew chip cookie since.

one time at arby's i ordered some curly fries and about half-way through i found a regular fry... it was just sitting there looking up at me like it belonged there. ruined my whole meal.

In the late 60s I worked for a short time as a pot washer in a hospital kitchen.
There were BIG aluminum pots for boiling cabbage. Every time (as I remember)
snails would come to the surface. They were scooped off.

I find hair in my food it seems like once a month. I eat out a lot with my job.

The best one is when I was in the Navy on a submarine one of my friends found a half eaten grasshopper in his spinach. He just moved it to the side and kept on eating. He said, I already ate half of it so why stop now. I've swallowed bugs that fly into my mouth on accident before.

A bone in the chicken nuggets. Large enough to poke my daughter when she took a bite.

Plenty of times I've found hair.

Found rice bugs in my rice.

Just yesterday - Had a box of dented cake mix at the local discount. At home I found a small beetle crawling on the outside. Poured the mix into a bowl and stirred it lookin for other vagrants. Found something similar to a cowweb matted with mix. Threw it out and stirred the mix more out of curiosity to find what made the UFO. Promptly found anouther much larger weblike object and dumped the whole thing in the garbage completely uninterested in dark chocolate cake at that point.

Found a moth larva or something similar in my lettuce on a sandwich. Luckily I like to add catsup to my burgers.

Had a ladybug fall into my drink in front of my eyes.

I can't recall them all but I frequently examine the food I'm eating. Partly for the bugs (lots of mom and pop restaurants around and I've worked in half of them) and also I'm severely allergic to some food items. I have accidentally eaten pine nuts, almond slices and other nearly deadly items before so now I'm supremely careful.

Oops. Don't know how that happened.

Oh barf, thanks for the thread guys! Now I'm scared to eat anything... I don't eat out that often so I've been lucky enough not to find "surprises" in my food. I can't even imagine.. icky.

Countless hair in food stories here. The worst are (suspected) pubes in food. I just think 'wth was going on back there'.

Otherwise, not any I can recall. Ordered a medium steak once and was given an almost blue-rare. That was gross at the time (nowadays I'd just eat it, mmmmmm, steak).

damn I haven't been this unlucky, thank god! I think I may have found hair in my food, but then only ever at home, like from my mom or me lol. And then only very rarely. Never eating out...that would so be gross. I'd make a scene for sure and get all the meal free and some. Eugh, not hungry.

Eat what? Cherries or grubs? ;)

Apart from the occasional hair, the worst I've found was one of those big copper staples used in packing cartons in a chicken quesadilla.

Not a found in food experience, but something along the same lines.

I was doing electrical work for a slightly upscale hotel in my area when it happened. We were installing a new range top oven in a spot that was at the moment occupied by a prep cart. So...we pulled out the prep cart and out ran a swarm of roaches. I mean thousands of them. Little bitty babies and old fat grandaddys. I jumped on my ladder because they were running over my boots to escape the light. And then they were gone!

I told the manager and simply recieved "oh".

Moral? Never eat at the Odessa Elegante Hotel.

all these stories make me wonder what kind of stuff have people MISSED and accidentally eaten.

the worst thing i can think of is a long time ago at McDonald's. i had ordered one of their salads, and when i got it, the lettuce wasnt just wilted, some of it had turned to mush....green and brown slimelike stuff.

A few years ago we were butchering some meat. While skinning the meat we notest a old wound in the hide. Didn't think much of it at the time. When cutting and wrapping the meat we saw the spot of the old wound. There was a knot at the site so we cut it open to check it out and this foul looking greenish pus oozed out.

One time i was eatting a hamburger and i found a spider in it.....
=(

I think I was about 12 years old at the time and I was in a ponderosa restaurant with my parents. I walked up to the buffet to a container full of spaghetti I saw an employee put in minutes earlier. Looking into the spaghetti I noticed a black cockroach the size of a dime. I don’t think I ate again that day, and no I didn’t tell anyone about it at the time.

I’ve worked in restaurants for over 5 years, and that experience at Ponderosa as a patron was the worst I’ve ever seen. I have never in the workplace seen any of the horror stories of food being picked up off the floor or being served. Frankly I’m quite glad I never worked in any such place with standards so low.

Worst thing I ever did working in food services? I was working at a Boston Market and preparing the chicken for broiling. The chickens are taken out of the box they are shipped in, dipped into a marinade then are stored in the cooler to marinade for a minimum number of hours. I would always take the first chicken out of the box, prop her up then dip her in the marinade last. I think I would imagine that I was torturing the poor chicken forcing her to witness all the other chickens get drowned and have their ribs cracked in my hands. I don’t think that way now, so I’ll just assume I behaved that way because I was a teenager. Anyway, the whole process of taking 40 chickens out of a box dipping in marinade then storing into a large container couldn’t have taken more than 20 minutes. Hopefully that 20 minutes exposure from being packed in ice to sitting out exposed didn’t do much harm.

Strangely enough years later I picked up some chicken for my ex-wife from the same store I previously worked at and she was diagnosed with Salmonella. She had a serous bought with colitis weeks earlier. The doctors were hesitant to say, but that episode nearly killed her.

Fly....in taco.....at Taco Bell....I'll never go back there as long as I live. *dry heaves*

I bought my daughter (aged 5 at the time) a chicken sandwich at our riverside precinct, Southbank, one Sunday. She was half way through it when I noticed a couple of maggots wriggling in the chicken. Needless to say, I was absolutely mortified.

I stormed back into the sandwich place, and throwing it down on the counter, said in my loudest indignant voice, "There are maggots in this chicken sandwich!" It was amusing to see the rather crowded shop become scarce with customers quite quickly.

I've gotten to the point where my family and friends are annoyed to eat around me because at nearly every meal I found something in the food to spoil the meal for myself or everyone. I find about one hair in my food per day, something other things. Alright, so now for some stories.

I was eating a Burger King about a month ago (I hardly eat fast food, but I was on the road and it was the only restaurant for miles) and I ordered an Angus burger. Oh, bit mistake. I found what looked like a pubic hair stuck on the bun. I didn't bother to tell the employees.

Another time I was eating at a local sushi place and I ordered the lunch bento box. I found a human hair in one of the pieces of sushi. I called the waitress over and asked for a replacement. She brought me a new plate of food, and as I started to eat I found ANOTHER hair in the salad. Obviously I never went back there.

I saw a roach crawling on the pepperoni pizza in my high school school lunch. Needless to say I never ate school lunch again.

I found a fly in rice at a Mexican restaurant.

I just got back from Italy and found a clump of hair or possibly brillo embedded in a piece of veal. Didn't bother telling the waiter since he only spoke Italian.

My friend once found a water bug in an unopened bottle or RC Cola, never will get that again haha.

I've got plenty more stories of finding disgusting things in food, it's like a daily occurance for me. My friends call me "Hair Master Flex" now.

a whole grasshopper in my Red Baron pizza. Bad news all around.

Hmmm...I've been lucky. Or maybe I should have been wearing my glasses. I've found an occassional hair, but it doesn't freak me out unless it's a pube.

Spiders and maggots terrify me. I'm going to have real issues with bananas from now on. I already have a problem with white rice.

Like I said, I've been pretty lucky (KNOCK ON WOOD!!!), but I did order chicken alfredo from my favorite local Italian place and the chicken was raw. Like, raw raw. Not cooked at all. I have to dissect my chicken now before it enters my mouth.

Hey guys, i have a big black Labrador so hair isn't that big a deal.
i lived in grundy VA for a year. These plain clothes inspectors went in to the local hardees, and saw a guy jacking off in the biscuit mix, no shit.

The large extended family was out to a fancy pasta restaurant celebrating someone's graduation, and when someone's baked lasagna arrived, there was a substantial cockroach baked into the cheese layer. My cousin flipped out, but in a reserved manner.

"Could you please send the manager over here?" She politely said
The server could not find the manager, but luckily, the OWNER was doing some paperwork at the bar. He came over and was all smiles until the roach was pointed out to him. He went as pale as a ghost. Did I mention that there was about 15 of us in this party?

"Your bill is comped. Please accept my appologies. Everyone gets a free meal the next time they come here..." and with that he ran to the bar. He came back with 4 bottles of champagne. Dom Perignon.

We feasted like kings (except for my cousin, she was being a real bitch that night. 'I want to go, I want to go') and I got pretty bombed on some fancy single malts. I love that place, and go back about once every 3 months.

My two boys and one of their friends and I went into a local Chili's a few months ago. We've been to this Chili's a few times in the past and never a problem. But we should have been suspicious from what we were overhearing as we were seated. The family at the table behind us were complaining that the waitress had not been near enough to get the check and they were getting impatient. Finally, the dad stands up and puts his coat on, so the waitress finally shows up and gives him the check; he gives her cash and she runs off, returns a couple minutes later as the family is now all standing with their coats on, she gives him change. He says "you gave me $23 too much change" to which the waitress giggles and says OK I'm confused and he gives back the excess to her. Finally a few minutes later she comes to our table, we order. A few of us ordered cups of chili, which finally show up kinda late. As she's juggling the chili bowls, she drops one bowl on the middle of the table and spills chili all over the table and the coloring book pages that the kids got when we came in. My one boy is disappointed since he kinda liked the picture he had made. She quickly scoops up the spilled chili and bowl and runs off. Two of the other bowls were still very cold inside, not sort of warm, cold which were sent back via another waitress, microwaved and came back OK. Finally after way too long, she brings back the replacement chili bowl. I start eating it and find a piece of crayon in the bowl, clearly from what she scooped off the table along with the crayons the kids were playing with. After a much longer than usual wait, and they were not that crowded, two of the dinners show up, my Tbone steak dinner and another dinner, but not the sandwich my son ordered. We tell the waitress who says "Oh, the sandwich is still being made it takes longer" ...???sandwich takes longer than a dinner platters?

Anyway, my kids still joke about this experience calling her the "waitress from hell" but I hate to give hell such a bad rap.

This didn't happen to me, it happened to my friend. We were in a summer program at a local college. The program paid for us to eat in the dining hall at the college. They don't really have much good there to eat except the burgers. Me and my friend both get burgers after waiting in a huge line and go to sit down. We start eating and pretty soon I look over at my friend who looks like he's about to throw up. He shows me that if he had bit a centimeter more into the burger he would have eaten a dead beattle that was in the bun. He took it back to where they serve the burgers and announced to the huge line that was waiting that he found a beattle in his burger. Everyone in the line left. I don't think the dining hall ever did anything about it. My friend just go another burger which happened to be beattle free.

Worst for me is as follows :

Upon leaving my last place where I lived with roomates, I was getting settled in and decided to sit down to some lunch. I hadn't been shopping but my roomate had thoughtfully sent some food with me, so I was able to make myself a bowl of soup which I ate with some salteens. I enjoyed the soup and was munching on the crackers when I happened to look down on my plate in time to see a very large black ant scurry across one of the crackers. Upon further inspection, the box was quite infested - I could only hope that there hadn't been any on the several I ate. Needless to say I threw out the rest of the box, along with the 1 kg bag of sugar they'd sent as well. I lacked the courage to look inside that one and find out what was waiting for me there. I then went on to throw out most of the food they'd sent with me and went grocery shopping the next day.

Did you report the incident to the baristas?! I know if that happened at our store, we would immediately replace the drink with FRESH coffee and a beverage coupon. That store must not have been on top of things...sheesh.

Yikes, I guess you've never been to the Starbucks I work at. We are OBSESSIVE about being clean. We sanitise like crazy.

Have found a beak in my Mcdonalds chicken nuggets...

But the worst wasnt in my food, but its close. We were having dinner in a place called Old Orleans, and it was the christmas period. We sit down in one of their booths and order. Whilst sitting my dad starts looking at me funny, and then just tells me and my siblings to get out and leave the restaurant.

We did so, he came out 5mins later, turns out there was a used syringe in the fake decorative holly 2 inches from my head! :eek:

rcr

I've opened the cheaper kind of Cup Noodles, well the other kind, i dunno what they are but they're pretty much exactly like Cup Noodles and have found a LIVE MOTH inside on top of the noodles hangin out havin a good time. This hasn't happened once but TWICE on two seperate occasions.

I think it being alive is quite an achievement!

:lol:

I hope you reported it to a manager at once! You probably should have also called the press. :lol:


My mom bit into a rusty metal shelf bracket in a salad from McDonalds. (ouch)

The ag teacher at my high school ate the schools lunch regularly. Gross enough in itself, but one day he was eating the salad and got a funny look on his face. He reached in his mouth and pulled out someone else's chewing gum. He threw it away and continued eating.

My dad has many stories of growing up and finding bugs in the oatmeal. You didn't complain though. You just had to keep eating because you were lucky to be getting anything at all to eat.

Even today I find it funny when people complain about bugs. Why are they so taboo? I've had cricket chili and mealworm tacos and they were excellent. Finding bugs in flour? There's so many chopped up bugs you wouldn't believe it.

Hair, bugs, and I think the worst had to be when I SAW one of the cooks at a McDicks spit into a burger. I told the manager right away and after that I had 50 dollars of free food at McDicks. But I hate them so I gave it to my friend... hope he enjoyed it.

I had been sucking on an Atomic Fireball for a while and it was about half gone when I felt something strange. I spit it out and I could see that it had some cloth type thing in it. I ran it under water until I could see it better. It was a strand of dirty mop. Really nasty! I felt like vomiting for the rest of the day. I still get a sour stomach thinking about it. I don't eat fireballs to this day.

Nid_Karysma - I don't think it's so much the bugs in themselves. I happen to like escargot, for example. But it's more the unexpected and creepy factor. Bugs are a bit creepy by nature and if I'm not expecting to see one on my plate and it shows up there, then yeah that'll throw me off.

My mum found a whole cockroach in a tin of spinach

Popeye would have bust the shit out of Sainsbury's (who made the spinach)

She got compensation instead

The last time I ate a Kentucky Fried Chicken breast it had a lung in it. I bet that was 15 years ago. My co-worker found a millipede in his chinese food.

i once ordered a burger and found a 1/4 of chopped up random cow parts that were welded together by unknown chemicals and others. lol but seriously, found a moth in a bag of mixed greens once. i am glad to say that it wasn't half a moth.

still alive gnat in my steamed rice at a chinese restaurant. the fact that it was still trying to fly out of the rice (which it was stuck to) gives me the feeling that it probably fell it while he was bringing the rice to my table. Never the less, it made me not want to eat there for a while.

i went back in 2 weeks. what can i say, im a sucker for good chinese food


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by the way, i love this thread hahahah

I guess I am one of the lucky ones. From Memory I havent found anything nasty in my food..................I am glad I havent though. I would send it back and demand a refund or whatever. Some of these stories are just plain YUCKY.