Worst "Found in food" experience
 

Just because the topic didn't quite make me vomit I thought maybe all of you might have some good stories to tell about finding things in food!

http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthr...1725604&posted

My personal worst was more dangerous than nasty really. A newer mexican food place that specialized in very large burritos had only been open about six weeks and they were running their grand opening special, a free drink or something similar, so my coworkers and I were eating there regularly. One day just as my friend and I walked in there was a very large crack as one of the panes of glass (about 36x18) seperating the food prep area from the dining area quite literally exploded.

I wasn't overly concerned and actually asked the manager if I needed to worry about any of the shards (it was safety glass, so it did that really cool car-window splintering into tiny little pieces thing) getting into my food. He assured me that all of the food that had been on the line when it had happened had been thrown away immediately, so I ordered my burrito and headed back to the office to eat.

Sure enough, about half way through I damn near chipped a tooth on a hunk of glass right in the middle of the burrito! I called up the manager, who took my name, and offered 2 free meals to replace the food that my friend and I had ordered, though sadly I've never been back to claim them.

And for those of you wondering, yes I finished the rest of the burrito anyway, and didn't find anymore glass in it :)

Hagen Daaz from Penn Station in NYC small shard of glass in the ice cream. No damage to the freezer no one could figure it out.

When getting ice cream at another place in Penn Station, the server used their thumb to help roll the ice cream into a ball, and then also used it to push the ball onto the cone. All after handing someone change for a $20.

Somewhere in Penn Station, NYC, there was a small store to get sodas and other stuff, I had picked up a fruit salad... While sitting down to eat it.. there was a rather thick black hair in it... ewww grosss.. nasty..

Worst for me has been hair at various places. Nothing too dramatic, but it does kinda turn ones stomach

well, I found a dead spider in my straw from McDonald's before they covered them in paper

A couple of times I've found hair, then they replaced my meal, but lost my appetite after that.

The worst one is, we were having a pot luck at work, and someone made a pasta salad. We all dished some up, and started eating, then one of my co-workers found a bandade, that obviously had been on a finger. The lady that made it said surprisingly, "oh that's were that went". I think we all stopped eating the pasta at that point. She was embarrassed, but didn't say anything else about it, and she continued to eat the pasta.

Just remembered one.. Some ice cream stand in the hills of Massachussets somewhere... ordered an ice creamcone with rainbow jimmies.. Took a bite of the icecream and spit it out pretty quicky when I saw that there was at least one dead fly in the jimmies.

(never again will I have sprinkles..)


I can out my own self as well... I am not home much... so I will buy groceries and it will stay in the cupboard for a while... Had some friends over for dinner one night, and I grabbed a package of rice out of the cupboard, and put it into a pan... there were all sorts of really gross meal worms in it... grooosssq

I work at Starbucks, and not only do we sell beverages, but pastries made by a separate bakery.

So far during my short career at Starbucks, I have had two customers complain about their pastries: One of the scones actually had a SCREW in it (which a little child had bitten into), and then there was a muffin that a customer had bitten into and found a big fly. Sick.

Note: These pastries are not made by Starbucks, and we take pride in how sanitary our work station and beverages are.

Oh, another thing: One time when nwlinkvxd, my dad, and I were eating out at an Italian restaurant, we spotted a cockroach crawling on the back of the booth seat. It wasn't in our food, but jeez, when cockroaches are out in the open in the light, you have to wonder how many more are hiding!

nwlinkvxd has also found about a three-inch twisted wire in his mashed potatoes at Hodel's (a local buffet).

Eating at a small restaurant some years back with my grandparents I was munching on a nice salad and went to pierce what looked like a delicious crouton. Well, the tasty looking crouton didn't make it far until my grandpa snatched the fork out of my hands and examined the morsel on the end...after closer examination we got up and walked out.

Needless to say we got our meal free, and on top of that I (thankfully) didn't eat a fully cooked and seasoned dead moth.

On a cruise one time I found a dead ladybug in my salad- it didn't really bother me though.

I was in a swanky restuarant in Sydney Australia having dinner with a colleague, a native Aussie. My salad was given to me, and, like I tend to do, I was playing wiht my food a little bit, and was pushing the lettuce leaves around the plate. I moved a lettuce leaf, and saw a very large slug moving slowly across the plate. I swear the lettuce leaf had a bite taken out of it.

My colleague called the waiter over, and said, excuse me, she didn't order the escargot, the waiter swiftly removed the slug from my plate, never took the plate, and said, well, love, at leas you know the salad is fresh.

Did I mention this was a fancy restaurant? We left and went for drinks.

A slug?? I would have been raising such hell.....

Let's see I have:
Bitten into an eggroll from the machines at work and crunched down on a long metal rod.
Gotten halfway thru a donut from the entenmann's box and pulled a long blonde hair out of my mouth.
Bought one of those boxed complete meals and, upon opening the biscuit mix, found it crawling with pillbugs.
Found a dead fly in my soda from Wendy's.

This thread needs a warning label: do not eat while reading!

IF YOU LIKE BANANAS, DON'T READ THIS...

I was once eating a banana once (when I was 3 or 4) and bit right into a nice big juicy banana spider. I did some research and didn't find anything about them actually making homes IN bananas, but these bananas had been imported from South America. Maybe just a very ironic way of smuggling itself into Canada? lol

http://davidmichaelkennedy.com/blog/...a%20spider.jpg

Either way, it wasn't pretty and I had to go to the hospital and get a bunch of shots for the venom.

Regardless to say, I don't like bananas anymore.

EDIT: I decided to just link the image. For those that like bananas, didn't want to scar you. :)

I knew there was a reason why I didn't like bananas...

My worst is finding a Dragon Fly in my chips (Fries) , yes I still ate them and no I didnt complain. I never complain .

Waiter, there's a dead man in my soup. /family guy

Worst thing, meal worms in my oatmeal.

Aaaagh..Hair

Well, I used to eat KFC once every so often, my mom would grab a big bucket and some sides on the way home, and my brothers and I would have that for dinner. Then one night, I took out what I thought to be a chicken breast, and went ahead taking all the skin off, just because that's what I do. Well, in the process of doing this, I uncover and odd looking surface. Upon further examination, it appears to be a brain. And wouldn't you know it, there was still a spinal cord connected to it. How this happened, I have no idea, but I stopped eating right there, kept myself from throwing up, and dumped my plate in the garbage. My family saw it, it didn't seem to bother them, and they kept on eating. I vowed never to eat KFC again after that.

Then about a year later, there was absolutely no food in the house, and my mom had gotten KFC once again. I figured, "What the hell, it'll never happen again." I was wrong. Same thing, same reaction from myself and family. If only I had been a little smarter then, I coulda saved it and sued for emotional distress and made millions... or at least got some publicity :p

i was a waiter for a few years in college. the worst things my customers ever found in the food:

broken glass from grolsch bottles we used for salad dressing
piece of metal wire from the oven
moldy cherry tomato in the salad

funny synchronicity - the people that found the glass were my wife's aunt and uncle. we were just dating at the time, and i had not met them yet. first time i did met them with her they kept wondering where they recognized me from, and when they finally remembered we all had a good laugh over it.

Yea, I found some glass in my food one time too. Fricken hurt biting into some thing so hard.

I also found what seemed to be a long curly pube, or arm hair, soooo gross. I stopped eating and felt sick.

KFC doesn't butcher their own chickens in-store and even so, how'd a brain slip out of a severed head?...it was probably just some ball of chicken meat-but thanks for verifying my dislike of KFC!

A fly in my coffee (Starbucks). As I was downing the last sip I felt something solid coming through the little hole. I thought it was just coffee grinds so I pulled it out from between my lips and of course looked at it. Ugh, dead fly. A roach in my rice at a Chinese restaurant. At least they comped the food. Also a roach in my soda at a favorite lunch spot. I thought that one was really odd.

That's it for now, I need to go puke now that I've thought of that coffee incident again.

I was eating at an asian restaurant and found a FEATHER in my bowl of soup... I couldn't tell if it was like a chicken feather or what, but I had to keep eating it because the owner was my dad's friend and he was sitting with us at the table!!!

I also found some maggots in my cup-o-noodle's one, after having eaten a few bites... EWWW!!!

After reading these, i don't think im ever going to eat again

Had a whole dead frog in a bag of ice once.

Thats exactly what I thought, but it was clear that several vertebrae were attached. I inspected it pretty closely, because I thought to myself that it couldn't be real, I couldn't see how it could possible happen. It was somehow jammed in with the chicken breast, quite disgusting honestly. :rolleyes:

damn why did i click on that link...i hate spiders....and now bananas! :eek:

j/k

my only bad food experience was eating chicken fingers, still freaks me out, bit into a big cyst in the middle of it eating some scheinders frozen chicken fingers. was gross, red, juicy...etc.....never had chicken fingers again.

EWWWWWWWWWWW @ this thread.

Now, on to my disgusting stories.

I found what appeared to be a pube hair in some frozen vegetables once. Gross.

I used to work at a "gourmet" popcorn store, which was about as gourmet as McDonalds. We kept our popcorn in huge bags, like a large lawn and leaf bag. I was getting some caramel corn one day and found a bloody bandaid from my idiot bosses finger....I guess he didnt notice he lost it. I'm glad I'm the one that found it because I doubt any of the other employees would have cared...they'd have probably taken out the bandaid and still served that popcorn. I threw the entire bag in the dumpster.

^^^ Now that is just wrong!

Worst thing for me is a rubber band (wide kind) that was in a ceasar salad. I suspect it was on the lettuce or somehow part of the packing for the produce. No harm no foul. One other time I almost took a sip from a glass of milk that had LIP STICK on it. :D It was definitely not my shade so I sent that back.

HOLY CRAP! THAT WAS IN A BANANA??? *should have heeded the warning about the photo*

Most disgusting thing I've ever found was body hair, but I find that stuff in my food all the time so I'm getting used to it. I just pray that it's not somehow a groin or armpit hair, pluck it out, and I'm on my way.

I found a grub of some kind, or I guess I should say half a grub, in a chocolate covered cherry. I haven't been able to eat one since.

My sister in law found a hair in her cheesecake once, it was a pubic hair.

Hairs just don't bother me anymore..

My mom was making an oriental dish when I was younger, used ramen-like noodles. I was happily chewing away when I noticed something funny hidden by a green bean or two.. A big, black beetle. I'm sure it came from those noodles.

I worked in a KFC too when younger, and never noticed these brains you're speaking of, although it's probable, i suppose. The breast cuts could just not quite cut through the spinal cord where they need to cut..

Wow. Some of you guys have some really gross stories.

I found a fingernail in a taco once at Taco Bell. I took a bite, decided to add a little hot sauce and opened it up. Low and behold there was a rather large, infected looking fingernail waiting for me.

I took it up to the front and talked to the manager, who promptly found the suspect (he wasn't wearing the little, clear gloves). The manager apologized profusely, gave me my money back and sent me on my way with a veritable treasure trove of coupons.

I now make it a point to inspect all food I haven't prepared myself.

I have never seen a clean starbucks. I know many a person who works there and they always say its a breeding ground for death. I think Starbucks over charges, but theyre super unsanitary.

I work in the kitchen and I am OCD about cleanliness... and I ALWAYS check my food and if I find anything wrong.. I send it back. The worst thing I ever found was a HUGE palmetto bug(flying roach) in my soup from some hole in the wall place on my way to Savannah, GA. Ive found various hairs, glass, chunks of spices, rocks, fingers, a piece of someones clothes, matches, some plastic thing, wood, dirt, Ive had my food taste like bleach, windex, grease cutter, comet, soap, and oven cleaner.

nothing surprises me anymore. I carry a thermometer and inspect all my food before eating. Nobody likes eating with me.

oh and you cant sue for emotional distress, it cant be physically proven so most states dont have laws for it. I just learned that in my law class.

Do you bring your own plastic silverware in a zip-loc bag with you, too?

I'd honestly rather have an insect in my food than a hair...the thought of hair in my food makes me really sick, and prevents me from eating that specific meal at all, let alone another one in the same time frame. I've had hair in salads and soup before...disgusting.

A while ago I went to McDonalds and got a ice cream in a cup...and when I put the first spoon full in my mouth, there was a large chunk of tissue inside, luckily I didn't throw up all over the place. The sad thing is, when I told one of the employees for another one, he said that the tissue I put in my mouth was the only one and there are no more inside, so he didn't give me new one. He said it was clean; it just happened to get in there somehow...forgot what he said, but whatever, gross nonetheless, clean or not.

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.

The worst I have ever come across personally is hair.

My sister found a piece of metal in her potato salad and a friend found a dead worm in his salad at our high school.

I found a tiny pearl in a bowl of oyster stew one time (nearly broke a tooth on it!)

One of my friends in high school stole a leg off of one of the Biology frogs (that we were dissecting) and put it into the ranch dressing on the salad bar. Someone did, indeed, get it on their salad. The legs of the dissecting frogs were counted from that day forward....

Once after eating at taco bell and finishing my drink, I opened the cup because I like to eat the ice at the bottom afterwards, and when I opened it up there was a huge fly on top of the ice. I swore I would never eat at taco bell again, but being broke 1/2 the time, gives you little choice, probably ate there about 500 times since then, but only got a drink about 5 of those and each in the dining room where I could fill it myself.

ugh..after reading the posts in this thread i don't think i'll ever eat again!

personally i have some weird mojo for finding bugs in my food. i've found roaches in pizza (but that was in vietnam so i wasnt too suprised) i've eaten worm infested avacados..well half a worm infested avacado before i realized the worms were there, mini flys on my celery, those bugs that start with A that lady bugs liek to eat on my brocolli, flys in my salad, moths in my oatmeal..ummm teh list goes on...as well as like random hairs and dirty plates and glasses.