Weird things found in foods...

kbonamour

After reading all these, my appetite has gone away! Maybe I need to read about gross things in food more often, lol!

DWilbanks

When I worked at a grocery store we had a lady come in a complain that the candy bar she bought at the checkouts had worms in them. They made me and another employee take all the candy and go through it one by one and check for worm holes. :sick: Let's just say we found alot. I've never bought a candy bar from a grocery store since that happened.

curvygirl512

I was in a restaurant once and bit into a sizable chunk of glass mayonaise jar. Apparently the jar broke off when putting mayo on the sandwich. How can you miss a chunk of glass the size of a chicken egg? Needless to say, we've never been back. Guardian Angel was definitely watching over me that day.

glypta

1. In Peru I ate a fritter thing from a street vendor. I'm all for 'when in Rome' and trying new things, but not only did it taste awful (just imagine a ball of grease) but I pulled a bone out my mouth. It looked like a cartoon dog bone, you know, like the 'balls' on the end, and I just thought 'rat'. Still don't (want to) know what that was...

2. At lunch a few months ago my friend found an industrial sized staple in her burger, THEN cellophane in her cheesecake!

I'm sure there are loads more. Nothing puts me off my food (hence why I'm here!)!

Yakisoba

My boyfriend has never gone back to KFC ever again after he found feathers were still attached to his food.

I've never had any horrific stories, apart from finding workers hairs in my food. Of course I got a free meal after I returned it, but it makes me so very wary of going back. Why did they not think about wearing hairnets?!

You eat dead chickens. They had feathers when they were still alive. ._. I don't get it.

Seriously? You think because a person eats chicken meat, that they should eat the feathers? I think that this is a vegan gone astray. And if you are not a vegan, just a vegetarian, do you eat the egg shell? You choose for you, we will choose for us.

Never said someone "should" eat feathers, did I? Where did you read that? I just don't see how someone could stop eating from a certain place because there are feathers on their chicken. Chickens have feathers. Eggs have shells. Ribs obviously have bones. You run into these things because they naturally exist. It would be more understandable if the actual "weird" thing found in the food was weird (like a tampon or an earring).

Not a vegan gone astray from my side. More like reading comprehension gone down the drain from the other.

CannibalisticVegetarian

While eating in my high school cafeteria (some 7 or 8 years ago), I found what appeared to be the small leg of a cockroach. It was in my salad, but when I found it, it'd been on my lip. I tried thinking about it rationally. Things like this happened all the time from what I'd heard from other students. Maybe the cockroach fell into the entire salad mix, and I was fortunate enough to end up with the leg. Sadly by the end of the lunch period, I was more panicked thinking that maybe I'D ingested the entire cockroach unknowingly. As soon as the bell rang, I went to puke.

On another note, I visited this one little mom and pop restaurant with a friend after hitting the gym. It's no biggie of course, but I pulled the single longest blonde hair I have ever seen out of my mouth... only three seconds after sipping my ice water. I was much cooler about this situation though.

heathersmilez

Nothing weird IN food but to comment on you getting coupons for a manufacturers ice tea issue I bought a box of Fibre 1 bars and there were only 4 in it rather than 5. They gave me a coupon for a free box and 2, $1 off coupons after I emailed a sob storey about wanting to switch to All Bran bars after this "horrible" incident, lol!

TluvK

I found a LARGE green beetle looking bug in one of those green giant, microwaveable veggie pouches. I called them and the lady told me it happens all the time. I wasn't THAT grossed out, but I also didn't ever have it in my mouth either.

I also found some feathers in a package of raw, organic chicken. I know it shouldn't bother me too much, but I just can't bring myself to buy that same brand again.

I worked at Applebees when I was in high school and unknowingly served a table a sundae with maggots all over the top of it (hey - I was BUSY!). The maggots were in the nut topping - went to the box where they kept the nuts and it was infested. :sick:

Rain_Howard

It's not what you see and find that should concern you. It's what you don't see, don't taste and don't know about. If you want to get truly disgusted hit up the google and check out what the FDA considers "acceptable amounts" of certain items in our food. Or look of some of those unpronounceable ingredients found in various food items and what else they are used for. I find it fascinating that an industrial cleaning agent is also used for a binding agent in certain foods and most vitamins.

TluvK

It's not what you see and find that should concern you. It's what you don't see, don't taste and don't know about. If you want to get truly disgusted hit up the google and check out what the FDA considers "acceptable amounts" of certain items in our food. Or look of some of those unpronounceable ingredients found in various food items and what else they are used for. I find it fascinating that an industrial cleaning agent is also used for a binding agent in certain foods and most vitamins.

No thanks - I'm perfectly happy being ignorant to those things!

StrongerJess

Oh my gosh!! This thread is horrible...*running to vom. Thanks for keeping me away from restaurants for a while.

jvan1957

Just something to think about.

What's worse than biting into an apple and finding a worm?

Finding 1/2 a worm:sick:

wellbert

Only two incidents so far...

Found a bug cocoon in nestle chocolate.
And some shrapnel in rice at Red Lobster. Turns out it came from salad tongs.

i remember a friend of mine got half way through a candy bar before I pointed out it was infested with ants. His reaction? "Oh, it's healthier now."

He just kept eating it, ants and all.

i_love_vinegar

The big thing in my hometown is to stretch ones earlobes. I went to one of the popular pizza places downtown and ordered a slice of olive pizza.

One of the olives...

Was not an olive. :indifferent:

moriaht

When at a pub I ordered a vodka soda about a year ago and there was a little black floaty in it. It was mouse poop! The manager refused to even look at it and I didn't even get the drink for free.. Won't be going there again! That could kill someone!

Molly_Louise

I'm beginning to wonder why I looked at this thread :laugh: Thankfully I've never had a bad experience like the things you've all experienced. Someone from my town did find a fried chicken kidney in his KFC and went to the local paper about it. It looks like a small brain, so it was assumed it was a chicken brain but KFC confirmed it was 'just a kidney'. Vile.

I would show you a picture (the article is on the internet) of said organ, but it's gross :sick:

godroxmysox

I'm beginning to wonder why I looked at this thread :laugh: Thankfully I've never had a bad experience like the things you've all experienced. Someone from my town did find a fried chicken kidney in his KFC and went to the local paper about it. It looks like a small brain, so it was assumed it was a chicken brain but KFC confirmed it was 'just a kidney'. Vile.

I would show you a picture (the article is on the internet) of said organ, but it's gross :sick:

I WANNA SEE! lol

peecolay

We didn't eat at Arby's for at least 10 years. My mom had a sammich with GREEN roast beef once.

We went again and my dad had a syringe in his. I mean really people. How can you make a sammich and NOT see a syringe!!!

Whenever we go anywhere, we always insepct our silverware and cups.
Nothing like taking a drink and coming back with lipstick.. when you weren't wearing any.

Molly_Louise

I'm beginning to wonder why I looked at this thread :laugh: Thankfully I've never had a bad experience like the things you've all experienced. Someone from my town did find a fried chicken kidney in his KFC and went to the local paper about it. It looks like a small brain, so it was assumed it was a chicken brain but KFC confirmed it was 'just a kidney'. Vile.

I would show you a picture (the article is on the internet) of said organ, but it's gross :sick:

I WANNA SEE! lol

I warned you! :laugh:




Oh, the picture was taken by my local newspaper and belongs to them. I merely copied it from their website. I don't want to get in trouble for taking the picture from the website etc

godroxmysox

I'm beginning to wonder why I looked at this thread :laugh: Thankfully I've never had a bad experience like the things you've all experienced. Someone from my town did find a fried chicken kidney in his KFC and went to the local paper about it. It looks like a small brain, so it was assumed it was a chicken brain but KFC confirmed it was 'just a kidney'. Vile.

I would show you a picture (the article is on the internet) of said organ, but it's gross :sick:

I WANNA SEE! lol

I warned you! :laugh:




Oh, the picture was taken by my local newspaper and belongs to them. I merely copied it from their website. I don't want to get in trouble for taking the picture from the website etc

EWWWWWWWWWWWWW, yes, that is gross, lol....this stuff intrgues me, not sure why

nursenelson

three gross things that I can remember right now:
1) when I was a kid I opened a box of Rice Crispies and in my bowl was a few long oval bugs that looked exactly like the rice crispies only they were black. (haven't eaten rice crispies since)
2) a few years ago I bit into a radish and for some strange reason I decided to look at the piece I was holding in my hand and noticed the other half of a worm....guess where the first half was....
3) I was cutting up green peppers one day and inside the sealed green pepper were three dead maggots. So gross and so weird!
I NEVER EAT FRUIT OR VEGETABLES WHOLE! ALWAYS CUT THEM AND INSPECT THEM FIRST!!

maura5880

I only scanned through these responses & I am sick to my stomach EW

peecolay

I NEVER EAT FRUIT OR VEGETABLES WHOLE! ALWAYS CUT THEM AND INSPECT THEM FIRST!!

Anything I eat, whether from a can, restaraunt, ANYTHING and EVERTYHING is inspected before I eat it. My family thinks I'm nuts but I HAVE to look at everything before it's put in my mouth.

jamk1446

I worked for many years in a large chain restaurant and saw a lot of things but I think this was the worst. We had our regional VP in town visiting the stores, he made it to ours before the opening shift to have coffee with the employees and give a motivational speech. One of the servers brought him his coffee which he proceeded to drink through the meeting until he realized there was something in his mug. He went to dump it out and get a fresh mug and was horrified to discover the mug had been used previously as an ashtray (probably by employees) and made it through the dishwasher without anyone actually noticing or trying to dump the butts out. *edit to add: it was FULL of butts!* So it got placed in the dish station without getting dumped, through the dishwasher without getting inspected, put up in the front station without getting inspected and filled and handed to the REGIONAL VP without a second glance.

GROSS!!!!

cupcakethefatclown

I was drinking a capri sun and like this nasty stuff cam out, i still to this day have no idea what it was, it was like this brownish slimy grossness... this was like 3 years ago.. i still sqeeze some of the carpi sun out and inspect before i drink it..