Most Disgusting Thing You've Found In Your Food?

Ants...Hundreds of them in my oatmeal. I was a child and refused to eat oatmeal again..until now. I love oatmeal now. Still freaks me out though..OH once I was going to eat a mini bagel with cream cheese..teeny tiny ants in the cracks of the bagel. I don't eat bagels anymore..Or bread unless I inspect it. :grumble:

Ah, I forgot to mention a live spider in my grapes. Spiders are found in grapes a lot. This one survived several days in the fridge!

At a restaurant in Dallas one time, a lettuce worm came out of the lettuce garnish they had put on the plate, crawled up the roll I had sitting there and raised up on it's back legs to look at me! Egad! My waitress explained that as small as it was, it probably hadn't eaten much! WTH?
More disgusting then that, a GF and I were at an all night doughnut shop one night, thankfully just having coffee and were listening to the guys in the kitchen laughing it up. We got one of them to come over to let us know what was so funny and he said they were spitting thier chew into the fryers watching it sizzle and pop! Never again! :sick:

I found a pube in my curry once. Moved it to the side of the plate and ate the rest.

I think we may be soul mates. Nothing would keep me from my curry.

Greco, cesar salad, almost finished when I noticed an inch long black beetle crawling around in it.

Brought the salad back, lady picked the beetle out of my salad, dropped it on the floor and squished it under her shoe, and said 'want another one?'


I don't get Greco anymore....

Strange, I know, but I found a closed safety pin embedded in a Tyson's chicken breast. We took it to the local health department and I doubt much happened since it was discovered before eaten. I cannot imagine how it got there though! Weird!!! Also, I used to buy coffee every morning from this old fashioned automated machine where you made your selection then had to hold the cup under the coffee spout you preferred - black, sugar only, sugar + cream. One day I passed the machine while it was being maintained and there were 50+ dead roaches trapped near the spouts. The coffee literally passed through all of the bodies as it poured. Needless to say, I didn't use that machine (or similar ones) since but I somehow managed to remain a coffee lover. Blek! Fun topic, by the way!!

When I was 15/16 I worked in a sandwich shop doing cash/making the sandwiches. I'm a very clean person regarding food, so I was really grossed out when our boss forced us to serve customers bread full of baked weevils. We had workers that baked the loaves of bread fresh every morning, and apparently the flour was full of weevils, and they baked the bread with the weevils in it. I was almost in tears because I hated seeing some customers sitting there looking puzzled at their sandwich........I guess wondering what the millions of black dots were.......:sad:

This is the best appetite suppressant thread ever :indifferent:

dead moth in my salad at a restaurant. They paid for our whole meal and gave me a gift cert. Still didn't go back.

Once my Dad and I went to a restaurant called in a suburb of Nashville (Madison), TN to eat for Thanksgiving Day. They had the best dressing for a little dive "family style restaurant" too. I got a dirty bandaid in my dressing:(

Years later, my Dad and his wife came to visit my then husband and I in Houston, TX and I was eating a salad. I bit down on a little metal screw. It REALLY hurt, they acted like I put it in there then the salad prep person came out and apologized and said that they use these little steak knives to cut them up and one of the little screws had apparently fallen out that was in the steak knife... they offered me a free meal. I didn't want to eat at a TGI Fridays again for years!

Once my sister found a cockroach in a can of chili she was eating:( GROSS
There was a worm in a salad (in a cherry tomato) that my Mom was eating at the TGI Friday's in Nashville....

I found 1/2 of a bee in a salad at Arby's a couple of years ago. And yes, it looked like I had eaten the other half. Not a lot of calories in bee's, thank goodness.

Strange, I know, but I found a closed safety pin embedded in a Tyson's chicken breast. We took it to the local health department and I doubt much happened since it was discovered before eaten. I cannot imagine how it got there though! Weird!!! Also, I used to buy coffee every morning from this old fashioned automated machine where you made your selection then had to hold the cup under the coffee spout you preferred - black, sugar only, sugar + cream. One day I passed the machine while it was being maintained and there were 50+ dead roaches trapped near the spouts. The coffee literally passed through all of the bodies as it poured. Needless to say, I didn't use that machine (or similar ones) since but I somehow managed to remain a coffee lover. Blek! Fun topic, by the way!!

THIS ONE, THIS ONE RIGHT HERE...i went flush, pale and nearly had to scratch my goosebumps away....gag

I used to work in a butchers , in those days people in the shops didn't wear gloves.
I had made sausages , I had mixed the batch with my hands and as fast as I was making them they
were being sold. Earlier in the day I had cut my finger and put a bandaid on it, after the rush of customers I noticed
the bandaid wasn't on my finger. Somebody must have found their sausage extra chewy !!

Too funny. My dad is a butcher also and had this happen years ago. Except he was wrapping up meat (steaks, burger and what not) for an order. He didnt notice til the people were gone that the bandaid and gauze was no longer on his his finger. To this day he still laughs about it and what the people must have thought.

Having worked in butcher shops, grocery stores and delivering product to many restaurants over the years. I gladly avoid eating out as much as I can. I've just seen too much gross stuff in the back rooms behind closed doors :sick:

Just last night we found a moth in our salad, MMMM CROUTONS!!