Most Disgusting Thing You've Found In Your Food?

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  • fbmandy55
    fbmandy55 Posts: 5,263 Member
    I've had a few occasions where there was a shard of plastic or some other hard material like it in my food.

    Bugs in food would freak me out but on lettuce or produce, I would say it's not a big deal and probably pretty natural and common.
  • dolldreams
    dolldreams Posts: 245 Member
    In Basic Training there was an eyeball in my fish. I was so hungry and scared to say anything, I just ate around it.
  • garnetsms
    garnetsms Posts: 10,018 Member
    I was eating KFC coleslaw when I came across this thread and literally just threw it away because I lost my appetite lol, As for feathers still being in fried chicken...a lot would be gross yea but the occasional feather? It was deep fried, I seriously doubt any germs survived that process, pick it out and keep eating lol.

    OOPS!! LOL The thought did cross my mind that with it deep fried it probably was ok, but ummmm...NO! We ate the rest of the chicken though...that piece hit the trash can.
  • dotti1121
    dotti1121 Posts: 751 Member
    Ants in the Lucky Charms - Years ago while babysitting I poured the kid and I each a bowl and thought they must've had a special edition with sprinkles....upon closer inspection, they were ants and we were eating them. :ohwell:

    OMG I forgot ANOTHER one! Staying at a friend's house for a bit and poured my bowl of cereal and began eating when I noticed ants EVERYWHERE in my bowl! *bleck*
  • billsica
    billsica Posts: 4,741 Member
    I was at a big meeting were they were trying to save money so they made coffee in one of those big gator aid containers.

    Well I NEED my coffee, and I went and got it.

    this was a big meeting with all sorts of people from places that I didn't know. So I drank my coffee.

    Apparently they had recently made some sort of soup in it, because at the bottom I got a big mouthful of carrots peas, beans and coffee grounds. I pretty much spit it up all over the place. it tasted like absolute garbage. The only other thing to drink was ice water.. in another gator aid container.
    I sat for half an hour wanting to puke till I realized I could just go to the bathroom and rinse my mouth out in the sink.
  • emnk5308
    emnk5308 Posts: 736
    Personally, I say who cares? Those insects are probably more nutritious than the food they are in! Plus, most food that we eat already has bugs and parts in them... we just don't know it. (It's allowed by the FDA.) I'm an advocate for entomophagy.

    The one that does bother me are the band-aids. Seriously... they didn't realize it fell off? Um, at least they were covering their cut??

    http://www.fda.gov/food/guidancecomplianceregulatoryinformation/guidancedocuments/sanitation/ucm056174.htm

    I worked at a sub shop in NC, Baldinos.., they made me where those blue condom look a like things over my bandaid. =|
  • mamamc03
    mamamc03 Posts: 1,067 Member
    A WHOLE CATERPILLAR in a CAN of organic green peas!! I found it when I lifted my fork about to eat a bite....I 'bout hurled!! I will NEVER again buy canned veggies!!!...which was probably a good thing in the long run!
  • emnk5308
    emnk5308 Posts: 736
    I was at my grandmas house and went to get a Swiss Roll.. I bit into it and it was Sour.. =( Chocolate isn't supposed to be sour.
  • Chrystibel
    Chrystibel Posts: 116 Member
    A WHOLE CATERPILLAR in a CAN of organic green peas!! I found it when I lifted my fork about to eat a bite....I 'bout hurled!! I will NEVER again buy canned veggies!!!...which was probably a good thing in the long run!

    LOL yea...I dumped out a can of organic corn for my kids and there was a whole worm caterpillar thing in it... that's a little too organic for my taste.
  • BondBomb
    BondBomb Posts: 1,781 Member
    I used to work in food micro. And yes we were allowed to pass a certain number of insect parts and rodent hairs per sample. The number was actually alarmingly high.
    I lost so much weight working there. I once received a pack of sausage casings for testing. The sample was full of maggots. That one didn't pass.

    When I was in 4th grade though a girl next to me opened up her HOT lunch. Peeled back the foil and a huge spider crawled out of the steaming spaghetti. I have been traumatized since.
  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
    Maggots or some other larvae in a packet of Swiss Miss. And I didn't notice until I got to the bottom of the mug.
  • luv_lea
    luv_lea Posts: 1,094 Member
    A fly. Never really been fond of buffet's since. Uck.
  • tmos512
    tmos512 Posts: 119 Member
    I found a FEATHER in the breading of a spicy chicken sandwich at McD's.
  • garnetsms
    garnetsms Posts: 10,018 Member
    ^^^AWW, is that avatar cute or what?
  • lucyster92
    lucyster92 Posts: 51 Member
    a fake finger nail in my custard when eating a school meal.
  • tmos512
    tmos512 Posts: 119 Member
    :flowerforyou:
    ^^^AWW, is that avatar cute or what?

    Thanks!
  • d0gma
    d0gma Posts: 3,966 Member
    I got a slice of pizza once from a Wal-Mart food court and found one of those little silica gel packs (found in medicine bottles to absorb moisture) under a pepperoni! I talked to the manager about it who didn't see what the big deal was; he just told me to throw it away!

    They put those in lots of things. Including bags of sliced pepperoni.
  • Diary_Queen
    Diary_Queen Posts: 1,314 Member
    Ok, totally gross.... I went to a chinese buffet one time and got a huge pile of fried rice. I always used a large spoon to scoop the rice because I'm clumsy and wanted to basically shovel food in my face (pre-MFP days). I take the first huge scoop and in the rice there's a giant cockroach, on it's back... legs flailing because I'm sure I whapped it with the spoon while it was trying to get it's grub on as well. Had the people I was with go get the manager, but before they could get there, the roach died.... in my rice.... OMG :sick:
  • Chantal34
    Chantal34 Posts: 128
    I was going through a head of romaine lettuce yesterday and found a moth in one of the leaves. Out the entire thing went!
  • Lidenbrock
    Lidenbrock Posts: 47
    caterpillar large juicy and green inching across my lettuce at a fast food restaurant.
  • d0gma
    d0gma Posts: 3,966 Member
    When I was young my parents ordered pizza, my slice had a nice blue thumb tack (push pin) baked in it. I bit down on it and it stabbed my gum.
    My dad, PO'd, called the place and the guy says,....these things happen and hung up on him???:huh:

    Well, you can't call him a liar.
  • AllisonMart
    AllisonMart Posts: 155 Member
    Suddenly I'm not hungry anymore. Thanks everyone!
  • galegetsthin
    galegetsthin Posts: 1,340 Member
    Oh, one time, a girlfriend and I were about to have wine and spaghetti at her house. She opened a can of prego, and there was a small, tomato covered, dead rat. I had been telling her all afternoon that was not real spaghetti, she should have listened.
  • XXXMinnieXXX
    XXXMinnieXXX Posts: 3,459 Member
    well if you want to curb your appetite just have a seat and read this thread!!

    This! X
  • mamamudbug
    mamamudbug Posts: 572 Member
    A bee in a can of LaChoy Chicken Chow Mein.

    A friend found larva in Hershey's Kisses. She contacted them and they sent her coupons. Sadly, it seems to be a common occurrence for them.
  • jcjsjones
    jcjsjones Posts: 571 Member
    This wasn't me but my friend found a dead grasshopper in her salad. It was also a fast food place but can't remember which one.

    Nice.

    I had a co-worker who found a band aid in his burrito at Chipotle.

    My hubby found a band aid in his salad at a hotel restaurant. Very gross,...and the restaurant refused to comp the meal!!
  • Lady_Bane
    Lady_Bane Posts: 720 Member
    maggots in my mac and cheese box
  • Lady_Bane
    Lady_Bane Posts: 720 Member
    This wasn't me but my friend found a dead grasshopper in her salad. It was also a fast food place but can't remember which one.

    Nice.

    I had a co-worker who found a band aid in his burrito at Chipotle.

    My hubby found a band aid in his salad at a hotel restaurant. Very gross,...and the restaurant refused to comp the meal!!

    KAHWHHAAAATTTT?! WOAH
  • cabaray
    cabaray Posts: 971 Member
    Once, I found raw fish in my sushi :sick:
  • kritik
    kritik Posts: 110 Member
    Two weeks ago...I found a GIANT June Bug in my Broccoli Beef at our local Chinese Restaurant. I about died! :noway:
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