That’s it, I am never eating ever again. Why do I read these threads?
Morbid curiosity…
Put me off food forever…Excuse me I have to go vomit.
I’m not going to actually read this thread, because I’m too weak-stomached, but I will contribute:
I found a snail in my green curry at a Thai restaurant once. Either garden or aquarium variety, couldn’t tell. It was definitely not an “edible on purpose” snail, not that that would have mattered, since I’m a vegetarian. I’d have been just as grossed out if it had been a piece of chicken, really… but it was a WEIRD thing to find. Shell and all.
Eh, the most I’ve ever run across was a tentacle in my french fries. I’m not sure if it was from a squid or an octopus—I’d guess the former—just that it was disappointingly overcooked and rubbery. Not much flavor to it at all.
feeling thoroughly creeped out having read this (some of you being far too descriptive…)
I never thought you really could find a chick in your egg, makes being vegan rather appealing.
My mum was recently eating a pack of pecan nuts, only to look down and discover a couple of maggots and various bits of, er, maggot stuff. My brothers remark was, ‘were they pecan out at you?’ :smack:
Dh and I were having brunch at a really nice Hotel once . I was helping myself to some seafood salad type stuff with these tong things, trying not to get too much but a huge amt kept getting picked up when I’d grasp this one little bit. I couldn’t figured out what was going on. I finally just put it on my plate cause there was nothing else I could do…when I got back to the table I discovered that in th middle of this mass of salad was a latex glove. The images this conjured up for me were beyond gross.
Never found anything really bad, myself. Once we were at an Olive Garden and found a crumpled up receipt in the bottom of the salad bowl. Another time when I was a kid I was working in the backyard and had a can of Coke with me. I went to take a drink and just as I was raising it to my lips, a bee flew out. Not sure if that counts, since the bee flew into the can when I set it down, but it was still a bit shocking.
I was once at an outdoor event, and set my Dr Pepper on the ground by my campchair. I picked it up a bit later and took a big drink without noticing the can had been swarmed by ants.
Mouthful of ants. Yummy.
My husband had that happen several years ago, except it was a yellowjacket in an oversized straw, poking out of a Mountain Dew. He “discovered” it when he took a sip, and the mad yellowjacket stung the inside of his lower lip. (Thank goodness he didn’t swallow it.) When a popsicle and an emergency ice pack didn’t stop the swelling from making his lower lip feel like it was going to split, antihistamines thankfully began to make the swelling go down.
I had some ants infesting a Toblerone candy bar. I think that’s about it unless you count unacceptable-to-vegetarians food adulteration, like clam chowder mixed in with cream of broccoli soup, animal-based broths hidden in seemingly veg foods, that kind of thing.
Oh, I forgot to mention… About 10 years ago my family was on vacation and we were traveling through Albany. We stopped at a diner on Wolf Road (not the Wolf Road Diner, that place is excellent), I can’t remember the name of it, but a cockroach walked from my mom’s bacon onto her pancakes.
I found a dirty band-aid in a bag of Doritos.
It was a while before I ate Doritos again.
I’ve found a variety of insects, hairs, plastic, etc in food that I’ve eaten over the years. Once I found a live frog in a head of Romaine lettuce I was preparing for a salad.
Like **Ferret Herder’s ** husband, I have had the great misfortune to take a swig of soda and end up with a live yellow jacket in my mouth! That one got me on the inside of my cheek!
I once ordered some fresh rabbit for dinner at a small German restaurant. It was wonderfully prepared and an excellent meal until I bit down on something hard. I spit out a shotgun pellet! Very fresh indeed, probably shot that morning!
I opened a package of Lipton noodles that had been sitting in my cabinet for a little too long, as I discovered, but not until after I had cooked it up and began eating it. After having taken a couple of bites I examined the contents more closely and found several dead weevils amongst the noodles and sauce. Needless to say, I didn’t continue eating from that point forward and changed my lunch plans that day.
There was some type of bug in the hollow of a strawberry I bit into once.
Also, a friend at a restaurant with me found a live slug atop her salad. Her reaction was quite amusing - she daintily pointed to it and said “oh no” (in the same tone as if she said “oh hell no” and had the “hell” spliced out).
I’ve spit out shot when eating duck, also. Rather surprising to bite down hard on.
Also, this one time, I went to Denny’s, and when I got my plate, it had Denny’s food on it! —shudder— 
I live in Florida. In the area I grew up in, no matter how well you tried, you’d end up with little sugar ants in the house. You could kill them and keep food locked away, and they’d still come because the cleaning products smelled tasty. Or something. They’re just tough to get rid of, and they never leave permanently.
One winter when I was in high school, I had left a can of soda open on the counter for about five minutes while I did other things. Well, it may have been closer to an hour; I have a crappy sense of how long it had been. I came back and took a swig; it was full of sugar ants. I did not have soda for a while after that, and nearly six years later, I don’t drink anything I’ve left on the counter for a while that I cannot see through to the contents. It was almost as bad as that one time that a fly flew into the back of my mouth while I was talking; I accidentally swallowed it. Yecch!
I guess I’ve been pretty lucky! I can only relate my Mom’s story of finding a bandaid in the homemade cookie she was eating at a party.
That’s disgusting! Good manners dictate that you remove the food the way it went in, I assume with a fork? 
I once bit into on a Patio burrito and spit out a large chunk of twisted metal.
I mailed it back, telling them they may want to check their equipment, as obviously one of the whisks from their mixers had broken off.
They sent me coupons. I never used them.