I hate this thread. I really really hate this thread.
Eating at a local restaurant that I did (and still do) frequent…
I order a coke, and I’m slowly sipping it. No straw for me, I don’t use them.
I take my third sip…and something wriggly and alive comes into my mouth.
I surreptitiously spit it into my napkin.
There is a very alive, very fiesty carpet beetle.
Yum!
I once had lasagna with eggplant in it. Utterly disgusting! Gah! Eggplant!
The whole hair in your food thing… If it grosses you out don’t get pets. When The Little Woman (Only 4 inches tall!) or I find a hair in our food, we have to figure out which dog it came from before we can continue eating.
-Rue.
Hair in food doesn’t bother me either. I just take it out and keep eating. It sucks when you get it in your mouth, but I could think of worse things to have in your food. My parents have a vegetable garden, so I’ve found my fair share of insects and caterpillars in salads. That never bothered me too much either.
About nine years ago, I was eating chocolates, and I bit something small and metallic. I spit out the object, and it looked just like a tooth filling. I thought that I had just lost a filling, but when I went to the dentist two days later, I found out that all of my fillings were still intact. I should have saved the object and sent it to the candy manufacturer, but I threw it away. That brand of candy isn’t made anymore - no great loss!
Minus
I found…
…the crumpled up carbon paper from a manual credit card swipe thingy in a green salad once.
…A large blob of melted white plastic embedded in the bottom part of a burger bun.
…A large rusty metal bolt in a chicken casserole at a motorway service station.
…Numerous hairs in restaurant food.
…A woodlouse in a cooked piece of cauliflower
…A small snail (about the size of a pea) in a tin of peas.
Plus
I ordered a fancy seafood pasta dish at a top local italian restaurant (it had everything in it, big prawns, mussels, little baby cuttlefish, squid rings, chunks of crab meat, (cooked)oysters… - well, I was munching away and I bit down on something hard, I expected it to just be a bit of shell or grit from one of the mussels, but it was a pearl!! yes, a real pearl in my pasta. I still have it somewhere.
What bothers me is what I didn’t find in my food. My house used to be infested with moths, which naturally means that it was also infested with moth larvae. These guys are shaped and coloured exactly like grains of rice, except for the tiny legs and eyes which you can only see when you put them close up to your face. I don’t know how many of them I had eaten before I saw one. I haven’t eaten rice at home since.
I was cutting up a nice fresh cod fillet once, when out crawled a WORM! It was about four inches long and alive. Put me off seafood for almost a year.
I once found a huge moth in a package of frozen spinach.
And I once bought a sack of rice that was infested with these tiny beetles. They were really well established before I noticed them too. It took a major chemical warfare campaign to get rid of them.
Several years ago I read of a woman who found what appeared to be the end of a used condom in a loaf of bread…
[sub]eeeeeewwww yuck phat blech ::shudder::[/sub]
…upon closer examination, it was discovered that it was only the finger of a latex glove apparently lost from one of the bakery employees.
[sub]whew, for a minute there I thought the bakery staff wasn’t sanitary…[/sub]
The problem that I have with hair isn’t so much the cleanliness (it does factor in but), the main problem I have is that it’s just weird. You can’t really chew it, you can’t digest it, it feels weird in my mouth and then pulling it out (especially if it’s a long one) gives me a very disturbing feeling.
Has anyone actually ever REALLY had spit or loogies in their food? You always hear about people saying, like, not to send food back at restaurants because they get pissed and will spit in your food. I know it may be hard to tell if someone HAS actually spit in your food, but have any of you guys ever really experienced something as horrid as that?? What about boogers or semen?? I had a friend when I was in high school (about 15 years old) who worked at a movie theatre in our city. He told me these stories of how him and some other guys he worked with would jack-off into the rubber/plastic tubes that run from the main canister of soda into the actual soda fountain. I wonder if anyone ever tasted it in their Coke?? :eek:
I can’t recall the details since I was really really young but my dad and I had been eating something when looked at the bottom I noticed some wormy things in it.
Me “aaaah aaaahhh aaaaaahh” not screaming, closer moaning
dad “what is it?”
me “worms!” pointing at the food
dad get’s a big smile, gives me a good pat on the back and says “it’s just protein son, it’s good for you.”
I’ve never ever believed that and thank my stars every day I don’t find more stuff in my food. Probably because I only eat once a day.
I’ve been fairly lucky, I can’t think of anything in particular that I have found in my food that was gross, just dirt and grit (and a small pebble in some beans once), or bits of some other food that is served at the same place. I’m a bit leery of refried beans from Taco Bell since hearing about how they are made from a friend who worked there, though. He says they come in big bags of dehydrated bean flakes, which are the same color and size as your typical German cockroach, which usually infest the bags once they have been opened - he said he never went a day where he made the beans where he didn’t see at least one roach in the stuff as he was scooping it out, and he didn’t like to think about how many roaches he DIDN’T see.
My nephew found a big caterpillar in the middle of a canned grean bean once.
I have a friend who used to work in a cake factory, when he got severely brassed off by the management, he would retaliate by rolling up wasps in the Chelsea buns[sup]1[/sup], in place of raisins.
[sup]1[/sup] I’m not sure whether Chelsea buns are all that well known on the other side of the Atlantic (maybe they are, I just don’t know), anyway, it’s a spiral of spiced, sweetened bread dough, rolled up with dried fruit, baked and glazed with syrup.
Magnetout, we DO have Chelsea buns here, but they are referred to as “swirls”.
As for me, I once found a paperclip in a bucket of fried chicken. It was fried right into a drumstick. Lord knows how it got there–my guess is that a manager walked by the fryer with a bunch of papers, and the clip fell off one of the papers into the chicken.
I didn’t tell anyone at the KFC, though.
… But my sister had a rather nasty experience at KFC; she bought a chicken sandwich, bit into it and found that not only was the chicken raw in the middle, but there was a sizeable pocket of blood in the patty itself, she took it back to the counter and they tried to shrug it off, so she went ballistic, but then the manager just dragged her off the premises (without allowing her to pick up the evidence.
Quite a few years ago (at least 10) I bought some steaks from a local grocery store and took them home to cook on the grill. I took one bite of my steak and bit down on something very hard and proceeded to pull a pellet from a shotgun shell out of my mouth. Upon closer inspection, I found several pellets imbedded in my steak. I took the steak back to the store and walked it back to the butcher and he was so shocked and apologetic that I got not 1 but 4 free steaks out of it! And I didn’t even ask for them. I hadn’t even asked for my money back yet for that matter. Wonder what would happen in this day and age if something like that were to happen. Do you think I’d get the same treatment? I doubt it !
Between Angie and myself, we have four cockatiels who are usually free to roam our home. We both tend to have a glass around to drink out of during the day. One day, I had picked up a mug of iced tea I had been drinking earlier. After a few sips, I noticed there was something at the bottom of the mug. You guessed it, it was a bird dropping. If I had noticed this before I drank any, I would have poured the contents down the drain and replaced it with fresh. Since I had already drank some with no ill effects, I decided to finish, then wash the mug.
Back in my retail days at a grocery store…
We had a jar of green olives delivered, still vaccuum sealed,with a huge, black cricket inside.
One night, Mom cooked a ground beef & macaroni meal known to us as ‘goolash’, which we loved. I piled my plate high, then set it on the coffee table in the den. Realizing I’d forgotten to get bread (It was unheard of to eat goolash without bread) I went to the kitchen to grab a couple of slices. When I stepped back into the den, I saw that our newly acquired dog “Chips” had jumped on top of the table, and was helping herself to my dinner.
I didn’t eat that night
Damn, I hated that dog!