# The most disgusting thing you ever found in food. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 27, 2004, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-disgusting-thing-you-ever-found-in-food/247293 "2004-05-27T04:10:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![RainGrowsBrite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@RainGrowsBrite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RainGrowsBrite)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-disgusting-thing-you-ever-found-in-food/247293/41 "2004-05-27T19:16:39Z")
When I was a bit younger I found a worm in my Kudos Candybar. A huge fat worm! It was so sick! My brother was with me at the time and till this day you wont catch either of us eating a Kudos. ---
**Author:** ![porcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@porcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/porcupine)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-disgusting-thing-you-ever-found-in-food/247293/42 "2004-05-27T19:22:38Z")
A friend of mine found a cockroach suspended in Jello at a work cafeteria. I once had a spider crawl out of my salad that I made at the salad bar at a (different) work cafeteria. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-disgusting-thing-you-ever-found-in-food/247293/43 "2004-05-27T19:35:58Z")
I went to this skanky Hardee’s once and got a steak biscuit. I took one bite and was about to take another, when I saw a human front tooth. In full frontal view. Right in the crevisse of my bite mark. I thought it was mine at first, and checked, but mine was still there. I wonder if somebody fell into the rendering vat or something. ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-disgusting-thing-you-ever-found-in-food/247293/44 "2004-05-27T19:41:29Z")
One time I found ants in a package of chocolate covered raisins. I can’t eat them without thinking I’m eating ants. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-disgusting-thing-you-ever-found-in-food/247293/45 "2004-05-27T19:59:29Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > Eventually, my physicist brother was called in to solve the mystery (by this time, the “rule” was that you couldn’t cut it open). He put it under an x-ray machine. Parts of a skeleton were seen inside … it turned out that the thing was a partly rotted and then mummified mouse (it had no hair, limbs or other visible features). Mouse Mummy! Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! Little wee sarcophagus… little wee tomb… in a little wee pyramid… Little King Luvcheesekhamen! ---
**Author:** ![Kiki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kiki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiki)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-disgusting-thing-you-ever-found-in-food/247293/46 "2004-05-27T20:04:45Z")
My story is _very_ mild compared to others I’ve read here!! I always seem to be the one to get a hair in my food when we eat out but I’ve also found fingernails and rubber gloves. Worst thing I ever found in my food was a fly that was in my salad. Apparantly it had gotten stuck in the dressing… it’s wings were still flapping a bit. My brother found a deep fried cockroach in his fries from McDonald’s once. My mother-in-law and father-in-law were eating at a truck stop outside of Salina and my MIL had ordered an omlett. After eating about half of it she went to cut another bite and a humongous cockroach _crawled_ out of her omlett and onto the plate. My MIL let out a squeal and my FIL went outside to the parking lot and puked. ---
**Author:** ![Satyricon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f05b48/32.png) [@Satyricon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satyricon)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-disgusting-thing-you-ever-found-in-food/247293/47 "2004-05-27T20:27:52Z")
Ugh. Now I don’t know what’s worse, the bug or the human organic material in your food? The bugs are creepy b/c their origin & internal contents are usually a mystery. But with people bits, you can guess where they’ve been…and sometimes that’s pretty scary too! Like the tooth in the steak biscuit…probably a kid’s baby tooth…and that same kid probably at some time picked his/her nose and chewed the boogie…with that same tooth…(sorry for any mental images, **Knowed Out** 😉 ) ---
**Author:** ![Greywolf73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d9b06d/32.png) [@Greywolf73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greywolf73)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-disgusting-thing-you-ever-found-in-food/247293/48 "2004-05-27T20:46:45Z")
Oh, I’d definitely take a bug in my food over human organic material any day, if I had a choice. Except for maggots. Or spiders. I once found a large, yellowed fingernail in a can of pork and beans. To this day, I can’t even look at a can of pork and beans without feeling gaggy. ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-disgusting-thing-you-ever-found-in-food/247293/49 "2004-05-27T20:57:52Z")
Years ago a friend took me out to a fairly upscale Italian restaurant, wonderful food, and we were having a lovely time. He was teasing me because when I eat ravioli, I will peel off the top layer of pasta, consume the filling, then eat the bottom layer. He told me it was funny that I ate like a wee child, whilst he was scarfing his down whole. Then I peeled back a ravioli top, and said, ‘Oh, hallo, it’s looking back at me.’ He laughed, then leaned over to look, and went a bit green – an entire moth had been flattened and cooked into the ravioli, and its flat, dead little eyes were peering up at him. Not for the first time am I glad I have ‘eccentric’ eating habits. By the way – even though we showed the waitress and then the manager, they insisted we had to pay for the meal. We didn’t. The _daftest_ thing I ever found in food was one dark winter evening when I went out to feed my sheep – I’m used to field mice getting into the corn and feed barrels through wee holes they’ve chewed in the lids, but this night I reached in, and realised in the dim light, a possum was lying curled up in the feed… ---
**Author:** ![moonstarssun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@moonstarssun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moonstarssun)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-disgusting-thing-you-ever-found-in-food/247293/50 "2004-05-27T21:24:55Z")
I was guilty of knowingly serving contaminated food once. We had a sugar ant problem in our apartment from the guy upstairs (he made his own beer–got evicted, but left his ants behind). I was making a German chocolate cake for Mr. moonstarssun’s bday, running late with company coming. I was making the frosting and got to the point where it was time to dump the coconut into the heated ingredients. I normally checked all our food before using it because of the ants, but this was an unopened package. When I dropped the coconut into the hot pan, I noticed… wiggling. A bunch of ants had found a way into the closed bag. So, with guests on their way any minute and no time to go get more coconut, I opted to serve the ant cake. They were thoroughly cooked, and no one noticed anything strange. ---
**Author:** ![Vision\_of\_Love](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Vision\_of\_Love](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vision_of_Love)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-disgusting-thing-you-ever-found-in-food/247293/51 "2004-05-28T07:44:06Z")
I once found a tiny green caterpillar in a box of Glosette peanuts. I wouldn’t eat Glosettes for a few years after that. One time I filled up a glass with water while looking elsewhere and I drank from the cup. When I looked down at it I saw maybe four tiny, dead cockroaches in my cup, floaters and sinkers. I felt around my mouth with my tongue for anything small and solid and I didn’t find anything that I could easily spit out (I probably swallowed a couple of them) so I took another glass, filled it, and drank lots of water. If I had indeed swallowed those things, I wanted them digested and gone in my stomach acids ASAP! ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-disgusting-thing-you-ever-found-in-food/247293/52 "2004-05-28T13:06:49Z")
> [@Eats\_Crayons](#): > > Mouse Mummy! Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! > > Little wee sarcophagus… little wee tomb… in a little wee pyramid… > > Little King Luvcheesekhamen! Well, now that you mention it, a pyramid in the backyard for it _does_ seem appropriate … 😉 [Actually, I’m not sure what happened to the little corpse - my bro probably still has it] But whatever funeral arrangements may be appropriate for Little King Luvcheesekhamen, my instant rice is _not_ among them. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-disgusting-thing-you-ever-found-in-food/247293/53 "2004-05-28T13:23:07Z")
When I was six or so I took a box of Lucky Charms out of the cupboard, opened the box, and found those little moth larvae/ceral bugs/whatevers. Another time, only a few years after that, I took some Chips-A-Hoy cookies out of the cupboard. I was walking back to my room when I noticed an ant on my shirt. I looked down at the cookies and the entire thing was infested with ants. When I was in elementary school there were rumors going around that someone had found a cigarette butt in their chocolate milk. Not sure if it was true or not, but now I always associate chocolate milk with cigarette butts. I always associate Lucky Charms with those little larvae things too. ---
**Author:** ![Satyricon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f05b48/32.png) [@Satyricon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satyricon)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-disgusting-thing-you-ever-found-in-food/247293/54 "2004-05-28T14:03:24Z")
> [@Rabid Child](#): > > When I was six or so I took a box of Lucky Charms out of the cupboard, opened the box, and found those little moth larvae/ceral bugs/whatevers. Maybe they were just one of the new marshmallow shapes?.. Blue moons, purple horseshoes, red balloons, white larvae! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-disgusting-thing-you-ever-found-in-food/247293/55 "2004-05-28T14:37:42Z")
Most disgusting thing I’ve ever found in food? Mayonnaise. ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-disgusting-thing-you-ever-found-in-food/247293/56 "2004-05-28T16:32:50Z")
Man. Some real stomach turners in this thread. The worst thing I ever found was a piece of wire in my burrito in a Mexican restaurant somwhere in California. It looked like something came off the grill scrubber. Waiter didn’t care, cook didn’t care, manager didn’t care. They said they’d take it off the bill but I don’t think they did. ---
**Author:** ![smoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@smoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smoke)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-disgusting-thing-you-ever-found-in-food/247293/57 "2004-05-28T19:12:19Z")
One time, I noticed that my Mac n Cheese was infested with the dried-out husks of what I assumed were maggots. Unfortunately, this was AFTER I had taste-tested them repeatedly while going for Al Dente. The grossest thing I ever saw was when I was working in food service at a _Boston_-based _college_- I was eating linch with one of the coos, who was having a sub with pre-chopped pickles in it. He suddenly bit down on something hard. It turned out to be a filling. He didn’t have any fillings. ---
**Author:** ![smoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@smoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smoke)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-disgusting-thing-you-ever-found-in-food/247293/58 "2004-05-28T19:13:24Z")
I was eating ‘lunch’ with one of the ‘cooks’. ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-disgusting-thing-you-ever-found-in-food/247293/59 "2004-05-28T19:19:44Z")
> [@moonstarssun](#): > > . . .So, with guests on their way any minute and no time to go get more coconut, I opted to serve the ant cake. They were thoroughly cooked, and no one noticed anything strange. Hey, if you’re ever in Connecticut, stop on by. We’ll have rice and cake. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-disgusting-thing-you-ever-found-in-food/247293/60 "2004-05-28T22:11:31Z")
Eating lunch in college, 1964. We had Subs(Hoagies) that day. Sat down, and was gonna put mayo on it. (I know–disgusting). Took off the top, and for whatever reason, I lifted up the piece of lettuce that was there. Perhaps it just was not centered enough to suit me. Under the lettuce was the single **largest housefly I have ever seen in my life. Dead.** Normally I would have just slopped on some mustard, mayo, or whatever any other day. Providence saved me. Now I wonder—how many critters have I eaten in my life by NOT looking? :eek: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-disgusting-thing-you-ever-found-in-food/247293.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-disgusting-thing-you-ever-found-in-food/247293.md?page=4)