Yes, it’s clickbait (two pages), but… 16 Times People Found Some Strange Leaves In Their Food, And Complained About It Online.
SMDH :rolleyes:
At times, I weep for our future. 
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What about the guy who started a whole viral nightmare over the “microscopic fibers” he found in a chicken nugget? Yes, all meat is largely comprised of blood delivery systems called capillaries. Chickens too. You found some actual meat in your McNugget; I understand how disconcerting that might be for you.
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Wow, that is an incredibly Jesusy comment section.
I have to wonder how many are real and how many are just taking the piss. Although I think I must have a far much more optimistic view of humanity than is warranted. But, serious, oak leaf? If that person is no just trolling, has he ever seen a fucking oak leaf in his life? God damn, I’ve lived my whole life in the city and I know what an oak leaf looks like.
At a college banquet one evening many years ago, one of the new hires in the Math department sitting next to me was puzzled by the ingredients in his salad. I knew all the material in it and grew some types in my own home garden. The big puzzlers were the different types of leaf lettuce. He apparently thought all lettuce was the iceberg type*. He kept checking to see if the rest of us were really eating those odd leaves.
How could a grown up, educated person not know about real lettuce?
- I have not eaten iceberg lettuce at home in a very, very long time.
Even if you don’t like it, iceberg lettuce is, factually speaking, real lettuce. I get tired of the snobbery calling food fake just because it’s common or liked by the masses (American masses, in particular - food widely sold in other countries (esp. non-European) often still counts as real even if mass produced).
I guess it’s not surprising that some people wouldn’t recognize a bay leaf. On the other hand, I was always taught that the spine of a bay leaf could puncture your insides if swallowed, so if I found one in my food at a restaurant I might complain too.
Why complain? Why not just not eat it?
iceberg lettuce is superb for tacos, especially with some Crystal hot sauce.
I used to eat at Chipotle, although I have gotten out of the habit lately, but I don’t remember eating any bay leaves.
On cooking shows they always take out the bay leaf before serving the stew or whatever it was in while it was cooking. I thought that they give off their flavor while cooking and then are taken out because the texture is not particularly appealing.
So while I think I would recognize this as a bay leaf, I also think I would be puzzled to find it in my food.
Note: I don’t hardly cook at all, I only watch these shows because they can be entertaining (“Mm, mm, mm, that’s good!”)
Because, according to Wikipedia, bay leaves “remain unpleasantly stiff even after thorough cooking, and if swallowed whole or in large pieces, they may pose a risk of harming the digestive tract or causing choking.” (ETA: Bolding mine)
I use 'em in soup and spaghetti sauce, but I always make sure not to eat them.
Sorry, I wasn’t clear. Why not just pick out the herb and eat the food?
Because, as has been noted, a restaurant runs the risk of serving it to someone who doesn’t know any better, and who might harm their digestive tract by trying to eat it. A restaurant really needs to know if their cooking staff has failed to catch a thing like that. It’s a quality control issue.
This. If a restaurant is cooking with bay leaves, I expect them to be removed from the food before it is served to me.
Huh. I’ve never thought of there being any liability to having a well-known ingredient in my food. It would never occur to me to complain, nor to expect a restaurant to remove them. Weird that people don’t know what bay leaves are.
Well, of course bay leaves should be removed before serving. But how would an adult not know the difference between a bay leaf, tree stems, oak leafs, or basil?
Pre-school children are taught about shapes, sizes, and colors, and NONE of the items mentioned look like the others.
I’ll admit that I didn’t know what the leaf was until it was revealed at the bottom of the page. Don’t think I’ve ever eaten anything flavored with them.
The last time I made stew, I put six bay leaves in, carefully counted, and only ever fished out five in the course of dishing it up. I’m not sure what happened to the last one.
Tzigone, my disdain for iceberg lettuce has nothing to do with the fact that it’s common or popular among the masses. My disdain is based entirely on the fact that it’s completely devoid of all flavor or nutritional value. All it’s got going for it is texture, and celery does that better.
I use bay leaves in quite a bit, and I’m really surprised that so many people don’t seem to know what they are. Oak leaf, really??
But I also don’t get why any restaurant wouldn’t remove them before serving the food, since they’re not actually edible.
It honestly wouldn’t occur to me it’s weird. I’m almost certain I’ve gotten bay leaves in my food before, but I am certain I’ve gotten kaffir lime leaves in my Thai food before, and those aren’t typically eaten, either. Same with the occasional bruised stalk of lemongrass, and I’m sure many other things in other foods that aren’t coming to me. That said, not something I expect in fast food or fast casual.