Today, I found an eyeball in a package of watermelon slices we bought from the grocery store. I had eaten some of the watermelon, and so had my baby daughter. Needless to say, on discovery of the random eyeball, I pretty much wanted to vomit in every corner of the house.
I brought the package back to the store to demand an investigation, but not before I took pictures of the eye.
Is this a whoosh? It looks like a watermelon seed to me. Or if not that, maybe a black bean. It doesn’t remotely look like an eyeball to me.
I’m with Freudian Slit. Either watermelon seed or bean. Although if we are in the fruit aisle, I could also throw out Papaya seed.
papaya seeds although this one doesn’t seem to be ripe
Does it matter?
I’d say it’s a Scarlet Runner Bean.
buckeye!
It doesn’t look like an eye to me.
It won’t make you feel any better, but it looks more like a roach egg case.. In particular, note the segmentation. A better close-up would be helpful.
It does not resemble a watermelon seed in either shape or coloration.
Oh dear god, why did I click on that link, Colibri? I should have known better…
Yeah, watermelon seeds are kind of slimy…
Sorry guys, the pic isn’t great.
Let me assure you, this was NOT a seed, nor a roach egg case. This had a cornea and an iris.
If you look closely at the pic, you can see the iris.
To be clear, it was an eye. You know when you see fish eyes on the beach? This was like that, only not at all the shape of any fish eye I’ve ever seen.
Also, to make things a bit clearer, the manager of the store VISIBLY RECOILED when he saw it. It was very, very obviously an eye.
It’s too oblong to be an eye.
Well, it wasn’t a full eyeball, to be fair; it was basically, like I said, kind of like fish eyes you see at the beach; it seemed to be just the FRONT part of the eye. Entirely possible it was squashed, or decomposed or something. It certainly seemed discoloured; there appeared to be a “white” of the eye that was blackened.
Beware the eyes of January.
You’re going to have to provide a much, much better picture, and from various angles, before I’m convinced it’s an eye. Also, a cross section would help.
Unfortunately I’ve already brought the package (and the eyeball!) back to the store. I’ve half a mind to go get it back just so I can bring it to a health clinic to make sure my kid and I are safe, but I figure they won’t give it back because they know it’s a liability.
Alll I can say is that most vertebrate eyes are more spherical. If it were a vertebrate eye, it would have to be a slice taken from across the front of the eyeball, rather than the eyeball itself. Also, there is the odd corrugation/segmentation across the upper left.
So it was half an eyeball? :eek:
It’s from a Mexican caught up in the cartel wars.
Well, I know one store manager who will almost certainly get fired tomorrow morning.
They gave it back to me. More eye pics coming.
Here are more pics.
Back of the thing:
http://whatthebeans.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/cimg4369.jpg
http://whatthebeans.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/cimg4371.jpg
Front of it:
http://whatthebeans.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/cimg4372.jpg
