Gross Things Found in Food

What's this fly doing in my soup? "The backstroke"

I once ordered a Salisbury steak from a restaurant, and when I cut it a live roach ran out of it and scampered away. I didn't leave a big tip when I left.

During lunch at a Chinese restaurant, I noticed a commotion at the table across the aisle. The patron was yelling at the restaurant manager and pointing at his dish.

"What Is That!" What Is That!" He kept repeating in a load voice. The manager finally said meekly "A Band-Aid?" Yup, there was a round band-aid that look like it slipped off of the food preparer's finger.

The manager instead of apologizing, went into a litany about how "He could see how taht could happen, it was no big deal, could happen to anyone."

Heee-Yuck! :sick: I never returned...

Wally.

This is why eating out is so bad for you. Forget the fat, calories, or price...this is nasty.

I know someone who works in a resturant as a waitress and she spits in people's drink that she hates. So don't piss off the waiters/waitresses for your own sake!

When I lived in Iowa, a Perkins served me a fried cricket with my sausage. The waitress just about fainted when she saw it. The cricket didn't just happen along at the last minute either, he was visibly fried golden brown on both sides.

The manager acted much like the band-aid one above, he told me it could happen anywhere and it wasn't a big deal then he actually got rude with me.

All I really wanted was an apology, not an excuse, not an attitude, a simple "I'm sorry". No buts, no lies, just a simple little "I'm sorry" would suffice.

Instead he gets rude and follows me to the door where a lobby full of people could hear his response. Half the lobby followed me out.

>> I know someone who works in a resturant as a waitress and she spits in people's drink

That's just immature.

The finger story sounds like bunk though. People plant crap in food all the time and threaten to sue. Lazy SOBs should go out and get a job instead of trying to scam people. This is why I hate people.

Eating in a mexican restaurant in Hawaii, my wife (at the time) found a roach in a burrito. The manager took the plate to the back to get a better look. When he came back, he was very apologetic abd admitted it was a roach, and of course, wrote off the bill. It wouldn't have bothered me. I sat there and continued to eat while she was in the bathroom throwing up. I was in the Army at the time. Once you've had mess hall food, even roaches don't seem that bad.

Lol. Bugs, I could probably handle...it's the mammals that would be disgusting. Icky hair & tails. I have found singular pieces of human hair in my food...I don't really complain, b/c it could be mine. I lose hair all over the place. In fact, our vacuum stopped picking things up off the floor b/c my hair had wrapped around the little brush thing.

As some have said above, what would be reasonable to expect would be an apology. Why do people think that experiencing something gross is worth a huge financial settlement?

There was an article in my newspaper the other day about a man who found a large piece of skin, with what looked like a fingerprint pattern, in his chicken sandwich (they didn't identify the restaurant). When someone (I don't remember if it was police or just sanitation people) investigated, they found the manager wearing latex gloves and a thick wad of guaze on his thumb. Turned out he'd sliced a good bit of skin off of his thumb and didn't throw the food he was preparing away.

You do have to make something of a leap-of-faith to eat food prepared by anonymous strangers, out of view. I'm surprised more people aren't bothered by the idea, really.

After all, it's not your momma who loves you making your dinner back there. It's just some guy who doesn't give a crap about you, who's making the hundredth identical meal of the day, and if something falls in, oh well, it's almost quitting time anyway.

Incidentally, it's this very food/stranger anxiety that leads to the popularity of Contaminated Food urban legends. Not that the legends can keep up with reality....

I get a little freaked out at restuarants. I like Ramano's for that reason. I can see their kitchen, which means others can see their kitchen. That means that someone can ALWAYS see what they're doing.

I also tend not to go thru the drive-thru at fast food places. You can usually see into their kitchens as well...

Most of these are just your typical food-contamination anecdotes, but there's something sublime about that deep-fried chicken head. I like the way every detail of the head is clearly discernable. That should win some kind of prize-- as art, if not as food.

The story about Juanita's menudo is strange because (a) Tripe is the main ingredient of menudo, not a contaminant, and (b) If you're already eating tripe stew, what difference does a finger or two make?

"... when the woman found a mouse in her bowl of vegetable soup..."

A limerick I remember from my infancy:

There was young man at Purdue
Who discovered a mouse in his stew.
Said the waiter: "Don't shout
And display it about,
Or the Seniors will all want them too."

One of my friends had a boyfriend that worked at burgerking...he told her that if someone pulls into the drive through that they dont like,they will spit in your drink/or food. Some people are just plain nasty !!!

you say it's nasty, i say it's COOL

well, i went to an italian restaurant and ordered this seafood pasta dish. i had eaten maybe half of the meal when my mind kept telling me to look at the veggie garnish to the left. so when i did, i saw this white thing in my pepper. now i thought it was just part of the bell pepper, you know where soft part is under the stem. until....i flipped it over....oh no....it was a tiny WORM that had crawled itself into a ball!!!! and mind you,it was still ALIVE!!! it moved in slow motion like it had been frozen or chilled. i basically sat there frozen trying not to vomit!! basically the manager charged us nothing, and even wanted to give us more food, which i passed on.

I am sorry that you had to go through with that Esther.

I was at an italian restaraunt once and I had a bunch of metal in my spaghetti. Also some tin foil. I already ate most of the meal. All of the crap was at the bottom. (it was in a bowl of some sort)

My dad's rude to the window people at fast food, I bet he gets spit in his food all the time. I warn him all the time......

i was at a pizza express one time, and pretty much at the end of the ham and cheese i was having, i felt something real hard in my bite, spiting it out it looked like a pellet or a small piece of hardened solder, you no like at school you'd melted the wire into tiny balls with the iron.

i told the manager and he told me it was a gun pellet used for shooting game, but i was eating ham?! and pretty sure there was no game in any dishes. either way he apologised then brought me another pizza! but i was so full from the first i asked if he could just clear the bill, or give us free desserts, but the bugger refused, so i left

What could be more gross than a "hot sauce booger" ?
http://grownupgeek.blogspot.com/2006/06/hot-sauce-boogers.html

u no wat i think all that stuff is just like fake except maybe waiters doin some of but thats about all and they have all the right dont be rude to them they r just doin there jobs so yeah u wouldnt if they came to ur work and were rude to u for doin ur job would ya?
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one time i ate a double cheeseburger from Mcdonalds. It was in my fridge, i ate it as soon as I got home,because i was so hungry. Then i realized that something was stuck between my teeth when i was eating. It felt really weird. Then i took it out and discovered it was a toe nail!!! It was still fully formed. I was so grossed out!!1 I called my mom and told her my story. She told me to keep it. I washed it and put it on a tissue paper on top of our kitchen table. So next time be careful if you eat hamburgers in any restaurants.

I was cooking dinner and I warmed up some Peas from from a can. I took a few bites and then stirred it. What happened next almost made me get sick! Since when did peas contain brown flesh? I am not sure if it was part of a rat or something but it definitely should not have been in there.

i was easting a muller crunch corner when i felt somthing that didnt quit crunch when i got it out my mouth it was a magot i was nearly sick i washed

I once sucked up a fingernail through my straw at a Red Lobster.

There was cockroach in my chicken.. wait no.. IT WASN'T EVEN CHICKEN. It was like a hollow shell of fried nothingness. Yeah I know disgusting.. it's like the cockroch just went in there and ate everything.. and like made a home. EW! :gulp:

i,m doing a project so keep it comin'

A canadian, EH

This is what I recently sent to a local restaraunt who pissed me off....

I just wanted to bring to your attention that I recently dined at our local ********'s in (place) and I got a side of coleslaw with what looked like a pubic-type hair mixed into it. I was very disgusted and I am rather relieved that I do not care for coleslaw otherwise I would have been even more upset than I am at the fact that I could have possibly consumed a remnant of someones genitalia. I am not looking for compensation merely mentioning that I will not be going to this ********'s in the future. Quite frankly, if I wanted a testicle hair in my mouth, I would engage in a homosexually explicit relationship. Thank you.

i'm only in the 8th grade going to high school next year and i found about 4 or 5 things in my lunch. so far i've found an eyelash, a thick hair that was either a nose, chest or chin hair!!! and my twin sis found a fingernail. last week i found a wire in my chicken nuggets!!!

I once found a peice of gray hair in my soup. I only in 6th grade so they sould make sure that crap like that don't end up in children's food.
another time my friend Yary found a rusted peice of wire in her mashed potatoes, when she saw it she threw her tray down and started to cry. i mean what the HELL :exclaim:
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A piece of used toilet paper in the between the lettuce and mayo on your burger

my stepdad found an old rusty staple in his salad one time...ouch

omg! about a year ago i was at wendys and i was drinking a dr.pepper
and wen i got finished with the drink i went to get a re-fill the lady asked if i would take the cap off and i did i saw something black in my cup. and and it was a dead cock roach!! i ran into the bathroom and threw up the lady gave me my money back and a free frostey and a large drink and apologized....i still try not to eat there food though!! :sick:

Dude,i'm in 4th grade and my friend's sister found an armpit hair fryed into her fryed chicken at school
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Yes i have also know some the stories that have happened but people in the hotel are seems to be no manner to supply us with those unhygienic foods.

yesterday I found a fly and a thick piece of hair in my chinese food. I have never trusted chinese resturants, and now I will never again eat Chinese food.

omg this one time i was in a restaurant and this guy goes how r u an i sed good and then a booger flew out of his nose and in to my soup!!!!!!!!!!!!

1) There is a pizza place 5 minutes from where I live so my dad goes there all the time. I have lost count of how many times I have found hair in the pizza and even in their subs. I once also found a rather long white piece of string cooked into the cheese.
2)Dead worm curled around a pistachio. I never had pistachios before and so I wanted to trie them. Bad first impression.
3)Can of corn...something black was attached to one of the corn pieces....now I never eat canned corn anymore
4)I was having a bowl of Apple Jacks cereal; I thought it tasted weird and off, chemical like but I just considered it a figment of my imagination type thing. Another day I had another bowl of Apple Jacks, still tasted off, and I started to get sick but I passed that off as a result of something else. Later on I had another bowl of the cereal, still tasted chemically weird, and after I ate about 5 spoons of the ceral I notice the culprit. There was an Apple Jack piece covere dwith this huge gob of some black substance.... it also smelled quite gross. I ended up taking that piece and I showed my mom a day later, she agreed that it smelled gross and she couldn't come up with a possible explanation of what it was either. Rest of the ceral got thrown away. I will never eat Apple Jacks again.

Oh, I almost forgot. 5)Every summer my dad would get corn for corn on the cob. Sometimes he gets it from the grocery store and sometimes from relatives or friends. I don't know where he got this corn but he ordered for me to husk them. the first cob I husked was fine. When I opened the second cob, I see a small white owrm or maggot, whatever it's called. I turn the cob over and I see 6 more of the creatures. I freak out and hurl the cob away from me. I look at the husk in the pale and notice mroe worms on that even. I gather up my courage and figure it was just that cob and I husk another cob, more of the dusgusting creatures. Now I refuse to husk corn ever again and I am still leary of eating corn on the cob.

On May 11, in Winnipeg, a couple found a baby rodent in their stir fry at a chinese restaurant in the food court. they found the first one, and later found another one. That is absolutely disguesting, and that restaurant should be permanently shut down.

I was visiting New York with my auntie once, and we went out to this nice little cafe for breakfast. I can't eat that early in the morning so I didn't eat anything, but my auntie's friend had gotten into the bad American habbit of ordering one of everything. As she was eating her scrambled eggs, she noticed a hair that looked like a pube (sorry to use that word but it did look like one). I pointed it out, and I HAD to start laughing. It was so gross, but she dismissed it. Now, she had moved onto her pancake, and there was another pube looking like hair. I was on the floor pissing myself, but the manager didn't charge us for the food lol.

I order from a Chinese place with my credit card and we ate it the next day when all of the sudden I see a fried fly in the fried rice. So I called very dissapointed and I spoke to the owner and he said just to cancel the payment. So I called and they tell me that it was too late that he had taken the money already so I called him back. The Chinese guy tells me that he doesn't really care. That this has happened before and that he doesn't care, but he didn't know that I was recording him, so I showed him and he was speechless he apologize and offered to pay me some extra cash. I said no cause I only wanted my money back and some apologize and when I made my way out I played what I had recoreded.

Well I Was Once In 4th Grade And I Ordered Macaroni And Cheese From My School Canteen And I was taking A Few Spoon Fulls Of it Then I Noticed There Was A Bug That Was Squirming Around In My Mac N Cheese And i Also have Another One My Friends Mum Bought A Villies Sausage Roll And She Bit Into It The Meat Was green And There Were Live maggots In It ^_^ Lol Scary And gross

once at home i was sitting listening to the news when somebody said at chillis they found a heart in their chilli grosssssssssssss,.

I go to McDonalds all the time and I order either double cheesburgers or Bigmacs anyways in more than one occasion I've actuall spit out little tiny white hard pieces, I also remember working there one time and a woman brinimg in a shard of white plastic from her burger, does anyone know what these are/is? And. People who tamper with other peoples food are a disgrace, how do they know that food isn't meant for a child or a sick child at that, I swear people can be so disgusting sometimes!

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okay when i was going to a restraunt i ate undercooked meat and threw up all night 29 times and i was rushed too the hospital :blank:

One day, when I was in school, (Back in Elementary) I was eating some cookies they give, you know the ABC type of things in little small packages. Well, i was eating them, ya know talking to my buddy's and whatnot.. I look down to get another cookie and what do I see? I see a friggin' white-ish Yellow-ish thing moving ! I was like WTF Is that?! It was a worm.. :|.. Oh god, ever since then I don't eat anything at school.. hell no. (puke)

I just want to say that this crap is probably not a hoax unfortunately. When I was 12 years old we went to a local griner/pizza shop to eat. When I bit into my grinder I bit into something very hard and sharp. I pulled the bun apart and found a roughly 2 inch piece of a knife blade that had broken off into the bun of my grinder. It grossed me out so badly and it could have been very dangerous! We NEVER went back. Another time when I went to a Chinese buffet with my mom and daughter I pulled appart a chicken finger and found a long black hair intertwined in the batter. YUCK! Another time I bought some turkey burger to cook at home and made some burgers for my family for dinner. My daughter came to me with her mouth bleeding. She had bitten into a large sliver of glass in her burger. I inspected the left over turkey and found 3 more pieces of glass. I was horrified and all the company had to say was "how do we know you didnt plant it" yeah aholes I want my daughter to eat glass to earn a few bucks! WTF? I have also found a hair in the toppings of a pizza at a local restaraunt so it happens a lot more than anyone wants to admit.

this one time, at band camp, there was this bear.