Last Friday, YumSugar discovered a random strand of blue thread in her salad. It was disgustingly attached to a piece of feta cheese. We got to talking about gross things we've come across in restaurant food. Whether it's as simple as a piece of hair or as gag inducing as a rat, we've all had bad experiences with finding things in our food. It's time for you to spill the beans: what's the grossest thing you've come across?
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A blue rubber band garnishing my chow mein...blah
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I once got a sandwich from a food truck with some hair that, like Jude, did NOT look like if came from someone's head! Also once I was sitting in a booth right by the kitchen in a restaurant and there were cockroaches crawling on the walls around us! They comped our food but we always refer to it as the cockroach restaurant...and we will never go back!
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ugh- i found a cockroach on my pizza! i can never order from that place again!
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A piece of mop on my burger from McDonalds
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A screw in the middle of my burrito. I have no idea how that would have gotten in there and if it was really accidental or if the chef is freakin' nuts. Fortunately, I was eating it with a fork and knife.
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A potato wedge from KFC that tasted like urine. I still can't think about it without cringing.
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My mother once drank from a cup of coffee and as she was drinking saw a cockroach crawl out the other side. *shudder*
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A domino's pizza name tag that said "Shannon" right in the middle of our pizza. When we called she said "I wondered where that went"
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Ohmygosh YumSugar - your poor mother. I would've absolutely died if that happened to me.
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I am officially not going out for lunch today.
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I had a long stand of black hair in my turkey burger once. I was so grossed out.
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Same here with the hair that did not come from the head. Ewww.
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A friend had a maggot in a burger. When presented with the option of ordering something else, he got a spaghetti bolognese. Stupid boy. I've had: head hair in burger. head hair in salad. head hair in pasta. non-head hair on pasta. paint chips on burger. Alternate ingredients in food and drink were at the base of negligence in English tort law (cf. Donoghue v. Stevenson):
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honestly i've never had anything worse than a hair that may have come from my own head
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god these are sooo gross! I am lucky! Worst I have had is someone else's hair. Also had a pizza that must have come frozen (the place claimed their pizzas were fresh) because when they served it, it had a label baked on the bottom!
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And that's why I make a point in NOT going out to eat!! Well, except at high end restaurants, but indeed not very often, just anniversaries and birthdays maybe.
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Oh uuugh so many of these are so gross. Worst one: probably the potato wedge that tasted like urine. UGH! Also, the non-head hairs. Aaack. I've had hairs in my food, but all head hairs. And that's bad enough! The cockroach crawling out of the coffee??? Ughhh I don't know how I'm going to eat lunch now lol
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A live caterpillar in my Thai food.
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2 cockroaches slowwwwwwwly crawled out of a loaf of bread my friends and I were chomping on and praising how soft and delicious it was. oh, and found squiggly short hair in my Pho Hoa soup. (all the guys' reaction: "HA! PUBESSSSSSSS!") so sorry for ruining your day! It makes me gag everytime too.
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A tick in my pizza, hairs and once as a little girl i got glass in my noodles and i almost swallowed it too. My sister in law got a cockroach in her lemon pie and whats worse ate it and then had to throw it all up
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A non-head hair in my veggie wrap, and the worst was a LONG (like two feet long) blonde hair in my eggs at a breakfast place. All the cooks had short black hair, and there weren't any female waitresses. I almost threw up on the table. But, they manager was really nice, told me if I needed to go the hospital, they'd pay all my medical bills. But still, absolutely disgusting to pull it from my plate. Blech!
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Nothing gross in my foods. But I found 2 dead flies in the soy sauce bottle that I was about to use..
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A moth in a bagged salad mix I bought at the grocery store...And then as most people hair in my food at resturants. :shudders: Some of these stories are so gross...
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i found a vein in my spicy chicken from wendys once. my friend found a tooth in a school lunch once.
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My friend found a fly in his burrito and then took it back and they gave him free coupons for more burritos! haha
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I've been lucky with restaurant food since I've never found anything gross (knock on wood) but I bought a sandwich at a convenience store once and ate a few bites, thought it tasted weird, so I opened it up and the whole thing was COVERED in a thick layer of mold. Also I had a big, nasty caterpillar in a bag of lettuce, and a few weekends ago, my boyfriend and I were attempting to have a romantic weekend in the mountains, so we had champagne and strawberries. WELL I went to grab a strawberry (we had ate half of them already) and this big disgusting daddy long leg was emerging from them. SO GROSS!!!! Also, a bit of a mood killer
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I once went to a Japanese restaurant - the green tea that they served was kind of minty - only later I found out that there is a piece of gum stick at the bottom of the cup.
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i bit into an egg roll and there was a chinese newspaper inside instead of the normal things that go into an egg roll. When i took it back they asked if i wanted another one. Like I would ever eat there again. After that i didn't egg rolls for years. Just started again recently and even now I'm very cautious of the 1st bite.
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A ladybug stuck to a piece of lettuce on a burger at Hamburger Hamlet. A slug in my salad at Ruby's. A beetle in a can of Vons (Safeway) kidney beans. A yellow jacket in a bottle of Safeway chocolate milk- TWICE. I no longer buy Vons or Safeway brand anything. My sister has found feather in McDonald's chicken sandwiches twice. She won't eat there anymore.
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I have had the hair thing happen, who hasnt? My sister found a Lee press on nail in a Big Mac. It was pink
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OMG how did I forget this. My brother got a gyro full of dead spiders!!!! I totally thought he was on Boiling Point or something when he told me (but no)
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Oh my god. The tooth in the school lunch thing almost made me vomit. For serious! My worst was a knucklebone in a chicken nugget. Absolutely nauseating.
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Hair, obviously. Unfortunately it is a regular occurence at my house with the dogs. Gross but for some reason it doesn't gross me out as much as a humans hair LOL! A staple in my burger @ Rally's.
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I've never understood how pubes get on food?!?! Seriously, HOW?!!?!?
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The tip of a plastic glove in my "seafood noodle soup" from Vietnamese restaurant. I bite on it and thought that was one tough squid. I haven't been to that restaurant since that time.
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Too funny macgirl. Once found a piece of glass in ice cream and of course hair.
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Cockroach in Nachos, plastic in salad, and a band-aid in soup. Thankfully, I found all of those before actually putting them in my mouth!! Barf.
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kinda unrelated, but a friend of mine is a vegetarian and ordered a vegetarian pita one night after the bar, and when she bit into it, it wasn't just the wrong pita, but it had every single type of meat you could IMAGINE inside of it - like it was a pita made with steak, chicken, bacon, gyro meat etc. obviously they did it to spite her or to play a trick on her or something because it's not something anyone would ever order. not that i care, but for a vegetarian i can only imagine that's pretty gross another friend found a screw in a pita from the same place once too (we finally realized a screw likely came from a metal spatula, verily!)
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A strand of black hair in the middle of my crab cake. I found a bug in my salad from Ruby Tuesday's that I made from the salad bar. They comped my salad bar.
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I've found a living maggot in my egg roll from a greasy spoon Chinese restaurant. Broken glass in a bagel at another Manhattan diner.
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Broken glass.
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my mom and i were at the OLIVE GARDEN one day and got the salad that comes with your meal in the big bowl..and there was a worm in ours - i thought that i was going to be SICK!!!!!
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OMG, this is all so gross! I have never found anything, but this makes me think about all of the gross things I have potentially eaten that I didn't know about! Actually, now that I think of it, I found a rubber band in a ravioli dish I ordered at Macaroni Grill. Have never been back!
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I found a fake fingernail in a burrito once and a band aid in my burger from Wendy's.
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Two giant ants crawling out of my fruit salad at a local family restaurant. I will never go back!
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A hair that obviously didn't come from someone's head.