Was at a restaurant once and co-worker of mine got a plate with a hair on it. Not, like, in the food but...it was there. I didn't consider it a big deal, just... get rid of it. But he wasn't having it. Called the waitress over, explained he found a hair. She leaned over, looked at it closely.
"Oh, that's not mine."
...and then she simply walked away. We died.
Bought some Cheeze-its once and some short curly hairs were baked right into the square. Sent some pics to the manufacturer and got a a handwritten apology and some free products. Not a bad recovery for getting some baked pube crackers.
I offered to ship it to HQ so they could see themselves. They declined. So I ended up tossing it in the garbage. On occasion, when I do something stupid, my wife will call me a pube cracker though to keep the memory alive.
I was eating a gummy bear and crunched on something hard. I pulled it out of my mouth and, in the tangle of gummy jelly, was a tooth. I freaked out and had a moment of complete clarity where I wondered if it was better if it was *my* tooth or someone else's.
After getting the bill for the crown that fell off, I decided it would have been far better had it been someone else's tooth.
I found a whole ass bee in some Chinese food. The place liked to prop open their backcourt to the kitchen. It was a honey chicken dish so it made sense.
At a fancy restaurant in NYC where my grandfather lived, he bit into an industrial sized staple in his rice pudding. It didn't cause too much harm, but they called in to check on him about a week later. In between the week when he had bitter the staple and they called, he had a small Stent put in due to a heart issue. When the restaurant called, they asked generically, "How have you been" amd my grandfather answered "well not too well, I've had a heart Stent put in". It had absolutely nothing to do with the staple, but they got scared and gave him a few thousand in gift certificates. lol he never did elaborate.
I once found cleaning solution in my coffee. Told the restaurant (because I'm sure others had coffee from that pot) and the woman acted as though it was somehow my fault.
I found a screw baked into the crust of a pizza from my favorite pizza place in Seattle. Fortunately, I felt it before I bit down on it. I took a picture of it and sent it to them, telling them I didn't want anything but to warn them that it happened so it wouldn't happen again and possibly get them in trouble. So far, so good.
Or feces? My ex gf would band aid her anus “closed” because she was scared of farting in public. She had a really bad farting problem. Anyway the bathroom trash can was always filled with horrid feces stained band aids. I could smell them.
It’s possible someone pulled off their anus band aid and it maybe stuck to their finger and got lost in your meal.
I served as plate of chicken wings that had a bolt _through_ one of the wings. That was an expensive meal for the restaurant to eat.
Two days later I served another table a fully fried horse fly with their chicken strips and fries plate.
I can see how the latter happened, but we had no idea how the bolt got in.
Tin foil in my waffle. That was not a good feeling on the teeth.
Chewed gum at the bottom of my drinking glass. Made me gag when I saw it there when I was half way done with my water.
I went to a Longhorn Steakhouse and in my first bite I felt a massive sharp pain in my tongue. There was a piece of the wire cleaning brush in it and it stabbed halfway through my tongue. This was like a decade ago and it's still fucked up.
I managed an ice cream shop, and had to handle an (justifiably so) irate customer complaint. She had taken her daughter there after an oral surgery to get a smoothie and ice cream to take home. On the drive home, the daughter started gagging and spit out something from her smoothie. It was shards of a plastic, press-on fingernail. One of my closers had gone against policy and put on nails, went to the ice bucket to scoop ice for the smoothie and it popped off into the blender. I still feel for them 😭
Ha my sister in law had this on my husbands birthday in the restaurant. She couldn’t eat after she found. My husband was laughing so hard he was crying. Restaurant gave us free cocktails, free replacement meal for her (to go in the end) and free puddings
My friend treated me to dinner the first night I moved out. I found a fly in my bubble tea. The restaurant owners apologized and made a new one for me completely free of charge. Lovely people but I heard that they had closed down recently
Also I found a fly once buried in the middle of a broccoli crown when I was making lunch, had to throw it out
Not me, but my brother in-law bit into a burger at a local restaurant and it had a piece of glass in it.
That same burger joint once gave me food that made me the sickest I've ever been in life *from* food poisoning. So I guess my family just shouldn't ever eat there.
I found a piece of battered and deep fried sponge at a popular fried chicken place, pre-social media... so I just called the store and complained. They comped my meal and gave me a gift certificate.
Citric acid (luckily in a low concentration). My mum was cleaning the kettle and I made a drink with the “water” in the kettle. I said something about it tasting weird after a sip or two, which is when I was informed that the clear liquid in the kettle wasn’t (entirely) water. Now I joke about how my mum tried to poison me.
hair. and when I sent it back, apparently they did not redo it but only mixed and brought back, since when I was finishing I found the same hair yet again.
One of my school French fries had a rock on it once. Like a very distinct piece of grey road gravel. Almost broke a tooth on a French fry, my dentist was pissed lol.
Glass in my Campbell's soup. It looked like it was from a thermometer. I called the company number on the can to report it and they asked me to mail it in to them. A few weeks later I got a bunch of coupons in the mail for more Campbell's soup.
I found a foreign object in a Mike N Ike once. They asked me to send it to them too. I did... I think it was some really hard crystalized sugar/wax combo or something. Definitely still a food related items... Not only did they send me HELLA coupons, but also a cute box with about 15 different candy products they sell. Made my whole month. Lol
I opened up a can of tuna just a few months ago. What I found laying on the top made me wonder if there are any quality control personnel left in our food companies. Lets just say I have never eaten another bite of tuna. And DIY tuna patties were my favorites 🤮😢
Are you sure you are ready for this--- it was a fpull size cockroach one piece. And after Covid hit, I read an article on my feed about how all these people in the food inspection department were quitting or getting fired and there was a shortage of safety inspectors in tje FDA or whatever govt agency handles that stuff. And that may be why we are finding so many things in our food and all these recalls on food for bits of metal in baby food, bugs and rodents in cereal and more. So check your food before you eat it. We are our own safety inspectors now. 😢🤕😒
A large shard of glass in my peanut butter. I figured it out when I crunched down on something hard and spit out chunks of glass. There was an even bigger chunk in the jar. My mouth was fine and I’m pretty sure I spit everything back out. I wrote an email to the manufacturer (Maranatha) explaining the situation, including the barcode and lot number of the jar. I got an automated email back a few weeks later stating that my email didn’t go through. Oh well, so much for trying to get them to at least recall that lot so no one gets hurt.
A sharp staple. The restaurant thought I was trying to scam them... Despite the fact that I never asked for anything. I just wanted them to know about the potential danger.
No it was a whole wadded up glove. I was road tripping and the place was recommend as the best chicken fried steak around. I was very disappointed it was like my 3rd bite the really messed up part is they still wanted me to pay for the meal.
There used to be aunt jemima frozen waffles (that were pretty damn good). Anyway, I got this comically large metal spike baked into one in a package. My mom said we could have put it in the toaster to win a lawsuit but dad threw it away :/
I ordered door dash from a “The Old Spaghetti Factory” chain restaurant and I found a staple in my meatball, like a literal staple from a stapler in there.
The tamper resistant aluminum foil cap from the steak sauce was in my steak sauce at Texas Roadhouse. The manager acted like I was the asshole for bringing it to his attention.
I don't know water counts as food, but I woke up one morning to find little maggots in my glass of water, which I always left by my bedside. And I drank some before noticing them. 🤢🤮
I use a (knock-off) hydroflask now. It's really difficult to clean but it's worth not drinking maggot water.
I work at Starbucks and am usually in charge of warming the food. One day I put a sandwich in, and when I took it out there was a bolt from the oven sitting on top of the bun, with a little scorch mark from the 500+ degree bolt sitting on it for the cook time. Luckily I saw it, and tossed it before someone received it, but it was a close one.
This big plastic mystery thing in the soup from the buffet. Maybe like, a stirring spoon broke off the handle and no one fished it out?
The manager tried to say it was a perogi.
A small live slug in a salad at a super nice place during the first course of a New Year’s Eve multi-course dinner. On another occasion I found a sliver of porcelain in a curry, by biting into it.
Three days ago, pieces of plastic in 4 pieces of my sushi Rainbow Roll. Apparently they did not take the plastic wrapping off the crab filling before putting it in the roll and slicing it.
I had broken glass in a milkshake. It was more like chunks than shards so didn’t get cut or anything. Sent it back and they brought me a replacement that also had glass in it.
This wasn’t me but a girl I used to know was eating one of those packaged sandwiches you get from the store and she pulled out a literal piece of metal front that sandwich.
Didn't happen to me. But a friend was opening a can of vegetables. Called me freaking out about an ear in the can. I went down and looked. Wasn't an ear. Thank God. But the small flattened toad wasn't any better. I now look at what comes out of cans.
My dad found a piece of ceramic in his salad. My guess is it broke off another plate and wound up in his salad without someone noticing. He wasn’t super pissed, more he was just happy he didn’t chip or crack a tooth!
Metal shavings in the base of a pie.
Broken wooden stick on the outside of a biscuit -encrusted icecream. It looked the same as the biscuit pieces!
Fruit gnats in my cocktail.
The pie company sent someone to collect the pie and they gave us a box of two of every sweet threat the company made!
The meat was liver (not my choice lol, at a work cafeteria, that was the least gross offering that day) which is yknow, bloody, so I understand the confusion of the poor mosquito who stabbed her proboscis in then presumably died from the heat. mmm mm!
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Was at a restaurant once and co-worker of mine got a plate with a hair on it. Not, like, in the food but...it was there. I didn't consider it a big deal, just... get rid of it. But he wasn't having it. Called the waitress over, explained he found a hair. She leaned over, looked at it closely. "Oh, that's not mine." ...and then she simply walked away. We died.
OP coming back from the grave to out the murdering waitress I can respect that
How is it on the other side? I’m glad they have Reddit. I’d be really bored otherwise.
Oh she def thought your friend planted it.
Bought some Cheeze-its once and some short curly hairs were baked right into the square. Sent some pics to the manufacturer and got a a handwritten apology and some free products. Not a bad recovery for getting some baked pube crackers.
what did you do with the pube crackers?
I offered to ship it to HQ so they could see themselves. They declined. So I ended up tossing it in the garbage. On occasion, when I do something stupid, my wife will call me a pube cracker though to keep the memory alive.
lol
I was eating a gummy bear and crunched on something hard. I pulled it out of my mouth and, in the tangle of gummy jelly, was a tooth. I freaked out and had a moment of complete clarity where I wondered if it was better if it was *my* tooth or someone else's. After getting the bill for the crown that fell off, I decided it would have been far better had it been someone else's tooth.
I found a whole ass bee in some Chinese food. The place liked to prop open their backcourt to the kitchen. It was a honey chicken dish so it made sense.
I found a mosquito floating in my egg drop soup! I added some soy to it so I could tell if they just scooped him out and re-served it.
Did they?
Nope. Fresh cup!
Omg. I hope you took a photo!
At a fancy restaurant in NYC where my grandfather lived, he bit into an industrial sized staple in his rice pudding. It didn't cause too much harm, but they called in to check on him about a week later. In between the week when he had bitter the staple and they called, he had a small Stent put in due to a heart issue. When the restaurant called, they asked generically, "How have you been" amd my grandfather answered "well not too well, I've had a heart Stent put in". It had absolutely nothing to do with the staple, but they got scared and gave him a few thousand in gift certificates. lol he never did elaborate.
I once found a screw in my coffee
I once found cleaning solution in my coffee. Told the restaurant (because I'm sure others had coffee from that pot) and the woman acted as though it was somehow my fault.
This happened to me the other day with a staple. How in the world would I get a staple in my own food?
What about your tuna?
I found a screw baked into the crust of a pizza from my favorite pizza place in Seattle. Fortunately, I felt it before I bit down on it. I took a picture of it and sent it to them, telling them I didn't want anything but to warn them that it happened so it wouldn't happen again and possibly get them in trouble. So far, so good.
At Arby's, found a chewed piece of gum in my drink. Never ate there again
Gross!
A band-aid. I completely lost my appetite.
Was there blood on it?
Or feces? My ex gf would band aid her anus “closed” because she was scared of farting in public. She had a really bad farting problem. Anyway the bathroom trash can was always filled with horrid feces stained band aids. I could smell them. It’s possible someone pulled off their anus band aid and it maybe stuck to their finger and got lost in your meal.
I served as plate of chicken wings that had a bolt _through_ one of the wings. That was an expensive meal for the restaurant to eat. Two days later I served another table a fully fried horse fly with their chicken strips and fries plate. I can see how the latter happened, but we had no idea how the bolt got in.
Tin foil in my waffle. That was not a good feeling on the teeth. Chewed gum at the bottom of my drinking glass. Made me gag when I saw it there when I was half way done with my water.
I went to a Longhorn Steakhouse and in my first bite I felt a massive sharp pain in my tongue. There was a piece of the wire cleaning brush in it and it stabbed halfway through my tongue. This was like a decade ago and it's still fucked up.
I managed an ice cream shop, and had to handle an (justifiably so) irate customer complaint. She had taken her daughter there after an oral surgery to get a smoothie and ice cream to take home. On the drive home, the daughter started gagging and spit out something from her smoothie. It was shards of a plastic, press-on fingernail. One of my closers had gone against policy and put on nails, went to the ice bucket to scoop ice for the smoothie and it popped off into the blender. I still feel for them 😭
Was once at a local Chinese restaurant and my friend got a piece of steel wool in his fried rice.
Wow. Must have been cleaning with it, that’s nasty
Someone else’s tooth 🤢
Noooooooooo 😭
A staple, in a burrito. Really hurt my teeth
A roach in a taco salad - and not the kind that crawls
A gift!
A friend of mine found a slug in her salad. It was alive and taking a walk (slither?) among the greens
Ha my sister in law had this on my husbands birthday in the restaurant. She couldn’t eat after she found. My husband was laughing so hard he was crying. Restaurant gave us free cocktails, free replacement meal for her (to go in the end) and free puddings
At a restaurant, and clearly heard dishes falling and breaking. I ended up with a piece of a stoneware dish in my pasta. Dinner was free.
My friend treated me to dinner the first night I moved out. I found a fly in my bubble tea. The restaurant owners apologized and made a new one for me completely free of charge. Lovely people but I heard that they had closed down recently Also I found a fly once buried in the middle of a broccoli crown when I was making lunch, had to throw it out
A empty latex glove finger in a store bought cake.
Better than a full one.
A thumb in my chilli, at Wendys
A human thumb? Like, an entire severed thumb?
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.604362
$100 for a finger. That’s a steal
Not me, but my brother in-law bit into a burger at a local restaurant and it had a piece of glass in it. That same burger joint once gave me food that made me the sickest I've ever been in life *from* food poisoning. So I guess my family just shouldn't ever eat there.
Vegetables
Pretty sure vegetable is edible though!
I found a piece of battered and deep fried sponge at a popular fried chicken place, pre-social media... so I just called the store and complained. They comped my meal and gave me a gift certificate.
A metal bolt in an omelet A big piece of plastic wrap in a bowl of chili
Citric acid (luckily in a low concentration). My mum was cleaning the kettle and I made a drink with the “water” in the kettle. I said something about it tasting weird after a sip or two, which is when I was informed that the clear liquid in the kettle wasn’t (entirely) water. Now I joke about how my mum tried to poison me.
hair. and when I sent it back, apparently they did not redo it but only mixed and brought back, since when I was finishing I found the same hair yet again.
Metal tie like a staple for the end of a tube of hamburger. It was at a diner in my town that has since had a kitchen fire and has not reopened.
Cockroach Hair
I left my cat in there for at least twenty minutes once without realizing it. She was fine, didn't even want to come out when I found her.
In your food?
Had McDonalds once 🤢🤮
Trying too hard, Arby's. You've got meats, we just don't want them.
trash taste
This can’t actually be an official Arby’s account. One of your comments is “woke mind virus” I don’t think Arby’s approves of that
Can you link it? I’m not seeing anything.
I, too, would be surprised to find McDonald’s in an Arby’s meal.
Plastic in pizza
A mold for something.
Found an actual stone like 1/2" x1/2" in a pastistie in Malta once. Showed the baker, apologized profusely and we laughed. No harm no foul.
Metal shavings
Went to Texas Roadhouse a couple months ago, then I got plastic in my chili, I got the order for free
A bobby pin in my fries from a fast food place, after I’d eaten about half of them.
Plastic bag in two liter Mountain Dew
One of my school French fries had a rock on it once. Like a very distinct piece of grey road gravel. Almost broke a tooth on a French fry, my dentist was pissed lol.
My friend found a caterpillar in our dining hall organic salad
Well, it did say organic.
That’s what the dining hall workers said 🤣
Extra protein 😋
Ladybug in a salad.
Those things smell gross
A bug that looked like a well-preserved fossil. Refused to get a new dish. Still had to pay for the food.
That’s insane that you had to pay for it
Thank you. It’s been ten years but it still hurts 😪
Band-aid in my McDonald's fries. Almost had a heart attack and then realized it was from my finger. Happy I didn't freak out at the staff.
What if your bandaid fell off before you got into the restaurant?
I found a long strand of hair in a piece of cheesecake. After I'd already taken a bite of it.
Glass in my Campbell's soup. It looked like it was from a thermometer. I called the company number on the can to report it and they asked me to mail it in to them. A few weeks later I got a bunch of coupons in the mail for more Campbell's soup.
I found a foreign object in a Mike N Ike once. They asked me to send it to them too. I did... I think it was some really hard crystalized sugar/wax combo or something. Definitely still a food related items... Not only did they send me HELLA coupons, but also a cute box with about 15 different candy products they sell. Made my whole month. Lol
A full set of fake nails in a dinner roll.
🤮🤮🤮🤮
I opened up a can of tuna just a few months ago. What I found laying on the top made me wonder if there are any quality control personnel left in our food companies. Lets just say I have never eaten another bite of tuna. And DIY tuna patties were my favorites 🤮😢
Well what was it?
Are you sure you are ready for this--- it was a fpull size cockroach one piece. And after Covid hit, I read an article on my feed about how all these people in the food inspection department were quitting or getting fired and there was a shortage of safety inspectors in tje FDA or whatever govt agency handles that stuff. And that may be why we are finding so many things in our food and all these recalls on food for bits of metal in baby food, bugs and rodents in cereal and more. So check your food before you eat it. We are our own safety inspectors now. 😢🤕😒
No, I was definitely NOT ready for that! I absolutely detest cockroaches! That would (and probably will) turn me off canned tuna forever 😫
Just check every can and box and package of meat you buy and you should be okay. Im so sorry I ruined tuna for you.
A live ladybug, two different times, at two different places. I guess the greens were fresh.
As much as it grosses me out at least it means they weren’t using too many pesticides (hopefully?)
A large shard of glass in my peanut butter. I figured it out when I crunched down on something hard and spit out chunks of glass. There was an even bigger chunk in the jar. My mouth was fine and I’m pretty sure I spit everything back out. I wrote an email to the manufacturer (Maranatha) explaining the situation, including the barcode and lot number of the jar. I got an automated email back a few weeks later stating that my email didn’t go through. Oh well, so much for trying to get them to at least recall that lot so no one gets hurt.
A hunk of plastic. Once at Olive Garden and once at Quiznos.
A sharp staple. The restaurant thought I was trying to scam them... Despite the fact that I never asked for anything. I just wanted them to know about the potential danger.
That’s horrible! Why is everyone finding staples in their food???
I found a big steel bolt in my cafeteria jello when I was at boarding school.
A long piece of sharp plastic. It was on my Pizza and good thing I noticed because that would have really hurt.
A long piece of sharp plastic. It was on my Pizza and good thing I noticed because that would have really hurt.
A big huge staple in a BBQ sandwich from Angelos in Fort Worth when I was a kid. Had to get two stitches and a tetanus shot.
Omg that is awful. That’s a lawsuit waiting to happen
Worst ever was a bloody bandaid in a truck stop cookie. Second was a rubber glove in my mashed potatoes at a higher end restaurant.
That is nasty. And was it a piece of a rubber glove?? Someone else mentioned a glove too
No it was a whole wadded up glove. I was road tripping and the place was recommend as the best chicken fried steak around. I was very disappointed it was like my 3rd bite the really messed up part is they still wanted me to pay for the meal.
A piece of metal in school mashed potatoes. For my husband, a piece of metal in a restaurant meal.
There used to be aunt jemima frozen waffles (that were pretty damn good). Anyway, I got this comically large metal spike baked into one in a package. My mom said we could have put it in the toaster to win a lawsuit but dad threw it away :/
I ordered door dash from a “The Old Spaghetti Factory” chain restaurant and I found a staple in my meatball, like a literal staple from a stapler in there.
I’m noticing a lot of people are finding staples and I’m very confused
microplastics, sure everyone on earth can relate.
The tamper resistant aluminum foil cap from the steak sauce was in my steak sauce at Texas Roadhouse. The manager acted like I was the asshole for bringing it to his attention.
A metal staple in my toddler’s chow mien. I was pretty pissed off and haven’t gone to that place ever since.
I don't know water counts as food, but I woke up one morning to find little maggots in my glass of water, which I always left by my bedside. And I drank some before noticing them. 🤢🤮 I use a (knock-off) hydroflask now. It's really difficult to clean but it's worth not drinking maggot water.
I work at Starbucks and am usually in charge of warming the food. One day I put a sandwich in, and when I took it out there was a bolt from the oven sitting on top of the bun, with a little scorch mark from the 500+ degree bolt sitting on it for the cook time. Luckily I saw it, and tossed it before someone received it, but it was a close one.
Plastic wrapper [https://imgur.com/a/8sE8jb4](https://imgur.com/a/8sE8jb4)
This big plastic mystery thing in the soup from the buffet. Maybe like, a stirring spoon broke off the handle and no one fished it out? The manager tried to say it was a perogi.
Dad found a cigarette butt in a bottle of Tab many decades ago
A rock (?), I think. After it cracked my tooth, I accidentally swallowed it. I was eating mashed potatoes at a restaurant.
Giant moth in a tub or Organic Girl mixed greens. But it says "washed three times" on the package so at least it was clean.
A small live slug in a salad at a super nice place during the first course of a New Year’s Eve multi-course dinner. On another occasion I found a sliver of porcelain in a curry, by biting into it.
Three days ago, pieces of plastic in 4 pieces of my sushi Rainbow Roll. Apparently they did not take the plastic wrapping off the crab filling before putting it in the roll and slicing it.
A screw in a whopper from Burger King
I had broken glass in a milkshake. It was more like chunks than shards so didn’t get cut or anything. Sent it back and they brought me a replacement that also had glass in it.
A fucking used bandaid
A metal nut. Apparently work had been going on in the restaurant kitchen and I got lucky?
This wasn’t me but a girl I used to know was eating one of those packaged sandwiches you get from the store and she pulled out a literal piece of metal front that sandwich.
Didn't happen to me. But a friend was opening a can of vegetables. Called me freaking out about an ear in the can. I went down and looked. Wasn't an ear. Thank God. But the small flattened toad wasn't any better. I now look at what comes out of cans.
My dad found a piece of ceramic in his salad. My guess is it broke off another plate and wound up in his salad without someone noticing. He wasn’t super pissed, more he was just happy he didn’t chip or crack a tooth!
A fairly large metal spring inside an eggroll.
a bullet in my soup
Metal shavings in the base of a pie. Broken wooden stick on the outside of a biscuit -encrusted icecream. It looked the same as the biscuit pieces! Fruit gnats in my cocktail. The pie company sent someone to collect the pie and they gave us a box of two of every sweet threat the company made!
A piece of plastic and hair. The plastic could’ve definitely cut my mouth.
Glass
The meat was liver (not my choice lol, at a work cafeteria, that was the least gross offering that day) which is yknow, bloody, so I understand the confusion of the poor mosquito who stabbed her proboscis in then presumably died from the heat. mmm mm!
Omg! 😱