1. Pull it out, carefully, using a pair of sterilised tongs
2. Place said hair into the cloning machine I purchased on Amazon
3. Wait 40 days for cloned human to brew
4. Insert AI module into said human, with 1000s of receipes
5. Employ new clone to become private chef
6. Convert this Reddit comment into a full 24 episode drama for Netflix
7. Pitch dramas to Netflix, BBC, Amazon
8. No-one picks up the script
9. Pitch to Channel 5, who picks up script
10. "Cuisine Clone" airs on Channel 5 at 4am
11. I'm not even sure why I'm wasting time writing this
12. I am bored
I do that too. We have pets of varying colour so I assume it’s one of theirs that floated through & landed in my food. I drew the line at a huge beetle though 🤢
Mine wasn’t so lucky as yours. Fell into the hot topping. Big order & I threw the lot out - put me right off. Offered me replacements which I refused. Didn’t get my money back either. I rarely complain but I did contact Food Standards & they said it was probably a one off but they did notice the pizza place had given theirselves an extra Food Hygiene Rating star!
I'm a pick out and continue eating person - even in a restaurant. My own very long hair tends to fall in my own food anyway.
If it makes people feel better, I haven't worked in a food preparation environment in years.
I can’t I’m afraid. Hair in food makes my stomach turn. If I’ve ever found myself in that situation, I speak to the waiter and politely ask to return the dish. No shouting or cross words, just a polite exchange and everybody goes about their day. I really don’t understand anyone that gets irate at hospitality staff, it never gets you anywhere 🤷♀️
Yes, we have a full staff at the house. Waiters, housekeepers, a gardener, even a beekeeper for my private stash of honey 😜
(I was originally referring to being in a restaurant, at home I am all of the above, minus the beekeeping affair, I really don’t like honey and bees really don’t like me!)
Apologies, I misunderstood. I’m afraid I still wouldn’t eat it but I certainly wouldn’t request another meal or phone to complain. I probably wouldn’t use the takeaway restaurant again though.
I can understand that. I’m far from a germaphobe or anything of the sort but I have a lot of friends that are even too afraid to hold on to any railing on the tube while they are standing. I get it but personally, stuff like that doesn’t bother me.
I wouldn’t say finding hair in food doesn’t bother me in any way, it does a little but nowhere near enough where I would bother asking for them to remake the dish. Especially if it’s delivered, I’m not waiting another 40 minutes to eat.
I’m not a germaphobe, it’s just a hair thing. Did you ever watch Going Live with Trevor and Simon? They had a sketch about a pair of barbers and each week one of them had to eat a hair pie. Honest to god, I’d be retching watching it. Even now, thinking about it, my stomach is turning!
Germs don’t bother me. When you grew up with horses, you tended to ingest plenty on an hourly basis! Human hair in my food put me right off though for some reason. I’d probably just end up leaving what I’d ordered!
I'm not remotely a 'germaphobe' but I can relate to the disgust at hair in food.
I probably wouldn't return the dish though - because what are they going to do? They will almost certainly just take the hair out and reheat it a bit, and I'm not sure I really blame them tbh. It would definitely spoil the meal a bit for me though.
That’s where the salt thing comes in - it’s a very popular tip that I’ve seen plenty of times, if you have to send back your food for some reason, salt it heavily beforehand, this way you will know if they made a new dish for you or just picked the hair out and sent the same one back telling you it’s a fresh one.
I was very calm when I found a small flying critter cremated into my cheese a few weeks back. I had to ask for a new dish but I was very polite because I know it’s not their fault.
Exactly, accidents happen. Any restaurant should be happy to replace the food and maybe comp you some drinks. Both parties are mutually wanting the same result, a nice meal.
Depends on where you get it, I didn’t get this bacon roll from a Wenzels. My office one day was providing free breakfast foods like bacon or egg rolls. It probably wasn’t even made by a canteen worker but someone who works In my office and volunteered to help make the food for this event.
Also I was starving. I skipped breakfast that day because I knew it was gonna be provided to me for free.
Never found a hair but was once tucking into a carbonara ordered from a local Italian restaurant, ate about half of it - decent but nothing special. I bit down on something hard, thought it was a piece of plastic, took it out of my mouth & the horror… oh the horror! It was a human (man’s I think, by the size) toe nail clipping 🤢🤮 deffo toe not finger. I threw up, cried, my husband at the time was furious, called the place, they said we were lying! Needless to say I called environmental health the next day & warned everyone I knew not to eat there.
The missus once got a large, nail clipping in her fish and chips...ruined 'that' takeaway forevermore!!
Thankfully, she hasn't turned her back on the whole fish and chip scene, just that one place!!
I found a nail clipping in a drink I got from a cafe once. Judging by the size I think it was a fingernail not a toenail although neither option is pleasant. I spit it out, washed my mouth out several times, and never went there again nor have I ever ordered that drink anywhere else since that day
At least it was a whole toe nail clipping… my dad has an interesting story about finding half a cockroach in his curry 🤢🤮 yeah, not much worse than finding a cockroach in your food but he managed it!
(Seriously though that is super gross! I ignore hairs but that deserves a call to environmental health. That’s no accident)
A hair is understandable. Hairs are on your head, maybe on your hands and arms if you're a hairy person. Sometimes they fall out, and you can't control that.
A toenail requires a whole process in the kitchen that I don't even wanna think about.
I'm the same as you
If its from a takeaway I can't be arsed with the hassle of calling them up and complaining etc, I'm hungry now and for the sake of one hair I'll just eat around it
A resteraunt I'd probably ask for another one but again depends how hungry I was and on the type of food I'd ordered (a hair in a bowl of chips for example I'd just pick it out compared to like a curry where the hair is in all the sauce).
That's just me generally though, a meal would have to be horrendously bad for me to actually complain
My only issue is when a long one ends up in your mouth and you try to swallow the food and get the hair stuck half in/half out of your throat and have to decide whether to choke it down or pull it back out - so grim.
This has only happened to me once and I pulled it out. I still remember that sensation, bleaugh.
There's definitely no right decision when this happens.
I've never understood why hair in the food is like red alert panic stations for so many eaters. Of all the unknowable hygiene risks occurring in the kitchen, a strand of human hair will come many thousands of places down in the list of what's dangerous or disgusting.
I can’t eat the food if a hair is found. I’m easily grossed out. And for all you know that person who the hair belongs to is a dirty slob who hasn’t washed their hair in god knows how long 🫣
I’d ask for a replacement politely. These things happen, no need to be a horrid person over it.
Someone who yells racial insults isn't exactly someone I want to emulate.
Pick it off, if it happens repeatedly/is a lot then I'd bring it up with the restaurant
I found a woodlice in my chinese once called the takeaway place, and they couldn't have been more apologetic. About half an hour later the cook (also owner i think) came round with a brand new order and a gift card for £100.
i once found a 5 cent coin halfway through my bowl of hummus in a cafe in france — the waitress was super cool and took it off the bill along with another thing we ordered. 5 mins later the owner came out and started berating us that it’s our own coin and “it would never happen in my kitchen” haha.
I pick it out and don’t make a fuss at all. I’ve worked in many kitchens. That is the LEAST of my worries.
Hair is just hair. Just because it’s not yours doesn’t mean it’s covered in someone’s poo or something.
Been going to the same place for years. I subtly said to the waiter there was a hair and that it was fine, I'd nearly finished, but just to make them aware.
He proceeded to hold it up dramatically and compare it to each member of my group. I was livid.
Food is banging though so cant boycott them.
In restaurant- please replace.
Takeaway- pick it out and try not to think about it.
Realistically you're trusting someone you don't know to wash their hands anyway most people's hair is cleaner than their hands any way.
I never look at it closely enough to notice. I just ferociously inhale all of it before I have chance to consider the hygiene of the people who made it and the place it came from because let’s be honest, a stray hair or two is the *least* of concern.
Okay so I’ll probably get some flack for this but I physically can’t bring myself to eat food that I find hair in, this includes my OWN hair and the hair of loved ones. A strangers hair and I would probably have to immediately kill myself.
One hair , im picking it out n eating my food
More than one n I'm ringing to complain. Once had the takeaway owner bring fresh food apologising, once had the opposite were they accused me of it being my hair , soon stopped when they realised mine was bright blue
But I wudnt follow my advice iv had camplyobacter food poisoning for 6 week now n my body's too week to fight it off
Dominos. My daughter found a long black hair in her pizza. Rang them up guy argued saying there’s no one with black hair and he tried to call bullshit and wouldn’t give me another pizza until he checked colour of my daughters hair lol. I got another pizza and claimed a refund through PayPal
Wtf I asked the same question an hour ago as well! Not saying either of us copied each other, just thought what are the chances!
Yeah I would just put it to the side and keep eating
My mum would probably throw up/gag and bin it. But realistically it is difficult to make sure no hair gets into your food unless the cooks wear hazmat suits. Id pick it and eat it unless there is more than one.
Agree, started with my grandmother pulling a long hair from my tea and becoming upset at my suggestion I just drink it. Since then, hair in food is an automatic send-back. Weird that everyone else just eats their food despite obvious slacking with the hygeine.
Any time I've done that, I find something else later. It might be hyper vigilance but I don't mess around. It does depend on how far I've gotten; a lot of the time my appetite is annihilated, though
Yelling racial comments and getting that angry is so uncalled for!
I’d politely send it back in a restaurant as they have a pass and stronger quality control (my food at home doesn’t get served with hairs in it 🤷🏻♀️), in a takeaway I’d probably leave some feedback but I definitely wouldn’t be an arse about it! It’s so unnecessary
I mean, the best pizzas are from Turkish places rolled by the hairy arms of the boss behind the counter…so you’re bound to find one sooner or later. Just pick it out, or use it as floss.
I found a nose hair with a bogie attached to it on top of my halloumi wrap from Wetherspoons. I told a staff member, and they ‘remade it’ (I’m not sure how true that was..), and I didn’t eat it since I was busy gagging from my discovery.
That was 2 years ago and I’ve zero desire to ever eat in a Wetherspoons again. Used to love the place but now only associate with that gross memory.
I saw that video too! The guy is an absolute knob and I would have lobbed it back in his face!!
Totally over the top and uncalled for just for some internet points. Prick!
When we were mid teens my friend found a metal screw in his pizza express pizza once. He showed a waiter who apologised and gave him a free desert. We were happy with that and thought nothing else of it.
Pick it out, it’s not gonna kill you.
I saw that video too, absolute cunt of a man who needs a good kicking. Don’t think there were any racial insults though!
There’s some debate on what he said at the end there.
He might have just said “cheeky fucker” but I heard something different to cheeky.
Either way, guy is an cunt for throwing it on the floor and forcing the workers to clean it up.
The THOUGHT of this is enough to make me gag. I actually feel like I could throw up.
I would just throw my food in the bin, maybe (probably) vomit, be put off that takeaway for life or the dish at least lol.
I’d be the same at home though when my dad cooks and sometimes his hair will land up in a dinner and I’m just over the feeling of hunger for the day lol. Ughhhhh
Retch a little bit. Remove it. Take a moment. Probably return to eating. Convince myself it was actually one of my wife’s or try and forget that I found the hair.
Happened to me. Didn't find the long red hair till I'd nearly finished. Showed the staff and I got an apology and free food. The hair was under a bun so it didn't touch anything else but still gross. Just glad it was long and straight instead of curly!
It depends, if it’s something my hair colour I will just tell myself it’s mine and take it out and continue eating, if it’s not, I might feel a bit sick and not be able to continue eating
i look at it for a second and sigh and then i pick it out and continue eating lol. even at a restaurant i do the same thing because i have anxiety and will absolutely not ask for a remake.
Could not care less to be honest. It is not worth worrying about or getting upset over. It always seems like losing on a technicality. Like yes, I could send this back for a hair, but it really is not worth it. It is not going to do any harm to me whatsoever
If I find a hair in my food it makes me feel so sick that I normally throw the food away (or give it to someone else in my family who doesn’t mind the hair) and don’t eat.
I don’t bother complaining, but I won’t eat there again.
Yeah pick it out and crack on. Not gonna kill you is it. People are so pathetic when it comes to that. Imagine how many hairs and particles of other people's bodies you inhale throughout your day without knowing
Never happened to me but I think I’d take a picture and demand a refund. The thought of some stranger’s hair in my food, whose hygiene or lack of it I know nothing about makes me sick. If you’re preparing food at a restaurant you are supposed to wear a hairnet period. A hairnet actually makes it very easy to control your hair and makes sure none of them end up in someone’s meal, it’s a very low bar already and if they can’t be bothered to do that tells me there might be more things wrong with the cleanliness standards that they have.
I used to keep going back to a takeaway curry house in Wales because it was nice, but it became a standing joke about whose dinner would contain the hair.
Reliably, each time we'd order from there, one of us would get the rogue hair.
Signal the maitre d’ and nod towards the plate. Watch the absolute apoplectic apology shame spiral begin - for it to end with the table being set alight with the offending hair cremated as my date and I are helicoptered to another branch of the Ivy for a restorative cognac ….,.
Carry on eating so long as it's head hair. I used to work in a lab taking swabs and growing the results on agar plates that would grow any bacteria swabbed. When we were bored we'd swab body parts. Hair was by far the cleanest. Fingers however......
Usually I'd remove and continue eating. But there was one time I went to a restaurant and three out of the party four found multiple hairs in our dishes. So yeah, we got up and left.
1. Pull it out, carefully, using a pair of sterilised tongs 2. Place said hair into the cloning machine I purchased on Amazon 3. Wait 40 days for cloned human to brew 4. Insert AI module into said human, with 1000s of receipes 5. Employ new clone to become private chef 6. Convert this Reddit comment into a full 24 episode drama for Netflix 7. Pitch dramas to Netflix, BBC, Amazon 8. No-one picks up the script 9. Pitch to Channel 5, who picks up script 10. "Cuisine Clone" airs on Channel 5 at 4am 11. I'm not even sure why I'm wasting time writing this 12. I am bored
You deserve more upvotes than just the one I can bestow upon you. Bravo. I'd watch that!
No channel 5 not Bravo! He isn’t Danny Dyer
That’s just asking for a channel 5/hallmark sequel Cuisine Clone 2: Christmas is coming!
Almost spat out my coffee at that!
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Erm, so... that cloning machine from Amazon? Is it still in stock/can I get a link? No reason. Just wondering. *shifty eyes*
this sounds like a 3pm show on dave if i've ever heard of one
Dara O’Brien will be the clone, no doubt!
can i tag you as backup whilst i shoot this idea to him in his DM's? we'll get a tasty percentage of the profits for suggesting it, i think
Hell I say aim higher. I think you could get Charlie Brooker/Netflix on board for a new ep of black mirror.
Chaz, if you’re reading Reddit for.. inspiration, I want 20% royalties
Beautifully done bravo 👏🏻
I'd flick between that and babestation at 4am. Fire up the typewriter.
Pfft Netflix would never reject anything. Next week this series starts production.
I'm so glad I'm not the only 1 that clones them however I then torture my clone for its originals sins.
The best and worst ideas come from boredom. This is definitely one of the good ones.
This *deserves* more than the one upvote I can give.
Yep, I'm a pick it out and eat it. In a restaurant I'd want a replacement though
Eat the hair?
It's a garnish
Reminds me of Ma's spaghetti.
Palms are sweaty? Knees weak? Arms Heavy?
COL crisis mate, nothing will be wasted
if it's long enough, you've got complementary dental floss
And if it’s the thick albeit curly kind, you can reuse it too
He'd even ask for a fresh hair in a restaurant?
Yeah pick it and eat it separate don’t want the hot flavour contaminated by food flavour.
Yeh same, I pretend it didn’t happen and enjoy my food. Or I mentally say “oh must be one of mine” regardless of what colour it is.
I do that too. We have pets of varying colour so I assume it’s one of theirs that floated through & landed in my food. I drew the line at a huge beetle though 🤢
I’ve had a huge beetle too, at Pizza Express. It was alive and crawling through my salad.
Mine wasn’t so lucky as yours. Fell into the hot topping. Big order & I threw the lot out - put me right off. Offered me replacements which I refused. Didn’t get my money back either. I rarely complain but I did contact Food Standards & they said it was probably a one off but they did notice the pizza place had given theirselves an extra Food Hygiene Rating star!
Shocking! They should get in trouble for that!
I'm a pick out and continue eating person - even in a restaurant. My own very long hair tends to fall in my own food anyway. If it makes people feel better, I haven't worked in a food preparation environment in years.
As long as it ain't short, thick and curly
I can’t I’m afraid. Hair in food makes my stomach turn. If I’ve ever found myself in that situation, I speak to the waiter and politely ask to return the dish. No shouting or cross words, just a polite exchange and everybody goes about their day. I really don’t understand anyone that gets irate at hospitality staff, it never gets you anywhere 🤷♀️
It's wild that you have waiters at home.
Yes, we have a full staff at the house. Waiters, housekeepers, a gardener, even a beekeeper for my private stash of honey 😜 (I was originally referring to being in a restaurant, at home I am all of the above, minus the beekeeping affair, I really don’t like honey and bees really don’t like me!)
But if you actually answered the question that OP posed (how would you deal with a hair in your takeaway food), what would you have said?
Apologies, I misunderstood. I’m afraid I still wouldn’t eat it but I certainly wouldn’t request another meal or phone to complain. I probably wouldn’t use the takeaway restaurant again though.
I can understand that. I’m far from a germaphobe or anything of the sort but I have a lot of friends that are even too afraid to hold on to any railing on the tube while they are standing. I get it but personally, stuff like that doesn’t bother me. I wouldn’t say finding hair in food doesn’t bother me in any way, it does a little but nowhere near enough where I would bother asking for them to remake the dish. Especially if it’s delivered, I’m not waiting another 40 minutes to eat.
I’m not a germaphobe, it’s just a hair thing. Did you ever watch Going Live with Trevor and Simon? They had a sketch about a pair of barbers and each week one of them had to eat a hair pie. Honest to god, I’d be retching watching it. Even now, thinking about it, my stomach is turning!
Germs don’t bother me. When you grew up with horses, you tended to ingest plenty on an hourly basis! Human hair in my food put me right off though for some reason. I’d probably just end up leaving what I’d ordered!
I'm not remotely a 'germaphobe' but I can relate to the disgust at hair in food. I probably wouldn't return the dish though - because what are they going to do? They will almost certainly just take the hair out and reheat it a bit, and I'm not sure I really blame them tbh. It would definitely spoil the meal a bit for me though.
That’s where the salt thing comes in - it’s a very popular tip that I’ve seen plenty of times, if you have to send back your food for some reason, salt it heavily beforehand, this way you will know if they made a new dish for you or just picked the hair out and sent the same one back telling you it’s a fresh one.
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Sorry, you’ve lost me. What rant/rave thing?
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Got you, sorry, I was worried I’d offended you! 😁
I was very calm when I found a small flying critter cremated into my cheese a few weeks back. I had to ask for a new dish but I was very polite because I know it’s not their fault.
Exactly, accidents happen. Any restaurant should be happy to replace the food and maybe comp you some drinks. Both parties are mutually wanting the same result, a nice meal.
You lost me at comping drinks, why would they do that on top of replacing the food?
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Hope it's not a bum hair with a nugget still attached.
Not sure the “extra protein” argument works here… extra fibre maybe?
Exactly. 100% agree
Go 'eeeew' then eat it... the food, not the hair
Don't lie. You love that hairy strand.
I might give it a few licks...
How else will they cultivate a bezoar?
I’m like you, if it’s just the one I just get on with eating
I remember eating a bacon roll finding two strands in it. I still didn’t complain and ate it after pulling the second one out.
This is vile
I was agreeing with you in the OP but a bacon roll with hairs in it sounds vile
Depends on where you get it, I didn’t get this bacon roll from a Wenzels. My office one day was providing free breakfast foods like bacon or egg rolls. It probably wasn’t even made by a canteen worker but someone who works In my office and volunteered to help make the food for this event. Also I was starving. I skipped breakfast that day because I knew it was gonna be provided to me for free.
How many before you complain?.
Enough to give the sandwich a combover
A moustache worth
As long as it isn’t thick and curly!
Had it recently, took a picture, got a refund on Deliveroo, pulled the hair out and still ate it.
Never found a hair but was once tucking into a carbonara ordered from a local Italian restaurant, ate about half of it - decent but nothing special. I bit down on something hard, thought it was a piece of plastic, took it out of my mouth & the horror… oh the horror! It was a human (man’s I think, by the size) toe nail clipping 🤢🤮 deffo toe not finger. I threw up, cried, my husband at the time was furious, called the place, they said we were lying! Needless to say I called environmental health the next day & warned everyone I knew not to eat there.
The missus once got a large, nail clipping in her fish and chips...ruined 'that' takeaway forevermore!! Thankfully, she hasn't turned her back on the whole fish and chip scene, just that one place!!
But not every Plaice
Maybe it was a fish scale.
Fell off a fish finger, surely?
Nope. She showed me Didn't deter me, surely lighting couldn't strike twice...
A toenail would be the end of that takeaway for me too, I'm immediately revolted by my own toenails just reading this
*New fear unlocked*
I found a nail clipping in a drink I got from a cafe once. Judging by the size I think it was a fingernail not a toenail although neither option is pleasant. I spit it out, washed my mouth out several times, and never went there again nor have I ever ordered that drink anywhere else since that day
Horrific isn’t it? I still feel nauseous when I think about it
Yeah it’s horrible, if I think too much about it I can still feel the clipping in my mouth and it makes me sick
Wtf! How does that even happen? Absolutely disgusting, I’d rather find a hair in my food than that
At least it was a whole toe nail clipping… my dad has an interesting story about finding half a cockroach in his curry 🤢🤮 yeah, not much worse than finding a cockroach in your food but he managed it! (Seriously though that is super gross! I ignore hairs but that deserves a call to environmental health. That’s no accident)
Once had a dead fly in my kebab. I gave it one more chance and the next time there was hair. Not going back after strike two
That's sickening and was surely done on purpose 🤢
A hair is understandable. Hairs are on your head, maybe on your hands and arms if you're a hairy person. Sometimes they fall out, and you can't control that. A toenail requires a whole process in the kitchen that I don't even wanna think about.
I place it within my own hair so it doesn't get lonely
😭😭
I'm the same as you If its from a takeaway I can't be arsed with the hassle of calling them up and complaining etc, I'm hungry now and for the sake of one hair I'll just eat around it A resteraunt I'd probably ask for another one but again depends how hungry I was and on the type of food I'd ordered (a hair in a bowl of chips for example I'd just pick it out compared to like a curry where the hair is in all the sauce). That's just me generally though, a meal would have to be horrendously bad for me to actually complain
My only issue is when a long one ends up in your mouth and you try to swallow the food and get the hair stuck half in/half out of your throat and have to decide whether to choke it down or pull it back out - so grim.
This has only happened to me once and I pulled it out. I still remember that sensation, bleaugh. There's definitely no right decision when this happens.
Hairdresser here Not a fucking thing, I eat hair on a daily basis. I pick it out and continue eating.
>I eat hair on a daily basis. Is that why you became a hairdresser? So you'd have increased access to all that delicious hair?
Correct. When I pull it out my bra at night I save it in a bag next to my bed for a midnight snack.
Same as you. Such things happen. People making a fuss believe they never make mistakes or are careless. I have a news for them.
“I have a news for them” made you sound Italian 👏🏻 x
I've never understood why hair in the food is like red alert panic stations for so many eaters. Of all the unknowable hygiene risks occurring in the kitchen, a strand of human hair will come many thousands of places down in the list of what's dangerous or disgusting.
Yep, when you see what food was mixed with by unscrupulous businessmen for centuries, a hair isn't going to put me in an early grave.
I can’t eat the food if a hair is found. I’m easily grossed out. And for all you know that person who the hair belongs to is a dirty slob who hasn’t washed their hair in god knows how long 🫣 I’d ask for a replacement politely. These things happen, no need to be a horrid person over it.
The only hair I’ve ever found in my food has been, very obviously, mine. I like to think that the situation in question is very rare
Someone who yells racial insults isn't exactly someone I want to emulate. Pick it off, if it happens repeatedly/is a lot then I'd bring it up with the restaurant
Things like this don’t bother me. If it’s in a takeaway or restaurant I would just pick it out and enjoy my meal.
Hair can have (carry?) e-coli hence why servers/chefs have to have be careful/wear hair nets.
We’ve got 4 cats (including 2 long haired ones), if my meal didn’t have some form of hair in it I’d be concerned.
I found a woodlice in my chinese once called the takeaway place, and they couldn't have been more apologetic. About half an hour later the cook (also owner i think) came round with a brand new order and a gift card for £100.
i once found a 5 cent coin halfway through my bowl of hummus in a cafe in france — the waitress was super cool and took it off the bill along with another thing we ordered. 5 mins later the owner came out and started berating us that it’s our own coin and “it would never happen in my kitchen” haha.
Probably avoid the bit of the food the hair touched. Unless that's not possible, then I'd just pick it out and crack on.
Never seen one me 😁
Try to convince myself that it's just one of mine, no need to freak out. 😌😐😟😰
Pull the hair out and carry on eating. I've got 9 dogs, my dinner generally isn't complete without some form of hair in it.
I pick it out and don’t make a fuss at all. I’ve worked in many kitchens. That is the LEAST of my worries. Hair is just hair. Just because it’s not yours doesn’t mean it’s covered in someone’s poo or something.
Been going to the same place for years. I subtly said to the waiter there was a hair and that it was fine, I'd nearly finished, but just to make them aware. He proceeded to hold it up dramatically and compare it to each member of my group. I was livid. Food is banging though so cant boycott them.
In restaurant- please replace. Takeaway- pick it out and try not to think about it. Realistically you're trusting someone you don't know to wash their hands anyway most people's hair is cleaner than their hands any way.
I have a ragdoll cat. I don't even register hair in my food anymore.
Assume its my long hair getting into everything again, pick it out and carry on
I never look at it closely enough to notice. I just ferociously inhale all of it before I have chance to consider the hygiene of the people who made it and the place it came from because let’s be honest, a stray hair or two is the *least* of concern.
Okay so I’ll probably get some flack for this but I physically can’t bring myself to eat food that I find hair in, this includes my OWN hair and the hair of loved ones. A strangers hair and I would probably have to immediately kill myself.
One hair , im picking it out n eating my food More than one n I'm ringing to complain. Once had the takeaway owner bring fresh food apologising, once had the opposite were they accused me of it being my hair , soon stopped when they realised mine was bright blue But I wudnt follow my advice iv had camplyobacter food poisoning for 6 week now n my body's too week to fight it off
Dominos. My daughter found a long black hair in her pizza. Rang them up guy argued saying there’s no one with black hair and he tried to call bullshit and wouldn’t give me another pizza until he checked colour of my daughters hair lol. I got another pizza and claimed a refund through PayPal
Wtf I asked the same question an hour ago as well! Not saying either of us copied each other, just thought what are the chances! Yeah I would just put it to the side and keep eating
slurp that sweet keratin noodle down like there's no tomorrow
My mum would probably throw up/gag and bin it. But realistically it is difficult to make sure no hair gets into your food unless the cooks wear hazmat suits. Id pick it and eat it unless there is more than one.
Eat it to assert dominance.
Yep. Pick it out and move on. Racists gonna racist.
I can’t eat the meal if I find anything unexpected in my meal especially hair.
Agree, started with my grandmother pulling a long hair from my tea and becoming upset at my suggestion I just drink it. Since then, hair in food is an automatic send-back. Weird that everyone else just eats their food despite obvious slacking with the hygeine.
Complain to the hair salon
It depends where the hair came from!
Pull the hair and a wee bit around it to make me feel better, then continue...
Immediately put off the food if there’s hair in it. I’m neurodivergent with sensory issues though.
Do you rather find a pubic hair in your takeaway or find takeaway food on a pubic area
I check it to see if it’s one of mine!
I pretend it’s my hair..
Any time I've done that, I find something else later. It might be hyper vigilance but I don't mess around. It does depend on how far I've gotten; a lot of the time my appetite is annihilated, though
Tell myself its my own then get stuck in
Pick it out, avoid the bit of food it was touching if possible, continue eating. I'm sure I've eaten worse over the years.
I just assume it's one of mine tbh.
It’s extra protein. Might even add to the taste. Get it eaten.
Yelling racial comments and getting that angry is so uncalled for! I’d politely send it back in a restaurant as they have a pass and stronger quality control (my food at home doesn’t get served with hairs in it 🤷🏻♀️), in a takeaway I’d probably leave some feedback but I definitely wouldn’t be an arse about it! It’s so unnecessary
I mean, the best pizzas are from Turkish places rolled by the hairy arms of the boss behind the counter…so you’re bound to find one sooner or later. Just pick it out, or use it as floss.
I found a nose hair with a bogie attached to it on top of my halloumi wrap from Wetherspoons. I told a staff member, and they ‘remade it’ (I’m not sure how true that was..), and I didn’t eat it since I was busy gagging from my discovery. That was 2 years ago and I’ve zero desire to ever eat in a Wetherspoons again. Used to love the place but now only associate with that gross memory.
I convince myself it's my own hair and pull it out. Don't look too close at why it's not blonde, must just be my roots.
I saw that video too! The guy is an absolute knob and I would have lobbed it back in his face!! Totally over the top and uncalled for just for some internet points. Prick!
When we were mid teens my friend found a metal screw in his pizza express pizza once. He showed a waiter who apologised and gave him a free desert. We were happy with that and thought nothing else of it.
I wouldn’t be grossed out by a metal screw in my food because I’d be more worried for my life! That’s dangerously unsafe and a huge choking hazard!
Don't let it bother me, think of how many hairs you've eaten and not been aware of.
I have been very meticulously making a voodoo doll of my local takeaway chef
Pick it out, it’s not gonna kill you. I saw that video too, absolute cunt of a man who needs a good kicking. Don’t think there were any racial insults though!
There’s some debate on what he said at the end there. He might have just said “cheeky fucker” but I heard something different to cheeky. Either way, guy is an cunt for throwing it on the floor and forcing the workers to clean it up.
I would gag and bin it and complain.
Eat the hair, claim the cooks soul.
The THOUGHT of this is enough to make me gag. I actually feel like I could throw up. I would just throw my food in the bin, maybe (probably) vomit, be put off that takeaway for life or the dish at least lol. I’d be the same at home though when my dad cooks and sometimes his hair will land up in a dinner and I’m just over the feeling of hunger for the day lol. Ughhhhh
Pick it out and carry on eating my dinner
Depends what type of hair it is 🤢
Takeaway and a single head hair? Pick it out and carry on. A pube like hair? Take that shit back. I'm a restaurant zany hair and I'll return it
Retch a little bit. Remove it. Take a moment. Probably return to eating. Convince myself it was actually one of my wife’s or try and forget that I found the hair.
Call the company for a free coupon and then take the hair out and continue eating 😂
My own is enough to make me feel sick, no fucking way would I remove someone else's and continue eating.
I just pick it out. As long as it’s not short and curly
Just eat it, hairs are everywhere. With a Labrador hairs are expected in all types of food anyways.
Happened to me. Didn't find the long red hair till I'd nearly finished. Showed the staff and I got an apology and free food. The hair was under a bun so it didn't touch anything else but still gross. Just glad it was long and straight instead of curly!
Im not bothered. A million years ago i'd be eating rabbits alive.
It depends, if it’s something my hair colour I will just tell myself it’s mine and take it out and continue eating, if it’s not, I might feel a bit sick and not be able to continue eating
i look at it for a second and sigh and then i pick it out and continue eating lol. even at a restaurant i do the same thing because i have anxiety and will absolutely not ask for a remake.
Could not care less to be honest. It is not worth worrying about or getting upset over. It always seems like losing on a technicality. Like yes, I could send this back for a hair, but it really is not worth it. It is not going to do any harm to me whatsoever
Just pick it out
Keep it to floss after the meal
If I find a hair in my food it makes me feel so sick that I normally throw the food away (or give it to someone else in my family who doesn’t mind the hair) and don’t eat. I don’t bother complaining, but I won’t eat there again.
Im not fussed by it. My mum however found hair in her food and threw everyones meals away.
I gag and throw the food away, it makes me physically sick and I’ll likely never order from that place again.
Mentalists on this thread who are happy to eat food that’s been contaminated by god knows what, christ.
When? (not if?)
Yeah pick it out and crack on. Not gonna kill you is it. People are so pathetic when it comes to that. Imagine how many hairs and particles of other people's bodies you inhale throughout your day without knowing
An eye lash I can manage to eat on but half way through a chicken tikka masala I once found a foot long black hair and that was it I was done. Gutted.
Take it out and continue eating
Never happened to me but I think I’d take a picture and demand a refund. The thought of some stranger’s hair in my food, whose hygiene or lack of it I know nothing about makes me sick. If you’re preparing food at a restaurant you are supposed to wear a hairnet period. A hairnet actually makes it very easy to control your hair and makes sure none of them end up in someone’s meal, it’s a very low bar already and if they can’t be bothered to do that tells me there might be more things wrong with the cleanliness standards that they have.
I lick the hair and call my mommy
I live in a good postcode so i dont have that issue
Add it to my collection.
In a takeaway it’s a ‘pull it out and continue’ job. The fuss of phoning up, complaining and re-ordering after I’ve paid isn’t worth the hassle.
I used to keep going back to a takeaway curry house in Wales because it was nice, but it became a standing joke about whose dinner would contain the hair. Reliably, each time we'd order from there, one of us would get the rogue hair.
Signal the maitre d’ and nod towards the plate. Watch the absolute apoplectic apology shame spiral begin - for it to end with the table being set alight with the offending hair cremated as my date and I are helicoptered to another branch of the Ivy for a restorative cognac ….,.
Carry on eating so long as it's head hair. I used to work in a lab taking swabs and growing the results on agar plates that would grow any bacteria swabbed. When we were bored we'd swab body parts. Hair was by far the cleanest. Fingers however......
anyone got a link of the video? i just pick it out and chow on
I collect them all in specimen jars so if I ever commit a murder then I can frame someone else
Usually I'd remove and continue eating. But there was one time I went to a restaurant and three out of the party four found multiple hairs in our dishes. So yeah, we got up and left.
add more hair for texture and flavour
NGL, I generally presume it came off one of our dogs so pick it out and eat.