What's the worst thing you found in your food?

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  • JB01

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    I can not decide between a stranger's hair or bugs.
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    PAInterloper

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    Apr 24, 2018
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    Band Aid in a takeout Deli Salad. Right on top! They refunded whole Family Dinner at $56.00, but haven’t gone back.

    In my home state of Pennsylvania, persons preparing ready to eat food are required by health laws to wear gloves.

    I assume it is no different in Maryland. If I am correct, persons making salads, sandwiches or other things that don't have to be heated or cooked, SHOULD be wearing gloves and IF they did, you probably wouldn't have found a Band-Aid

    That means the restaurant where you bought your take-out salad isn't following basic health safety protocols which is all the more reason to stay away!!

    They probably don't wash their hands either... :shocked4:
     

    308Scout

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    As a teenager back in in the day, I remember opening up a new box of raisin bran. In the first bowl, a fair number of the "raisins" were actually small dried up beetles. Glad I noticed that before having a bite. In reality, it's just a bit of extra protein, but still not appetizing. :puke2:
     

    gtodave

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    I found a cigarette butt in my won ton soup

    Restaurant didn't care or want to do anything about it. Reported it to health dept next day.. They were shut down for 3 days

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    wilcam47

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    In my home state of Pennsylvania, persons preparing ready to eat food are required by health laws to wear gloves.

    I assume it is no different in Maryland. If I am correct, persons making salads, sandwiches or other things that don't have to be heated or cooked, SHOULD be wearing gloves and IF they did, you probably wouldn't have found a Band-Aid

    That means the restaurant where you bought your take-out salad isn't following basic health safety protocols which is all the more reason to stay away!!

    They probably don't wash their hands either... :shocked4:

    Sometimes its better not knowing
     

    urbantchr

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    Jun 22, 2021
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    I try not to look too closely at my food for all of the reasons above, but a can of soup went clunk when I poured it into the pan. It was a British penny. Kinda cool actually
     

    Trepang

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    Dec 10, 2015
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    Years ago at my wife's office Christmas party at Veras White Sands in Lusby one of her coworkers was the first at the buffet.

    Her first scoop into the Mac & Cheese brought up a disposable glove that was cooked into the Mac & Cheese.
     

    BuildnBurn

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    My wife and I went to a local Green Turtle restaurant for dinner. I ordered beer battered fried chicken with sides. Some time later server came to our table with our ordered dinners and set them before us. The crispy fried chicken looked very savory, and without much other thought I cutoff a bite of the chicken, dipped it in some spicy sauce and popped it into my mouth. At first it tasted yummy, but then, as I chewed, my brain was telling me that something wasn't quite right with what I was chewing.

    I discretely put the partially chewed bite into my napkin and began scrutinizing the food. As I poked through it, it appeared to me to be raw in the middle. I then cut into and looked at all of the pieces on my plate, and found that all of them were raw in the middle. Apparently, the cook didn't leave the chicken in the fryer or fry pan long enough.

    That so turned my stomach that I lost my hunger for dinner--so, I just watched my wife eat her dinner, and spent the time visiting about other topics.


    I was at a new diner about a month ago. They were having fried chicken problems also, they ended up bringing one customers second batch of chicken out with a thermometer in it to prove it was done. The other customer just said no thanks.
     

    rgramjet

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    Jan 25, 2009
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    Years ago at my wife's office Christmas party at Veras White Sands in Lusby one of her coworkers was the first at the buffet.

    Her first scoop into the Mac & Cheese brought up a disposable glove that was cooked into the Mac & Cheese.

    Better the first scoop than the last scoop!
     

    Jim12

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    Diner: "Waiter, what's that fly doing in my soup?"

    Waiter: "I think it's the backstroke, sir."
     

    pbharvey

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    I was excited about it as soon as the sign went up. Love pho. When my buddy asked to meet them there. I jumped at the chance.

    Don't see myself darkening that doorway again....

    I got this from #2 son the other night.
    Thankfully they went to An Loi but I didn’t find out until they were done eating.
    Now he’s been warned.

    I might not eat pho in a good while. This thread is haunting me.
     

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    rgramjet

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    I got this from #2 son the other night.
    Thankfully they went to An Loi but I didn’t find out until they were done eating.
    Now he’s been warned.

    I might not eat pho in a good while. This thread is haunting me.


    Sorry to Phoke up your Pho man! I'm taking a break too.
     

    Bob A

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    First, the grossest thing I didn't eat:

    Took daughter #2 to Crisfield's for some oysters, must have been over 30 years ago. Squeezed lemon juice onto my raw oysters; some sort of millipede squirmed out from beneath the oyster, acting pretty offended. I didn't eat it.

    Sure, I ate the oysters, but it did give me pause.

    Then on to the gross, eaten.
    I was maybe 14 yrs old, in the kitchen of a friend. His mother had bought a big bag of cherries, and we were attacking them with, yes, gusto. They were locally grown, and probably not sprayed, because I noticed many had little holes in them. But they were really good.

    My friend bit into one - always a mistake, they should be popped whole into the piehole - and a little white worm was seen wiggling out of the half cherry he held. He dared me to eat it. Since I was pretty certain I'd already consumed a number of the critter's kin, I popped it into my mouth, chewed and swallowed.

    And I lived to write about it!



    Brian Plummer's book about hunting with ferrets has a chapter where he describes ratting in a maggot farm; apparently in England they raise maggots as bait for fisherman. The scene was pretty gross. Even Plummer was taken aback a bit when he described how the fisherman would pop a maggot into his mouth to warm it up before baiting his hook.

    But you know how it goes: fish eat worms, we eat fish, worms eat us. It's the Circle of Life.
     

    willtill

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    I found a strand of hair today in the Hormel corned beef hash that I had for breakfast. Was outside cooking it on the tailgate of my truck over a single burner propane stove. Wife hates the smell of it cooking, so I go outside with it. She'd hate it more if I told her what I found in it this morning. I just plucked the hair out and kept frying it up in the pan. And ate it afterwards.
     

    Clark W. Griswold

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    A small bone in a burger while at a friends house for a cookout. They were the frozen pre-made burgers. It was the end of a small femur.
     

    rgramjet

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    I once spat out an oyster back into the shell after figuring out in a split second that it was very bad. I set it on the side of my plate.

    My friend's father walked through the kitchen, said "Yum Oysters".......grabbed the nasty oyster and downed it before anyone could stop him.
    Didn't say anything or miss a step....
    The thought of that turns my stomach, 20 years later....
     

    wilcam47

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    I once spat out an oyster back into the shell after figuring out in a split second that it was very bad. I set it on the side of my plate.

    My friend's father walked through the kitchen, said "Yum Oysters".......grabbed the nasty oyster and downed it before anyone could stop him.
    Didn't say anything or miss a step....
    The thought of that turns my stomach, 20 years later....

    :lol2:
     

    gtodave

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    I was reminded of another story the other day, but this wasn't about what was IN the food, but what WASN'T.

    My FIL and his wife were eating at a Korean place in Catonsville. He got a seafood-something dish, and couldn't finish it. He asked for a To-Go bag. They took his plate and boxed up the rest of his meal, and they left.

    The next day when he went to eat his leftovers, he realized that all of the seafood that was left had been picked out...who knows where it ended up.
     

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