Disgusting things you've found in food (and been too polite to say anything)

[CutesyUserName]

A friend we don't see very often invited us over for dinner. She made a enormous disgusting pot of chicken stew. As my DS was gamely working his way through it, there was a huge, floppy legged spider all limp at the bottom of the bowl. He just pushed it aside under a bit of potato and kept quiet (though refused seconds).

My MIL served up boiled to buggery broccoli (as usual) with a very overcooked earwig.

Another friend got a teapot out of a cabinet (she got the best china out, unfortunately for us) and when I offered to make the next pot and was emptying the teabags, out came one of those huge housespiders. We'd drunk the whole pot (not envy).

I've also had a green caterpillar in a store-bought salad and my DM once opened a jar of Nivea to find a whole fingernail in it.

[thecatneuterer]

A cockroach. (I was staying with a host family in Cuba).

[Olinguito]

A cup of tea complete with a flea floating on top.

[Basta]

My MIL served up boiled to buggery broccoli (as usual) with a very overcooked earwig.

What is the recommended amount of time to cook an earwig?

[TonsilTits]

A wiggly weevil on my spoon halfway through a bowl of muesli at a friend's house

[LongSummerDays]

A blue plaster in a bowl of pasta salad at a bring a dish work picnic. I decided that I wasn't that hungry after all.

[HarryBlackberry]

Eyelashes and eyelid in a mince pie. In the 80's. Still makes me gag thinking of it.

[bangourvillagebesttimeever]

A maggot on my pizza. And I did say something as I was pregnant and out with friends. Disgusting....

[AdamantEve]

@harryblackberry an EYELID??? 🤢

[CutesyUserName]

@Harry An eyelid! You win, no question. That is just vile, boak.

[Fluffyears]

Not me but a friends dc was eating rolo’s and for bd a fingernail in one. They did complain and get compensation.