Found this in a jar of pasta sauce.

[GeorgeandHarold66]

Anybody want to hazard a guess what it is? I feel a bit sick

A mutant blueberry?

That’s pretty off putting. Have you eaten it?

Eek! No idea! Have you eaten any of it?

It looks like something of vegetable origin. How big is it? We need a banana for scale...

Is it animal, vegetable or mineral?

Not blueberry texture, it's rubbery and looks a bit like the bottom of a snail on the underside.
No thankfully I'd only just opened it.

😱 What kind of pasta sauce? With vegetables? Some kind of olives?

The last photo is the end of a wooden spoon for scale.

WTF 😳

It looks like squished ready to eat lentils

Could they have been made in the same factory?

@Mamette

😱 What kind of pasta sauce? With vegetables? Some kind of olives?

It doesn't say olives on it and it really doesn't look anything like an olive. I threw the jar in the bin in horror, might have to get it out though!

Looks disgusting whatever it is!

I thought it was a v small rice crispie cake at first

Was the jar in date and sealed? Could it be well developed mould?

A clump of dried out tomato seeds, perhaps?

Oh wow that looks gross, no idea what it could be... are you going to reach out to the company? I know when I was a kid my mum bought a loaf of bread (either warburton's or hovis) and there was a dead mouse inside it! The company apologised and gave us tons of free stuff, which I found really exciting as a kid!

It doesn't say olives on it and it really doesn't look anything like an olive. I threw the jar in the bin in horror, might have to get it out though!

Ok, I optimistically thought maybe a lump of dried out tapenade or something but that was stupid as how would it stay dried up within a jar of sauce.

Cut it open

Lick it

@LaLaLandIsNoFun

Cut it open

Yes yes - perform a dissection, for the purposes of science!

Has it got a teeny head - right of shot.

You're going to need a head torch, kitchen knife, garlic and crucifix.

Woman up Op, you've got this.

Cut it open, also smell it. Report back with photos and contact the manufacturer, they will keep you in pasta sauce for life if you don't go to the press.

Does it look the same on both sides?

Also, please post a photo of its underside.

It looks like a truffle?

Looks like the burnt stuff off the bottom of a pan. Lentils like a PP said. Picture of jar and ingredients?