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Found this in a jar of pasta sauce.

421 replies

GeorgeandHarold66 · 29/04/2021 17:48

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

Found this in a jar of pasta sauce.
Found this in a jar of pasta sauce.
Found this in a jar of pasta sauce.
OP posts:
SakuraEdenSwan1 · 29/04/2021 19:41

@MargaretThursday

Spider eggs...
ShockShockShock RUN
sugarlost · 29/04/2021 19:42

It looks like part of a Monster.... possibly a Sea Monster

LyndaSnellsSniff · 29/04/2021 19:43

Yuck! That's gruesome! Knocks my faulty teabags discovery yesterday into a cocked hat!

Toothpaste123 · 29/04/2021 19:44

Peppercorns clumped together? That's my guess.. Have you tried to cut them apart?

Myglueattack · 29/04/2021 19:45

Ew Ew Ew Ew ewwwww!

Maggiesfarm · 29/04/2021 19:45

Take it to your council's Environmental Health Department.

It looks absolutely vile!

MummytoCSJH · 29/04/2021 19:46

@TooExtraImmatureCheddar

Donoghue vs Stevenson - if you find weird random shit like decomposed snails in your jars, the company has to pay up.
Bloody hell, what a throwback to my Law a-level Grin
Tangledtresses · 29/04/2021 19:48

Oh wow.... I'd say it's tomato seeds clumped together
But also SPIDER EGG SACK 😱😱😱😱

mamamilkmachine · 29/04/2021 19:50

Mouldy pasta shell I think 🤔 it's really gross, imagine feeling a crunch and pulling that out of your mouth!

intheenddoesitreallymatter · 29/04/2021 19:51

Is it a chunk of mushroom that's started growing mould?

It looks like the rehydrated mushroom we have in the cupboard

shalo2 · 29/04/2021 19:52

I had a recent similar experience with a small hard object in a tin of soup which ended up in my mouth. I immediately emailed the company who sent a package for me to send the object to them. It was analysed and it was a small stone. They apologised and sent £15 of their product vouchers.

Lotusmonster · 29/04/2021 19:53

I reckon this a build up (stalactite) of mouldy old ingredient / mix that’s built up somewhere along the production line due to a lack of cleaning and has eventually just dropped into the rolling food jars. Gross and unforgivable....name and shame please!

Pinkearedcow · 29/04/2021 19:54

A very manky sun dried tomato? Make sure you complain OP!

YourCakesAreShit · 29/04/2021 19:54

Definitely some sort of shell/exoskeleton.

Don't share those pictures too widely. You don't want the rest of the species to see them and come for you.

dudsville · 29/04/2021 19:55

@BeautifulandWilfulandDead

It looks like something of vegetable origin. How big is it? We need a banana for scale...
do you imgur by any chance?!
DefinatelyMaybee · 29/04/2021 19:56

I've shat better looking things... 🤢🤢

friskybivalves · 29/04/2021 20:00

It's Rebekah Vardy's account big toenail.

Runkle · 29/04/2021 20:00

Passionfruit or frogspawn

5zeds · 29/04/2021 20:02

I don’t know how to make this ok but...but...I think it’s an EAR!!!

I feel faint.

thatsgotit · 29/04/2021 20:02

@joystir59

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.
This!!!
speakout · 29/04/2021 20:03

Jeez.
I found the body of a blowfly in a can of ASDA beef bolognese sauce.
ASDA told me weeks later the sample I posted had been lost.
Report to environmental health OP- I wouldn't trust supermarkets.

JulietMadeChutney · 29/04/2021 20:04

If you are brave enough to head over to Sporner's Corner it looks remarkable similar to some of the results from Ear-Wax-Extraction videos. I think you should (in the name of science, obviously) lick it as a PP said to find out.....

YouokHun · 29/04/2021 20:05

@muffindays

OP you must send it back to the manufacturer with a big complaint!! You will get reimbursed hopefully with added extras!
OP does not want more jars of the same with “added extras”. She cannot be sure of cash in compensation Shock Grin
Pinkearedcow · 29/04/2021 20:10

5zeds Shock

LopsidedWombat · 29/04/2021 20:13

I've had a clump of lentils like that before, both in a can and a pouch. It made me feel a bit queasy even though I knew what it was. Does the sauce contain lentils?? If not then no idea Envy