Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. Protection built in.

Meet the Other Phone.
Protection built in.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Chat

Join the discussion and chat with other Mumsnetters about everyday life, relationships and parenting.

Original poster

The worst food thing that has ever happened.

181 replies

Fuckmeupthearseandrogerme · 21/08/2021 22:11

This is proper gross, much worse than when I ate a crumpet and then looked at the one left in the pack and found it was riddled with mould, in fact it is so awful that I will leave a space so you can choose not to read. If you do read have you ever had anything as awful and if so have you got over it?

I cracked a free range egg into my pan and it had a half formed dead chick in it. Turns out not so dh had left the box in his van for two weeks before putting into fridge, van evidently warm enough to start the process. Envy not envy

Have you had anything worse?

OP posts:
Bobmonkfish · 21/08/2021 22:54

I only had a boring old maggot in an apple. These stories are great.

Aquamarine1029 · 21/08/2021 22:55

[quote FinallyFluid]We went on honeymoon to Bali, we booked a driver to take us on a tour of the top of the island.

So far, so good, included in the price, was lunch, where lots of other tours were stopping, for some reason rather than just digging in, I pulled the flakes of poached salmon apart, and there it was in all its glory a bluebottle. The flakes were so tight together it clearly hatched in there. I actually recoiled, the chair skidded backwards across the floor and I went outside to to try and vom.

I have a stomach of iron so when I tell you that I had the very worst head and neck cancer years later and I had radio and chemo at the same time and only threw up once, that will give you some idea of visceral the reaction was.

I didn't eat any salmon other than smoked for about fifteen years.

EnvyEnvy just for clarity......

shreddednips · 21/08/2021 22:57

Oh my goodness some of these Shock

When I was a small child, we stopped to eat at a little chef on a car journey. I was (still am) a vegetarian and ordered some tomato soup. Stuck my spoon in and fished out this large lump of grey, slimy stuff, probably about the size of a ping pong ball. It was definitely meat but had a really bizarre smell and was absolutely the worst thing I had ever seen. The texture of it was dense and fibrous. I can still remember my father dissecting it to try and figure out what it was. I was absolutely adamant that it was a chunk of owl meat, no idea what gave me that notion.

Frogsareflyinginfromthewest · 21/08/2021 22:57

Often large free range flocks have a few cockerels mixed in, so not at all impossible.

Theawkwardblonde · 21/08/2021 22:58

Someone mentioned above a spider in tea..I had the same at the in laws in a cup of coffee. Got to the bottom and a huge spider was boiled on the bottom. I have an intense spider phobia so screamed and threw the mug off the wall in panic 🤣🤣

GreyhoundG1rl · 21/08/2021 22:58

Oh, Historyfan 🙁. That's really awful.

Theawkwardblonde · 21/08/2021 23:00

Also had an eye ball in a sausage on a flight abroad when I was younger. That was grim. I remember saying to my mother there was an eye in my sausage. She didn't believe me, but when she looked I saw her face turn white 😂 never touched a meal on a plane since.

GreyhoundG1rl · 21/08/2021 23:02

@Theawkwardblonde

Also had an eye ball in a sausage on a flight abroad when I was younger. That was grim. I remember saying to my mother there was an eye in my sausage. She didn't believe me, but when she looked I saw her face turn white 😂 never touched a meal on a plane since.
A whole one? How did that get through the mincer??
CurryLover55 · 21/08/2021 23:03

Feeling quite sick now 🤮

LindaEllen · 21/08/2021 23:05

@hiplip

Hens aren't mated so how was there a chick in it?
There wasn't. Not only do they not mate hens that produce the eggs that they sell, but also there's no way it'd start to grow from sitting in a warm van 😂😂 ..and if it was really warm enough to incubate an egg, the egg probably wasn't fit to eat anyway.

Load of rubbish!

Original poster
Fuckmeupthearseandrogerme · 21/08/2021 23:05

@hiplip

Hens aren't mated so how was there a chick in it?
Homestead Free range hens often are, I know for certain as I can hear the local cockrels. However I will only buy supermarket eggs from on, the feathers will never leave me.

All the others, thank you, I am still disgusted about what happened but hearing your tales (tails possibly) of woe makes me feel less like a freak

OP posts:
LindaEllen · 21/08/2021 23:07

@Frogsareflyinginfromthewest

Often large free range flocks have a few cockerels mixed in, so not at all impossible.
No, they don't .. for exactly the reason that they don't want people to crack open their eggs to find dead chicks..
ISpyCobraKai · 21/08/2021 23:07

When in Indonesia, many years ago I'd come home drunk with a pizza, ate some then fell asleep.
The next morning, hungover and bleary eyed I started eating the leftovers, only to realise it was crawling with ants.

Original poster
Fuckmeupthearseandrogerme · 21/08/2021 23:08

LindaEllen

Report me, I am a very regular poster. If you buy backyard chicken eggs they often do have a cock, in fact pm your address and I will send you some. Eggs have to be kept at a certain temp to develop, a warm summer and being left in a warm van can do this, how else do you think chick's develop

OP posts:
eandz13 · 21/08/2021 23:09

Placemarking!
Worst I've had is caterpillars wriggling out of my strawberries on quite a few occasions, but they're hardly vile, I just feel bad for the ones I've probably swallowed over the years Sad

HoobleDooble · 21/08/2021 23:10

This was a supermarket free range egg I had a couple of years back. I'm just glad I was breaking them into a bowl and not directly into a hot pan Envy

3luckystars · 21/08/2021 23:14

At a friends house I drank the end of a bottle of coke once and it was full of cigarette ashes and butts, he had been using it as an ashtray.

ThisIsNotAGloveSong · 21/08/2021 23:15

I once opened a box of eggs in a supermarket and there was a half hatched dead chick in one, so it does happen.

Garriet · 21/08/2021 23:17

Oh no that’s terrible. Nothing as bad as that has happened to me.

My worst one was buying a filled jacket potato for lunch from a sandwich shop, biting into it, thinking there was a large “eye” in the potato skin then realising it was a massive spider squashed and cooked into the skin 🤢

I retched for ages.

SquirryTheSquirrel · 21/08/2021 23:20

Mine is tame compared to these but anyway ...

Years ago I stumbled blearily into the kitchen with a massive hangover and thought I'd make myself a cheese sandwich - didn't bother with any refinements such as plate or breadboard, just slapped the sliced bread down on the surface and made up the sandwich.

Took a bite out of it and tasted something salty - looked, and there were lumps of (wet) cat food embedded in the underneath of the sandwich. I'd obviously drunkenly fed the cat the previous night and left bits of cat food lying about on the work surface.

I nearly heaved but chucked the cat food sarnie in the bin and made myself a replacement, this time on a plate!

I will add that this was about 25 years ago and my housekeeping though hardly fastidious has improved somewhat. And my present cats eat dry food.

IncludeWomenInThePrequel · 21/08/2021 23:20

Opened a bag of peanuts to find them all wrapped up in a web and a dead giant spider in the bag.

Bought a chicken from Tesco, there was a bluebottle trapped underneath the cellophane, that was rank. The Tesco Customer Service lady kept gagging.

Original poster
Fuckmeupthearseandrogerme · 21/08/2021 23:24

Fuck me, I knew you would all make me feel better, those saying that eating a dead spider or cat food isn't as bad need their heads seeing too, that is gross.

However German Shepherd Curry currently wins Envy not, definitely not envy

OP posts:
WingingItSince1973 · 21/08/2021 23:24

When my youngest was at nursery she never drank the little cartons of milk and they always send her home with one. One day I found one in the car and for some unknown reason I opened it and took a gulp. It had been there for a while and was like warm sick. I had to open the car door in the car park and sick it up. Have absolutely no idea why i drank it! Dd hardly slept so I assume sleep deprivation sent me mad!

Westpoint · 21/08/2021 23:25

Didn't happen to me but my brother and Dad......

My parents were posted to West Africa when I was younger. Once Dad drank a bottle of beer to find a mouse head in the bottom and another time my brother found a chewed cob of chewing gum complete with teeth marks in his....

EatAllDay · 21/08/2021 23:25

Eating away on my lunch, 8 months pregnant, and dig in to get another scoop of sweet corn from the can : a massive Maggot sitting there 🤢🤮🤢🤮

Swipe left for the next trending thread