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The worst food thing that has ever happened.

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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?

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Fuckmeupthearseandrogerme · 21/08/2021 23:25

Ugh reading again the potato eye..

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WingingItSince1973 · 21/08/2021 23:26

@3luckystars

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.
That would make me ill for a very long time. In fact I can't get the image out of my head 🤢
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Fuckmeupthearseandrogerme · 21/08/2021 23:26

@eandz13

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
Wtf, how can you feel bad for the ones you have swallowed. And more importantly where do you buy your strawberries from?
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Fuckmeupthearseandrogerme · 21/08/2021 23:27

winging I agree

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WingingItSince1973 · 21/08/2021 23:28

@Fuckmeupthearseandrogerme

winging I agree
I need to go and eat some chocolate to take my mind off it 🤣
CluelessHamster · 21/08/2021 23:34

@sachaf08

I once drank a whole cup of tea and it was only the final mouthful that revealed the massive dead spider that must have been hiding amongst the tea bags (and subsequently boiled to death).
That reminded me of being asked, as a teen, to get the "best" cups and saucers out of the box they were usually kept in as we had visitors. I found a huge spider lurking in one of them. My dad got rid of it but when I reached the bottom of the cup of tea mum presented me with, there was loads of web in the bottom of my cup. Thanks for not washing it after the spider was evicted, mum!
BrilloPaddy · 21/08/2021 23:36

I once ate a plum, thinking it was a little chewy. Then looked down, and found half a maggot sat in it. Presumably I ate the rest of it...... I felt sick for days afterwards.

I now have to cut them open with a sharp knife and inspect carefully before eating.

HoobleDooble · 21/08/2021 23:39

On the cat food topic, I once pulled out a sachet of Tesco Trout in Jelly for my cat and noticed it was much bigger than usual. I assumed it had been overfilled in the factory and my cat was going to get a bit of a Super sized dinner that night. What had actually happened was the packet was blown up due to the gas coming off the decaying fishy meat and green jelly inside. Hands down the worst thing I've ever smelt, opening that packet must be on a par with opening the devil's bathroom door without giving it 10 minutes first!

SquirryTheSquirrel · 21/08/2021 23:40

I'm being reminded by this thread of the Red Dwarf episode with the 'Triplicator'. If you want a vile food scene, it's worth a watch. Envy

SquirryTheSquirrel · 21/08/2021 23:42

@HoobleDooble

On the cat food topic, I once pulled out a sachet of Tesco Trout in Jelly for my cat and noticed it was much bigger than usual. I assumed it had been overfilled in the factory and my cat was going to get a bit of a Super sized dinner that night. What had actually happened was the packet was blown up due to the gas coming off the decaying fishy meat and green jelly inside. Hands down the worst thing I've ever smelt, opening that packet must be on a par with opening the devil's bathroom door without giving it 10 minutes first!
Aargh! At least my cat food sandwich was made with reasonably fresh cat food! Grin
Wineat5isfine · 21/08/2021 23:47

Holidaying in Asia…a recommended restaurant. We ordered some meat / veg / rice and spices, fire baked in banana leaves. Served up - unwrapped the leaves and started to eat, but the texture was strange - looking more closely, and I could see things in the pile of food that just looked very strange.

Turns out that caterpillars love banana leaves and they aren’t always washed off.

I was so poorly. DH stopped eating but wasn’t sick.

It was the most revolting experience

TheVanguardSix · 21/08/2021 23:49

Oh God... the worst for me happened years and years ago... 24/25 years ago... I lived in Italy. The concierge from my block of flats invited me to join her and her family for dinner before I moved away. Anyway... oh God... PTSD as I type. So it was a real shithole of a flat, sorry to say, but context matters. They pour me a glass of wine which was worse than vinegar. Anyway, I am politely pretending to drink this wine, taking in molecular amounts... the smallest sips known to man and still just dying. And the pasta... you think you could never eat terribly in Italy. Italy and terrible food are never in the same sentence, right? In this apartment, gross Italian food actually existed- a total anomaly as far as Italian food goes. Anyway, the bathroom and kitchen were sort of in one room and the dining room where we ate was right next to it. So the husband, between bites, would choke and end up vomiting into the bathroom/kitchen sink inside the bathroom/kitchen where there was also a bath... inside which, the concierge told me, they made their own bathtub wine that I'd been drinking.
It was a truly awful dining experience and I felt so sorry for these people that I couldn't leave. You could tell they were just sooo thrilled to have someone over for dinner.

GalaxyGirl24 · 21/08/2021 23:53

These are all grim.

I've found a dead clear spider in my dates once, creeped me out.

A tiny tiny blue slug in my lettuce when prepping a salad, didn't eat lettuce for years and I'm still funny with it now.

GreyhoundG1rl · 21/08/2021 23:55

God, TheVanguardSix, that's both revolting and heartbreaking at the same time.

WingingItSince1973 · 22/08/2021 00:02

@HoobleDooble

On the cat food topic, I once pulled out a sachet of Tesco Trout in Jelly for my cat and noticed it was much bigger than usual. I assumed it had been overfilled in the factory and my cat was going to get a bit of a Super sized dinner that night. What had actually happened was the packet was blown up due to the gas coming off the decaying fishy meat and green jelly inside. Hands down the worst thing I've ever smelt, opening that packet must be on a par with opening the devil's bathroom door without giving it 10 minutes first!
Oh thats happened to me before and it was the worst thing I have ever smelled.
Zeev · 22/08/2021 00:04

I once bought this big fish from the supermarket when I was living in Southeast Asia. When I opened it up to cut it into filets I noticed movement. A huge anisakid roundworm wriggled out.

FrankiesKnuckle · 22/08/2021 00:06

At a night food market in Vietnam. Grabbed a table in the hustle and ordered this one pan meal that cooks at your table, it's noodles/broth - and I chose squid to go into it.
Lovely first few tastes, grab some squid and I got more than I bargained for, they'd left the eye in!!
And then my husband got the beak 🤢
Put me right off squid for a long time.

MrsSkylerWhite · 22/08/2021 00:09

Ordered a duck dish in Hong Kong. It arrived, a whole duck on a plate, head attached. Looked as you wound imagine a duck whacked with a mallet would look.
Two weeks later in Beijing, we were served duck tongues. Wasn’t hungry on either occasion.

LoveFall · 22/08/2021 00:09

Eating lunch with friends at one of those sushi places where the sushi floats around and around on little boats. Enjoying our meal when a huge cockroach sauntered along the edge in front of us.

TheVanguardSix · 22/08/2021 00:15

Two weeks later in Beijing, we were served duck tongues. Wasn’t hungry on either occasion.

Good god that's awful. I mean, you just wouldn't, would you? You could be a Donner party member, trapped in the mountains, starving, hallucinating, dying... there could be little duck tongues sticking up from the snow, tempting you and still you'd have to say, "I'll choose the slow death here on the mountain pass, thanks."

MrsSkylerWhite · 22/08/2021 00:23

Good god that's awful. I mean, you just wouldn't, would you? You could be a Donner party member, trapped in the mountains, starving, hallucinating, dying... there could be little duck tongues sticking up from the snow, tempting you and still you'd have to say, "I'll choose the slow death here on the mountain pass, thanks."

Sorry, it’s late , I’m tired, can’t tell if you’re being sarky or not.
Obviously, if it was die or eat duck tongues, I’d eat duck tongues.
Wasn’t in a precarious situation then, though. Just having dinner in Beijing.

PoorCatto · 22/08/2021 00:28

A horsey colleague recently told me how she'd put down a creamy frappe thing from Starbucks whilst at the farm. Gone away to brush down the horse and come back. The straw of her drink kept clogging. She twirled and sucked, twirled and sucked. All the way to the bottom. What she had thought was a piece of ice that kept clogging the straw was actually a mouse that had climbed in the cup and drowned. She'd drunk the whole thing.

Thankfully it wasn't me.

TheVanguardSix · 22/08/2021 00:28

Oh no not at all MrsSkyler! Not sarcy in the least. And forgive me, I'm Californian so you'll have to google Donner Party to get the gist of what I'm saying, which is: I'd rather freeze to death on a mountain pass than eat duck tongues! After I read your post, I googled the duck tongue beijing and... well, MN needs a proper vom emoji, is what I think. It's high time!
Glad you gave the tongues the swerve.

LozzaChops101 · 22/08/2021 00:30

I've had the half maggot in the plum thing too. I can't eat any fruit without cutting it into little bits now Envy

SquirryTheSquirrel · 22/08/2021 00:32

A duck's tongue must be minute

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