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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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MistySkiesAfterRain · 22/08/2021 13:45

When I was 14 yrs old my family went on holiday to Greece. We went out for dinner at a restaurant and the locals bought over shots at the end of the meal. I'm not sure any of us knew what it was and I don't know what I thought but I drank it as part of the event. It was ouzo and I remember having to stand outside feeling extremely sick and dizzy while my stomach burned.

3Br1tnee · 22/08/2021 13:47

@MollyBloomYes

Shop bought eggs can hatch! In one of those massive 'lockdown activities ideas' groups on Facebook (that I really must leave but then gold like this crops up) they got some eggs from Asda for their broody hens who had no cockerel. Definitely shop bought, you could see the date stamp on them. Anyway, series of photos with them candling the eggs, seeing veins develop etc and then eventually they did have one chick hatch! The non fertilised or 'bad' eggs the chickens kicked out of the hutch. Apparently if the egg is fertilised then as long as it's incubated within something like 10 days from date of fertilisation the chick can develop! My dad tried to argue that all eggs had to be fertilised otherwise they wouldn't produce an egg which I'm pretty sure isn't right but I couldn't quite bear to have a discussion about chicken periods on a family day out to a kiddie farm 😄

No hugely gross stories but I used to work for woman who operated out of her house so her kitchen was free access for staff lunch etc. Oh god she was grim. Had her dog sat up at the table with her and using all the 'people' plates, shared her plate she was using at that moment with the dog abs then carried on eating from it, her bread was frequently absolutely covered in mould and she'd just cut the biggest bits off but munch her way through the smaller bits, sticking her finger in the leftover grease from frying bacon and eating it. Just horrible. She always insisted we could help ourselves to any staples like bread and milk but funnily enough I wasn't keen.

I can't do mould. Have to check any bit of bread for any minute speckle. Spider in tea would be a shock but I don't think would make me sick. Mould or floating white bits of milk in tea however 🤢

Look up christmasalicewilson on tiktok, she buys shop eggs and tries to hatch them. I think she's succeeded but I'm not sure, I'll need to check as I haven't been on there for ages.
Thecurtainsofdestiny · 22/08/2021 13:56

Oh this thread has reminded me of something that happened to my in laws. They had visitors and used the "good" teapot to make tea. When their visitors left they went to clean the teapot and noticed an odd looking teabag in the pot.

It was a dead mouse.

BananaMilkshakeWithCream · 22/08/2021 14:00

Not human food but cat food. When I was a kid I once opened a tin and a fish eye was staring up at me! I nearly shit myself 😂

kidsatuniemptynester · 22/08/2021 14:06

Yuk. So, how long do I need to rinse/soak brocolli in salt water? I am vegetarian so avoid the animal based horrors, but I am now panicking about things lurking in fruit and veg. I have always cut every piece of fruit in half before eating it, even cherries and grapes, This is due to my friend triumphantly biting into her first home grown strawberry and finding a slug inside it.

Roseinbloom20 · 22/08/2021 14:11

Not as bad as most of these but a few years ago whilst on holiday I was drinking a bottle of water and thought it tasted odd, it seemed to have a minty taste. I checked the bottle to see if it was flavoured and it was just a standard bottle of water so I just kept drinking it as it was really hot and I was thirsty. Anyway, once I'd finished it I realised why it tasted minty - my dad had put his old chewing gum in there! What I didn't realise was my parents had bought big bottles of water for the villa and then poured them into individual bottles for days out as they were easier to carry but my dad had put his old gum in what he thought was just an empty bottle but it got re-used so I drank the old gum water 🤦🏻‍♀️

thatfuckingtent · 22/08/2021 15:12

This is recent.
Opened a sealed packet of Brie to find maggots in it.
It was still in date too

Deathraystare · 22/08/2021 15:23

My dad once sucked a 'hairy' sweet. Yup a very hairy spider was on it. After that, my dad was terrified of spiders!

chipfork · 22/08/2021 15:44

Sitting under an apple tree one sunny afternoon drinking red wine from a dark blue glass, tipped it up to drain the last drop and a slug plopped into my mouth, when I spat it out it was purple 🤮 On a long journey as a child my mum gave me an empty crisp packet to sharpen my colouring pencils into ... a bit later I thought 'ooh, I've got some crisps left in the bottom' and tipped them into my mouth - urghh, so dry and very hard to spit out.

Mammyloveswine · 22/08/2021 15:46

I've had a caterpillar in a boots salad before and a caterpillar in a Tesco sandwich...both still alive!

I got a £25 voucher from boots and £10 from Tesco!

FuckingFabulous · 22/08/2021 18:23

@UnashamedLabelHo

This thread is likely to be the one thing in the world that can reduce my appetite. I don’t even want a bacon butty for breakfast!
I'm continuing to read this even though I know I won't want to eat, ever again.

I'll share this, but it took me over a decade to eat either one of these again, and I won't be able to now either, because I'm remembering it.

  1. On a school trip in the 90s, we were all given a small cup of very creamy milk straight from the herd of prize winning cows on a very inaccurate Victorian farm experience day. My milk felt chunky and I spat it into my hand only to find a long, stringy, bloody chunk of slime. The farmer came over and went, "oh, aye. Tha' 'appens. Gets diluted in t'shop milk but aye. From mastitis. Bit o' pus. It'll do thee no 'arm lass."

  2. Family member went foraging for mushrooms. Boiled them in milk (vile) and skimmed the maggots off the top.

And that's me off dairy and mushrooms again until 2031

FuckingFabulous · 22/08/2021 18:25

@wheresmymojo

I was eating a cheese and onion pasty bought from the place at London Waterloo station.

I found a pube in my mouth from the pasty. Envy

100%, that pube wasn't the pasty's! 😂😂
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Fuckmeupthearseandrogerme · 22/08/2021 19:29

@kidsatuniemptynester

Yuk. So, how long do I need to rinse/soak brocolli in salt water? I am vegetarian so avoid the animal based horrors, but I am now panicking about things lurking in fruit and veg. I have always cut every piece of fruit in half before eating it, even cherries and grapes, This is due to my friend triumphantly biting into her first home grown strawberry and finding a slug inside it.
As a fellow vegetarian I shared this story (which is 100% true, and the pp saying that some people eat half feathered eggs is even more vom) feeling that 1. I should go vegan and 2. All the stories would be of the animal variety (and I wasn't disappointed, ugh eyeball mince and duck tounges)

But fuck me Broccoli Envy not envy

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Fuckmeupthearseandrogerme · 22/08/2021 19:35

@KohlaParasanda

Several decades ago, I gave our cats half a can of a paste-style tinned cat food. They didn't eat it. My XH had a thing about food waste. He acknowledged afterwards that the sandwich he made with the remainder of the can hadn't been very nice, though he'd managed to eat all of it.

I once served a tin of vegetable soup for lunch. Unfortunately, the small caterpillar landed in my vegetarian friend's bowl instead of mine and they spotted it before I did.

Wtf you wanted to caterpillar to land in your bowl Grin Shock Smile
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Soubriquet · 22/08/2021 19:40

1) On a school trip in the 90s, we were all given a small cup of very creamy milk straight from the herd of prize winning cows on a very inaccurate Victorian farm experience day. My milk felt chunky and I spat it into my hand only to find a long, stringy, bloody chunk of slime. The farmer came over and went, "oh, aye. Tha' 'appens. Gets diluted in t'shop milk but aye. From mastitis. Bit o' pus. It'll do thee no 'arm lass.

EnvyEnvyEnvy

And that’s me off milk. Thanks

Cravey · 22/08/2021 19:41

I give you the gift of a tooth in my scrambled egg. Not my tooth. From a self serve buffet. Funnily enough I can't eat eggs now !

DentonsFringeArnottsWaistcoat · 22/08/2021 19:47

Years ago, back in the eighties, friend at work got a chicken 'sandwich' - burger type thing, with chips. She hated mayonnaise so had asked for it without. She bit in to it and something slimey squirted out of it, she tutted thinking they'd forgotten and added the mayo anyway. But no, what squirted out was clear.....it was some kind of cyst or something the chicken. I'm pretty sure this is round about the time I started to eschew meat........

userxx · 22/08/2021 19:53

@DentonsFringeArnottsWaistcoat

Years ago, back in the eighties, friend at work got a chicken 'sandwich' - burger type thing, with chips. She hated mayonnaise so had asked for it without. She bit in to it and something slimey squirted out of it, she tutted thinking they'd forgotten and added the mayo anyway. But no, what squirted out was clear.....it was some kind of cyst or something the chicken. I'm pretty sure this is round about the time I started to eschew meat........

That was an urban myth from years ago. It started with McDonald's and then moved over to KFC.

Cookerhood · 22/08/2021 19:57

We've had the cat food sachet one too. I kept wondering what the smell was - the sachet was punctured.
Went on holiday once & came home to find that the freezer had broken down. There were black flies EVERYWHERE. I've blocked out what the inside of the freezer looked like when we opened it.
The drinking the ash tray thing was very common in the late 70s/early 80s at parties. Yuk.

LloydColeandtheCoconuts · 22/08/2021 20:53

@TheVanguardSix

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.
Bloody hell I just googled The Donner Party! It's gripping stuff. Horrifying.
ActonSquirrel · 22/08/2021 20:57

I'm sure I remember a poster on here weeks or months ago literally losing her shit at her DP as (they didn't live together) every time he came over he would put her eggs in the fridge.

She went crazy as she said she didn't like him moving her things as it is for her to decide where they go and eggs don't need refrigerating.

I hope she reads this thread!

LloydColeandtheCoconuts · 22/08/2021 21:07

user*xx
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Yes, I remember that story doing the rounds too when I was at schoolGrin

TheVolturi · 22/08/2021 21:09

I remember in Turkey my dad biting into a peach and there being a big worm thing, never eaten a peach since!

userxx · 22/08/2021 21:10

@FrankiesKnuckle

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.

Never knew squid had a beak.

feesh · 22/08/2021 21:14

Wow. This has given my diet a much-needed boost.