The worst food thing that has ever happened.

[Fuckmeupthearseandrogerme]

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. not envy

Have you had anything worse?

Why am I still scrolling? I'm going to have nightmares

I once bought fish from a supermarket fish counter. When I opened the pack a day or two later, I caught sight of something moving. It was heaving with tiny white worms. The thought of it made me feel utterly sick.

I also used to buy short dated sausages from a small local supermarket, but noticed eventually that they sometimes had bacterial colonies (knew what some looked like from growing them at university) growing on them. I’d noticed they tasted odd from time to time, but hadn’t thought much of it, but once I noticed, I realised it was not an isolated incident. Either the person making them hadn’t washed their hands well, or they had very poor policies about refrigeration.

Also woke one morning to find a large spider floating in the glass of water on my bedside. I was so glad I hadn’t taken a gulp in the middle of the night…

Prawn cocktail in Greece. I'd only ever had the type we do here at Xmas with small prawns in the pink sauce with salad. So when a tall glass full of salad with a giant fully complete prawn with eyes and feelers and tail and everything landed in front of me I wanted to run away! I was fretting about what to do because I didn't want to offend but could not even look it in the eyes, so my boyfriend threw it over the wall back into the sea. I bet it swam off as well. The look on the waiters face when he came to collect the plates, he thought I'd eaten the whole thing 😂

No, just no, I have my fingers in my ears and eyes scrunched shut - don't want to know, lalalalaaaa! This is why I don't buy bananas even though I love them. And eggs, with the little fertilised chick in...nope, no no no...😱🤢

Oh my 😱

I keep telling myself to stop scrolling but I can’t seem to!!

The chick would traumatise me forever.

I LOVE eggs and eat a lot of them but for some reason I am also a little squeamish about them. This would be enough to stop me eating them. I sometimes get some from my friends farm. She said that free range ones from certain shops CAN be fertilised but it’s not common.

And being in a warm car in the summer would potentially be sufficient - but as you saw, probably not the best condition for a healthy chick.

Oh and seeing a tv cookery programme about fish. Cod and the likes of often have worms in the flesh but apparently they are okay because they die when they're cooked. So that's fruit and fish I can't eat anymore.

You need to chuck your husband out for that!

Wtf you wanted to caterpillar to land in your bowl

That would have been better. I'm not vegetarian and I'd have discreetly swallowed it.

@OldTinHat

Oh and seeing a tv cookery programme about fish. Cod and the likes of often have worms in the flesh but apparently they are okay because they die when they're cooked. So that's fruit and fish I can't eat anymore.

Yes, I was told they were harmless, but… just no!

@Soubriquet

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.

And that’s me off milk. Thanks

Pus 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

I had a glass of orange juice as a teenager. It tasted a bit odd. There was a dead blue bottle fly in the bottom of the glass.

A slug in my pintnof lager. I didn't swallow it but it did go entirely into my mouth.

My mum made pancakes that looked lumpy. Not flour lumps. There were maggots wriggling in the mixture once it hit the hot pan.

When I was a teenager in the 80s we would have tinned fruit cocktail for dessert. I would then sneakily swig the leftover juice out of the tin. Until one day when I swigged I had a mouthful of cold congealing fat which my mother had deposited in the empty fruit cocktail tin from the frying pan. It cured me of swigging from tins.

I'm almost wrenching at these.

Mine is organic lettuce. Baby slugs all over my worktop.

@HoobleDooble we had exactly the same with a sachet of Felix. Except instead of opening it, the sachet burst open in my hands and went everywhere. I'm not remotely squeamish, I have a cast iron stomach and grew up on a farm. But that was the most horrific thing ever. It made me vomit repeatedly, which takes some doing.
It's just lucky nobody could see me because I had to take my stinking top off there and then so I could stop heaving long enough to clean up the worst of it before showering and bleaching everywhere. Cat was off like lightening and then all 3 insisted on using the front door until the kitchen was fully cleaned and aired. Just the memory of that smell makes me nauseous.

Lots of these I get, but the slugs in lettuce? Why would you admit you didn't wash properly? There's no way to grow lettuce and not have to need to wash it thoroughly - either it's drenched in pesticides or there'll be slugs.

I was put of blueberries for a long time when I found half a spider.

The nastiest experience, though, was when I bought a pheasant from a posh farm shop. I grew up cooking game; an ex of mine had a job as a beater for the shoots so I was not at all squeamish about any of it. But this was shop-bought. I put it in a pan with cider and it started to smell lovely. I went to turn it over and as I did so, the maggots floated to the surface. Yes, it was absolutely full of maggots! I was disgusted and chucked it, but my then flatmate came in an hour later saying it smelt good and why had I wasted it!

You can definitely hatch free range eggs. My friend has done it several times. The waitrose ones are black chickens.

I once found a beetle wandering around in my boots salad. I didn’t get a voucher or anything, only the offer of a replacement. I had to kick up a fuss to get a refund as it was part of a meal deal and I’d drank the drink!

It's possible to hatch them if they have been fertilised of course, I'd say in most supermarket brands it's very unlikely, free range more likely but no guarantee. I think quail eggs are always fertilised so probably more chance with those, happy to be corrected though.

I've not found anything odd in food, but had a few things that must have dropped into my glass and taken a swig before looking- spiders and bugs.

My mother was eating a salad in a restaurant in Florida a few years ago when a cockroach sauntered out of the lettuce. I wasn’t there but 2 of my dc were. They told me afterwards that my mother, who only noticed it once it was on the table, thought they were teasing her and wouldn’t believe them that it had been happily hiding in her salad.

I keep reading this and I can’t explain why.

@3luckystars

I keep reading this and I can’t explain why.

Same. I really should have stopped after the pus milk but I have a morbid fascination..

I have a glut of plums from my tree in the garden (first year, new house), and because of this thread I'm so scared of maggots/worms that I think I'll have to leave them for the birds!

It’s retched not wrenched!

@cleckheatonwanderer

I have a glut of plums from my tree in the garden (first year, new house), and because of this thread I'm so scared of maggots/worms that I think I'll have to leave them for the birds!

I have a glut of plums this year too. In my experience, the first ones to ripen often have a wee plum moth larva in them but if you cut them in half this is instantly obvious. The ones that ripen later are succulent and juicy are larva-free. I still cut them in half Every Single Time just in case.

My dad oftern hatches eggs brought from the supermarket and farm shops. They absolutely can be fertilised! This is why I always crack my eggs into a glass first... - not envy!