What’s the worst thing you’ve accidentally eaten?

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I was sat in bed watching a film and munching on some popcorn. Saw what I thought was a little bit on the bed so I picked it up and put it in my mouth.

It was cat litter…. I don’t think I’ve ever scrubbed my mouth so hard with my toothbrush before

As a child, me and a mate were playing pubs in her bathroom.

She (being the bar lady) whipped me (being the punter) whipped me up a cocktail which was Vosene shampoo, water and toothpaste. For some reason I drank it all even though it tasted like pillows. Then I was sick. Very sick. The sick has bubbles and smelled quite nice😶

Grossness of the highest order, I’m trying to think of an appropriate word that is printable!

I’ve done exactly the same with a can of coke at a party my aunt was having in her house. I can still taste it when I think about it 32 years later 🤢

When DS was a newborn, my lovely MIL came to stay for a few days and made us the most amazing roast dinner with her famous home-made vegetarian gravy. I was eating one-handed with DS asleep on me, holding him against me with my other arm and periodically shifting him into more comfortable positions as my arm went numb. I realised there was a little bit of warm gravy on my hand and licked it off. It was not gravy - he'd done a silent poonami in his sleep and I'd got some on my hand when I shifted him 😖

Oh god I think I’m going to be sick 🤢

A moth, while cycling. Weirdly powdery, which made it very difficult to spit out

Hoping this is buried enough. Reached over in the middle of the night to grab a cheeky handful of my sweets, ended up with a mouthful of Dreamies.

But the worst which still makes me gag is at a friends BBQ as a teenager I put what I thought was a lovely boiled egg yolk in mouth only to find it was a huge glob of butter. Sat at the table and being a teenager I saw my only option as swollowing. Fuck it was awful.

I like butter, but not like that.

made 2 glasses of water - one with a berocca tablet in for me & one with a frozen cube of bloodworm to feed my tropical fish.

You can guess which one I took a large swig out of. Absolutely disgusting

why on earth did you have a cup of piss anyway?

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I tried a firelighter too but it was intentional. I had pica. Was awful, I remember desperately trying to rinse my mouth out with my younger sister watching me. I still love the smell of firelighters though.

I ate the blue bag of salt from those crips where you added your own salt. I think they were called salt n shake. I thought I was going to die after eating it. I was very worried but lived to tell the tale! lol.

Human dissection at university.
There was a lot of pushing, pulling, tugging, sawing etc that had to go on so bits used to flick quite often.
I don't even remember the taste, perhaps because I knew what it was as soon as it entered my mouth so the horror was there from the start.

I ate a cooked slug once. It had been microwaved in one of those bags of ready prepared vegetables.

Many, many flies. One as recently as two weeks ago. I hate it when they seem to get stuck at the back of your throat and don't go away.

I drank a moth that was in a glass of orange juice as a child. I thought it was odd there was a lump in it and spat it out.

Loads of mouldy bread and I often served lumpy milk on my DCs cereal (tbf, I don't drink milk!).

I was painting and had a water cup to wash the brushes in next to me. And a cup of tea. I can confirm that a mouthful of dirty paint water is disgusting.

Someone's chewed up gum from a dirty puddle on the pavement. I'd rather drink the brush water!

As a child my mum bought me some loose fruit and nut mix from the greengrocers on our way home once. Was pick n mix style where the shopkeeper used a scoop to put it into a brown paper bag. Was happily munching away when I felt something very slimy in my mouth in addition to the fruit and nuts- looked inside the bag and saw there was a huge green snot smeared all over the remaining bits, must have got in there from the shopkeepers hand somehow 🤮

Omg, cat litter, vile 😆
My dad was once at a corporate buffet in France and had an odd tasting potato - turned out it was a testical of some animal, sheep or something. Gross! But at least it was on a buffet and meant to be eaten, and not some rogue cat litter.

A maggot. I bit into an apple with one hiding inside 🤮

Durian fruit ice cream. Tasted
like someone farted in your mouth.

Woodlouse. Crunchy but nasty. I've never felt the same about muesli since.

The tea with earwigs in the teapot spout was a bit traumatic, particularly for the earwigs, but not as horrifying as the mouse that drowned itself overnight in my early-tea mug and sank so that I didn't see it until I'd finished the tea.

But I didn't actually eat it, so it is slightly outside the scope of the enquiry.

Hasma. It is a Chinese dessert made from the fallopian tubes of frogs - I didn't understand Chinese well enough at the time to understand this. Makes me heave thinking about it and it was a long time ago!

How on earth did they even discover this to be made into a dessert?

I can’t imagine looking at a frog and going…hmmm I wonder what their fallopian tubes taste like

So the Bogeyman is actually real!!!

Was at an outdoor cafe enjoying the sunshine and drinking a takeaway cappuccino drenched in chocolate topping, yum! Until I felt something solid in my mouth, swallowed,and looked down to see HALF of a giant bluebottle in my coffee.....😱

Oesophagus

They call it "wesson" in Lancashire and I was offered some to try in a Blackpool market; the server didn't say name it and I thought it was a coiled cumberland sausage, which is what it looked like

Only it didn't taste anything like a sausage ...

In my 20s, I always asked for green juice on my ice cream when the ice cream van came on our street. One day the icecream man thought it would be funny to put washing up liquid on it instead