Disgusting surprises in food

[Clandestino]

So after they had deleted a great thread just when it was gaining momentum I sulked a bit.
But why not think about stuff we've eaten and which was hiding some unexpected surprises, would it BU?
I once bit into what I thought was a nice piece of fish while in fact it was a chunk of carp fat. I still smell and taste it. Put me off fish for years.
Bit into a ripe pear as a child. A very pissed off fat worm crawled out. I was half expecting him to start giving out to me.
I can only eat pears halved now and checked for traces of alien protein.

Bits of crap from the conveyor belt in the factory (according to spokesperson) in a toddler organic museli bar.

Went to a smart cafe/restaurant chain and bit into a burger and was greeted with many large shards of hard plastic. They kindly took the burger off the bill and acted as if they were doing me a huge favour.

I bought a calzone from Zizzi one day (takeaway) - it was full of tiny bits of broken china! Very crunchy

Not 'in' food but I was eating in Harvester with DH and a big ceramic chicken fell off a shelf behind me and smashed on my head. I was so shocked but the manager just laughed it off. Could at least given me a free meal the bastard.

A bag of peanuts where all of the peanuts were wrapped in a web and at the bottom of the bag was a big fat very dead spider.

Half a wasp in a yogurt. Sent the lot back to the company that made it. Letter of apology and some vouchers which I never used. Didn't fancy their products funnily.

A maggot in a chocolate from a vairy expensive chocolate egg one Easter. I got £5 voucher for a company that had already gone bust . Still can't eat dark chocolate even though I love it

On holiday in Italy when I was about 11, we tried a local delicacy: finely minced rabbit meat. I wasn't keen, but my mother insisted I shouldn't be so wet.

After a couple of minutes I spotted something moving on my plate. It was a maggot. Maggots. The food was crawling with them. I was not believed until I picked one up on the prong of my fork and held it aloft.

My mother still finished hers.

I am now a vegetarian.

Lots of caterpillars in my lettuce! Escorted them to a bush and still ate it...
A chunk of wood in a tin of green beans..

The famous ones that make me gip are the condom in the rice and mouse baked into bread!

A large worm in a salad in a restaurant some years ago. I was starving and had shovelled in about half my starter when I realised there was apparently a large sprig of watercress making a vigorous bid for freedom.

DH bit into what he thought was a deep fried egg in Cambodia and it crunched. It turned out to be that delicacy that involves a fetal chick inside the egg. He nearly cried.

I moved to our current house 18 months ago. It has a lovely garden with some fruit trees. We have two damson trees. I picked a tub of damsons and since I don't know how to make jam am inquisitive I thought I'd eat a few as they just look like plums.

First one. Lovely. Sweet and juicy.
After about 4 or 5 I thought I'd cut one open and give a bit to my just weaning DD.

There was a fat, wriggly maggot in it.
And the next one. And every single other one I had left....

I'll not be eating them this year...!

I thought I was getting chilli beef strips.

They were deep fried eel spines.

The image of biting into carp fat made me feel a bit nauseous, op!

In Japan I opened a can of tuna and coiled on the top of it was a dark red, hairy millipede-millepede type of thing.

On holiday in Portugal when I was 12, we stocked up on food from the local supermarket including chocolate croissants. Next morning we bung them under the grill and tuck in, only to nearly break our teeth on them. For some reason putting them under the grill had turned them into bricks. I was determined to get at my chocolate so kept chipping away. When I got to the middle I discovered it wasn't chocolate, it was some kind of liquidised smoked sausage.

Obviously nowhere near as bad as others have had but it was revolting!

Ants in a walnut whip as a child. Could never eat another one.

This restaurant had a fair few delights. I don't even know what we ended up ordering but we had great fun with the menu

Oh, and a dead fly in the middle of a chunk of cheddar. The supermarket manager told me it was a current ......... until I said I had never seen a current with wings!

Any savoury food where there are hidden sultanas or raisins. Disgusting.

Myself and Dh invited to dinner which was steak and chips, we were told there was a surprise in the steak. There was, a slit had been cut into it and had been filled with oysters !!! How I wasn't sick I don't know, it was awful. Worst thing I have ever tasted.

A chunk of wood in an Asda Extra Special carrot cake (maybe this is what makes them 'Extra Special'?)
A big piece of blue plastic in a mini scotch egg from Tesco.
A Cathedral City snack pack (sticks of cheese with pickle for dipping) where the cheese was covered in black mould.
And of course, not forgetting the nasty case of salmonella poisoning brought to me courtesy of an egg from Tesco back in the 90's. They were very good about it, but it didn't really make up for the six weeks spent almost exclusively on the toilet. I get all the luck

I love fresh raspberries, my favourite fruit.

When I was about 8, my grandfather gave us all a big bowl of raspberries from his allotment. Now I was a greedy child, so I smothered them in sugar and thick dollops of double cream Got stuck into them quickly and had eaten at least half of my bowlful when my older sister screamed. She was a more cautious child and looked at her food before eating, they were writhing with maggots. After spitting a mouthful over the teatime table, I brushed my teeth for nearly an hour to get rid of any trace of their fat wriggly bodies. Yuk.

I still love raspberries, but check them very thoroughly and avoid organic ones.

Roast chicken/Turkey with garlic stuffing why what is the fucking point,I want to taste chicken/turkey not fucking garlic.
Garlic is the tool of the bad cook.

Check out Google images for parasitic worms in cod (and other fish). Not for the faint hearted.

in cod

Sorry (or probably for the best, actually) link doesn't work. Just Google if you must.

I contracted a type of salmonella so rare that they named it after the town where I live, posh supermarket food hall denied it was their chicken sandwich that caused it until environmental health proved otherwise.

Seriously nearly killed me, I have never bought sandwiches since.

wyld when I make sticky toffee pudding I always use dates! They make it sticky!

I once peeled a garlic clove to find a baby clove inside. That was unexpected still ate it

Also when I was younger my mum got a takeaway and I thought she'd got onion rings so took a huge bite of the RUBBERY SQUID RING.

I don't trust things in batter and breadcrumbs.

Fingernail in a tin of macaroni cheese. I got a voucher but the company wouldn't admit the nail was already in the tin.