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.

I can't eat burgers or sausages, ever, because I always get a hard bit of either gristle or bone, and it makes me heave.
They can be the most expensive burgers/sausages, and everyone else will be fine, but I will always get the hard bit :(

I once lovingly buttered a crumpet (was the last one in the packet, so a few days old...looked fine though) and took a big bite...into all the mould on the inside. I felt so ill 😱😭😱 I even get a whiff of mould on anything now it makes me heave.

Also found a bit of mouldy chicken on my last bite of pizza 😱😭😱

I as making some lentil and bacon soup and had bought one of them big packets of cooking bacon. I opened the bacon and was faced with what I am sure must have been the pigs sphincter.

I have never bought it since.

I'd eaten half a bacon sandwich in a cafe after a mountain bike ride. Went to tuck into the second half and noticed the edge of the bread was all mouldy. :/

Colleague bought back from his snowboarding holiday what looked like some delicious cakey treats filled with cream. They were actually savoury, and filled with processed goats cheese.

Another colleague came back from the US and bought back Hershey's 'chocolate'. shudder

Piece of plastic in soup in Tesco cafe.

They did replace the soup and give me a voucher but I still had people saying I should have sued.

A lady in the queue in M&S stopped me from buying a cod and cheese sauce ready meal with tales of cod worms. I stick to haddock now.

When I was a teen my DM gave us tinned fruit cocktail for dessert. She would scoop out the fruit and leave the juice behind. One day I took a swig out of the tin of juice and quickly found out that the juice had been replaced by congealed but still a bit liquid lard, with scrapings from the frying pan in it. My DM looking for something to put the hot fat in used the tin. It stopped me swigging out of fruit tins until I had my own place.

Noooo to the cod, I'm meant to be having it for dinner ☹

Chilli jacket potato from a dodgy takeaway and had a tooth in it

I've just remembered another one.
For a while my Dad did a lot of traveling abroad for his job, my Mum would go too and we'd get bought all sorts of stuff from all over the world.
The most memorable would be the platter of spices from Mauritius. I'm sure they would have been nice - had the pack of chilli powder not been infested with tiny bugs. I'd decanted all the spices into plastic pots to use them and then had to throw away a whole meal as I hadn't noticed the infestation until after I'd taken a teaspoonful out and stirred it in. Ugh.
I threw away all of it, but they managed to infest my cupboard and ate into everything that wasn't encased in thick plastic. They did love anything spicy, so we called them Mauritian Chilli Bugs. I kept the sealed jar of chilli powder on the side for a few months, it was like a teeny tiny version of a worm farm. However, we had real trouble evicting the little sods from our cupboards so I decided to pitch it for safeties sake.

Out of curiosity I once ordered Bombay duck from the Indian take-away. It smelt and looked like a dried out turd!

Noooo there can't be worms in cod ! < SCREAMS >
I bloody love cod & chips.
Have I been mainlining worms all my life ? < worried >

BigChoc I don't think they can cause you any harm, and are not a parasite that is transmitted to humans. They die and stop wriggling when they are cooked.

Farmed salmon also can have parasitical worms. Btw.

boak

"They stop wiggling when cooked"
Somehow this isn't much consolation.
I switched from meat to mostly fish because I thought it healthier. I may return to cow-munching.

I once had a tin of baked beans full of juice, with just one lonely bean bobbing about!

I found a drowned spider in my Costa cappuccino. I'd been dipping my croissant in it and only found it when I started to spoon the froth

I bit into a salad onion once and an earwig crawled v fast out of the other end. Never eaten one since.

Blamed stepmonsters lax attitude to washing things, food, bedding, herself!!

OP, was this the deleted thread you meant?

Apparently a third of us have brain worms ( I'd say parasite but worm sounds better ) . I think cats and chickens are the culprits ( the former live, latter cooked )

I am beginning to wish I hadn't read this thread. I will no longer be able to eat cod and now I am worried there are parasites in my brain.

news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/01/220113-sneaky-cat-parasite-takes-over-human-brains-science/

In tins of beans (KTC branded, kidney beans IIRC) there were small black beetles, this wasn't just one tin, it was three I opened consecutively I don't buy any KTC things now no matter how cheap they are!

I also found what was either a chunk of bone or a stone in my vegetarian haggis a couple of months ago. I should have taken a photo and complained but I just wanted to forget. Still haven't forgotten and that's ruined veggie haggis for me

A nice big chunk of chicken in my paneer masala, been a while sine I've had issues with takeaways!

when I worked at PGL I had a mouldy wrap, found a massive beetle in my curry one evening and in the same week a colleague found a massive chunk of glass in her angel delight-style pud.

Weevils/flour mites in our flour and other "pantry" items. Housemate had been to France and bought a huge mix of flours and it came from one of those we had to bin most of the non-tin foods in two massive cupboards.

I can't eat blackberries/raspberries because of the maggots, too many bad childhood experiences! If I have cauliflower or brocolli I have to check the heads for bugs/caterpillars. Usually I just avoid them though!

When I was a teen and on holiday in Lanzarote I bought tinned chickpeas (we were self catering). I used to just eat them out of the tin so was merrily snacking away and couldn't work out why they were oily. Huge fucking lump of spam in it

I used to love a boiled egg when I was a kid. My mum got eggs from a farmer and once it turned out the egg was a bit further along than it should have been. Put me off for years.

we used to make raspberry jam with the raspberries from our garden. Washed them thoroughly, chucked them in the preserving pan, and as it heated up, lots of maggots rose to the top.

This is why I never make raspberry jam unless I pull the rasps apart. I remember my mother scooping the maggots out. I could never eat it . It was the same with bramble jam.

My mom gets these lovely fresh eggs from a neighbour. Unfortunately he also has a Cockerell as well as hens. Nothing puts you off your eggs benedict more than unexpected embryos

When I was younger, my parents got us a takeaway from a very popular chicken shop as a treat one Friday night. We were all enjoying it until I went to get a bit chicken from the bottom of the bucket and there in all its glory was a deep fried Cockroach! My dad went back with it and everyone waiting for food promptly cancelled their orders and got their money back.