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What's the worst thing you've found in your food?

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BeanFobbedOff · 27/02/2018 11:40

...as I found a big insect insect in a tin of beans some weeks ago and am feeling massively fobbed off.

I wasn't looking 'for compo', so I contacted the company directly; they wanted the can and said they'd let me know. They sent me a £10 Morrisons voucher as a goodwill gesture.

They didn't follow up so I contacted them again. Immediately I was sent an attachment, dated that day, basically saying it was a bee, it couldn't have got in there, and IF it did, it would have been deformed due to the high temperatures of the process.

So they fucking think I put it there myself, all for a 10 voucher? Bastards.

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Rockerfeller · 27/02/2018 19:21

Bought some milk and took a massive swig without sniffing it and promptly vomited. It tasted like vomit and battery acid and when I poured it down the sink it came out in a massive lump 🤢

So gross!

Fekko · 27/02/2018 19:30

I had a clip lid plastic container full of lovely lovely pistachios in the back of the kitchen cupboard once. I went for a snack and I could see that the tub was full of black moths.

They couldn’t have got in, so they must’ve... yuk 🤢

iMogster · 27/02/2018 19:33

Half a wasp in a cake from a posh handmade cake shop. The other half in my mouth. Grimacing now just thinking about it.

readyforapummelling · 27/02/2018 19:33

A chunk of brick in a coop loaf. Sent it off and they said a trolley in the factory must have scraped a wall.

I also bit into a bakery sausage roll once and when I looked down into the sausage it was COVERED in fluffy green mould

yawning801 · 27/02/2018 19:34

My aunt found a chunk of blu-tack in a salad from a restaurant once. They had put it under the noticeboard and the blu-tack had fallen off of it and landed on top of the salad - somehow the waitress failed to notice when she was bringing it out!

BeesAndChiscuits · 27/02/2018 19:35

Big insect in my airline meal on a BA flight from Canada to the UK. The lovely people
we’re very apologetic and swapped my meal for one from first class. Overall, I think the insect’s loss was my gain

Rockerfeller · 27/02/2018 19:37

Ooh another one! Brioche from Aldi that tastes sour so I spat it out and it was covered in Black mould

zobalina77 · 27/02/2018 19:53

A cigarette butt in my naan bread. The Indian takeaway said they would bring me another one and that the next day we could have a free takeaway. I declined. It closed down not long after.

zwellers · 27/02/2018 20:03

The below in a supermarket Thai chicken curry

What's the worst thing you've found in your food?

Springstep · 27/02/2018 20:12

A finger nail in a Chinese takeaway. Last time we used that takeaway.

Klarabing · 27/02/2018 20:25

A dead wasp in napolina chopped tomatoes, a live wasp in an M&S salad and a live catterpillar living inside a strawberry that I had just bitten into. It was absolutely rank it had got in when the strawberry was small and had been living inside this big massive strawberry eating it and shitting inside it and I took a big massive bite... i can only eat strawberries now if they are chopped up.

GrooovyLass · 27/02/2018 20:45

String in a marks and spencer cake.

Misread that as Sting. Irritating Geordie bastard gets everywhere.

BlueCaravelle · 27/02/2018 21:40

When I worked in a fruit packing factory there was lots of live black widow spiders in the grapes to M&S. Found 15 in one day but the grapes still got sent out. Massive hairy tarantula bigger than my hand on a pineapple. All just a bit dopy from being chilled but very much alive. Weird scorpion in bananas. Boss told me it was English but I gave him the “seriously, im currently doing a biology degree including entomology” look. It’s was in a bag of coconuts. From the Dominican Republic.
All the fruit was shipped on its merry way. I had to shake my work bags out in the garden as once a fellow factory worker took home on her person a very big hairy spider.
I was told by fellow students in the factory to decline the job in the pie factory 🤢 or I would never eat frozen food again. Best job I ever had looking back.

Mummyoftwo91 · 27/02/2018 21:57

Live slug in a head of broccoli, set it free in the garden

Sillybilly1234 · 27/02/2018 22:49

A piece of rat shit in a cereal bar.

Dogsmom · 27/02/2018 22:59

My parents used to run a cafe in the 60's and loved to tell the story of the day they served many portions of damson jam on toast which were all eaten, it was only at the end of the day that Dad noticed the "seeds" in the jam, he realised there shouldn't be any and on closer inspection realised it was full of ants.

Brigante9 · 27/02/2018 23:04

Bright green caterpillar in a salad sandwich at school. No-one cared.

Massive bee in a very expensive jar of jam from an independent shop.

Wacadu · 27/02/2018 23:12

A maggot in a Chinese takeaway and a thick bit string in a Breakaway.

Didn't even mean that to rhyme.

Melfish · 27/02/2018 23:25

In the 80s I was happily munching on a roll from Sainsbury's when I came across something rather chewy. I thought 'I know my parents call this bread plastic bread, but this is beyond a joke'. Having spat it out it was a cloth bandage (fortunately not blood covered like a PP found) which had been baked inside the roll. My mum took the offending items to Environmental Health and they didn't give a toss.

RaindropsAndSparkles · 27/02/2018 23:27

Beautiful, beautiful peach from grannie's tree. Put it on a china plate and inserted knife to cut a slice because I was a well brought up 9 year old. Placed tip of knofe at top and as I drew it down peach parted quickly into two revealing a very productive family of earwigs - muzt have been 20 at least. I never ever just take a bite from a piece of fruit. It was like something out of The Mummy.

theymademejoin · 27/02/2018 23:56

Maggots. Live, wriggly maggots in a cake my brother brought back from Spain. Discovered after I had already eaten some of it. The thing was absolutely live with them.

The worst part was, I didn't mention it to him (he hadn't eaten any of it or even seen the maggots as he wasn't there when we ate it) and he brought the same one back the following year for my mother.

She had some. I visited the following day. She offered me some. I examined it warily. Guess what? It was full of maggots. Obviously some hygiene issues in the factory.

LegallyBrunet · 28/02/2018 00:10

A huge sliver of glass in my pint at Wetherspoons. I was very lucky I didn't swallow it!

Tangfastics · 28/02/2018 00:31

A mouse head and a chewed cob of gum - both in bottles of beers in Africa.

LemonysSnicket · 28/02/2018 00:39

Nothing big but a long. Black hair in a tin of sweet corn... I’m blonde and DP is bright ginger ....

LemonysSnicket · 28/02/2018 00:41

Also, thanks to this thread I don’t want to eat anything ever

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