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What's the grossest thing you've eaten by accident?

46 replies

Rodeo · 04/02/2006 22:58

Just put these little stories on another thread but just wondered if anyone else had eaten/drank anything gross by accident. Or if it was just me and my family?!

When I was young, we had a flea-ridden cat and my mum found some little white eggs where he'd been on the sofa. She collected quite a few (about 30) and put them in a jar in the kitchen to see if they'd hatch (and de-flea'd our poor cat in the meantime) She didn't get the chance to find out though as my dad poured sugar in the jar to take to work to have for his tea...

Also when I was about 5 or 6 I left a carton of lemon drink on the windowsill. Found it the next day and took a big swig of it (it was the middle of summer) and could feel bits in it, hmmm, 'bits of orange?' I wondered?? No, about 50 drowned ants! They'd all crawled down the straw and met their demise..

ALSO.....When I was potty training ds he used to wee in any kind of container, I really should have remembered this when I finished off the dregs of his 'squash' one evening....is that the worst one??!!

I'm going to find out it's just me aren't I

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moondog · 04/02/2006 23:02

lol

A bit off the point,but athread that had me weeping with laughter (must try to find it) afew months ago on gross things,had a post about someone's dog eating a pair of tights.

They emerged as said hound was taking a crap and the poster's toddler got hold of them and was pulling them out as the dag was struggling to get away!!

VeniVidiVickiQV · 04/02/2006 23:04

PMSL at that moondog!

Kidstrack2 · 04/02/2006 23:11

My aunt phoned me last year when she was hill walking and asked me how many calories were in a Blue Bottle Fly as she had just swallowed one!

waterfalls · 04/02/2006 23:44

When I was pregnant, I was eating a tuna sandwich, made with brown bread I had just bought, I thought it tasted mouldy, but put it down to my taste buds changing, nausea, etc, only to discover the bread was in fast mouldy.......yuk.

thewomanwhothoughtshewasahat · 04/02/2006 23:51

when I was little I sat my brothers down to a tea party with my plastic tea set. I kept toddling into the kitchen to replenish the teapot. They did as they were told and drank their tea. Then one of them realised I couldn;t reach the tap so followed me to see where the water was coming from. It was the fish tank.

sarahinphuket · 05/02/2006 03:22

chicken's knuckles and pig's tongue

I was out for dinner with XH and his ex-boss. They just told me it was chicken and pork.

Oh and I have also eaten noodle soup made with blood (again I had no idea till afterwards) and omelette made with red ant's eggs.

Living in Thailand is lovely but does have its pitfalls!

Spagblog · 05/02/2006 07:47

I once was drinking a can of cherry cola with a friend and his dad. We went out and played and when I came back I was thirsty so I picked up what I thought was my can and gulped the rest down. Something nasty went in my mouth and I realised that it was my friend's dads can and he must have grogged up some phlegm and spat it into the can.

Carlk · 05/02/2006 07:50

ewww spagblog
half a grub in an apple for me other half waving from the apple

NannyL · 05/02/2006 09:37

i was babysitting once and mum had left some breast milk in a milk jug which i used in my tea

Pfer · 05/02/2006 09:40

Thanks Spagbol - I will now feel ill for the rest of the day. bleeeuuuugghghhhhhhhhhhhhh

HellKat · 05/02/2006 09:57

Pmsl @ this lol
In fits here!

When I was younger, my mum and i were tucking into a packet of choccy digestives. She bit into one and felt something in it. Pulled it out and it turned out to be a lovely pubic hair She sent back the offending hair (along with half eaten biccy) and yes received compensation.
I could'nt eat those biccys again for a long, long time.

sansouci · 05/02/2006 10:00

This is not accidental & it's dd, not me but the sight of her doing it turns my stomach. she eats her nose bogies.

HellKat · 05/02/2006 10:01

My ds1 does and I go crazy! yuck!

sansouci · 05/02/2006 10:04

I asked her why, does it taste good? I just like to, she said.

HellKat · 05/02/2006 10:05

lol

NannyL · 05/02/2006 10:10

just last week in the car my 3 year old charge told me COMPLETELY SERIOUSLY that she dosnt like apple crumble cause its made of bogies

(thats what they had had for pudding at school!)

i had to tell her that actually it was made of apple!

Pfer · 05/02/2006 10:13

Hellcat you've just reminded me of a chinese takeaway DH was happily tucking into in a B&B by Loch Lomond the other year. Only to pull out a hair that was rather too curly and wirey to be from a head.....Gagghhhh.

Put me off my sweet and sour.

HellKat · 05/02/2006 10:15

Exactly Pfer!! You know the difference lol.

expatinscotland · 05/02/2006 10:18

Cow tongue. Boak.

mistressmiggins · 05/02/2006 10:20

earwig!!

I had teeth out as a child to make room and used a straw to drink through - somehow an earwig had climbed into the straw and ended up in my mouth

yeuck!!

Lonelymum · 05/02/2006 10:20

Hmm I LOVE tongue!

HellKat · 05/02/2006 10:25

Earwig!!! Urgghhhh. I've got an irrational fear of those horrid critters.

mistressmiggins · 05/02/2006 10:35

so have I now....

spykid · 05/02/2006 10:52

Didn't actually eat this but once found a whole huge pigs tooth inside a bag of pork scratchings!

Once ate a jubbly that i founfd on the floor.

In the hot summers of the 70's, my classy friend sand I used to scrape melting chewing gum off the pavement ......

At primary recorder lessons when asked to clean out our borrowed recorders before the lesson, I sucked onstead of blowing and swallowed a lot of stuff I would rather not think about! >

Pfer · 05/02/2006 10:53

Oh God, am going to through out my secret scrathings right now............