Did you ever start eating food that had something disgusting in it?

[Questor]

I remember the time I was eating some oatmeal and I noticed some odd shapes in it. They turned out to be maggots or some similar larvae. It's a bad feeling.

Ever have an experience like that?

[Heather]

I bit into fried squash not too long ago to become aware shortly thereafter that there was hair mixed in the batter.  Lucky for me it was my hair. Matt wasn't as amused.

Heather

[Graybeard]

Ya mean lak those worms that get in my plums each year? Heck it's free protein and ya know what they've been eating. 

[bobg]

    I have found little crawly things in my cereal before. . That didn't make me very happy. As far as the hair goes. I find dog hair on my plate every evening. I wipe it off and keep eating. As long as i know where it came from i sure don't let it upset me.

[GH1]

I once had a worm crawl out of an apple I had started to eat.
I didn't finish the apple.
GH1

[Old Syko]

I've heard it said that there was only one thing worse than finding a worm in the apple you're eating and that is finding only half a worm.     One of my dad's favorite sayings when things get tough is "Hang in there like a hair in a biscuit".  Well I've had that happen and understand.  No matter how you pull you can't get it out.  

[243shooter]

i was eating a salad the wife made with lettuce from her garden and found a small green caterpiller crawing around in the dressing. it kinda made me loose my appetite, but i didn't want to make her feel bad, so i quietly removed him and finished my salad. i hope he didn't crap in it.

[GRIMJIM]

Not really, had a rubber band in my spaghetti once but that's not disgusting.

I did eat the ice out of my soda once and found a bug in the cup. It was a moth and not a cockroach or anything so again, not that disgusting.

[hunman55]

I found a baby bird in some chicken salad one time. Hunman55

[torpedoman]

my new wife (many yrs ago) made a cake for desert. the directions called for 3 eggs, the only ones she had were boiled eggs,  figuring eggs are eggs she just chopped them up fine and added them to the mix. I ate that cake and didn't say a word about it.

[MGMorden]

Nothing as bad as noticing maggots in mah oatmeal .

I have been eating some cookies before and noticed when I was on the second one that there was ants crawling on them.  It was a bit wierd (I stopped eating them), but it didn't freak me out too bad.

At one of the local chinese places I've found a gnat in some hot and sour soup.  Also found a piece of brillow pad in some general tso's chicken from there.  I've switched places (the other chinese place that I go now is literally amazing - very clean, and with very, very friendly people - all the food is homemade too - none of the pre-cooked stuff most chinese places serve).  

Other than that - I've found the occasional hair in my food (happens from time to time - even at home).  I figure that if it was cooked that hair was pretty well sterlized so I usually will just pick it out.

Probably the worst I've had wasn't a case of something being in my food/drink, but rather: when I was in college I loved this chicken place (Zaxby's - they're a  franchise that's growing pretty fast).  Anyways, I went there one day, got a take out order with my usual - sweet tea.  Well, my car had two cup holders and it happened to have a cup of tea from a few weeks ago that I'd forgot and left in there (when I was in college I often didn't drive the car much - most everything I wanted to go to was within walking distance so I'd go a few weeks without driving it sometimes).   Anyways, a ways into my on the drive munching I reached for my tea and without realizing I picked up the old one instead of the new one.  Let me put it this way: there was a lemon floating in it and I swear I tasted a bit of fermented alcohol when I took that sip. It had to have been there for a while. Almost threw up right there in the car.  I had to pull over and grab my mouthwash that I kept in the glove box before continuing the drive .

Similarly (but not really nasty), I tend to get freaked out if I drink anything that isn't what I expect it to be.  Say I order a coke from a drive through and they goof up the order and give me sprite.   If it's a solid cup you can't readily tell at a glance.  I drink sprite sometimes - it's fine, but if I'm expecting coke and taste sprite it'll freak me out bad for a second or two.

[MGMorden]

I found a baby bird in some chicken salad one time. Hunman55

I don't think I'd ever be the same after that .

[quickdtoo]

Worst thing I've done is seeing a bunch of worms on top of the cherries in the bowl the wife and I pitted...the day after we ate a bunch!! 

Worst thing I've seen was when I was in Army in the mess hall at Ft Benning in the late 60's, another fella was eating lemon meringue pie, took a bite and he got this funny look on his face.......... probably cuz his pie was "crunchy", then he noticed the rest of this huge cockroach in the piece on the plate!! 

Tim

[Oldshooter]

Havent found anything weird in my food but finding Tim in here is freaking me out a little!   

[quickdtoo]

I'm selective!!

Tim

[billy_56081]

One time the kids and I were eating some Tortilla chips. We noticed a bad smell from the bag and when we looked there was a dead nacho cheese covered mouse in there. It was a newly opened bag and the mouse apeared to be in there from the factory.

[mjbgalt]

got crab rangoon (for your non-chinese eaters, folded up flour with cream cheese in it, and fried.)

i have a habit of picking them apart and eating piece by piece and i am glad i did.

one of them had several VERY curly black hairs in it. neatly placed. and not from head or chest...ahem...

i guess the guy's smile when he handed me my free crab rangoon...makes more sense now...

[holahead]

I have something like that happen to me two times and both times was at night.

Just fixed me a cold glass of Mt. Dew on a very hot day. Buddy called to ask for some help moving a cabinet in his house. It was close to dark when I left home and by the time we got the cabinet in and shot the bull a little it was very dark. I had left my drink in the truck. Got going down the road took four or five big swallows and felt something crawling on my hand. Turned the light on and my glass was covered in ants and my drink was full of drowned ants.

Come home from a place I use to work stop at a store picked a drink and a pack of peanut butter cookies. Driving down the road and eating my cookies every once in a while one would be real bitter. After about five or so bitter ones I looked in the bag and there was some kind of little black bugs all over the cookies. Just about lost my lunch on that one.

Oh yeah how could I forget the Bar-B-Que stand by my high school. There was a little Bar-B-Que stand just down the road from school when I was in school. When school let out for the day I had to go to my grandmother house and sit with her till my aunt got off work at 6:00. I would stop everyday and get two Bar-B-Que sandwiches everyday. Best dang tasting BBQ you every put in your mouth. About a year and half after open they got busted. The owner would ride around in the morning and pick up road kill to use for his BBQ. If he would not get enough road kill he would steal peoples dogs or cats from there yard and use them. Man thats making me sick just thinking about it now after all these years.

[slim rem 7]

  i really can t remember where ... but while in the navy i saw a guy who had mess cook duty an was mopping ,,drop the mop into a vat of orange juice..then  back in the mop bucket..he proceeded to go on mopping.. the guys that ate morning chow were no worse for it .. i assume.slim
 no i didn t drink ,,navy orange juice after that..

[briarpatch]

My son-in-law got a calsone at a mexican resturant. While eating he thought he had an onion skin in his mouth and spit it out. It was a bandaid.