Waiter...
Who takes foreign objects found in food personally anymore? That staple in my twice cooked tofu? A boo boo. That chunk of broken plate in my Caesar salad? A mere oversight. The talent comes with getting it out of your mouth with some modicum of finesse that doesn't bear any resemblance to a spit ball.
I've done more damage to my teeth through my own stupidity chomping down on unpopped popcorn kernels and un pitted dates, than I ever will through foreign objects.
Enquiring minds want to know, what's the strangest thing you've ever found in your food?
Your found treasures
Went to a wedding. Had a can of Coke. Stepped away to the dance floor. Came back for a swig of the Coke. Someone had put out their cigarette in it. Blecch. Ptui.
JISH
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A baby cockroach in my omelette (India). It's not really strange - it's more of the "such an obvious joke, but has it really ever happened?" type.
Tara <tara@spamcop.net>
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A silverfish in a pan of microwave brownies. It was staring out at me after the first bite.
kfan
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A swig of Pepsi once produced a whole (meaning ENTIRE) mosquito eater-type flying creature. Yes, it was in my mouth. I sent the bug to Pepsi with a letter and received a coupon for a free 6 pack.
Sarah <sarah_hatter@hotmail.com>
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Half a yellow jacket (the bee like bug) in my salad, when I was younger and went out to eat with my parents. At the time it scared me away from salads, now I'm a vegetarian. There's a correlation here, I just know it.
ben
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A cigarette butt on top of a Pizza Hut pizza. The thing is, it blended in with the sausage, so we almost didn't notice it at all.
gerald <gerald@geraldstanley.com>
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dirty "mouth-marks" meeting the rise and fall of restaurant water
m i k e
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fire suave on top of my taco hell bean *burrito*
moike
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A rock in a jar of peanut butter. You know it's a mad, mad world when you learn to fear peanut butter sandwiches.
Jane
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my roommate's pubic hair in a bowl of something or other...
jennifer
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i found a frozen roach in a cup of lemonade i bought from a hot dog stand. i only noticed after i finished the lemonade and took off the lid so i could eat the ice.
lisa
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once found shards of broken glass in my sp'ghetti at a seafood restaurant on the warf in SanFran.
kitten
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a small and melted plastic spatula in a black forest cake.
kind of a strange way to wish happy birthday to your mom.
dale. <dale@brunmarde.com>
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I was eating at Lawry's Prime Rib (an establishment in L.A.) and found a snail at the bottom of my salad. It's super-dark in there so I had no idea what it was - I thought it was a piece of bell pepper (which I hate) so I shoved it aside w/my fork and continued to eat my salad. It was quite good, actually, until I looked in my empty salad bowl and the piece of "bell pepper" moved!!! Oh man. the manager apologized, gave us free coffee and dessert, but he also said, "hey that shows you how fresh our salad is!" I never went back to Lawrys again, but that was probably the best salad I've ever had.
linda
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My aunt once went to open a 2-liter bottle of 7-Up (unopened) and noticed a big furry growth inside. After some cutting and drainage, we unearthed a cigarette butt in the center of the furry growth. No more 7-Up for me.
michael <michael@geminder.com>
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Back in the day, my mom went to open a can of creamed corn and found a larve of some sort. She contacted the company and as their apology, they sent us coupons for more of their creamed corn. Uhmmm...
Melissa
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I found a bandaid in my pasta salad once. It was all curled up like it just slipped off someone's finger. I threw up.
eric
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a penne in my spaghetti
jjc
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small broken-window style glass in my chinese noodle salad, bones in every second hamburger i eat, a piece of a sneaker in a cone of icecream.
tbit <moi@thisboyistoast.nu>
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My least favorite was the strand of steel wool.
But when I worked in a bagel sandwich shop in college, where we steamed the sandwiches with the meat and cheese, gettin'em all hot and gooey, I was amazed at the number of people who came back to the counter claiming that a bit of crusty, burnt cheese was a foreign object. That's a delicacy!
me3dia
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I found an onion ring in my fries once, but that was more like a Cracker Jack prize than something strange.
Jonah <funk@funktrain.com>
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little piece of asphalt in my pizza.
maggie
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I found an unidentified gelatin-like subtance in my Chef Boyardee Canned Ravioli once. I save it for about a week, thinking I might sue or something, but eventually just threw it away and forgot about it. Also, I would be remiss if I didn't show you this:http://www.msnbc.com/local/kprc/a919309.asp
Zarate <chris@zarate.org>
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The top of a caramel bottle. It was removed from my dessert by Bono's brother Norman in his restaurant, Dillon's.
caroline
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a hair. not just any hair though.. a super fibred replication of something out of spawn.
yes, the cafeteria at canadian universities are supposed to be clean.
matthew <matt@nothing.on.ca>
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I found a metal l-bracket from the knife rack in the kitchen of the restaurant in my seafood caesar. I got a freebie, but can't bring myself to go back.
Kelly <Meg_1837@yahoo.com>
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I once found a roach in my Wendy's chicken sandwich on top of the lettuce. I wouldn't have known except that I lifted up the bun to put some extra mayo on. Disgusting.
Timo <tim@timothompson.com>
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I found a big lump of that butter flavoring grease in a bag of popcorn once. It was shaped like an ear of corn. I mailed it back to the company and then sent me a whole box of popcorn back and said they were sorry.
jessamyn
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I have two for you:
1. A fingernail in my Orange Julius.
2. A fly at the bottom of my egg flower soup. The waiter asked me if I wanted another bowl?!?!
G <gianfel@jps.net>
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A big rusty bolt (nut still attached) sizzling away on a big plate of fajitas. = free food and ritas
VooDoo Pope
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Remember when Kelloggs used to give away toys in specially marked boxes? Well my family once got a box of Cornflakes that was all toys and one cornflake. My mum figured someone at the factory must have been having a good day. We, of course, were thrilled. On a less happy note I broke a molar on a bolt head in some chinese takeaway. Ouch.
hannah <hannah@timelesstech.com>
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once when i was a kid, my mom made macaroni and cheese for my sister and me. i was about halfway through the bowl when i saw something black sticking out so i pushed aside the pasta to find a giant cricket. i jumped about four feet out of my chair and began gagging as my mom and sister laughed and laughed. it turned out to be a plastic cricket they had put in there as a joke.
denise <denise@centrs.com>
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Last week I found a bit of cow gristle in my Subway wrap....oh yum. And when I lived in Arizona, you wanted to keep everything in Tupperware and Rubbermaid boxes, because otherwise you'd shake your cereal box only to see a zillion cockroaches flee the cupboard.
But I think the weirdest things happened when I was little. I'd read about figgy pudding in a book or something and the quaint old English custom of putting money in the pudding. And although it wasn't Christmas, I wanted to make some figgy pudding as a surprise for my family. But I didn't have figgy pudding. I had chocolate Jello pudding. And I didn't have any silver pennies to put into the pudding--so I put in some Monopoly money. And then I told my mom that I'd made some figgy pudding for dessert. You can imagine the expression on her and my dad's faces when they fished out soggy green twenties from their pudding later that night.
PixelFish
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One time I found my cousin baked into a pepperoni and mushroom calzone. He said he was hungry. Stupid restaurant wouldn't even give me another one for free because they said we were family.
steve <strangefood@stevemaas.com>
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Once when biting into an apple strudel, I felt the need to verify that I wasn't being stifted on the "apple-ee goodness".
Much to my dismay, I found a spider cooked into my pastry.
Needless to say, I haven't eaten another since.
Jennifer <jenxel@agentjane.com>
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I was with some friends at a Chinese eatery in Boston several years back. there was a piece of a scrubby in my General Tso's Chicken. a scrubby is, for those who don't know, a large ball of twisted pieces of metal used to scrub caked-on gack from cooking gear. they're like brillo pads except the metal pieces are about 1/4" thick instead of hairlike.
we got our food for free.
duct tape boy
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I found some lubricant the consistency of vaseline, in my mcdonalds milk shake.
j
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i once found a drapery hook - yes, a 5" long metal drapery hook - in my mince pie in a restaurant in boston.
HALF a cockroach in my shrimp with lobster sauce at a restaurant in houston.
a USED band-aid in my omelette at a trendy breakfast spot here in kansas city.
elise
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I found a wrapper of a bag of bread (the big plastic square thing with a loop) in my crepe once at IHOP. Got 10% off my meal, though.
Diana
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I found a new sparkplug in a box of Loblaws President's Choice granola. It wasn't dirty or anything and they gave me a slew of coupons for a bunch of free boxes. I lucked out.
Sylvan <spayne@miyazaki-mic.ac.jp>
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