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Some people have been lucky enough not to discover something truly unappetizing in their food. I am not one of those people. I have had a few little gross-outs here and there, but the worst so far were the yogurt moldball and the wormy oats. This was when I was a kid in the mid 80's. Can't recall the brand anymore, but it was probably Yoplait because that's all there was around back then. I think it was a fruit bottom yogurt. I was happily eating it, had finished off about 1/4 of the cup, when I encountered a bubble in the middle. I thought it was an air bubble, and poked at it with the spoon to pop it, but it sort of just rolled around lazily in the middle of the cup like an egg yolk. I pushed harder, and it...opened. And sort of deflated. I glimpsed something dark in the centre, and pried the edge of the bubble open with the spoon to see a fuzzy green expanse. As I disturbed the spores the bubble promptly burped a cloud of dusty spores into my face. I dropped the yogurt at light speed and ran to the bathroom coughing and gagging. I don't recall getting sick or becoming some kind of cordyceps zombie, but it was pretty goddamn gross. The second worst incident was while cleaning out a pantry, opening a bag of quick oats of dubious age and seeing a writhing mass of hairy larvae inside. When they sensed the light they started flipping around and hissing. HISSING. 
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I grew up in a really rural area and we got a lot of our vegetables and fruit directly from small farms in the area, and I don't think they used as much pesticide as large farming operations, because there were a bunch of times where you'd cut into an apple or shuck an ear of corn and find bugs. That's why to this day I cut my apples apart before I eat them. My dad found a twisted chuck of metal in a bagel once. He sent photos of it to the company and they basically responded with "we don't really believe you, but here's some coupons for some free bagels."
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| # ? Feb 11, 2013 20:23 |
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I opened a box of raisin bran, poured a bowl and ate it while in a wow or some other nerd induced daze. I got up and prepared another bowl and this time actually stopped to look and, what would you know. About 50 maggots writhing around in the milk. I looked in the box and noticed it was swarming with then. I guess that's why they like to boast about the high protein content in their cereal. Yes i ate a boat load of maggots and didn't realize. Considering the bag inside the box was sealed, I'm not sure even how this miraculous conception of horror occured.
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| # ? Feb 11, 2013 20:47 |
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I found what appeared to be a human tooth inside of a burger once. I'm positive it wasn't mine.
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When I was about 9 years old, my dad gave soft vanilla ice cream cones to my little sister and I. I was really happy to get some ice cream when it wasn't dessert time but while we were playing in our backyard, my dad waited up at the porch for us to discover the pickled herring he slipped in our ice cream. It's nowhere near as bad as the other stuff in this thread but it was a pretty nasty surprise.
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| # ? Feb 11, 2013 20:55 |
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A nice big fuggin stink bug chillin in the bottom of my salad. Still alive. At least I know the salad was fresh 
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| # ? Feb 11, 2013 20:59 |
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ScreamingNinja posted:I opened a box of raisin bran, poured a bowl and ate it while in a wow or some other nerd induced daze. I got up and prepared another bowl and this time actually stopped to look and, what would you know. About 50 maggots writhing around in the milk. I looked in the box and noticed it was swarming with then. I guess that's why they like to boast about the high protein content in their cereal. Yes i ate a boat load of maggots and didn't realize. You ate maggot baby Jesus!!!!! My mom got a cup of coffee at McDonald's in the 80s and it had a big old loogie at the bottom. What I ate once was not really gross, but unexpected. I was eating hush puppies and I bit in to one that wasn't soft and bready, but instead wet and squishy on the inside. I looked at it and saw that it was all black on the inside. This sort of freaked me out. It turns out that I had eaten a fried mushroom by mistake. Not really disgusting in and of itself, but a fried mushroom makes a grotesque hush puppy.
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Grape tomatoes
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| # ? Feb 11, 2013 21:02 |
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I was eating a bag of popcron at the theater once and there was a penis inside.
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| # ? Feb 11, 2013 21:02 |
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ScreamingNinja posted:I opened a box of raisin bran, poured a bowl and ate it while in a wow or some other nerd induced daze. I got up and prepared another bowl and this time actually stopped to look and, what would you know. About 50 maggots writhing around in the milk. I looked in the box and noticed it was swarming with then. I guess that's why they like to boast about the high protein content in their cereal. Yes i ate a boat load of maggots and didn't realize. I did this with ants once, didn't notice them until I had eaten a bunch of the cereal and they were floating around in the milk. I felt like I had ants crawling in my throat for the rest of the day.
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Once got some chicken mcnuggets when I was a kid, nearly broke a tooth on what appeared to be an artificial fingernail. Did somebody say McDonald’s?
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ScreamingNinja posted:I opened a box of raisin bran, poured a bowl and ate it while in a wow or some other nerd induced daze. I got up and prepared another bowl and this time actually stopped to look and, what would you know. About 50 maggots writhing around in the milk. I looked in the box and noticed it was swarming with then. I guess that's why they like to boast about the high protein content in their cereal. Yes i ate a boat load of maggots and didn't realize. Maybe they ate through the box and bag?
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There's this white goopy sauce that southerners put on every loving type of sandwich and its gross as gently caress to me. I don't even want to call it by its name because that would trigger a horrible gag reflex and holy poo poo it's just so gross and so bad for you. Just use better ingredients instead of slathering everything with a pus like sauce. Also it looks like the crap that comes out of pimples. Oh and sour cream. C'mon taco shops stop trying to pander to these rednecks.
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A piece of one of my own teeth. I was eating at an Indian restaurant and I bit down on a piece of the clay thing they bake the breads on that was still stuck to the bottom of my naan bread and chipped a molar. Not exactly horrific, I suppose, but still pretty disturbing.
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| # ? Feb 11, 2013 22:18 |
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Francostein posted:Oh and sour cream. C'mon taco shops stop trying to pander to these rednecks.
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Francostein posted:There's this white goopy sauce that southerners put on every loving type of sandwich and its gross as gently caress to me. I don't even want to call it by its name because that would trigger a horrible gag reflex and holy poo poo it's just so gross and so bad for you. Just use better ingredients instead of slathering everything with a pus like sauce. Also it looks like the crap that comes out of pimples.
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| # ? Feb 11, 2013 22:29 |
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Spider eggs, a severed finger, and that redneck white sauce are all on the same tier of poo poo that makes me want to vomit enough to wear out my esophagus and dehydrate myself in the process. Besides, the stuff you'd find on a sandwich down here is such a fatboy perversion of the original Mallorcan recipe that its straight up demonic in nature. Pagan even.
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| # ? Feb 11, 2013 22:37 |
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Francostein posted:There's this white goopy sauce that southerners put on every loving type of sandwich and its gross as gently caress to me. I don't even want to call it by its name because that would trigger a horrible gag reflex and holy poo poo it's just so gross and so bad for you. Just use better ingredients instead of slathering everything with a pus like sauce. Also it looks like the crap that comes out of pimples. I thought I was the only one who feels this way.
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When I was a teenager and still living with my parents I had a lunch that consisted of leftovers - cauliflower, mashed potato, pork chop (or something to that effect). It was covered in plastic wrap, which I removed before microwaving the plate of food. Was happily chomping away when I noticed something not quite... right on the cauliflower. Specifically, seemed like something was moving. Yum, maggots. Still alive after being nuked. Turned out there were quite a lot of them on the plate, crawling around under and on the food - guess they were hard to spot because a lot of the food was white/pale in colour and I wasn't paying particular attention. I'd already eaten at least half the cauliflower at the time, probably with a good number of live maggots. Thanks for the flashbacks guys. Also as a student I once cooked up rice and found a couple of dead, cooked maggots in it. But being a true student, since it was late and I'd cooked up a whole huge meal and this was the last of the rice, I though: I'll be damned if I'm going to miss out of my dinner. So I picked out the ones I found and ate the rice anyway. That doesn't bother me quite so much since they WERE thoroughly cooked after all. Low fat protein I suppose. Last one I recall was when I was in China with my wife and her family. We were eating at a restaurant in a lake town when my wife pulled out a (now partly-squashed) bug that she had bitten into while eating her meal. The bug was brown and flat (flatter now) and almost as big as my thumb. When she complained they offered us a measly 15% discount. Can't actually remember if we took them up on that offer or not. At least the bug was more or less still intact.
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I found a milipede or a centipede in a jar of peanut butter. I guess I did want the crunchy stuff.
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I went out to dinner with some friends and earned us a fairly steep discount thanks to a bloomin' onion. It was real good until I pulled about an inch of the fry basket wire out of my mouth. Last fall I broke my personal record of not vomiting for years on end. I was hungry for a midnight snack and liverwurst was the answer. More than a few crackers in a blue cheese taste hits me. I flip an actual light on to break the din and notice all the moldy spots in my fresh wurst. I couldn't think of handling any fallout from eating such rancid meat and just had to wave goodbye to it with some fingers down my gullet.
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Tiny little caterpillars! They were happily living in some broccoli when they met their end by boiling water, I didn't realized until I noticed the broccoli tasted like dirt. Yeah. I didn't feel like eating the rest.
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A motherfucking CLAW in my hamburger. No, I don't know what kind of animal it came from.
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| # ? Feb 11, 2013 23:28 |
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Palpatine MD posted:The hell. Nobody knocks on mayonnaise, it is the ambrosia of the gods and the manna from the heavens. For some, maybe. I'm allergic to that stuff (as in, "I can't eat it unless I really want to die of asphyxiation.") quote:Francostein posted: Oh, God. That's one of the things I learned when I was in both Kentucky and California for culinary school: that people's taste buds are so shot these days that they can't enjoy anything unless it's slathered in ranch dressing.
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I don't know how the camel cricket got into the cabinet and into my coffee cup, and I don't want to know.
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Oh no, why did I read this thread? I'll never be able to eat again. 
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| # ? Feb 11, 2013 23:48 |
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Nothing too horrific beyond a complete feather attached to a piece of frozen chicken and a golf ball-sized chunk of blackened something in a bag of Fritos.
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Some of my friends and I went to the mall once. Now, there's two malls in the town we went to, right next to each other. One has flourished, the other slowly shut down store by store. We wanted the two dollar movies, so we went to the lovely, creepy mall. We had time to kill and were hungry, so we got chinese. One of my friends found an earwig in his lo mein. We were all disgusted and poked through our food, and found 5 or 6 earwigs in our collective lo mein. poo poo was NASTY.
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Fascinator posted:A motherfucking CLAW in my hamburger. No, I don't know what kind of animal it came from. Well, they still call it a "cow", but they legally have to do the airquotes now.
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Back in high school, I once made myself a thing of ramen for lunch. I kind of zoned out while cooking it, poured it into a bowl and sat down to eat. I'm glad I looked before I took a bite, because it was full of about a hundred (mostly) dead ants. No idea how it happened... the bag was completely sealed, and I'd taken the pot directly out of the dishwasher. It was really, really gross. As a result, I went through four years of college without ramen once. More recently, and not exactly MY food... I took my partner out for his birthday, just the two of us. We saw The Master at the local arthouse, and afterwards went to one of our favorite restaurants, an awesome tapas bar adjacent to the theatre (which is great, as the two have a nice symbiotic relationship. Service at the bar is super fast, as people have movies to get to, and the theatre lets you bring drinks from the bar in with you. Which is awesome, as no one should be completely sober for a midnight showing of Army of Darkness). We ordered a couple of wonderfully pretentious cocktails and our first round of tapas. I remember exactly what we ordered... lamb meatballs in a spicy tomato sauce, deviled eggs topped with various smoked or marinated fish, green pea fritters stuffed with manchego cheese, and roasted beets topped with marscapone, pistachios and microgreens. To drink, we had basil-infused potato vodka mixed with fresh squeezed grapefruit juice and served in a lidded jam jar with a fresh basil leaf. Delicious. When the food arrived, we dug in, and it was absolutely wonderful. We were just about to look at our menus for the next round, when the man at the table next to us loudly gagged, said "Oh, that's disgusting", grabbed his plate, stood up, and walked towards the open kitchen. I had no idea what'd happened, but my partner (who was sitting next to the man) quickly paled and put down his fork and knife. Apparently a massive cockroach had been sauteed with the man's shrimp. Having heard this, I rather quickly lost my appetite as well. We finished our drinks, paid the bill and left. Of course I'd wanted my partner to have a nice meal on his birthday, and I felt awful that it'd been ruined (though the rest of the evening had been nice). But more importantly, I'm really gonna miss that place. I'm sure we'll go back, but I'll be inspecting everything I eat with a fine-toothed comb, which will certainly take away from the ambiance. On the one hand, I know if there's one roach there's hundreds, and that's really kind of nauseating... but on the other, the food there is just so loving good .e: This is already too long, but having written this, I just thought of something else. The popcorn at the theatre is now out of the question. And they use real butter .
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Francostein posted:Spider eggs, a severed finger, and that redneck white sauce are all on the same tier of poo poo that makes me want to vomit enough to wear out my esophagus and dehydrate myself in the process. Besides, the stuff you'd find on a sandwich down here is such a fatboy perversion of the original Mallorcan recipe that its straight up demonic in nature. Pagan even. Mayonnaise to me tastes like the exhaust from an old diesel engine. Anyway, I found this...clump of something in my Trix cereal when I was a kid. Covered with milk, it looked vaguely purple. To this day I have no idea what it was, but I decided at the time it was just a misshapen piece of cereal, and like a goddamn idiot I ate it. The aftertaste stayed in my mouth for days, and it was so loving awful. Farecoal fucked around with this message at Feb 12, 2013 around 00:48 |
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Lots of nasty, rotten stuff thanks to home situations. But the funniest one was that our cat Reuben loved to catch grasshoppers and put them in coffee cups, empty or full. Every once in a while, if you weren't careful, you'd get hopper coffee  .
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Farecoal posted:Mayonnaise to me tastes like the exhaust from an old diesel engine. I had a similar situation with Fruity Pebbles. The piece was about 3/4 of an inch long and looked like a bunch of "Pebbles" stcuk together. After biting into it, the flavor was like chewing up a non chewable multi-vitamin....only stronger. I just assumed in my head that that's what it was, a clump of the vitamin coating they put on their cereal. Probably something else, but don't ruin my Pebbles for me. Just let me think it was vitamins.
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There was a dead frog in the bottom part of a leek mixed in with the sand and dirt.
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| # ? Feb 12, 2013 01:27 |
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A sandwich from a restaurant had glass in it. I found out by biting down on it. At a different restaurant, my cheeseburger still had the wrapping on it. Also I don't have a very good sense of smell so on multiple occasions I have consumed milk that had gone bad. The first time I was just drinking regular old milk but we'd been out of town for two weeks. Someone was house sitting though so I guess I just sort of assumed they'd have gotten milk for themselves. It tasted awful. The other few times, the milk was in my coffee, and still in date. The coffee tasted weird but I thought I had poorly proportioned the ingredients. I never know if the milk is bad until someone else tells me because I don't use it for much else but coffee anymore. When I was a kid I poured a bowl of peanut butter crunch and didn't realise until a few bites in that there were ants in it. Ants seem to get into everything, if this thread is anything to go by. I've seen bugs while shucking corn but other than that I've been fortunate enough to avoid eating them.
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| # ? Feb 12, 2013 01:54 |
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Okay I didn't necessarily find something horrific in my food but... when I was little my sister and I loved cream of chicken soup, we ate it all the time as kids. My uncle was babysitting us one day and he only had cream of mushroom soup, so my mom told him to just feed us that and tell us it was cream of chicken because we wouldn't be able to tell the difference. This all happened when I was about four years old, and I only ate cream of chicken soup again about two years ago because of the whole debacle (I'm 23 now).
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This isn't exactly IN food but was in the process of making food and is apparently somewhat common. One time my brother and I were making breakfast when we were younger, we cracked open an egg and what the poo poo do you know, there is a 2/3 grown, feathery, slimy chicken embryo.
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I was eating one of those packaged drumstick ice creams a long time ago and I swear I ate some kind of brown, fuzzy...thing. I have no idea what it was but it got consumed along with the rest of the ice cream, to no ill effects. Maybe it was a tiny tribble.
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I ate lobster lo mein today, and there was a huge bone of indeterminate origin in it. I am lucky that my grossest thing is at least technically edible. My mom found a bandaid in Chinese food (not the place I got mine) once. 
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I found maggots in one of those Cinnamon Toast Crunch + milk bars they make, bought at a gas station. Another time I bought a hershey bar at a K-mart, ate half, then found a single maggot crawling around in the package.
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