35+ Stomach Churning Things Discovered In Food That Shouldn’t Have Been There To Begin With
Regardless of how many calories are in those 14 Krispy Kreme donuts or how badly the French fry oil at McDonald’s is burned, those foods are still edible — and, to be honest, many people enjoy them just as they are. Things start to go downhill when we’re served things like decomposed reptiles, chicken intestines, or even broken nails in our meals. This could make you lose your appetite. You should read at your own risk!
A Crawly Buddy
A Redditor discovered a rather unpleasant surprise while eating at the Santa Fe Casino Grand Cafe. Their vegetable mix appeared to have a larvae worm crawling all over it.
A Crawly Buddy
They did not pay attention to him when they complained to the authorities. The customer, perplexed by their ignorance, left a negative review on social media. What’s more concerning is that the worm’s color is similar to that of cooked vegetables, implying that they could have eaten it if they hadn’t been careful!
Tuna Tongue-Eating Louse
You wouldn’t be scared at all if you saw this tiny creature in a petri dish. After all, its small stature and round eyes don’t do much to frighten you. It’s a tongue-eating louse, Cymothoa exigua.
Tuna Tongue-Eating Louse
These pests, which are parasitic isopods by nature, enter fishes through their gills and then consume the animal from within. You can imagine the panic that ensued when an unsuspecting buyer discovered a louse in their tuna. The word quickly spread like wildfire, and everyone was aware of the dangerous vermin.
Crunchy Frozen Limbs
You might never want to bite into another popsicle after seeing this. The amphibian’s limbs stick out like a sore thumb, taking on a grayish-green hue as the temperature drops.
Crunchy Frozen Limbs
The person who took this photo most likely bit a large chunk of ice cream before realizing what they were doing. Because of their smooth and lean meat, frogs are a popular delicacy in some countries. This should not, however, be the first time someone tastes it.
The Meat Spider
If you’re afraid of spiders, turn away now! We promise you’ll never look at meat and potatoes the same way again. The worst part about this image is that the spider isn’t completely disintegrated; a few of its limbs are missing, implying that a portion of it was infused with the dish.
The Meat Spider
The color and shape of the insect serve as a telltale sign of what it is. In this case, the individual should have been able to recognize the problem immediately, but could they turn back the clock and refuse to eat the dish? No.
Prewashed Green Mouse
In America, Costco is a well-known brand. This supermarket has become indispensable to many people’s lives due to its low prices and wide selection. At the San Jose Costco, an unwitting mother bought a package of prewashed spinach.
Prewashed Green Mouse
She opened the packaging the next night, hoping to use the vegetables. She was greeted by a furry and very deceased rodent instead of fresh, leafy vegetables. The mouse appeared to have drowned there. As a result, it sat on the spinach during rinsing, filling up on water.
Rodent Tikka Masala
The English have an insatiable appetite for Indian cuisine. Cate Barrett, an Englishwoman who used to feel this way, no longer craves Indian food as much as she once did. She bought a jar of tikka masala sauce from the store one day, intending to make a rich, thick curry the next night.
Rodent Tikka Masala
She found the sauce to be lumpy when she used it in her chicken. She noticed a tail and whiskers, courtesy of a deceased rodent, when she looked closer. The grocery store’s manager apologized and promised to look into the situation.
Salad and the Frog
Dieticians do not mean this when they advise people to eat more greens in their daily diet. Imagine being all fired up to live a healthier lifestyle, forcing yourself to accept bland, boring salads — only to discover a dead frog in it!
Salad And The Frog
The lifeless amphibian was the star of the Pret a Manger salad, hidden well between bits of lettuce and rings of eggs. Unfortunately for him, the Princess and the Frog story did not turn out to be true.
Lost a Fake Nail
Those who are accustomed to wearing fake nails on a daily basis must have a lot of patience. Moving something with six-inch-long nails is no small feat, as anyone who has tried will tell you.
Lost A Fake Nail
If you’ve ever worn fake nails before, you’ll understand the frustration of losing a nail and having no idea where it went. It happened to be right in the middle of a batch of fries that a chef was about to serve to a customer. But it’s a pretty nail.
Tried to Be Very Hygienic
The worst thing that can happen when you try to enforce strict hygiene standards in your restaurant is that it backfires. But no one has ever dropped a glove while cooking and never managed to recover their precious jewelry or timepieces. How is that even possible?
Tried To Be Very Hygienic
The presence of plastic in the glove salad victim’s food bewildered them. They were concerned about the glove’s whereabouts and whether or not the hand that had been in it was clean. It was time for @ChickenLickenSA to explain himself!
Shrimp Bits in Cereal
Because both of these elements are edible, this is probably not the worst option on the list. Finding shrimp tails in your breakfast cereal, on the other hand, is not the best way to start the day.
Shrimp Bits In Cereal
Milk would clash with the shrimp’s umami, crunchy flavor. If Cinnamon Toast Crunch squares had been alive, they would have been astounded by the situation, because shrimp bits in breakfast cereal is unthinkable. The thought of this flavor combination makes us squirm.
Sharp as a Razor
These not-so-yummy contaminants are enough to ruin your appetite. They’re sometimes gross, and other times life-threatening. While eating dead animals will give you food poisoning, eating a blade will kill you instantly. Wouldn’t finding a razor in your food be terrifying?
Sharp As A Razor
It has the potential to not only cut your tongue and mouth, but also to kill you if inhaled. Such incidents lead us to believe that “food safety tests” are a hoax. If that’s the case, how could they have missed a blade inside?
Making a Berry Home
In contrast to the majority of entries, this one tells the story of an innocent slime snail whose life was tragically cut short due to the negligence of a human. One day, it was contentedly munching away on a juicy raspberry when someone decided to remove a chunk of it.
Making A Berry Home
They realized the raspberry was more than meets the eye after just one bite. Disgusted, the person took a photo of the berry, threw it away, and vowed never to eat raspberries again.
Poisonous Rosary Peas
The rosary pea is a flowering plant that looks like ladybugs and belongs to the Fabaceae family of plants. Abrin, a natural poison found in the seed of Rosary pears, is abundant. Poisoning symptoms include vomiting, nausea, liver failure, convulsions, and, in many cases, an untimely death.
Poisonous Rosary Peas
These poisonous little buds were discovered in a Redditor’s cooked spaghetti. We’re curious how that got in there, given that the sauce was canned. These peas are unfamiliar to the average person. The more information you have, the better.
KFC Chicken Kidney Bucket
KFC has been embroiled in a number of major food-preparation and food-safety scandals over the years. These claims are getting crazier all the time, from cockroach infestations in kitchens to serving questionable meats as chicken.
KFC Chicken Kidney Bucket
This isn’t the worst thing to come out of the KFC kitchen, though. Their large chicken buckets are a crowd-pleaser, but would the crowd be pleased if they discovered a chicken kidney in their bucket? Debatable. The intestines were so well-coated that they could pass for a regular cut of meat.
Rotisserie Chicken Lung
Did you know that in some parts of the world, the entire chicken is consumed? That means nothing, not even the gonads, is left behind. That is something that Americans are not used to.
Rotisserie Chicken Lung
The sight of giblets would make most people gag. People were understandably disgusted when they discovered a piece of chicken lung in their rotisserie chicken. They couldn’t figure out what it was at first. The skin-like bit came from the bird’s lungs, according to one social media post and another Redditor.
A Seashell Salad
Was it ever brought to your attention that in some parts of the world, the entire chicken is eaten? The implication is that nothing, not even the gonads, is left behind. That is something that most people in America are not accustomed to.
A Seashell Salad
It was a seashell this time, a strange “seafood” in the middle of a chicken salad. With the “#disappointed,” the customer reported it. You ordered Chick-fil-A, to be honest. What were your expectations?
What Is That? A Knife!
This is similar to the video of the child running and a woman asking him to show her what he’s holding. “A knife!” he exclaims, and the woman screams and runs after him. How the employee baked a six-inch serrated knife into the bread is beyond us.
What Is That? A Knife!
The knife got stuck between John Agnesini’s teeth as he was eating a Subway sandwich. He was fortunate that it was only the handle that was broken, not the blade. Fortunately for the employee, after a $20,000 settlement, Agnesini dropped the case.
This Fruity Chunk
Gummies are stretchy, chewy morsels of goodness that fall somewhere between jellies and candies. A fruity mass resulted from a packet of Life Savers Gummies Sours. It tasted rotten, according to the customer. Sugar, water, and gelatin are all combined to make gummy candy.
This Fruity Chunk
Gelatin’s gel strength is determined by its concentration. With more concentration, it becomes more difficult. However, we have yet to see a case where the gummy has turned into a real rock. It blended in well with the edible gummies because of the color.
Attracted to the Sweetness
In their natural state, ants are attracted to all things sugary. If you leave a container of honey open for more than two hours, you may find yourself the proud parent of a brand new ant colony.
Attracted To The Sweetness
This explains why a woman’s son discovered an ant floating inside a package of Popeye’s Honey. Many of us have eaten ants without realizing it. When you consider all of the places the ant must have visited, it’s easy to become disgusted.
Camouflaged Green Beans
The pesky snakes slithering around everywhere had finally gotten to the farmer of these green beans. The farmer, fed up with their antics, decided to teach the snake clan a lesson.
Camouflaged Green Beans
Add some of these slimy reptiles chopped up to the pre-packaged green beans to spice things up! The snake’s pieces are easy to find because of its patterned skin. Nonetheless, because most people aren’t used to finding reptiles in their vegetables, it’s possible the girl initially missed it.
A Piece From a Children’s Toy
Any food product’s manufacturing process is lengthy. Generally, mass-produced foods are made in machines that run 24/7, with no human intervention. You wouldn’t expect machines to put animals in your food, would you?
A Piece From A Children’s Toy
Only when humans are involved does this happen. However, people frequently discover traces of the manufacturing factory in the finished products. It was a harmless plastic chip in this case. The person who discovered this in their raspberry package assumed it had something to do with the manufacturing process.
Pretty Lobster Pearl
In today’s market, most of us are aware of the value of pearls. These unusual items are discovered among mollusk shells. Mussels aren’t the only animals that produce pearls, which is an interesting fact.
Pretty Lobster Pearl
This only happens when humans are involved. Finished products, on the other hand, frequently reveal traces of the manufacturing factory. In this case, it was a harmless plastic chip. The person who discovered this in their Raspberry Pi package assumed it was due to a manufacturing flaw.
Black Widow in Red Grapes
If you thought the Whole Foods asparagus-water fiasco couldn’t get any worse, wait until you see this! A live Black Widow spider was discovered in a package of Anthony’s red seedless grapes purchased from a local supermarket by Jorge Fuentes, a Boston resident.
Black Widow In Red Grapes
When the inside of the package was filled with spider webs, the man suspected something was wrong. While a Black Widow’s bite is rarely dangerous, the neurotoxic venom is painful and can cause vomiting, muscle cramps, and dizziness.
Mouse Infused Bread
Premier Foods’ bread has been implicated in so many scandals that we doubt the sanity of anyone who still buys it. Look up how many times customers have complained about finding questionable items inside the loaves — you’ll be surprised!
Mouse Infused Bread
A man named Stephen Forse discovered a dead mouse embedded in the bread in 2009. Unfortunately, he had already eaten a few slices by the time he realized it. The specifics are quite graphic. Just keep in mind that the company was fined over $7,500 as a result of it.
Hash Browns With Roach
There are few things more terrifying than seeing roaches running around in your kitchen. Finding a worthy opponent in your meal is a good start. Redditor LinkBoyJ shared a photo of a half-eaten McDonald’s hash brown. He had stopped eating the dish because there was a roach inside of it.
Hash Browns With Roach
But don’t be too worried! He mentioned that for this meal, he was able to use the breakfast coupon, which was a good deal! Another Redditor speculated that the server was probably aware of the roach but chose to plate it anyway.
Drinking Carbonated Vermin
Something was wrong with Fred DeNegri’s Pepsi. It had a thick, slimy texture. DeNegri, a Florida resident, decided to take a look. When he turned the can over and looked inside, he noticed a glob of “pink linguining” slipping out.
Drinking Carbonated Vermin
The “dark stuff” that followed was similar to the “jellylike substance,” and it was apparently the result of carrion marination in the drinks. The FDA and Poison Control were contacted, and after analyzing the contents of the can, it was determined that the foreign matter was a toad or frog.
Tooth in My Candy
This is yet another reason why Three Musketeers bars are superior to Milky Way bars. At the very least, no one discovered a tooth in their Musketeers bar. A Texas lady will always remember to stay away from candy bars. She discovered a human tooth after chewing on a Milky Way in 2010.
Tooth In My Candy
While enjoying her Milky Way, she bit down on something, she told the press. Because these chocolates don’t contain any nuts, she decided to look into what she’d eaten.
Used Band-Air Fries
On a Tuesday, Lorenzo Gomez, a Santa Maria resident, picked up his lunch at a McDonald’s drive-thru. He shoved a handful of french fries into his mouth, famished, and immediately noticed the texture was off.
Used Band-Air Fries
The Band-Aid he’d swallowed was now in his mouth, and he spat it out in horror. When he contacted McDonald’s, they tried to sidestep the issue. The manager and employee apologized and compensated him with a $25 gift card after his complaint went viral on social media.
Shards of Glass
In 1986, the New York Times published an article that shook the food industry. When a Brooklyn mother was feeding her baby Gerber baby food, she noticed that he kept spitting it out.
Shards Of Glass
She followed up on his strange behavior. Her son had been injured by a shard of glass in the baby food. People from 30 states sent in complaints saying they had the same problem. The FDA did not issue a recall because they believed nothing could be done about it.
Two Swirls and a Cup
The bitter fight between a family of five and a large tourist pub in Sydney in 2008 became a hot topic in Australia when the family claimed the chefs served them feces in the form of gelato.
Two Swirls And A Cup
The fight reportedly began after the family complained about the loud music, claiming they couldn’t watch a football game because of it. Later, Ian Macdonald, Australia’s food minister, confirmed that the chocolate gelato did contain traces of frozen feces. It goes without saying that after tasting it, the couple became “violently ill.”
That’s a New Taste
Ken Wieczerza of New York was enjoying his large Pizza Hut Supreme Pizza in 2011. It didn’t take long for his delight to turn to disgust. He was completely taken aback when a blood-stained bandage appeared under his teeth. The bandage, baked into the crust, appeared to have been used to cover a rather bloody wound.
That’s A New Taste
He went to the media after the restaurant ignored his claims. Pizza Hub rebutted his claims in a public statement. This was cited by crisis-management firms as an example of how not to handle a situation.
The Bloody Steak
Not everyone enjoys steak. Many people mistake myoglobin for blood, but it’s actually a protein compound that gives meat its red color. In this case, however, blood was directly involved.
The Bloody Steak
Axel Sanz-Claus was in New York in 2009 when he ordered a $40 filet mignon at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel’s Bull and Bear Restaurant. He claims his mouth was filled with a used menstrual hygiene product the moment he bit into the meat. Later, a doctor at a nearby hospital confirmed his suspicions.
SnakeHead Broccoli
What are the first things that come to mind when you think of a typical TGI Friday’s? The 1,600-calorie burgers that are excessively fatty? Maybe the after-work crew is unwinding a little?
SnakeHead Broccoli
McDonald’s is not the only burger chain in the world that offers sudden surprises in their meals. December of 2010, US Army Staff Sergeant Clark Bartholomew reported that he had sustained an injury on his tongue due to a needle that was tucked inside a Triple Stacker in the Hawaii branch of Burger King.
Burger King’s Needle Burger
McDonald’s isn’t the only burger joint in the world that includes unexpected surprises in its menu. In December 2010, US Army Staff Sergeant Clark Bartholomew reported a tongue injury caused by a needle tucked inside a Triple Stacker at the Burger King in Hawaii.
Burger King’s Needle Burger
The situation worsened when Bartholomew was forced to spend six days in the hospital as a result of this. Doctors discovered a second needle in his intestines. He filed a lawsuit against the fast-food chain, alleging “extreme physical harm.”
Toothy Blue Cheese
People who dislike blue cheese will despise this unique milky delicacy after seeing this. An Englishwoman discovered a human tooth deep inside a block of cheek she bought from Sainsbury’s, a major UK grocery chain, in 2014.
Toothy Blue Cheese
At this point, the story needed to be investigated because she had mentioned that she had gone to the dentist the day before but that the tooth was not hers. The supermarket chain promised to look into the matter.