I went out to dinner with a friend a few years back and it all went well until we got dessert. I was eating my pecan pie when I bit down onto something a little inedible. I worked at an ice cream store at the time and part of my job was to clean the equipment at night. That’s why I immediately recognized the bristle from the scrub brush as I pulled it out of my mouth. I used the exact same kind of brush to scrub down the machines every day. My slice of pie was free that night… but I’m sure some of you can top that story.
For those of you that come here really late at night/early in the morning, be sure to check out yesterday’s comic. I forgot to hit the publish button so it was late going live on the site :p
In the state I live in, there was a huge controversy over some lady finding a finger in a cup of Wendy’s chili.
haha.
I read a number of these while waiting for my food to cook and then proceeded to eat while reading more.
I rarely eat out so I dont have any horror stories.
I guess I’ve been pretty lucky when it came to that.
Yea me!
i think the absoloute worst thing i ever found in my food was an earwig in a slice of birthday cake…
needless to say, that was the day that i developed my fear of bugs.
ugh. wasp inside a (shelled) pistachio.
I once found a cockroach in my chicken.
I found a three foot long pink fake hair in a sub sandwich from a chain I shall not mention. I accidentally swallowed most of it and then I realized something didn’t feel right. I found a hair hanging out of the corner of my mouth and pulled and pulled and pulled. I felt like it was going to cut the side of my throat. Luckily it was easy to identify the owner of said hair. She was the one with the pink weave. I got a 25$ gift certificate and a new sub gratis.
I work at a restaurant and the worst story I have heard was one of the servers scooping ice with a glass, a shard broke off and got into another customers drink and cut up her throat. Needless to say, if i ever catch another server scooping ice with a glass I make them melt the ice and clean the bin, no matter how busy they are.
The worse that’s happened was at a burger place, a few hours before work.
I noticed there was a large bug in my burger…couldn’t even identify what the hell it was! I only looked to make sure there wasn’t any relish in my burger and there it was. I complained about it and the waiter said they would take the burger off my check. I waited nearly a half hour, simply nibbling on my fries and sipping my drink, which were both deemed sanitary. When the dude arrived with my check, I just about went berserk!
I made a huge scene about the thing. I find this disgusting ass bug in my burger, and they don’t even give me a new one? I ended up throwing the disgusting burger at the guy and leaving without paying for my drink–the only thing on my check. No one bothered to chase after me. When I’m ticked off, you better run for the nearest bomb shelter!
I never go there anymore. I don’t even know if the place is still open anymore after that scene. I’m sure someone woulda called the health inspector.
A friend of mine recently coughed up blood for mysterious reasons.
He’d found metal shavings in his ice cream.
Only after calling the company to complain did he realize the metal shavings had come off his brand new ice cream scoop.
Either way, free ice cream.
Cereal with bugs.
My brother ate it for a week before he realized that nuts shouldn’t have legs.
I have found so many strange things in pre-packaged foods. Not even the most trusted of foods is safe from my experience. McDonalds, I order a nice double quarter pounder with cheese. I usually order them on the rare occasion i visit Mickey’s. So, I bite into it, and what do I find but a huge chunk of styrofoam. Got a free meal out of that one.
Bag of marshmallows, relatively safe, easy food. I’m melting them on the grill for 4th of July, and to my surprise, when it melts, a cockroach is stuck inside. That was sick.
I like Nutri-grain bars so I got some off-brand ones once. I bite into one and think it’s strangely crunchy. I pull out a piece of wood. Never bought those again.
Ramen. Ah Ramen. The easiest food to prepare and slurp down. I cook up a pot and pull up a forkful and slurp a few down. I get a really chewy piece and i just keep chewing and chewing. I pull it out finding a huge chunk of packaging got packaged into the noodles.
In my family, I take after my father and am the one who usualy finds hair in my food. Whether at home, at school, or at the fast food resturants. I’ve never found a pub., although pub.s could be confused with facial hair. My school manages to serve us spoiled and frozen milk somtimes, besides the granny hair.
At a resterant once, I got sour milk, and a free re-fill from a different glass. Second guess would be that there was soap in the cup. It was gross, either way.
Oh, and how many of you guys like ketchup? Well, next time you dip your fries, remember that they don’t use the good tomatoes. Oh no! Its the magoty/rotten/moldy/damaged ones that they couldn’t sell, so they just cut the bad chunks of. Most of the time. Same idea behind applesauce. Even at home when we would make our own, semi good went in pies, the wormy ones got sauced.
I’ve intentionaly eaten bugs, in a can, from Korea. They were dowsed in soy sauce, and were a little bitter. Acually, bugs make up many esential meals in many different cultures. I’ve read a whole book on bug meals. You should see how they cook up Tarantulas!
I’ve gotten my fair share of free meals due to various gross things. I work in a coffee shop, and recently a lady found a lady bug INSIDE her teabag. Strangely enough, just before that incident corporate had decided to change which teas we serve.
I, luckily, have never had anything wrong with a meal. And I eat out quite a bit. I mean, not any problem with “no pickles, etc.” (personally, I like pickles, but couldn’t think of something else) or a soda mixup. AND I live in Jersey, the state with the suckiest food service.
I have forgotten, once or twice, to leave a tip. I’m 16. I can’t remember everything.
Wow. I doubt anyone will read this comment now, but I’m back-reading and just have to share. Nothing in a resteraunt, but still…
Firstly. Body hair in a lunch I brought from home. I’m REALLY hopeful that it was my then-partner’s, who made my lunch. Not exactly pleasant, but better than a stranger’s.
But, far more disgusting- although it doesn’t sound so bad at first- was one of his head hairs. He had hair which was literally a few foot long- most of the way down his back and curled. Loooong hair. One day he cooked me a meal- and unknown to me, I swallowed one of his hairs. Except I felt it on the roof of my mouth and managed to get hold of the end.
Believe me, pulling two foot of hair up your throat was FAR worse than finding something I hadn’t yet eaten. It felt horrible.
I’ve also done the typical “half a worm in an apple” jig- except it was a peach, not an apple. I still shudder.
I once opened a can of Cola to find popped popcorn in the drink, it was… awkward.
One time on a field trip to a bowling alley I ordered a cup of soda and some potatoe chips. The soda was some old brand I haven’t even heard of and is more than likely not that popular anymore. Well the soda turned to taste like dish water or some cleaning solution. I was glad to have my chips. For those that didn’t believe what I was saying….I’m glad I didn’t share my chips.
I found a steal nail in flan and we still didnt get a free meal.
once my family ordered a pizza in from a nearby pizza place and while we were eating my sister found a metal nut on her slice
we told them and apparnly it had come off the inside of the oven (which they then replaced) we conuted to eat there anyway and never had anthor problum
also a kfc near my sisters nyc apartment was closed by the health department after a lady found rat poop in her bucket of chicken
Once I was making breakfast for my girlfriend at the time, and there was a nail that rolled out of a cabinet and into the pancake batter while I wasn’t looking. Luckily she found it before she took a bite… I still wonder why we broke up…
My family was eating kielbasa one night. We usually got turkey kielbasa, but tonight we were having pork. Well, my sister sees something white in her sausage. Thinking it was just pig fat, she takes a bite. It’s a TOOTH. We threw out the kielbasa, and to this day I’m a vegitarian.
A friend found a moth in his pasta once, hes a tight git, so he ate around it then asked for it to be replaced, and went on to eat that!
I once read a list of all the different tolerances for, shall we say, detritus allowed in food, some of it is REALLY gross.
I found meat in my styrofoam cup of soda recently (at least I THINK it was meat). If it hadn’t been a disposable cup I could maybe understand how it got there, but styrofoam?
My Aunt found a razor blade in the raisan bran cereal ;-;
One time I was eating at Golden Corral and I went to the candy corn in the buffet area. After I got back to my table with a small handful I discovered that what I first believed to be the white bottom of a broken piece was actually the crown of someone’s tooth. D:
I was out for breakfast once, and both me and the person I was with had ordered the big pancakes-sausage-eggs-hashbrowns-bacon-heartattack platter. We had both mostly finished our food, when my companion cut into his pancake to find one of those “sealed for freshness” foam/paper bottle sealers inside a pancake — like, the entire thing, about two inches in diameter. He got his meal for free; I did not.
Well, I was lucky not to have been the one to discover it, but over at the mall near where I live, There is this Chinese Restaurant. Used to be awesome, but quality had been going down. My roomie works as the Dispatch for security, and he told me a guy came down complaining that the food had Maggots in it, and they don’t give refunds. needless to say, they were reported. I can handle roaches, I’ll squish a spider any day of the week… Maggots…. They win, EVERY time
Well, I’ve got 2 stories to share.
First, I was at school, and I got hungry, because I guess I didn’t have enough at breakfast (usually, I can last until lunch break). So, I decided to make a quick run to the snack bar during my passing period. I got a taco salad. As I was eating it in class, I noticed a sunflower seed in my mouth as I was chewing it, with the shell on. However, when I failed to chew the shell off, I realized that it wasn’t a sunflower seed at all. It was something so hard, that it was unchewable. I spat it out, and it turned out to be a rock. (I probably didn’t see it initially, because it was shaped like a pinto bean, which were in my salad.) Everyone was like, “Dude, did you just spit out a ROCK?!” lol
Now, my second story. This didn’t actually happen to me, but to my cousin. He was having lunch with some friends, and they noticed a straight, black hair in their soup. It was like 2 feet long. Everyone, of course, thought it was disgusting. But then, someone said, “Hey, I bet it’s from some hot girl’s head; she probably works in the kitchen.” Then, everyone was like, “Well…if it’s from a hot girl, then I don’t really mind.” Funny guys. Later, this person walks out of the kitchen, has a 2 foot long ponytail, and is a really ugly-looking guy. Everyone immediately took back what they said. lol
But Chris, I really enjoy your comic. I saw a banner ad for it on another site, and it had a few comics on it, like the one where Biff realizes he shouldn’t eat watermelons with seeds. I think I like your comic because I really enjoy your unique sense of humor. Keep it up! ^_^
I was eating a package of crakers (the kind you would normally put in soup) and picked one out of the bag, to find a strange looking brown thing living (at least I think it was living) in one of the bubbles in the cracker. It looked like some sort of bug I’d never seen before.
Needless to say, I immediately threw that bag out, and opened the next bag in the box of crackers to fulfill my snacking needs.
I kinda wish I would have kept that cracker, though, so I could have figured out what kind of bug it was.
Nothing that interesting has ever happened to me… though my best friend did bite into a meat pie we got from school once… and found a dead rat curled up in it, with a bite out of it… that friend is now vegan.
Not really disgusting as such, but kind of wierd…
My aunt on my mum’s side told me that she was at uni, and every lunchtime, the same routine would happen: “Everybody, today’s special is *yadayadayada*. And Ami, here’s your cauliflower cheese.”
She’s allergic to capsicum peppers. Really allergic. SO allergic, if you cut one in the kitchen, and she’s upstairs, she will get an allergic reaction…
I have had a lot of nasty food experiences. Once, when I was like 12, I went into the kitchen at night and poured myself a nice huge bowl of cereal, (I have a condition where my metabolism is to fast so I need to eat A LOT) and I eat this huge bowl of cereal and then I go to make a second bowl and notice that the whole bag is CRAWLING with nasty little black bugs you usually find in flour. I threw up I think my whole bowl. I mean it was COVERED in bugs, that I didn’t see cause I ate in the dark to not wake anyone up. =( It was a brand new box too. I think it was a special K type.
Another one I was eating at KFC and in my bin was a dead mouse. I am TERRIFIED of mice to make things worst. I got three huge bins free. Apparently the mouse was a pet of one of the workers that got out. (Who brings their pets to a restaurant!?)
Another I was at an old country buffet and I was in the bathroom, and a worker gets out of one of the stalls (by the sounds of it she had the runs..) and just leaves, not washing her hands. I later saw her handling with bare hands salads. It was disgusting.
The worst I ever had happen to me was I was eating a salad (this was when I was a vegetarian) and I bit into what I was told was tofu, so I went to complain how I ordered no tofu with my veggy salad and the worker said they didn’t sell tofu. Here it was a mashed bundle of maggots, and I only realized it was maggots cause I searched around and found some live ones in my soy burger! They were eating it. I got two new salads, and they had maggots too. I reported them to the health department and I never went back. =_=
Another story now that I remembered: I ordered a fruit from a mcdonalds, or something with fruit and nuts, and all the fruit was green and smooshy.
In my college I was eating spicy fries, and my girlfriend who was eating the fries with me shrieked because their was a pill bug in our fries. I think pill bugs are cute, so I continued eating but she got a thing of fries for free. The pill bug was only their because the garden club people where doing some charity thing right next door, and they were straight from the gardens.
Nother nasty thing, I ordered a fish salad from burger king and my fish was raw, and I only noticed because I bit into it.
When camping, we were eating beans from a can and their were maggots in most of the cans. I guess the cans were old and my friends grandpa didnt say anything.
I ordered some pork steak at this restaurant and their was a pig hoof in my mine. I don’t eat pigs anyone.
I could on really.
I haven’t had anything like these, luckily. xD The grossest food I’ve seen were at school. Our hot dogs were all striped green, and my friend got sick every time we had them. Our eggs looked like they took a cylinder of sponge and cut it into 1/2 inch thick circles. I hated that food…
I guess i just have bad luck with eating out… would explain why i do so only on rare occasions. In my short time i have had: soapy gravy, chicken bones in my chicken sandwich when i was 4, hair in a hotdog, hair in a burger, a shard of glass in my icecream, a piece of lettuce in my icecream, a stick in my beans, worms in my apple a few times, caterpillars in my cabbage, and some sort of moth in my tomatoes and i have got raw or still bleeding meat a few times…
I constantly get good accidents when ordering from fast food. I think the best thing that happened was when I ordered a Whopper Jr., and instead got 2 Whopper meals, a pie, and a shake!
Someone I was living with went to Wendys (icecream place) and got one of their hotdogs. A few bites into it, he said it tasted odd, but couldn’t place why. It Looked normal. Bun, dog, mustard, BBQ sauce… Yeah… not exactly BBQ…
Apparently it was an interesting experience eating a hot dog with mustard and chocolate sauce.
I once found maggots on a roll of crackers, I think it was a few months old too (albeit unopened ’till that day), I threw it out.
A few years ago my choir class took a field trip to a very fancy dinner/theater or theater/restaurant. Not to name names, but it started with “C” and was in Minnesota, if you can figure it out. Anyway, one of my buddies claimed to have found a spider (live, no doubt) in his table’s salt shaker. Haven’t gone back, and I’m sure many wouldn’t either.
My sister bought an ice cream cone from the van, and after eating the ice cream, she looked in the cone to find a moth quite happily in the bottom.
I found it funny, she didn’t xD
I haven’t had that problem thankfully. I put enough stuff near my mouth that wasn’t meant to be near there. I don’t need stuff like that in my food.
I found what looked like a whole slug in a can of chef boyardee meat raviolis once. Wasn’t pleasant. I couldn’t eat chef boyardee for three whole weeks.
When I was about 16 or so, I was in my sisters car and she pulled out some caramel from her glove compartment. I took a ‘bite’ (if you can call it eating caramel…) and I felt this hard bit. I thought the caramel was old, announced this to my sister, and pulled it out to reveal one of my teeth. I kinda freaked out, as any rational person would have done when a piece of candy ate their tooth.
Rat tooth in a french fry from Mcdonalds..
My family and I were at an airport once and, airport food being expensive and all, we were eating sandwiches we had prepared at home. My brother must have been about 8 at the time, and as he was biting into his tuna sandwich, he winced, dug around in the tuna, and pulled out a tooth. Now, since this was a homemade sandwich, we had no idea how it got there. He was hungry and kept eating…. and pulled out another tooth. He dug around more carefully and pulled out 2 or 3 more. Which is when my mom remembered that the bag the sandwich was in was the bag she used to keep our old baby teeth in. I couldn’t stop laughing.
Once I was at a Ruby Tuesday’s with a decently sized group of friends. I bit down on something REALLY hard in my pasta meal, and it turned out to be a diamond ring that a female cook lost earlier that day. Her husband was the manager, and our full meal ended up being comp’ed as a reward. Needless to say, everyone got dessert…the bill was over 200 bucks.
Last week, I made a ham sandwich, and when I took the first bite, I nearly choked on what was later found to be a big glass bead that had come from who-knows-where.
The best one I had was Pop-Tarts. Opened the box, ate the first package, was eating the second when I felt something crawling on my finger. I flicked it off and wondered where it came from when I saw a second on my Pop-Tart. I got rid of that one as well, glanced around, didn’t see a trail to my pop-tart box and finished my snack. When I opened the next package about five minutes later, I found ten or so ants already inside the packaging. Come to find out, the ants had somehow taken residence inside the last packet of tarts and were happily eating away at them when I had bought them. My response after finding this out, was toss the last package and finish my tarts without worrying about the moving sprinkles. XD
When I was seven, at my Dad’s birthday me and my cousin were wrestling. About five minutes later, I bit into my hot turkey sandwich only to crack one of my teeth on – you guesses it – another one of my teeth. My cousin had punched out one of my teeth, and it fell into my sandwich with the first bite.
The worst part? I was so surprised that I swallowed the tooth.
Also, just this past summer I got a tub of powdered Iced Tea, to mix into my water bottles. Why is a different story, but about two weeks after I started drinking two bottles of this iced tea every day, I was mixing new bottles in the morning. I reached in a spoon, got a scoop of powder, and poured it into the bottle. I reached the spoon back in, got another scoop, and then stared in awe as a spider crawled out of the powder.
I’m still convinced that I must have drank at least one spider in the two weeks prior.
After searching the contents, I continued to drink the iced tea. After all, if it hadn’t killed me yet, it certainly wasn’t going to start now…