[Yelena]

Just opened a tin of tomatoes from Tescos, put them in a pan- started to heat and tasted. Looked down to see an inch long beetle in the sauce!!!! Yes, I have been cleaning my teeth for over an hour.

The store guy came and took it away and their getting it analysed etc etc.

So what I wanted to know is whats the worst thing you have found in pre-bought food stuffs? Or am I just very unlucky?

 

[Matt Haslam]

mmmmmmmmmmm protein!

 

[Rhasputin]

Someone recently found a mouse in a can of chef boy-ar-dee. ):

 

[Yelena]

is it wrong for me to feel I deserve more compo because I'm a veggie? lol

 

[windyhill]

Yuck! Ive found hair in a can I just opened once. I dont remember what is was, but I never bought it again

 

[zany_toon]

mmmmmmmmmmm protein!

:lol::lol: :lol:!!

Worst thing I ever found was a bolt in a yoghurt. Thankfully I noticed it before hand otherwise I think it would have been painful :lol:

 

[moustress]

When I was little, I found a gigantic water beetle in with a candybar I had just bought at our little country store. I think it was dead, but I still get the creeps remembering.

I bit down on a rivet in a fishstick in the school lunchroom in senior high. Ouch! No more school lunch or me. Only apples from the apple machine and milk.

 

[zany_toon]

With you mentioning apples I remembered something worse than the bolt in the yoghurt. I had been munching pea pods and (don't know what made me look) found a caterpillar in the one I had just bitten into :sick I scrubbed my teeth for almost an hour and haven't ben able to eat pea pods since :sick

 

[moustress]

Some folks will never truly appreaciate that little protein bonus.

 

[Jemma]

I tipped a bag of spinach in to a curry I was making once and watched, in horror, as a beetley thing tumbled out the bag. I just picked it out though - I thought any germs would be a gonner after it finished cooking anyway. Didn't tell the boyfriend about it, right enough :lol:

It was just a little beetle though. I'd probably have throught twice about it, if it was an inch long!!

 

[Autumn2005]

I found two rabbit toes stuck in a cube of alfalfa for my horse... not sure it counts, since it's not human food, but hey, that was when we were having that big botulism scare in my area.

 

[Yelena]

yuck!

Have never found anything in my food before now so I've either been very lucky or very blind

Dont think i'll be buying much premade food again

 

[WoodWitch]

is it wrong for me to feel I deserve more compo because I'm a veggie? lol

I'm vegetarian too Yelena
It's nothing weird like a bolt oor a beetle, but I had a "vegetarian" cheese and onion pastry for a breakfast treat the other day. I noticed after a couple of bites that it had a whole slice a bacon running through it!!
Very unhappy consumer!

 

[Yelena]

Eww I hope you kicked off.

I ordered a veggie burger at macdonalds (yes I know, but I was very very hungry...and cold...and depressed- though no where near as depressed as when I realized I was buying a 'maccies'). Went and sat down and found it was a beef burger. I took it to the counter and the prepubescent droid told me I have asked for it whilst popping gum!! Nearly shoved his cap down his throat. Luckily the manager came over before I could ruin his chance of reproducing- though tbh I wouldnt say that would have been a bad thing

 

[zany_toon]

Some folks will never truly appreaciate that little protein bonus.

I appreciate it more when some one else finds the bonus - especially if they don't notice and I do :lol:

 

[moustress]

...and then there are organically grown apples.

 

[Kallan]

With you mentioning apples I remembered something worse than the bolt in the yoghurt. I had been munching pea pods and (don't know what made me look) found a caterpillar in the one I had just bitten into :sick I scrubbed my teeth for almost an hour and haven't ben able to eat pea pods since :sick

Just marginally better than finding half a caterpillar in an apple!

 

[tanzaniterose]

I've been lucky so far (touch wood), I don't envy this guy though ..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8092921.stm

(or the poor mouse!)

I'm always terrified when I buy bananas, in case there'll be some foreign poisonious spider/snake hidden away somewhere in the bunch - there's been far too many stories like that for my liking!

 

[WoodWitch]

Oh yeah that happens all the time.
When I worked for a well known supermarket years ago, they often used to find crazy spiders and such like in the Nanas

 

[SarahC]

I've been lucky so far (touch wood), I don't envy this guy though ..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8092921.stm

(or the poor mouse!)

I'm always terrified when I buy bananas, in case there'll be some foreign poisonious spider/snake hidden away somewhere in the bunch - there's been far too many stories like that for my liking!

I've always lived in hope of finding something in the fruit,preferably a tree frog but anything would be a nice surprise.