Back in the mid-90's a group of us road tripped down to Milwaukee for a concert. Needless to say, we got hungry and decided we wanted some Mcdonalds. I enjoyed a few fries, and some milk-shake, and then the horror showed it's ugly face. I unwrapped my 1/4 pounder, put it to my face and noticed something fall out the other side. I looked down BEFORE biting into it, hoping I didn't drip something and ruin my fancy clothes. It was a
BAND-AID....

 

Growing-up, my brother and I never got to have much candy and junk food like other kids did. Mom was on a health food kick at the time; in the candy we did get, sugar was replaced with honey, chocolate was replaced with carob, and there was no preservatives or artificial anything.

The ony time we did get real candy was on Halloween. My brother essentially ate all of his within a week. I, myself, being much more conservative with such pleasures in life, was able to stretch my candy reserves until the next Halloween. One year, there was a big candy bar in the bag I was saving as the grand finally.

Luckily, I did not swallow after I took the first bite of this candy bar, but while chewing it, I looked down at the candy and noticed several small white worms crawling out of the bite hole. I immediately chucked the bar across the room and spit out what I had in my mouth on the coffee table. Yes, there were live worms in that also. After washing out my mouth and brushing my teeth, I examined the wrapper and later found out it was one of Mom's nature candy bars that she had added to our bag--thanks Mom.

I suppose it was my fault for hoarding the candy for so long; but to this day, I am still leary about anything that says "All Natural" for that one candy bar certainly was.

 

I have eaten Army food, including C-Rations. I would prefer Band-Aids, especially if they came in a 1/4 pounder.
Dono

 

I'm not sure that this is disgusting, maybe just weird...
An old roommate of mine ordered a pizza. Him and a friend ate pretty much the entire thing. Just as I was going to grab a piece, I noticed something shiny poking out from under the cheese... It was a staple! I lifted up the cheese and there were about a dozen others in there. Upon seeing this, my roommate threw up and, yes, there was about a handfull of staples in his vomit. How he managed to eat all of them and not notice is beyond me.

 

mmm Staple Pizza...Souns like a $10,000,000 lawsuit these days, I should be so lucky !lol

 

Had the misfortune of chewing a fingernail from a Banquet cherry pie once. Wrote to ConAgra (Banquet's parent company) to complain. Asked me to send them the offending object. I did. A week or so later, a registered letter comes from ConAgra. I am thinking.. registered, must be a check, a quick settlement so I won't sue...... It was a damn coupon for a free cherry pie.

 

As a kid and teen I worked in some food service enterprises- choke n pukes and some that I and most couldn't afford to park at.
If most saw behind the scenes of restaurants, you would never eat out again.
There are exceptions of course......

 

when i was first married my hubby didnt like chinese but me and my daughter did opened a can of la-choy chow mein and a BIG water beetle came with it yu6needless to say chow mein is now home made

 

as I sit here, eating sushi for the first time and read these posts I can't help but to feel a strange connection with your stories....

 

ShawnZ- timing is everything!

 

The worms WERE the sweetener!

The worst I've had is finding a LONG (talking over a foot) grey hair in my school lunch in middle school. I haven't eaten school lunch since.

Irony: I currently work in a cafeteria at a local retirement home.

 

I no longer eat frozen burritos from the grocery store, or anywhere for that matter. After heating a frozen burrito in a microwave, and while eating, I noticed the texture seemed funny and kind of rubbery. I went to looking and pulled out this big piece of intestine about 4 inches long. Haven't eaten a burrito like that for years. I don't trust any of the manufacturers. On their packaging, it just says " beef products" or " beef by-products", so they can put just about any part they want to in it. Of course, our neighbors to the south love "tripe" , which is cow stomache, and pieces of intestine. Not me. Yuk. If I want a burrito, its eather a reputable restaurant or home made for me.

 

One time when i was about 14 I took a bite out of a Ring Ding, thought it tasted a little bitter, I looked down and saw the cream filling moving around. Was filled with a bunch of tiny maggot lookin worms. I puked all over the place.

 

I found a partially eaten daddy long leg spider on my pizza one time. Luckily I didn't swallow it.

 

A friend of mine in high school bit into a burger and found a roach.

I cracked up and told him finding a roach was way better than finding half a roach. With friends like me...