Do you have bugs in your salad?

babyharley · Sep 19, 2006

Thats SO gross Leah - I would totally have called them!!

I was at McD's a few summers ago, and stopped to get a chocolate shake. I took a drink, and felt something in my mouth - it was a dead bug!!

So, I turned around, drove back and told him - they gave me another one - took a drink - ANOTHER BUG!! They didn't offer me anything

I never go to that McD's ever anymore!

halfpint · Sep 19, 2006

Originally Posted by Miss Mew

OMG I'm never eating out again

I cannot stand fast food, Hamburgers

I don't even think it's meat, I would actually gag trying to eat one, these kinds of stories just set it in for me

luckygirl · Sep 19, 2006

Originally Posted by Lemur 6

I think bugs in salads is sort of a fact of life, especially if you eat organics. I tend to find a lady bug larva here and there in my salads most of the time alive and well too (lady bugs are natural aphid killers, and I'd MUCH rather have lady bug larvae on my food than aphids!). They're pretty freaky when you find them, they're black and orange, about half an inch long and have a grub or catepillar like appearance. I brought home a bunch of celery once and there was a HUGE preying mantis hiding in it (like 6 inches!), I left the groceries on the kitchen counter and he crawled out of the plastic bag and started flying around, was very freaky.

I did have an instance where I found TWO LIVE aphids on the lettuce of my burger from a Wendy's that was situated in a HOSPITAL of all places. Unfortunately, I found them after I ate half the burger, who knows how many I've eaten. The food coloring additive red 40 is made from squished bugs, so you people who like to eat a lot of artificial red stuff (popscicles, candy, any kind of red colored soda), you're drinking bug juice. Peanut butter and honey also has the random bug part in it (with honey it's unavoidable, then again, you are eating bee spit/vomit and I don't think there's an organism in the world that doesn't like peanut butter).

But if you don't know can't hurt you right? An ant here and there, a spider, a gnat, you probably eat bugs pretty regularly without even knowing it. Unless it's a disease carrying bug like a fly or roach, THEN that's bad. So yeah, I'm prettty meh when it comes to finding bugs in my food.

I am soooo grossed out right now.....

catlover19 · Sep 19, 2006

A couple weeks ago I was at a pizza place and there was a bug baked into my pizza. I went back and showed the girl working and she said ewww thats so gross, do you want a free slice? I was really hungry so I got a slice from a pizza that had JUST come out of the oven so I figured it was fairly safe.

You have to watch with the ice at Subway. If you see black spots in the ice, it is most likely dirt but there is a chance that it is mold. For a while, I was feeling sick every time I worked and then found out about that (I am allergic to mold). I work at 2 different Subways and the one is always really dirty and at the other one lately the slicer that is used to cut green peppers, onions, cucumbers and tomatoes has had a ton of fruit flies all over it.

maddensmom · Sep 19, 2006

I hate eating out. But eating in can be just as bad.

About 2 months ago, I had made some chilli and opened a NEW box of saltine crackers to go with. About halfway through my box of crackers, I see a Weevil crawling in my chilli!!!

(for those of you who don't know, they kinda look like a maggot, only a little bigger and with legs)
I nearly threw up. Wanna know what my husband said? "At least it wasn't half a weevil!!"

Then to make matters worse, about a week ago, I opened a can of tomato soup. (I won't mention brand names) As I was pouring my soup into the bowl, I saw something fall in. I thought it was a piece of paper from the edges of the can, but upon inspection (taking it out of soup and rinsing soup off of it) I realized it was a piece of SKIN with FUR!!!! It was about the size of a dime. I DID throw up that time, luckily I hadn't eaten any of the soup. I figure it was a rat. Or a piece of one anyway...

Needless to say, I spend a lot more time picking through my foods before I eat them now!

emrldsky · Sep 20, 2006

The only other story about something in my food wasn't nearly as gross...

I was in Seattle for a conference and me and three other women from the University went out to dinner. We ordered our food and FORTY-FIVE minutes later, we ask what's going on. About 15 minutes after that, we got our food. Well, I was halfway through my meatloaf when I moved a piece and saw a piece of SARAN WRAP between the meatloaf and potatoes. Once we got a manager over (took him about 25 minutes) he gave us the entire meal (all four of us) free, and brought me back another plate (I double-checked this one).

That is how a manager should react to any kind of foreign substance to food.

lemur 6 · Sep 20, 2006

Originally Posted by alikatt

I couldn't help but kinda... laugh at this, and then fight the urge not to throw up. But it made me remember something that someone once told me...that on average, in your sleep mind you, you swallow 2 spiders a year.

Oops, haha, sorry

, I guess I'm more used to having bugs around. I routinely have bowls of mealworms and crickets around to feed my gecko (and on the kitchen counter no less). My cat also LOVED to eat cicadas (those bugs that make all that whining racket in the summer, I used to catch em all the time). They're huge for bugs (about 2 inches long) and very hard bodied, but the cat took it like the yummiest treat in the world

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I don't know if I believe that spider myth (might be true if you camp a lot, or if you're in the army and do a lot of field excersizes), though if you ride a bike or motorcycle with an open face helmet often, you swallow a ton of bugs.

laureen227 · Sep 20, 2006

Originally Posted by alikatt

I couldn't help but kinda... laugh at this, and then fight the urge not to throw up. But it made me remember something that someone once told me...that on average, in your sleep mind you, you swallow 2 spiders a year.

since it's an average, that means that some people don't swallow any, & some people swallow more than 2. i figure that, especially in 3rd world countries, where people sleep in open air homes/shelters, they swallow my share. makes me feel better, that's for sure!
the only bug story i have is a good one. i was eating at a restaurant during a cricket infestation in our town. i mean, they were EVERYWHERE! anyway, i was about 1/2 through with my meal, & i turned to look at something. when i turned back, my brother said, "you should look at your plate." a cricket had jumped into my plate from the floor, having evidently gotten in thru the front door with a patron. i kinda squeaked & jumped because i was startled. the manager immediately offered to replace my meal. since i was 1/2 thru, i asked for a smaller portion instead. it was also free. the thing is - it wasn't like it was even the restaurant's fault, but they still did the right thing.

mybabies · Sep 20, 2006

Originally Posted by StarryEyedTiGeR

I got food poisioning - as in sick in the hospital- from Pig-N-Wistle BBQ....needless to say I called them and told them their food was unsanitary and gave me food poisioning! And they had the nerve to offer me a free meal! Uhhhh....some people's stupidity never ceases to amaze me! lol.....

I had the same experience with a brand of TV dinners and they sent me some coupons for some free one's. I took the coupons and used them! NO problem!

marishka · Sep 20, 2006

I have never been as grossed out as when I took my microbiology class. Yeah...yuck. So this stuff doesn't bother me near as much.

I've heard a lot about BK lately. A few years ago they (a few different locations here) got in trouble because they had really bad rat problems (chewing through food packaging I think) and they hadn't even tried fixing it after inspection. Eventually a few got shut down temporarily.

There was also a restaurant in Hilliard, a chinese buffet, that was caught (on tape) by the health inspector, putting vegetables in bags, putting a piece of wood over it, and driving a van over that. They then picked up the bag, and took it inside. I really hope they weren't using that as a shortcut!

annasmom · Sep 20, 2006

All of your stories are completely disgusting. The worst that's ever happened to me was a bit off fingernail in my french fries. It was so long ago, I don't even remember where it was. The manager comp'd my meal and that was the end of it.

I still can't eat Wendy's chicken sandwiches after hearing the mayo/abcess story (which is not true BTW, if you've heard it.)

Also, I refuse to eat Taco Bell meat after the 20/20 special stating that earthworms are part of its ground "beef." (after researching it online, it appears this one a false as well, but I'm sticking with 20/20 on this one.)

ellen13 · Sep 20, 2006

I was in the hospital last year and I opened a plastic container that my salad came in and a fly flew out.

I was in a Chinese resturant once and a big roach crawl out of a bowl of those hard noodles, there was a spider in my chow mein and a roach in my nephews soup.

I can't remember how many times I've found bugs in salads or hair in my food when eating out.

arcadian girl · Sep 21, 2006

ugh, I hate bugs in food. I have always, always loved spinach, since I was a little kid. Fresh spinach, or canned, with a little melted butter and vinegar-heaven. So I'm eating some spinach from a can one day... chew chew chew.. CRUNCH! I immediately thought oh no... spinach doesn't crunch

I spit my food into a napkin and there was a black beetle in there

I didn't throw up, but I went and brushed my teeth and rinsed about fifty times, and had no appetite for the rest of the day. The worst thing is though.. I've never been able to eat spinach since. I know how rare it would be for it to happen again.. and I've tried buying fresh spinach and going over it thoroughly before I eat it, but still...I manage to take a bite and then that's it - I just can't get over the memory of the beetle :/

marishka · Sep 21, 2006

Oh yech...and now with all the talk about E Coli being in that spinach lately, and those sick people, and the girl that died...makes you nervous to buy anything like that for awhile.

icklemiss21 · Sep 21, 2006

Originally Posted by maddensmom

Then to make matters worse, about a week ago, I opened a can of tomato soup. (I won't mention brand names) As I was pouring my soup into the bowl, I saw something fall in. I thought it was a piece of paper from the edges of the can, but upon inspection (taking it out of soup and rinsing soup off of it) I realized it was a piece of SKIN with FUR!!!! It was about the size of a dime. I DID throw up that time, luckily I hadn't eaten any of the soup. I figure it was a rat. Or a piece of one anyway...

Needless to say, I spend a lot more time picking through my foods before I eat them now!

I think I got some of the same batch of soup (well a few months ago) - I complained big time and they sent me $200 in gift coupons for their products

lilleah · Sep 21, 2006

Bleh!
Some of these stories are SICK!

Yuck...
I hate bugs, and knowing they are not just only in MY salad, makes me feel even grosser. I'm for sure picking through everything now.
SOUP!??? Gosh I would freak out if i seen that in my soup.

4crazycats · Sep 21, 2006

I havnt had any problem personally with any restraunt. But my cousin had a cooked lady bug on her Big Mac once. It was pretty nasty. She saw it right before she took a bite.

vampirecat · Sep 22, 2006

Ewww....this thread is disgusting

I would have no worries about complaining if i found ANY foreign object in my food, straight to the Manager and if he/she was not very sympathethic i would make sure the whole place heard me

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