▲British company Premier Foods was fined nearly £17,000 (around US$22,000) after a father found a baked mouse in a loaf of bread as he was making sandwiches for his children.

▲An American woman was digging into her supermarket salad when she found a three-inch lizard without its tail.

▲A woman received US$100,000 in compensation after finding a whole deep fried chicken head inside her box of McDonald's nuggets.

▲A live scorpion made it all the way from Costa Rica to the UK in a sealed packet of bananas. The animal was then taken to a zoo in Cornwall.

▲A 12-year-old British girl was about to tuck into her bag of boiled rice when she found maggots nestled there. The worst part is that her family had already eaten three packs of that same rice.

▲A woman was having dinner at a restaurant in Issaquah, Washington, USA, when she spotted a small, hard object. It turned out to be a rare purple Quahog pearl worth US$600!

▲In 2015, a woman got the scare of her life when she found a poisonous black widow spider crawling out of a bag of grapes she had purchased at Walmart.

▲In 2005, a Californian woman claimed she found a severed finger in her cup of Wendy’s chili. Turns out the woman's husband had purposefully planted the finger (it wasn't his) there so he could scam the restaurant chain!

▲In 2009, a seven-year-old girl from Switzerland allegedly found a condom in her McDonald's french fries.

▲In 2016, a McDonald's customer from Virginia, USA, was shocked to find a $20 bill in his burger. He kept it!

▲A man in New York City was tucking into his Subway sandwich when he bit into a serrated knife! Luckily, he bit the melted handle and not the blade.

▲A Texas woman was horrified to find she had an extra tooth in her mouth after biting into a Milky Way candy bar, and it wasn't hers... Guess candy really is bad for the teeth.

▲A woman in Utah, USA, opened a can of green beans to find what she thought was a burnt bean, but which turned out to be an actual snake's head.

▲A woman took Burger King to the Supreme Court after biting into a needle tip that was nestled in her breakfast sandwich. She sued the New York chain for US$11 million.

▲In 2011, a woman ordered a BLT and fries at a Cracker Barrel in Texas, only to find her sandwich soaked in blood. Apparently, the chef had cut himself while preparing it.

▲In 1986, a mother was feeding her infant baby food when she noticed him spitting it out and bleeding from his mouth because of a shard of glass that was in the jar.

▲A Costco customer decided to grab a hot dog at the supermarket's snack bar, and everything was going according to plan—until she bit into a 9 mm bullet.

▲In 2008, an investigation confirmed that frozen fecal matter was found in a chocolate gelato at a pub in Sydney, Australia. Two customers who ate it became seriously ill afterwards.

▲A man in New York was munching on his Pizza Hut when he discovered a blood-stained bandage baked right into the pizza's crust.

▲At a TGI Fridays restaurant in New York back in 2009, a customer found a partially decomposed snake head hiding among a side dish.

▲A woman in Northern Ireland discovered that a glove had been partially baked into her loaf of bread when it tickled the inside of her mouth!

▲In 2009, a German tourist was left horrified after he took a bite of his steak at a New York city restaurant and wound up with a bloody tampon in his mouth.

▲In 2013, a six-year-old was hospitalized after he ate a Walmart doughnut that contained tiny pieces of metal in it.

▲In 2008, an English woman was shocked to find three two-inch nails swimming in her store-bought package of mac and cheese. She was even more disturbed after she realized she had swallowed some of it!

▲Back in 2011, a woman from Birmingham, UK, was left truly disgusted after finding a live worm writhing around in a slice of Weight Watchers cake she was eating.

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Sometimes people bite off more than they can chew, and that was especially true for a British lady who found a human tooth in her store-bought block of cheese.

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Jensen Karp, a comedian and writer in Los Angeles, wanted to enjoy a bowl of Cinnamon Toast Crunch when he found an unexpected addition: shrimp tails. On further inspection he also found some yarn, and he tweeted his interaction with the cereal company General Mills, who tried to gaslight him into thinking the shrimp tails weren't shrimp tails. The story was weird enough before the New York Times revealed that Jensen Karp is married to Danielle Fishel Karp, the actress who played Topanga in 'Boy Meets World.'

▲An woman who was eight months pregnant was served a latte at McDonald's in Alberta, Canada, that contained cleaning fluid mixed with the milk.

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A McDonald's customer in Canada drank a whole cup of coffee before finding a dead mouse at the bottom of it.

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When people go to restaurants or supermarkets, they expect to get exactly, and only, what they paid for: regular, edible food. But unfortunately that doesn't always happen.

We're certainly living in strange times, and it appears we have to be prepared to find a sprinkle of someone's blood in our prepackaged sandwiches or lizards in our salad containers. Click through this gallery to find out about some other horribly disgusting things people have found in their food.

Shocking things people have found in their food

How can this even happen?

04/11/24 por StarsInsider

LIFESTYLE Weird food

When people go to restaurants or supermarkets, they expect to get exactly, and only, what they paid for: regular, edible food. But unfortunately that doesn't always happen.