From venomous arachnids to human body parts, here are 11 shocking things found in people’s
favorite foods!
11.
Black Widow
Boston resident Jorge Fuertes purchased a bag of Anthony’s brand red seedless grapes
from a Whole Foods Market.
Later, when he and his twenty-year-old son took a lunch break, they saw something strange
in the bag.
According to Fuertes, the bag was full of spider webs and between the grapes they could
see a spider.
As they inspected the bag, at least two more spiders crawled out, both black, shiny, and
with the distinctive red hourglass.
Yes, their bag of grapes contained black widows.
These spiders, however, are rarely deadly.
Their neurotoxic venom is extremely painful, though, causing muscle cramps, vomiting, and
dizziness.
Of course, Fuertes reported his find.
Bags of Anthony’s brand grapes were pulled from the shelves of that store and the grocery
store chain immediately began inspecting all produce.
A spokesman for Whole Foods Market assured the public that they take every precaution
to inspect produce but that spiders were “part of the natural environment where grapes are
grown”.
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10.
Frozen Frog
When we open a bag of frozen veggies, we don’t expect to find a stowaway.
In 2010, Marty Hoffman opened a bag for her dog.
The Hoffman’s dog was on a special meat-and-vegetable diet to help with a skin condition.
When she dumped out the bag, she saw something frozen that she at first thought was a weird
looking asparagus.
However, on closer inspection, she discovered it was a frog!
The Hoffmans contacted the FDA, who didn’t respond as quickly as the family would have
liked.
I mean, who are you supposed to call when you find something weird in your food??They
then reported their find to a local newspaper columnist, who in turn contacted the grocery
store chain.
That brand name of frozen vegetable was immediately pulled from shelves and inspected.
No other frogs, though, were found and the whole incident was put down as a fluke.
Supposedly, the FDA eventually got around to inspecting the factories where the vegetables
were processed, but there’s no word on what they found.
Rumors spread that the family intended to sue or capitalize on the viral event.
However, the Hoffman family denied those rumors and say they still shop at the store where
they bought the frozen vegetables.
After all, what’s a tiny frozen frog going to do to you?
9.
A Condom
In the late ‘90s, a customer named William Smith ordered two Big Macs, fries, and a drink
in a mini-mall in Easton, Pennsylvania.
The first sandwich was fine but the second had a strange flavor.
Smith took off the bun to discover a condom in his sandwich.
What’s more, the condom was reported later to be, quote, “degraded” because the Big
Mac had been warmed in a microwave.
Smith showed the sandwich to the manager, who brought out seven male workers.
None of the workers owned up to putting the condom in Smith’s food, though they all
thought it was funny.
The manager gave him two coupons for free sandwiches.
Feeling ill later, he went to the hospital.
A police officer tried to confiscate the sandwich as evidence but the manager claimed she was
instructed by McDonald’s headquarters not to turn it over.
William Smith tried to sue the company but the lawsuit was later dismissed.
This wouldn’t be the last time a condom would be found in a McDonald’s meal.
In 2009, a 7-year-old girl found a condom in her French fries.
The police investigated it and deemed the condom was a “health risk”.
I think anyone with common sense could say that eating warmed up rubber clearly can’t
be good for you.
8.
A Mouse
Mice tend to turn up a lot in places they don’t need to be.
One such place would be a loaf of bread.
In 2009, Oxfordshire resident, Stephen Forse, took out a loaf of Hovis Best of Both to make
sandwiches for his children.
He noticed a strange dark patch covering the corner of four slices.
At first thinking it was a defect from the baking process, he took a closer look and
realized it was a mouse.
More horrifyingly, the mouse was missing a tail.
Upon further investigation, no one could account for the tail.
Whoops!!
Forse turned the loaf over to environmental health officers.
Friday Premier Foods, who make Hovis Best of Both, pled guilty for not properly inspecting
their food at all stages of production.
They were fined £5,500.
The Oxford Crown Court also ordered them to pay an additional £11,109.47 in costs.
7.
Chicken Head
According to ABC News, a woman in Virginia found a fried, intact chicken head in a box
of wings in 2008.
The woman claimed she was just about to eat the chicken head when her 8-year-old son screamed
for her to stop.
It should be noted that another version of the story says the woman noticed it herself
when she was dishing out the food to her family.
A third version of the story says it was chicken nuggets and not chicken wings.
So clearly, this story has taken on a life of its own, or maybe it has just happened
to more people than we know and all their stories get confused!
Anyhoo, the manager offered her two weeks of free meals, which she declined.
She also tried to sue McDonald’s for $100,000 but apparently was unsuccessful.
It looks like it’s harder to sue McDonald’s than you might think!
There are a few strange things about the story, however.
Some reports indicate the woman didn’t allow the manager to inspect the food but instead
went to television stations right away.
Also, there are multiple stages in the processing of the chicken where it should have been noticed
that a chicken’s head had snuck in with the wings.
In fact, the entire incident has the feel of an urban legend, especially since there
are multiple versions.
True or not, it’s always a good idea to look at something before you bite into it.
6.
Tongue-Eating Louse
One day in 2015, Zoe Butler of Nottingham opened a can of Princes tuna chunks for lunch.
Much to her surprise, she discovered a tiny round head with bulbous black eyes.
She took a picture of the critter and posted it to Twitter.
The Twitterverse exploded with people guessing at what it could be, with theories ranging
from tadpole to the head of a soft-shelled turtle.
It even earned it’s own hashtag: #tunagate.
The British Museum of Natural History eventually swooped in with an answer.
The creature was a Cymothoa exigua, or tongue-eating louse.
This parasitic isopod, which lives in the Gulf of California, enters a fish through
the gills.
In most species of fish, the louse attaches to the tongue and drains blood from its victim.
However, with the rose snapper, the louse devours the entire tongue and replaces the
organ with its own body.
Canned fish company Princes, however, state that the head actually belongs to a small
crab.
Are they really going to argue with the British Museum??
Since Princes has a stake in making sure people keep eating their tuna, it’s a little hard
to believe it was something so innocuous.
Butler refused any form of compensation, saying she just wanted to know what it was and to
make sure it didn’t happen to anyone else.
5.
Lizard’s Head
Robin Sandusky, a theatrical agent living in Manhattan, ordered a salad from Guy & Gallard
on West 40th Street and had the meal delivered to her Chelsea office.
This, obviously, was something she did on a regular basis.
But on that day in 2014, she got an extra surprise in her kale salad: a lizard’s head
and leg.
What’s a little bit more horrifying is that she found the lizard after taking a few bites
from the salad.
According to Sandusky, it was “like 15” bites.
So maybe she was practically finished by the time she noticed it.
Sandusky sent the salad back and was given a full refund.
However, she refuses to eat there again.
Guy & Gallard later released a statement saying they were looking into the incident but the
damage is already done
4.
A Live Scorpion
Earlier in 2017, a weatherman in Halifax named Nathan Coleman bought a bag of bananas from
Costco.
He also got a bonus of a free live scorpion.
No one noticed the arachnid until Coleman unloaded the groceries.
His 11-year-old daughter saw something squirming in the plastic bag.
Coleman, though, ignored his daughter.
Then, his wife went to put the bananas away and saw the scorpion.
Coleman placed another bag over the first and drove his creepy bundle to the Nova Scotia
Museum of Natural History.
Their response was to kill the creature and place it in alcohol.
According to Andrew Hebda, the museum’s zoologist, this wasn’t the first time a
scorpion arrived to the province in fruit.
He said everything from snakes to spiders come in annually in fruit shipments.
However, on a positive note, it means that fewer chemicals are being sprayed on crops.
Costco reportedly is looking into the matter.
Once again, check your produce before you take a bite!
3.
Pepsi Frog
Another frog where he really shouldn’t be.
Fred DeNegri of Ormond Beach, Florida decided to drink a Pepsi while grilling dinner for
himself and his wife.
However, the first sip he took told him that something was terribly wrong.
It tasted rank with a slimy, thick texture.
He shook out the contents and discovered a disgusting substance that resembled “pink
linguini” with “dark stuff”.
He sent the contents to be tested by the FDA, who said it was most likely a frog or toad,
that had disintegrated because of the acidic nature of the beverage.
Jaydee Hardee, a policy analyst at the Center for Food Safety in Washington, D.C., claimed
that processing plants have frequent problems with animals getting into the production facilities.
The FDA inspected the facility where the can was processed.
However, they did not find any problems at the site.
No one is sure how the frog came to be in the can.
2.
Severed Finger
In 2005, a woman named Anna Aayala claimed she found a severed finger in her cup of chili
from a Wendy’s in San Jose.
Subsequently, the chain lost over 21 million dollars in revenue over the resulting scandal.
Detectives later learned that it was all a scam.
There was really a finger in the chili.
Aayala’s husband, Jaime Plascencia, obtained the digit from a coworker who lost it in an
industrial accident.
Both Aayala and Plascencia pleaded guilty to conspiracy to file a false insurance claim
and attempted grand theft.
Aayla cried in court, claiming she had merely had a moment of bad judgment.
She and her husband were both sentenced to 12 years in prison.
However, Aayala was released after nine years but with a condition.
She was not allowed to ever go to a Wendy’s again.
1.
Serrated Knife
This time it is not an animal.
Somehow, some way, a 6-inch serrated knife was baked into a loaf of bread at a New York
City Subway.
When 27-year-old John Agnesini went to take another bite of his 12-inch cold-cut sub,
he found the knife between his teeth.
Luckily, it was the melted plastic handle and not the blade.
Agnesini claims the knife did not injure him.
However, about three hours later, he became violently ill and a doctor diagnosed him with
food poisoning.
It’s possible that contaminants from the handle of the knife seeped into his sandwich,
from which he had taken a few bites before reaching the knife.
Agnesini took Subway to court and received a settlement of $20,000.
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