for many people in the western world we're spoiled for choice when it comes to food
on any given night you can order a meal online and have someone bring cuisine from italy mexico
thailand career brazil and pretty much anywhere else on earth right to your door you can eat
grapes that have been cultivated to taste like cotton candy you could try sushi pizza or steak
crusted and gold leaf whether you're having a thousand dollar hamburger or a one dollar pack of
ramen noodles you expect that what's in your food is actually food but that is not always the case
number 10. human fingering custard what are your thoughts on frozen custard tasty dessert
well that's what clarence star was thought when he bought a pint from cole's frozen custard shop in
2015. he took it home popped it open and bit down on something that he initially thought was candy
to quote stoaz directly he realized something was wrong and the hard bit he found in his custard was
not a hidden trade and then he remarked out loud god this ain't no nut it was not a nut it was the
finger of a man who injured himself one of the machines in the factory the incident apparently
happened very quickly and while workers were in the back helping the man who lost a finger
someone in front who hadn't heard what went down served up a new helping of custard
and gave it to stowers as an aside the story takes a weird twist at this point because of the
timeline brandon pfizer was the man who lost his finger and as we said this all happened quickly
so quickly in fact that doctors advised pfize that he could still salvage his finger in fact they had
a six-hour window to reattach it bustas refused to turn it over and said keeping it in his freezer
as he pondered a lawsuit two weeks later stazz relented and returned the finger but of course by
then it was useless and could not be saved he went on to file a lawsuit what a dick 9. cobra rice
no one wants to find an animal in the food they buy because typically you're not buying
live animals as food and if all you bought was rice you really didn't want to find any living
things in it at all and of all the things that you'd want to find in it the worst one would
have to be the sorts of animals that have the potential to kill you when you put your hand
idly in it to fish out some rice a woman in india narrowly escaped death when she reached into a
new bag of rice and brushed against something cool and smooth within taking a glance inside
she discovered a small snake and as one does she called the local snake helpline this is india and
snake helplines are apparently a thing a trapper came to the woman's house and discovered the snake
in the rice was actually a baby cobra cobras are obviously extremely deadly and if you think being
baby makes it slightly better think again baby snakes are actually far more dangerous because
they have the same amount of venom with the same potency as an adult but they lack the ability
to exert any control over envenomation which means their bites can be deadlier
8. mouse in mountain dew one of the most famous cases of something gross in your food dates back
to 2009 when ronald ball claimed he had cracked a can of mountain dew and found a mouse inside
the story may have just faded into the background along with dozens of similar stories if it wasn't
for the ensuing lawsuit and the defense that pepsi the maker of mountain dew chose to mount
pepsi wasn't taking ball's claim at face value and in their defense there have been many cases
of scammers creating hugs to try and get money from a big corporation in just the same way
so a company does need to do some due diligence in defending themselves but in this case their
defense just made things worse pepsi claimed that the man couldn't have found a mouse in his can
because if they had really lost him out the mountain dew would have dissolved it long before
he found it their experts said that within just 30 days everything except maybe the tail would
have been unrecognizable clearly the evidence presented at trial would have been magnificent and
terrifying to behold but alas never got that far pepsi opted to stop things before they got started
and settled the case out of court in 2012 perhaps after realizing they were just making things
worse for themselves amazingly someone actually decided to try this as an experiment and put an
already deceased mouse in a sealed container of mountain dew for 30 days far less time than the
can purchased by ball been sealed and you know what happens after the month was up the mouse had
almost completely dissolved like pepsi had said it would meaning ball had likely pulled a fast
one of them but make no mistake if a mouse did get into your mountain dew you'd still know something
was wrong from the floating hair mats to the pink color number 7. cell phone chips there's a fairly
common theme among most items that people discover in food that relates to size small things end up
in food things easily get overlooked that can sneak into packaging fairly easily this happens
almost every single time but not every time back in 2012 emma schweiger had a hankering for some
clancy's ripple potato chips and when she cracked into the bag she found chips and also a knockiest
cell phone the phone was one of those relics of a decade ago that would be considered a brick today
and it seems like it may have fallen off someone's belt clip and landed in the back schweiger found
it coated in a greasy layer of chipple the store where she bought it offered her a replacement bag
which she didn't accept as the incident somewhat put her off her appetite number six mac and
cheese nails some days you're just not feeling the urge to cook a meal and instead decide that it's
easier to just heat something up supermarkets around the world cater to this impulse with a
variety of quick frozen dinners you can toss in the microwave and enjoy in under five minutes
they're not fine dining but hey even bad mac and cheese is still pretty reasonable mac and cheese
and that's what rebecca shorten was thinking when she decided to have her tesco brand mac and cheese
for dinner midway through eating the entree rebecca bit down on something hard it turned
out to be an inch-long nail she picked through the macaroni and discovered a second nail in the pasta
and somewhat more disconcertingly was the fact that there were three nails in the macaroni but
she'd already eaten one shortened ended up in the local hospital until the nail had run its natural
course pesco meanwhile took the rest of the mac and cheese off the shelves 5. chicken magnets
fast food chicken is notorious for being home to some unusual items that range from bits that look
like brains to bits that look like rats even when they aren't but fresh chicken is something that
should hold no surprises you'd think it's just raw meat where and how is anything going to get
in there that shouldn't be well asked chris cedric who claims to have purchased some magnetic chicken
from woolworths according to sergi's account he bought a package of frozen chicken breast from
the store with a magnet stuck to the outside of the package so on the upside it wasn't in the
chicken except that it was still a magnet stuck to the chicken he claimed it stayed magnetic after
defrosting and it stuck to two other packages of chicken as well the store claimed to have no idea
why this would happen and there's no word if sedgi gave over his chicken to anyone to analyze but
before anyone gets too worried it's worth noting that in the months before this happened there were
a number of viral posts around the internet that ranged from instagram and tick tock and beyond
touting a completely baseless conspiracy about magnetic prions being injected into meat and
people using magnets to allegedly prove this those are all fringe bs or outright hoaxes
so it's possible seji was just on board with the conspiracy number four live frog animals showing
up in food is par for the course these days how many times have you read about someone finding a
rat in their fast food or a chicken head in their chicken nuggets it just happens then there's also
the poisonous spiders in your grapes you have to worry about but how often does someone get a new
pet out of the deal well that happened to becky garfinkel garfinkel had bought a spring mix salad
at a local target but upon opening the bag she discovered a small frog had taken up residence
somewhere during the packaging process slightly more oddly was the fact that the little guy was
still alive so instead of freaking out completely she decided to adopt it and became a family pet
that's not to say she didn't freak out a little of course she screamed and also apparently vomited
the frog had also had a rough go as well enduring a bath of salad dressing and some
quick thinking by garfinkle's husband who used tips from youtube videos to give it some cpr
and get it roused for its near-dead state the little guy is smaller than a dime and the family
named it lucky because well obviously the company that packaged the salad promised to look into the
issue to rent future frogs from finding their way into salads as for target they offered garth and
kill a five dollar gift card number three a pearl most the time when you discover an unwanted item
in your food it's just that unwanted sometimes it's dangerous and most times it's disgusting
so it's nice to see the very rare time when the thing that shows up is actually a bonus back in
2016 a woman in seattle was eating at an italian restaurant when she bit down on something hard
instead of one of the usual suspects a shell a bone some kind of kitchen garbage it turned out
to be a pearl and not just any pearl either when she had it appraised afterwards she discovered it
was a very rare quahog pearl valued at 600 rather than selling the pearl the woman decided to have
it made into a necklace number two toenails it's an objective fact that finding part of someone
else's body in your food is absolutely disgusting people flinch at the very thought of finding hair
in their pasta at a restaurant and for some reason it's these cast off bits of humanity that seem to
be the most disturbing maybe it's because while a whole finger would of course be nightmarish
it's clearly the result of a serious accident no one puts a finger in a meal on purpose outside
of horror movies but a fingernail that's just the result of someone being gross and a toenail
well that's just grossness on a whole other level as baffling as it seems toenails and fingernails
just won't stop showing up in food and no place in the world has a bigger issue with this than
aldi supermarket chains in the uk and australia toenails have shown up in pasta sauce and bread
while fingernails have shown up in pizza ice cream and sardines it's hard to say if every one of
these claims is true or if there's just a vast conspiracy of people faking nail clippings and
aldi products but even if it's a mix of both it means someone somewhere is clipping their nails in
a food prep facility which is just off-putting 1. meth a lot of people drink coffee as a pick-me-up
or even just have a pepsi if you need a little caffeine boost but things go to another level when
you leave caffeine behind and instead take a solid hit of methamphetamine in 2015 fred maldonado
claimed that after he drank most of his milkshake from in and out he discovered some capsules in the
bottom of his cup in a paper towel according to his account he drank half of it when he bought it
went home then finished the rest the next morning he went back to in and out to ask them what was up
and they offered him a free burger not satisfied with a beefy payoff maldonado had the bills tested
in a lab and they came back as positive and meth to be clear that's not on the menu maldonado filed
a lawsuit against in-n-out claiming that he fell ill after consuming the shake but in and
out didn't respond with sympathy and promised to defend themselves in court for his part maldonado
had the pills tested at an independent lab which confirmed the pills were meth but also noted that
there was no evidence of meth in the cup or on the napkin that he allegedly found the pills in if
that seems sketchy well yeah it does unfortunately this is where the story seems to run dry and
there's no follow-up on the internet regarding the case typically that means it was settled
out of court but not always so i really hope you found this video interesting if you did please do
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