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Grenade in a bag of potatoes: Strangest thing you've found in your food?

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    A worm in the middle of a potato. I didn't eat potatoes for ages afterwards esp if they were mashed up before I got to check them


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,039 ✭✭✭force eleven


    A ring in the middle of a currant cake. Happened twice, and always at this time of year....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    A worm in the middle of a potato. I didn't eat potatoes for ages afterwards esp if they were mashed up before I got to check them
    Extra protein, though! :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,460 ✭✭✭Barry Badrinath


    Bangers and mash!

    Amirite, wha'?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,687 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    A fleck of what looked like beef in a beef and tomato pot noodle.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,182 ✭✭✭SafeSurfer


    An inter continental ballistic missile in a bag of chlpsticks. Put me off crisps for weeks.

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    I found a burger in a Big Mac once.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    A ring in the middle of a currant cake. Happened twice, and always at this time of year....

    I read ''a ring finger'' :eek: I heard of someone finding one in a bottle of ketchup. They couldn't work out why the ketchup wasn't coming out.

    I found most of a cow's plastic ear tag in frozen food from Lidl.

    I love that word ''Conniption'', OP


  • Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 17,159 Mod ✭✭✭✭cherryghost


    Bangers and mash!

    Amirite, wha'?

    Was it just my family or at a certain time of the year the mash had concealed coins wrapped in foil? Can vaguely remember this memory but I used to hate it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,237 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    I see the disturbing weaponisation of ordinary foodstuffs proceeds apace:

    Armenian Grandmother Finds Browning M2 Barrel In Bundle Of Rhubarb


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,266 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    While eating a bag of Lidl nuts, I bit on a small shard of shiny metal.

    Was about to go back in and complain when I found a big hole in my back tooth where my filling was supposed to be...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,808 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    A potato in a box of grenades. Saved it for later. MASH.

    Not your ornery onager



  • Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    Self mashing potato device found.

    I found a big massive humongus lump of congealed speciak K flakes in my box of special K one time. It was like a rock of special K (not the drug).

    Gave it to Kellogs and they gave us some stuff to say sorry. I can't remember what they gave us.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,059 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    While eating a bag of Lidl nuts, I bit on a small shard of shiny metal.

    Was about to go back in and complain when I found a big hole in my back tooth where my filling was supposed to be...

    Exactly the same thing happened me with some toffee.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    Something edible in a Pot Noodle.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 710 ✭✭✭Tazio


    Esel wrote: »
    A potato in a box of grenades. Saved it for later. MASH.


    I got this joke. I'm old. :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 643 ✭✭✭scdublin


    Found some dead maggots in a pot of pasta from Lidl. There were more dead ones in the bag. Personally haven't eaten pasta from there ever since.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,060 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    Self mashing potato device found.

    I found a big massive humongus lump of congealed speciak K flakes in my box of special K one time. It was like a rock of special K (not the drug).

    Gave it to Kellogs and they gave us some stuff to say sorry. I can't remember what they gave us.

    I once found a big lump of special K in a bag of sugar


  • Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    I once found a big lump of special K in a bag of sugar

    The drug or the cereal. If it's the former you may have uncovered the supply chain.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    There was a mold issue with Capri Sun drinks but the mold looked like worms. They come with clear plastic bottoms now.I wonder what it was in the other cases..from their website:

    In some cases when people think they have found a "worm" inside a Capri Sun pouch it was actually mold. The mold takes the form of a straw, which can then be mistaken as a worm since it is long and thin. While this is not a common occurrence, it can potentially happen because the product is free of artificial preservatives.


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  • Posts: 26,920 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Right.

    Now I need to add grenades in potatoes to my list of pointless fears, alongside toilet snakes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,787 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Right.

    Now I need to add grenades in potatoes to my list of pointless fears, alongside toilet snakes.
    Toilet rats are far more likely in Ireland. But I suppose that would be a somewhat rational fear, because it could actually happen.


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 6,485 Mod ✭✭✭✭silvervixen84


    Found an earwig in my sandwich. I only found it because I opened the sandwich to pick out the giant hunks of tomato :o

    Brought it back to the shop and they gave me a big box of milk tray to say sorry.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,787 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Brought it back to the shop and they gave me a big box of milk tray to say sorry.
    Should have accused them of being sexist, just because you're a woman doesn't mean you're going to like Milk tray. Earwig samwidge, sexism, time to crack open the till and start counting out fifties boyo.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,016 ✭✭✭Four Phucs Ache


    Not in my food as such, but years ago bought a box of eggs and as you do, opened it to check them and there was a note in black marker written under the lid

    "Do not use, master carton copy"

    Let out a burst of laughter in Lane 7


  • Posts: 26,920 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    ScumLord wrote: »
    Toilet rats are far more likely in Ireland. But I suppose that would be a somewhat rational fear, because it could actually happen.

    F*ck you.

    :pac:


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 657 ✭✭✭Musketeer4


    That's gas! Like something would happen to Victor Meldrew.

    Actually come to think of it he has had some similar occurances.
    Go to 2 minutes in.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    Esel wrote: »
    A potato in a box of grenades. Saved it for later. MASH.

    Oddly enough the german stick grenade was nicknamed the potato masher because of its shape

    Seems a bit far to go for a pun though


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    Bought a sandwich once on a service station. Took a bite and chewed but something definitely didn't taste right. Had a look inside and it was riddled with mould. Cue spitting, wretching and mouth rinsing.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 57,077 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    I actually found a bit of chicken in my chicken curry got in my local Chinese.

    There's a first time for everything.


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