Aspies For Freedom

My selection for today is from within a hamburger bun. On the outer part of a bun, was an unidentified object of grey matter. It was disgusting! It had the moldy fuzz on it, but the bun isn't rotting, just the tiny object. I pushed one end of it and the consistancy was like dung, only it's grey and tiny. IN MY HAMBUGER BUN! God.. Don't you just love unidentified objects in your food that make you wander to God if it's sanitary? I don't. LOL!

This still doesn't beat the time I was munching on uncooked pepperoni slices till I had the misfortune of biteing into one that tasted old and nasty. It was slight grey, as peperoni isn't supposed to be grey colored to start with. NICE! I imediatly spit it out, and checked the bag for others. There were some, but what I found disturbing was the stuff in them that I clearly wasn't aware of proir to my unfortunate consumtion. There was this grey and white fuzzy fur in every single piece. *gag*  -.- Did I swallow fur from a mouse or something? What the heck?! The world may never know. 'sigh' Feel free to share your stories.

I don't have any stories per se, but when I read this, it reminded me of that woman in California who made the false claim about the finger in the chili at Wendy's.

Tim

Oh I remember that one. Her finger thing was so stupid. For starters, they probably just heat up packeged food and put it in something to keep it hot. A finger wounding up in it is so highly unlikely. We didn't care. My dad, in fact, had some of their chili soon after her myth aired.

One time my mother and I went to lunch at a chain restaurant that is usually pretty good, but on this occasion, when my mother's sandwich arrived, the side of the roll facing away from her was turqoise with mold!  Fortunately I noticed it before she took a bite...

turquoise, that is

Exactly. Turquoise is a lovely color but I can't think of a single food that is naturally turquoise unless it has gone horribly bad!

Which reminds me: years ago an alternative-medicine practitioner recommended by my then-landlady advised me to eat blue food.  Well, blueberries and blue corn chips are naturally blue; any other blue food, as far as I can see, is either dyed or moldy!  Watch out for all the blues, turquoises and greens!

Hmmm, blue potato chips...yes, there are potatoes that are purplish-blue, aren't there?  OK, that makes 3 naturally blue foods...still a very limited diet!  

As for fungally infected foods, I still prefer to get my antibiotics from the pharmacy!  

My family has a habit of keeping food long after it expires.

Tim

I suppose pepper, spices, and tea bags would lose their flavour after a while and could get mildewed if they were damp. Normally, there wouldn't be a problem with them if they got a bit old and I don't believe there'd be anything unsafe about eating old sugar or salt but they might have gone lumpy and therefore harder to get out of the container.

One day I was eating a salad sandwich from this organic food place. Something told me to stop eating and just as well I did, because halfway through, there was a dead house fly. I couldn't eat any more because houseflies often land on dog and cat poos.

In scandinavian media there was a story about a family who had found a "penis" in the ketchup bottle, later it was clear that it really was a mushroom, the family's mistake.

I did forget about blue cheese, possibly because  it is not solid blue, but yes, the spots are blue, and blue cheese salad dressing is one of my favorites!

I also read about a law case once where a woman drank a bottle of ginger beer and found a very dead snail in it and then sued the makers of the soft drink. She also died within a year or two but I don't think it was because of the snail.

Blue cheese I hate so much. I will only eat that if the opportunity arrises that I need to do so. Egg plant chip dip, heck no way in the depth of haities will I eat that again. I like egg plants, but with the chip dip recipee.. blah. Can't remember what it was called. Yes, strangly it was kind of a light blue to purple color to. Not old either. Ick..

      Close call with the sandwitch though, right Couldbecousin? Hehehhh What were the people in the restaurant thinking? They could have really messed up the whole business, depending on who found out.

Yes, it is amazing that no one noticed!  Fortunately my family doesn't sue people over stuff like that.  I do remember the poor waitress was mortified.  It all worked out fine in the end, with a fresh new sandwich being brought to the table.

Speaking of unidentified food objects, does anyone else love chef Gordon Ramsay's TV series Kitchen Nightmares as much as I do?  You wouldn't believe how filthy some of these restaurants' kitchens are!  In one restaurant Ramsay ate an entree with pesto sauce that seemed a bit "separated," then later found the source---a plastic bucket half filled with very rancid pesto sauce---and shouted at the restaurant owner, "You're lucky I don't have a writ on you (a Brit term for lawsuit, perhaps?) for food poisoning!!"  I can't wait to see what he finds next!

Two things I might mention:

There's this Chinese buffet restaurant that I used to go to sometimes on my lunch break.  That is, until I was eating the hot-and-sour soup and found a small piece of metal embedded in a piece of tofu.  I told the waitress, who told the kitchen staff, and it turned out to have broken off a brush they clean dishes with.  That was the last time I ate there.

Also, a couple years ago, after a day of canoeing with some relatives, we went to a seafood place in the middle of nowhere in rural Florida.  Being the vegetarian, I got by on hush puppies, cole slaw, and cheese grits.*  Just as well, because as we walked past the open kitchen door on the way out, we saw huge mounds of congealed grease all over everything in the kitchen.

* For those of you outside the southeastern US... Hush puppies are these fried lumps of bread about an inch in diameter... nothing canine in nature whatsoever.  Cole slaw is a sort of cabbage salad.  Grits are a rough-textured hot cereal.  This stuff is typically eaten with fried fish, but not by vegetarians.