This is the STRANGEST thing--ever happened to you?

LauraMax

LauraMax

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I know, I'm full of off the wall Qs today.

OK so I bought some beautiful blueberries & strawberries at a local farmers market last w/e. I proceeded to buy a container of Cool Whip at the grocery store--LOVE my Cool Whip w/berries.

Last night I threw together the berries, & when I opened the tub of Cool Whip it was HALF EATEN. WTH is up w/that? How on earth did a half eaten tub of Cool Whip end up in my grocer's frozen section? And you could tell it had been defrosted & re-frozen, it was all cakey & yucky. So bizarre! I tossed it & ate the berries alone, but it just wasn't the same.

Care to share your wacky food stories?
 
Ewwwwwww!!

Probably one of the weirdest food things was a time I bought a loaf of bread from our local small town store. There was a metal piece (maybe 6" long?) from the mixer or something in the middle of the loaf of bread!! It was like it had fallen off and then the bread had baked around it!! I just took it back and they gave me 2 loaves of bread. It was strange though!
 
YUK!!!

Years ago when I worked in a different office, one of my co-workers had ordered chicken wings for lunch. She only ate 1/2 of the serving and put the rest in the refrigerator for her lunch the next day. So the next day, she takes the container out of the refrigerator, pops it in the microwave and when she opened the container, someone had eaten her chicken wings and put the bones back inside of the box. How gross is that?
 
Cool Whip should have a plastic sealer around the lid. I'm assuming the one you bought had been unsealed. Stay away from anything that has no seal.

What a bummer. No matter how good berries are, when you have a Cool Whip craving, naked berries just won't cut it!

So, to recap, look for the plastic seal.

Shelbygirl
 
Re: chicken wing bones: Ahhh...gross!!! I coulda gone all year without hearing that one :7 I woulda tried my best to find out who did that and hurt them!!}(

Was the coolwhip container still sealed with the plastic strip around the outside?
If so, it probably was left on the supermarket shelf by someone not wanting to wait in line to check out or something and an employee just put it back in the freezer all warm, icky and melted.

I just can't wrap my mind around it being partly eaten. Just tooooo GROSS!x(



eta: Shelbygirl...we musta been posting at the same time... :)
 
DH has a friend who is a lobster fisherman. DH did him a favor so the guy slid us a couple of lobsters as a thank you. We were psyched and I cooked them up that night. But when we broke them open to eat they were....I don't know, fetal or something, like they hadn't finished molting, or whatever you call it. The flesh was half firm, have loose and just sort of oozed onto the plates.

I haven't eaten lobster since.

Sparrow

"The winds of grace are always blowing but it's you who must raise your sail." - Sri Ramakrishna
 
SO and I were about to tuck into some na-cho heavenliness. He broke open a new jar of slightly upper-crust salsa and there was this huge thing in it. Raw chicken? Bizzarely unprocessed pepper? The texture was very odd.

We stayed away from that particular brand of salsa for a while.
 
I cannot think of any of my own, but some of these are beyond gross! :eek: Glad I have already finished my lunch!

Mary
 
Well, I'm glad I posted this, these stories are hilarious!

I actually did notice the plastic seal was missing and, to make this story slightly more humorous, I was wracking my brain trying to figure out whether I'd "sleep-eaten" it or something stupid like that. But I'd only had it in the fridge for a day & as much as I tried I just could not remember having eaten any. So when I opened it & saw the "defrosted/refrosted" look I realized I was not going insane.

At least not over Cool Whip. Perhaps for other reasons. :+

Shelley, please share where I can purchase real whipped cream. I would most definitely prefer it but I'll be darned if I'm making it myself! ;-)
 
I made up this stew in a crock pot. Everyone was eating eat and loving it. My wife said I must have paid a fortune for the meat because it was so tender and fat free.

Then I had to tell them they were eating a moose.

I did the same thing with lasagne a year before. They all wanted to know what was in the sauce. I said deer.

Knowing me you'd think they'd ask first.
 
Gross! Moose? Deer? Gross!! Sorry Dave, just couldn't go there...as it is, I force chicken breast and fish down my throat, the occasional turkey breast, but detest red meat. Every once in awhile a steak sounds good, but then I go to eat it and I picture those gentle creatures in the pasture chewing their cuds and cannot.:)

The Cool Whip story is sick. Laura, I buy the stuff in the pressurized cans, its yummy and fun to use.:) Its good on berries, coffee, and all sorts of other things.


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My grossest story is probably ice cream. I bought my favorite flavor, and when I opened it, it had been previously thawed out and then refrozen so it was yukky. Not gross, just yukky.
 
We got Chinese takeout one night, and I had ordered my normal --steamed shrimp with broccoli-no sauce. DH had already dug into his sweet and sour chicken and I was trimming the broccoli in mine (I hate the stems), and I found a dead ROACH. Needless to say, we don't go to that restaurant any more. If I hadn't have done my quirky broccoli trimming, I may have just found it half way through eating.... Blech!!
 
Stephanie, OMG :eek: ;(

I bought a jar of pasta sauce at the grocery store -- a brand from a famous Italian restaurant in New York. When I went to pour the sauce from the jar there was a big hunk of something in there that wouldn't come out. I fished it out with a fork and it was a HUGE piece of cardboard.

Another time I grabbed a donut from the self-serve case at the grocery store and put it in a bakery bag. When I stuck my hand in the bag to get the donut, I felt something sticky. There was a wad of gum in the bottom of the bag. Clearly someone had disposed of their gum in the bag and put it back on the shelf. It really grossed me out.
 
>We got Chinese takeout one night, and I had ordered my normal
>--steamed shrimp with broccoli-no sauce. DH had already dug
>into his sweet and sour chicken and I was trimming the
>broccoli in mine (I hate the stems), and I found a dead ROACH.
>Needless to say, we don't go to that restaurant any more. If I
>hadn't have done my quirky broccoli trimming, I may have just
>found it half way through eating.... Blech!!
>
>
>

OMG that is like my worst nightmare! I would not have been able to eat for a week after that one! I'm so sorry that happened to you! Did your DH spit out the food that was in his mouth when he saw that!? :eek: :eek: :eek:
 
>Gross! Moose? Deer? Gross!! Sorry Dave, just couldn't go
>there...as it is, I force chicken breast and fish down my
>throat, the occasional turkey breast, but detest red meat.
>Every once in awhile a steak sounds good, but then I go to eat
>it and I picture those gentle creatures in the pasture chewing
>their cuds and cannot.:)

Gentle creatures in the pasture? You've obviously never been chased by a herd of cows. I was a bit afraid of cows as a kid, especially this huge Brahma bull we had named Humpy. I get the shivers just thinking about him--he was over 6 feet tall at the hump.

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I don't know about anyone else, but this thread is making me more resolved to not eat out, and to eat only whole foods (which I probably will stick to for a day or two, LOL!).

I've never had as gross an experience with food as some of you (though the other day, I noticed a black human hair---head, thankfully--in an unopened plastic bag of cat toys that I bought from Walmart).

The closest was in high school, when we got vending machines (mid-1970s). One sold tacos and burritos and stuff like that. I bought a taco, and when I bit into it, there was a piece of gristle (I think?) in it. Very disgusting.
 
Funny you should mention this today:

Just this morning I put a 12-piece template of my favorite Dentyne Fire cinnamon gum in my purse; I'd bought it over the weekend but hadn't taken it out of its little cardboard sleeve yet.

Got to the office, pulled the template out, and there were two pieces missing. Some gomer had helped him/herself to two pieces (from different parts of the template, yet!), slid it back into the sleeve and put the pack back on the rack in the convenience store.

If I may:

*eeuw*

A-Jock
 
>We got Chinese takeout one night, and I had ordered my normal
>--steamed shrimp with broccoli-no sauce. DH had already dug
>into his sweet and sour chicken and I was trimming the
>broccoli in mine (I hate the stems), and I found a dead ROACH.
>Needless to say, we don't go to that restaurant any more. If I
>hadn't have done my quirky broccoli trimming, I may have just
>found it half way through eating.... Blech!!
>
>
>
I had a dead cockroach in my Chinese takeout, too!!! I think it was stir-fried along with the other food (as opposed to finding its way in after-the-fact), because it had the same stir-fried look and blended right in with my meal. Gross. Gross. Gross. Hope I didn't eat another one before I noticed that one.
 
Ok, here is my story. We got take out from a pizza restaurant, a very popular chain around here.. Italian food with bread on the side. I noticed the bread had slimy pink stuff all over it. Upon further inspection, I discovered that it was raw chicken breast! Not only gross, but dangerous! One of the food handlers must have put the bread on top of the area where they were cutting up raw chicken. Ugghhhh!!! They obviously were not the cleanest or organized of places. Needless to say, we haven't ordered from there since then!


~~~Nancy J.~~~
 
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