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If You Notice This In Your Food, Throw It Away Immediately! · Be Amazed

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[SPEAKER_00]: Imagine sinking your teeth into your favorite meal and feeling something crunch that was never meant to be there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A whole human tooth buried in your Chinese takeaway.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A freshly severed finger scooped up in your ice cream, a live deadly spider unfurling its legs and a bunch of bananas.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It sounds like a horror film, but every single one of these stories actually happened.
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[SPEAKER_00]: From Kentucky fried towels and bullet stuffed hot dogs to sewing needles baked into a fast food breakfast and things with far too many legs crawling out of a sealed can, we're about to dig into the most stomach-churning discoveries people have ever made in their own food.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And they all carry the exact same warning.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you ever notice any of this on your plate, throw it away immediately.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, let's dig in, starting at the dinner table with a simple takeaway that turned into an absolute nightmare.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because after a long exhausting day, few things beat ordering in, until you find out what's been hiding in your food.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Little did she know, however, that after just a few mouthful she'd be spitting out a tooth, and spoiler alert, it wasn't her own.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yep, as completely unbelievable as it sounds, Stephanie found a genuine, whole human tooth amongst her food.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And while I'm sure we can all agree that this was very clearly a human tooth, the restaurant denied any negligence, and instead a short Stephanie that it was perhaps part of the onion.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Ugh, show of hands, please, for anyone who thinks a whole human tooth could ever pass for a freaking onion.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Regardless of the blatant denial, the secret ingredient was tested, and would you believe it?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Proven to be a human tooth.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Fortunately, the restaurant was duly investigated and authorities looked into how exactly a tooth-made its way out of someone's mouth and into Stephanie's.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The outcome, however, remains a chilling mystery with no publicly reported solution.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Makes you wonder, was the meat human too?
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[SPEAKER_00]: If a stranger's tooth wasn't enough to ruin your appetite, our next unlucky customer found something even harder to swallow, lurking in a frozen treat.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Stats show the USA produces around 6.4 billion pounds of frozen dessert per year, and while as a nation, it seems we can't keep our fingers off these delicious treats.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Certain people can't keep their fingers out of them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: picture this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The year is 2005, and North Carolina resident, Clarence Stowers, stops by a cold frozen custard drive through.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As he returns home and tucks into his frozen custard, he notices a lump in it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: However, initially assuming it to be candy, he continues the feast.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Confused and unable to put his finger on the candy's flavor or texture, he spits it out and investigates.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't long before Shriek escaped his body as he discovered what appeared to be a freshly severed human finger in his dessert.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But it wasn't just Clarence having a tough day.
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[SPEAKER_00]: How about the guy who the finger belonged to?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, that was 23-year-old Cole's employee, Brandon Fiser.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As he tried to catch a falling bucket of custard, his hand got caught in the machine that beats the custard mix, where his index finger was swiftly trimmed at the first knuckle.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Amidst the chaos, Clarence rolled up at the drive-through window, where an unsuspecting employee served up a fresh scoop of human flesh.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Reports claim that Clarence took legal action against the frozen dessert joint and kept Brandon's finger in his freezer as legal evidence.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The outcome remains unknown, though, I sincerely hope he eventually returned Brandon's finger.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Man, this story gives a whole new meaning to the phrase, don't bite the hand that feeds you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, however, whimsical Pixar's Ratatooie might seem, I think we can all agree that finding a red in the kitchen is never a pleasant encounter, something this next guy knows all too well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was 2010 and the man who remains anonymous was working as a cook in a kitchen, opening up an industrial-sized can of baked beans he soon found himself exhuming the body of a dead red.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There it lay, stewing in the tomato sauce in its entirety.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'd need some therapy after discovering that, but how on earth did the rat end up there?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, most likely it either climbed or fell into the can or cooking vet at the factory before getting trapped alive in its tomb of beans.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Either that or Skinner from Ratatoo, finally got his revenge on Remi, not particularly family-friendly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Jokes aside, although the manufacturer of the limited edition rat-flavor beans remained anonymous, other big baked beans brands such as Hines came forward to claim their own innocence.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But unfortunately, by their very nature, food factories can commonly attract numerous pests, such as rats, mice, cockroaches, and flies, and with rats evidently being present in this factory, who knows what horrors might have contaminated other cans of beans such as fur, or even urine, and droppings.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just when you thought beans on toast couldn't be any more horrifying.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now if you're anything like me, then your appetite has certainly been curved after hearing that last story.
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[SPEAKER_00]: However, I'm afraid the retails only continue.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Back in 2023, a customer at Australian grocery chain, Cole's quite literally got more than he bargained for when he cracked open a can of the store's own branchic piece and found something truly disturbing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It could only be described as some kind of
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[SPEAKER_00]: extra protein and bubonic plague.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When question, Coles expressed their concern, putting it on the record that its suppliers apparently take great care when processing products.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's totally evident.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Worst yet, in return for being subjected to the trauma of a fetal rat in his chickpeas, the customer received no tokens of goodwill, but merely an apology.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But a miniature rat is small fry and compares into this next gruesome tail.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Posted to reddit one unlucky chip muncher popped open a bag of hairs brand potato chips and discovered something rather unsavory to say the least.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Lying among her chips all dusted up in seasoning was a very very very very dead mouse.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There is simply no limit to the way I would scream and cry if I found this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And yet despite this trauma-inducing discovery, she was allegedly told by the manufacturer that she was overreacting and that it was merely a burnt chip.
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[SPEAKER_00]: burn chip, overracting, unbelievable.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, given my indulgent potato chip habit, seeing this could actually be great for my diet, maybe not so great for the mouse though.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Rodents in your cans and crisps are grim enough, but at least you can usually spot them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This next contamination was baked right inside a child's meal, hiding in plain sight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In 2020, British mom, Laura Arver bought her 6-year-old daughter some chicken McNuggets.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It seemed to be a happy meal.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That was until she began choking.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As Laura induced vomiting in her daughter, she was shocked to see specs of blue in what came out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It soon became apparent that, alarmingly, a blue face mask had been baked into the nugget.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When Laura pulled the nugget apart, she found the crumpled blue fabric of a disposable face mask baked right into the middle of the meat.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Talk about a sign of the times, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: After returning to the restaurant, Laura claimed she didn't even receive an apology, but she was more concerned about whether they were going to continue serving there clearly contaminated stock.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Shockingly, they did.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But hey, it was 2020.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was probably a fun COVID edition of their Happy Meal.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The origin of this mask nugget remains a mystery, though it's likely to have fallen off one of the factory workers during the meat grinding or nugget cutting process.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, riddle me this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A woman has a bullet in her stomach, but no wound.
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[SPEAKER_00]: How?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, it's simple, really?
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[SPEAKER_00]: She swallowed it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The question is, though, how and why would a person swallow a bullet?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Way back in 2004, an Irvine woman Olivia chains was feeling a little hungry, so stopped off at her local Costco to grab a bite to eat.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As she got to munching on her seemingly delicious hot dog, she soon encountered something very hard.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Alarm to Livia inspected her hot dog and to her bewilderment, discovered an actual bullet inside of the sausage meat.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Somehow, in a puzzling turn of events, two nine millimeter round bullet tips found their way into a hot dog sausage, and worse of all, Olivia unknowingly swallowed one of them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, granted a bullet with its cartridge would be a seriously hard pill to swallow, but even with just the tips Olivia suffered severe abdominal pains as a result, but rather than surgical removal of the bullet doctors insisted that it was best left to, naturally exit the body if you will.
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[SPEAKER_00]: bizarrely while the store's entire stock of winters was thoroughly investigated for contaminants, nothing else was found.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe Olivia was the winner of some weird prize competition for finding this special bullet contaminated hot dog.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, bullets might not be the best prize, but a phone wouldn't be too bad, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well back in 2009, Wisconsin Local, Emma Schweiger was completely mystified when she popped open a packet of potato chips and found a phone.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Of course by 2009 standards finding a Nokia brick wasn't mean worthy like it is today, but probably felt more like a jackpot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The mobile was found in a pack of all these Clancy's branch-ups, though, as to how it got there remains a mystery.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And with the phone completely broken, there was no way of tracing it back to its owner.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure if this had been found by the bullet-hot dog woman, she would have probably accidentally swallowed it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Speaking of eating bricks and not of the Nokia variety, did you know that you could actually be consuming bricks without even knowing, allow me to explain.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You see, among less reputable retailers around the world, there's a long-standing history of spice adulteration.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Dating back thousands of years, whereby spices are bulked up with foreign ingredients to reduce cost.
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[SPEAKER_00]: For example, garlic powder is occasionally cut with white pepper.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Black pepper has been found cut with papaya seeds.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Turmeric has been found containing dried chalk.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And one common adulterin in paprika is none other than brick dust.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's difficult to accurately state just how prevalent this is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But a 2016 study that examined multiple common paprika powders on a spectroscopic level, also known as identifying compounds based on how light passes through the powder, found that they tested positive for relatively high concentrations of brick dust.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The highest amount being 14% of the overall mixture, which isn't sane.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This kind of thing is most common in super cheap brands you don't typically see in reputable supermarkets, and while this might not cause you harm, it's still absolutely not what you're paying for.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And for people with severe allergies, hidden fraudulent ingredients like this can indeed pose serious risks.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So beware that paprika you're seasoning your food with may be better suited for building a house.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In 2015, British mom Zoe Butler found extraterrestrial life inside her can of tuna, or so it seemed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As she peeled open the can of two-eyed, limeless, squidgey creature gopped back at her.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Stewart Hein from London's Natural History Museum, identified the creature as a young Simothoa, Exigua, not an alien, but a tongue-eating parasite.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This creature enters fish through the gills and savers the blood vessels in its tongue, causing it to fall off.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The Simatoa attaches itself to the remaining stub and becomes the fish's new tongue, feeding on its blood and mouth mucus.
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[SPEAKER_00]: While it's possible that this little guy had attached himself to a tuna fish's tongue, how he'd make it into the can in one piece to find explanation.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They think the creature may not be a tongue-louse, but instead a megalopa, a small breed of crab that tuna prey on.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The company suggests its legs were likely chopped off during the process leaving the bug-eyed body behind.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Whatever the reason for its presence, I'll be skipping Tuna salad for a little while.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And speaking of eating the unthinkable, is the most metal eaten by a person over the course of their lifetime more or less than 10,000 pounds.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The answer is more.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Michelle Loutito consumed an estimated 18,000 pounds of metal over the course of his life.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now back to the episode.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you ask me, there's nothing quite as refreshing as some chilled coconut water on a hot summer's day.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That said, however, after hearing our next victim's story, I'm not too sure I'll be in the mood for any time soon.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In 2017, a New York mother Barbara Klein cracked open a bottle of Vita Coco coconut water, but after just one gulp immediately knew something was seriously wrong.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In her own words, she swallowed a chunk of something, describing it as being thick, syrupy, and disgusting.
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[SPEAKER_00]: really having a hard time continuing to read here, folks?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Ahem.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Certain that something sinister was a foot, Barbara Pop the Hood only to be confronted by a huge gloopy blob of mold, or as she put it, an octopus-looking thing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I can't imagine there are many things more terrifying to find in your drink than this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And well, it's hardly surprising that Barbara immediately began to vomit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As a matter of fact, Barbara claims she is definitely allergic to mold and as a result reacted with extreme puking, diarrhea, and even asthma attacks.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That coconut water doesn't seem quite so refreshing anymore now, does it?
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[SPEAKER_00]: But despite Barbara's apparent ailments, a spokesperson for Vita Coco was quoted as saying that while the company also believes the object is, in fact, mold, it highly doubts that it would pose a health risk.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, tell me, you're trying to avoid being sued without telling me you're trying to avoid being sued.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They also insist the customers are most likely at fault and improperly stored their product, something Barbara strongly denied.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it turns out this is far from being the first time that mold has been found in one of Vita Koko's products.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Countless other unhappy customers have taken to the web to expose similar gloopy blobs of mold, suggesting there is something at fault with the manufacturing of this product.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I have to admit, hearing Barbara's story has left me thinking twice about whether I want to risk drinking Vita Koko again.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Then again, maybe I should, then if I find mold, I could sue them for every penny possible.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Come on, pop a want some new Roblox cans.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's swap that dodgy coconut water for something sitting right now in your kitchen cupboard, a food so ordinary you'd never think twice about it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But the humble potato has a genuinely dark side, from chips, fries, and mash to even generating electricity, there ain't much of a potato can't do, which is exactly why you should be a little worried.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Pot-no-nomica phobia isn't just a tongue twister, it's the fear of potatoes, and I know I know scoff all you will, but it turns out potatoes can be pretty deadly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yep, if you ever come across a potato with green spots on it, then it's probably best to toss it in the trash.
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[SPEAKER_00]: These green potatoes likely contain a poisonous chemical known as SELANI, and while death by potato is more likely to happen if someone throws one at your head, these little suckers are capable of other damage, from inducing nausea, vomiting, and headaches to a lovely case of diarrhea, but why?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, it's mainly to do with sun exposure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When exposed to sunlight, potatoes produce chlorophyll, a pigment which turns them green.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And while this itself is completely harmless, it can also signal the presence of solinine.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Being overexposed to sunlight will only increase this, so proper storage is recommended, such as a cool, dark place.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Sources suggest that physical damage as well as notably high or low temperatures can stimulate solenoid production too.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The solenoid levels are typically highest in the peel, but while peeling them can significantly reduce solenoid content, study suggests that much of the toxicity remains in the flesh, meaning a peeled potato may still cause illness, even when cooked.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All this toxicity is purposeful, though, as it protects the potato from insects and bacteria.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I'm no farmer, but maybe we could just put some sunscreen on them or something?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, if home-cooked veg can turn on you, spare a thought for what happens when you hand the cooking over to someone else entirely.
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[SPEAKER_00]: like the world's biggest fast food chain.
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[SPEAKER_00]: From Golden Crispy McNuggets to mouthwatering Big Macs, McDonalds has been a fast food favorite since around the 50s, but I'm not sure we'd feel the same if more of us knew just exactly what goes on behind the counter.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Take for example, a post-shared on X back in 2017 by a now-X McDonald's employee.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It showed the rotten drip tray from a McDonald's ice cream machine in a Louisiana restaurant.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Having gone viral for this repulsive image, McDonald's promptly responded with a statement claiming that it is, quote, committed to running great restaurants and that this equipment doesn't come into contact with any food and is required to undergo regular cleaning.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, to find regular, as in, like, once every 12 years?
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[SPEAKER_00]: After all, this isn't the first time a filthy McDonald's ice cream machine has been exposed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hmm, I think I may figure out why the ice cream machine is always broken.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Worst of all though, the mold picture posting employees expose on McDonald's resulted in him being fired.
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[SPEAKER_00]: With years of rotten milk seemingly caked on, it's pretty jarring to think that this cesspit of bacteria could be lurking in the shadows of your local McDonald's without you even knowing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And worse yet, what kind of pests it might even attract?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Allow me to elaborate.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In 2022, one unlucky diner, Georgia pool from Birmingham in the UK was tucking into her burger when she was greeted by a fly crawling on the bun.
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[SPEAKER_00]: With alarm bells now ringing, Georgia inspected the burger in, to her shock, discovered something truly sickening, and what she found was the stuff of nightmares.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Brewing inside her burger were countless maggot eggs, presumably freshly laid by the suspect fly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just imagine if Georgia hadn't inspected the burger and consumed the eggs.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She could have suffered from bacterial poisoning, or depending on exactly what laid the eggs, perhaps even my ISS, whereby maggots burrow into human tissue.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Which, yes, is as terrifying as it sounds, and is certainly something you should not search for on Google Images.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In response to this McMagget meal, a McDonald's spokesperson assured that food safety and quality control is of utmost importance to the franchise.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Though having witnessed what we have so far, I'm not too convinced.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, this very same thing also happened to an Australian man in 2018. hilariously what was clearly a cluster of maggot eggs, he was assured by the store manager was actually just extra sesame seeds or a smaller onion.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And to that I say, why doesn't the manager themselves take a nibble on that extra onion to prove it?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Perhaps it was the same manager caught in another Australian restaurant trying a filthy soggy mop head right under the fry heater.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Needless to say, God knows what kind of gruesome dirt and bacteria dripped off onto the fries below, which were being served to customers.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I really have to say, I'm not loving it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now I don't mean to reinforce the negative stereotype regarding McDonald's employee intelligence, but, well, need I say more?
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[SPEAKER_00]: When it comes to fast food, I'm afraid it isn't just McDonald's with dirty hands, nope, the Burger King himself too.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And arguably even worse if this next terrifying tale is anything to go by.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Way back in 2001, Bronx woman Angelina Cruz chomped into her Burger King breakfast sandwich and suddenly felt something extremely sharp, pierced her cheek on the inside.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What was it?
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[SPEAKER_00]: You ask?
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[SPEAKER_00]: A piece of glass or plastic, perhaps?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Nope.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A needle.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As in a literal needle from a syringe inside Angelina sandwich.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Obviously this left her with extreme concerns of having contracted some potentially deadly disease such as HIV.
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[SPEAKER_00]: From the publicized reports Angelina's outcome remains unknown, as well as how the needle ended up on her sandwich and where it was from.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Though, rightfully, she sought to sue the chain for $11 million.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, that's a big wiper.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A similar yet more extreme case took place in Honolulu, Hawaii, with a more decisive outcome in 2015.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The fellow in that instance actually encountered multiple needles in his Burger King food, one of which pierced his tongue while another lodged itself in his small intestine.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This shocking surprise netted him a $50,000 settlement from the King, which honestly seems a little low, but let me know what you think in the comments if the platform allows it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: While there's arguably nothing more traumatizing that shopping into a potentially life-threatening biohazard in your B.K., I still wouldn't feel great about what one unlucky customer found either.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What exactly was it?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I'm not entirely sure, though when reported it was described as being filthy cords, hair, and dirty cardboard baked into the bread bun.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Cords from what?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hair from where?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I dread to imagine.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not realizing the monstrosity that lurked until having had a bite already, the unlucky recipient of this at a Swiss Burger King immediately began vomiting, as most would.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So much so, in fact, later that day, he visited the hospital due to severe stomach cramps and gastrointestinal symptoms.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He recovered without any permanent issues, but it's certainly unsettling to think that this actually got served, showing a complete lack of quality control.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So Burger King customers don't say I didn't warn you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thankfully, not every unwelcome guest in your groceries is out to hurt you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Some are just along for the ride.
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[SPEAKER_00]: While you can expect excellent nutrition from a portion of broccoli, you typically don't expect to be greeted by an army of wriggling caterpillars.
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[SPEAKER_00]: However, back in 2020, London man Sam Darliston picked up some broccoli from his local Tesco store.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When preparing the broccoli back home, he noticed he had company.
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[SPEAKER_00]: With a caterpillar clan wriggling in Sam's veggies, most would be horrified but not Sam.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, being the 2020 lockdown Sam had quite a bit of time on his hands, and so decided that he would embrace fatherhood and raise his yon.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Having kept seven of the caterpillars Sam had his own little snow-white story and bequeathed each one with a name.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Sedrick, crock, carlos, genine, slimmeric, brock, and alley.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Over the following months Sam doded and nurtured his caterpillar clan in a big leafy container, providing them with the life of luxury during their metamorphosis.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They soon took the form of beautiful butterflies, which was the bitter sweet part, Sam had to let his babies spread their wings and be free.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I remember doing the same with my son, unfortunately, he proved unable to fly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Anyways, finding caterpillars in your broccoli is one thing, but just imagine if one of these fellas bumbled their way into your bag of cheetos.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Take the Oakworm Moth, with its orange furry exterior, it looks scarily close to being a cheeto.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, if you ever notice your cheesy corn snack wiggling, be warned, these things exist.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Fortunately, such an incident is yet to happen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But when it does, don't say I didn't warn you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you ask me, eating a salad is always a horrifying experience.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Nutrition, vitamins, or the thoughts sickens me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And just when you thought salad couldn't get any more frightening, some unlucky leafmuncher found an extremely unwanted ingredient lurking in theirs.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When Melissa Ryan Scally gave her young daughter a pre-made salad box from the grocery store legal, her kid was disgusted.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And sure, most kids are bound to turn their nose up at a salad, but Melissa's daughter had found something way more disgusting than a cucumber.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As she tucked into her salad, she excavated a humongous dead spider, sprawled out in all its eight-legged glory and covered in salad dressing, this beast was quite the unexpected dinner guest.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Outraged Melissa took a snap of the creature and complained to the retailer on Facebook, though some viewers were hesitant about the legitimacy of Melissa's claim.
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[SPEAKER_00]: After all, when a spider dies, it typically curls up into a ball.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is because its legs can no longer extend due to a lack of hemolimph pressure, also known as the blood pressure that serves as their muscles.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But perhaps having been squished, it could be possible that Melissa's pal was a genuine spider.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Either way, just to be safe, I'll be sticking to my strict no salad diet.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Can't be too careful.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But if finding a spider in your salad wasn't bad enough, just get a load of this next story.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Back in 2012, Londoner Sarah Moss purchased some spinach from a Tesco supermarket to make her and her friend a salad.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As the lady's lunch, Sarah's friend, who might I add as vegetarian, suddenly realize she'd pierced her fork into something that didn't quite feel like salad.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And well, that was because it was the corpse of a flattened dead frog.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Despite having not eaten any of the frog, per se, the horrified veggie began to immediately vomit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Though for her troubles in trauma, she was compensated with 10-pound store credit and an apology.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As to how our amphibian friend wound up in a bag of spinach, it was likely scooped up during the harvest along with its leafy habitat.
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[SPEAKER_00]: For now though, rest in peace, little guy, or rather rest in spinach as it were, from bullets to human teeth so far we've seen some of the most unthinkable foreign bodies in food.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And well the terror only continues with this next completely unbelievable, but entirely true story.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In 2021, a woman from the Philippines, a leak Perez, was looking forward to some deliciously deep fried chicken from Jollybees, or so she thought.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As she and her son dug into their meal, he soon began to complain about how tough the chicken was.
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[SPEAKER_00]: virtually impossible to cut through a leak decided to try and tear the chicken apart with her hands, though it was then that this deep fried disaster became all the more clear.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As the crispy batter crumbled, a leak quickly realized that what she'd been served was a deep fried towel, and I mean that in the most literal sense.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Someone had covered the towel in batter, fried it, and served it to a leak.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If not an intentional prank by an employee, I'm really struggling to see how this could have been a genuine mistake?
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's freaking blue!
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[SPEAKER_00]: Taking her outrage to Facebook, many insisted she sued Jollybee, though there were no further reports on this or the outcome.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We can, however, be at peace in the knowledge that Jollybee took immediate accountability and ordered the restaurant in question to be shut down.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Damn it!
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was really in the mood for some Kentucky fried towel, but even at the best of times, chicken can be risky business, what would the threat of bacteria like Salmanella?
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's easy to imagine the fear this next woman experienced when she ate half a chicken nugget from Chick-fil-A, only to then realize the meat was black inside.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yep, for Florida Local, Mrs. Sharp, this was an unfortunate reality back in 2023.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Upon realizing she'd just eaten some black chicken, Mrs. Sharp claimed she fell violently ill. She apparently vomited until she had no strength left to do so, injuring her throat and digestive system.
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[SPEAKER_00]: At the time of reporting, Mrs. Sharp understandably planned to sue Chick-fil-A for a tasty $50,000 under the grounds of negligence, though, again sadly the outcome hasn't been made public.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Likewise, why the chicken was black also remains a mystery.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It could be due to bone marrow leaking into the flesh, but this typically wouldn't cause sickness, so I dread to imagine what kind of sinister rotten bacteria poor Mrs. Sharp might have eaten.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But on the topic of dangerous chicken, we're just getting started.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Having bought some boneless chicken thighs from Countdown grocery store in 2018,
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[SPEAKER_00]: New Zealand woman Nadia Peterson prepared in season the chicken and cooked it in her oven.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But after eating half of it, she glanced down at her plate and was dumbstruck to spot a huge, rusty nail inside of her meat.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Concerned Nadia immediately got in touch with a local poison center, but was told she would be likely to be fine.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Regardless for her troubles, the store awarded her with a refund of $50 voucher and $200 loyalty card points with a cash value of $15.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But then again, considering this could have literally cut her mouth open and infected her with, who knows what filth and possibly even tetanus, I'm not too sure that store credit would quite cut it for me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In many ways, humans have never had it easier than we do today, to think that our ancestors used to have to hunt and forge all of their daily food yet we can now have our groceries delivered right to our doorstep.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But as we're about to find out, things don't always run quite to plan.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Back in 2023, UK, man, Adam Bell ordered some groceries online from Morris and supermarket.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Only when his delivery finally arrived, he was shocked to say the least to find a very unexpected item.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As he fished out an unexpected carton of milky, quickly discovered it wasn't milky at all, but rather urine.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yep, it would appear that the delivery driver got caught short of a bathroom break in, well, relieved himself into the carton.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Clearly having just tossed it into the back of the van, it eventually wound up in Adam's groceries by mistake.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Fortunately, Adam saw the humor in the situation and Morrison's refunded his order, it could have certainly gone a lot worse.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If Adam had unwittingly poured the stuff on his cereal, the whole scenario would have left a very bad taste in his mouth indeed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think we can all agree that bananas are a delicious and healthy snack, but while they may pack a punch of potassium, it turns out they may be concealing some less savory secrets.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you ever spot a strange white mound on your banana, throw it away immediately.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Why?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, these little white grotes are actually the nests of spiders, and not just any spider, the Brazilian wandering spider.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Also known as the world's most venomous.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Their bite is so toxic that it instantly attacks the nervous system, causing nausea, blurred vision, excruciating pain, and ultimately death.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, almost as painful as a hangover, rarely will you find them outside of their South American homeland, but due to their love of hiding in dark, moist places, they occasionally smuggle themselves between bananas, where they make journeys from the tropical regions they're harvested in, to your local grocery store and eventually, your home.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, in 2013, a British family had to evacuate their London home,
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[SPEAKER_00]: as dozens of the deadly spiders sprouted from their bananas.
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[SPEAKER_00]: 29-year-old Consey Taylor was midway through eating a banana when she spotted a suspicious white spot on the fruit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Mold, she initially assumed, but on closer inspection she was horrified to see tiny spiders dropping out onto the table and scurrying around.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The tailors fled to safety and had their home fumigated of these deadly spiderlings.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Luckily, even in their natural habitat, only 1 in 500 spiderlings of this species make it to adulthood, and their fangs aren't strong enough to pierce human flesh until they mature.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Meaning, any real danger was fairly unlikely.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Still, I don't think I'd have peace of mind until I knew each and every one of the little eight-legged lurkers were disposed of.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so finding a nest of baby spiders is scary, sure, but imagine finding a more developed Brazilian wandering spider along for the journey.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This horror story became a reality for a statin island family in 2016, as they returned from the grocery store with a little more than they'd bargained for.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If that were me, then let's just say the spider would be very flat and stuck to the bottom of my shoe.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The breed of the spider they found is unconfirmed, though being from South America, it's likely one of those venomous Brazilian wandering spiders, seemingly the only one of its brood that reached adolescence in its little egg sack apartment.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And if that isn't bad enough, imagine discovering a black widow just chilling in your broccoli.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yep, in 2018, Jacob Vaughn, a student from Ohio stumbled across this eight-legged buddy in his broccoli.
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[SPEAKER_00]: While it's true that the black widows venomous bite can lead to nausea, breathing difficulties and muscle fatigue, thankfully they rarely result in death.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So when life's not only giving you lemons, but also venomous spiders in your veggies, you've got to find the positives in life, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And in a twist of fate, this hellish tale did indeed have a happy ending.
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[SPEAKER_00]: After alerting the local animal sanctuary, Jacob's spidey friend was adopted and given the cute name broccoli.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The timeless orange is the fifth most popular fruit in the world, and with its benefits ranging from improving skin and brain development to allegedly even decreasing the risk of colon cancer, it's no surprise we can't get enough of them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But wait, before you go buy a bucketload of this miracle fruit, you might want to hear to Hassan Ali's story first.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In 2014, Hassan purchased a pack of mandarin's from the British grocery store, Sainsbury's.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In the midst of a mandarin bench, the 25-year-old tucked into his fourth orange, only to peel open a real-life horror story.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What labor for him was a big, fat, maggot with an entourage of eggs.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Mags like this one are the spawn of fruit flies, and as their name might suggest they
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[SPEAKER_00]: As their tiny larvae emerge from eggs, they continue to feed off the fruit until they eventually grow into the buzzing beast we know as flies.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Isn't the circle of life beautiful?
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[SPEAKER_00]: While supermarket fruit undergoes rigorous inspections in order to meet consumer standards, occasionally anomalies like this do slip through, if a fruit fly is able to burrow into the fruit undetected.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But an anomaly is just how Hassan saw it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As even this nightmare wasn't enough to put him off his favorite fruit?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Having been awarded a Sainsbury's gift card as compensation, he had plenty cash to splash on his recreational orange addiction.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Though hopefully without the added protein, next time!
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[SPEAKER_00]: You'd hope the authorities would draw a firm line against creepy crawlies in our food, but brace yourself, because the official rulebook is far more relaxed than you'd ever imagine.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The FDA also known as the Food and Drug Administration is the U.S. institution responsible for maintaining food safety standards, so it's pretty alarming to find out that they actually approve of up to 11 rodent hairs in a typical jar of peanut butter.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and the fun doesn't stop there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Official standards state that the average jar would need an excess of 30 insect fragments before it would pose a health risk, meaning you're probably getting protein from more than just the peanuts.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And its health standards such as these that have shrouded the peanut industry in scandal.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yep, in 2008, the peanut corporation of America was shaken to the core when their
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[SPEAKER_00]: rendered 714 people ill and 9 dead.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It all began when the CEO Stuart Parnell dismissed internal reports that his stock was contaminated with dust and rat droppings.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As a result of this willing ignorance towards maintaining safety standards, Parnell knowingly sold a batch of peanut butter that ultimately proved to contain lethal amounts of salmonella.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All because he claimed he couldn't afford to lose another customer.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Ironically, this resulted in him losing nine customers forever as they perished from their poison peanuts.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In the end, however, justice reigns supreme.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The peanut corporation of America went defunk, and Parnell, the peanut predator, was penalized with 28 years in prison in 2015.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But as far as peanut butter sandwiches are concerned, it seems not even the bread is safe from disconcerting traits.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Beyond the flower and yeast, there's an unexpected beast lurking in our loaves, and its name is L-Sistine.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Beneath the mask of this vague name lies an uncomfortable truth, human hair.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yep, our supermarket loaves are loaded with the stuff, as it is reported to strengthen the gluten and feed the yeast, which produces a reliable loaf and shortens the production time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The good news is that it's mainly used in commercial bread production, so shopping locally from bakeries means you can avoid this tangle.
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[SPEAKER_00]: While L.S.S.T.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and Amino as it is mostly sourced from cow horns and duck and chicken feathers, the Guardian reports that human hair is also often used mainly swept from Chinese hair salon floors and into our loaves.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, kind of...
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[SPEAKER_00]: First the hair's boiled and concentrated hydrochloric acid and activated carbon, then treated by electrolysis, resulting in the usable amino acid.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So while it's not as if you'll find actual hairs in your bread, it still feels like a less deadly version of Sweeney Todd.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Reddit is a real melting pot of the weird, wonderful and everything in between, so if you happen to find something gross lurking in your food,
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[SPEAKER_00]: then there's really no better place to share it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's dig into some of Reddit's not so finest dishes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: First up is from user April Valgreen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As she tucked into a bag of flaming hot cheetos, she came across an odd shaped chip.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Sharing it with Reddit to try and figure out what it was, the comment section suggested this was no chip at all.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Instead, this was a mouse that had been squished, baked, seasoned and sealed into a pack of cheetos.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And though there's little to confirm this was the case, the fact the texture was described as tough jerky leads me to assume this was no cheeto.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And what could be worse than finding a mouse in your cheetos?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, perhaps finding a brain inside your salsa verde.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yep, this one comes from user Zappel 27.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And while it's unlikely that it actually was a brain, you can't deny the sickening resemblance.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A few users in the comments theorized it might be a clump of Xanthan gum, a kind of emulsifier used in manufacturing to stabilize ingredients and prevent them from separating.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Others suspected a mother of vinegar, which is a gelatinous disc made up of cellulose and ascetic acid that can turn liquids into vinegar.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Whatever the case, I would absolutely toss that thing in the trash.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This astounding next find comes from user atomic cipher.
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[SPEAKER_00]: After treating their family to lobster Christmas lunch, they were shocked to find out that it had been bulked up with an old spark plug.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now that wasn't very Christmasy was it, these devices are used in car engines to ignite fuel, but in this case its purpose was to sneakily increase the lobster's weight and hence, price.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Shockingly, this has happened more than once as fellow redditor, cold underscore, as underscore eyes discovered his lobster's weight had also been tampered with by the weight of a spark plug.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So either there are some sneaky fishermen out there, or
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[SPEAKER_00]: When it comes to candy, we're all aware of its high sugar contents, but are there any other ingredients in there that we should be concerned with?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, bluntly yes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Shellic is a type of resin and is used in candies such as jelly beans in order to achieve hard glossy outer shell texture.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Though, don't be fooled by this alias as the real identity of shellic is, in fact, bug poop.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yep, straight from the poop shoot of the female lack bug that populates India and Thailand, the tongue is scraped from tree branches and through a treating, heating, and cooling process is transformed into flat sheets of dried shellac.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This rear end resin is thought to have been discovered in the 13th century, and can be used as anything from wood varnish to cosmetics to popular candies such as candy corn, Hershey's Woppers, and Tootsie rolls to name a few.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I guess one bug's poop is another man's candy, and it turns out there's more than just bug excretions in your candy, too.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The crushed up and boiled bodies of cochineal bugs also make their way in, hidden under the stage name of Carmine or Natural Red 4.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This Aztec recipe is more than 5 centuries old, and involves crushed cochineal bugs, boiled, and treated in chemical solutions in order to extract their red coloring, which will be used as food dye.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, prior to 2009, Skittles actually included both Shellick and Carmine.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Meaning, you weren't so much tasting the rainbow, as you were a dead bug in its poop!
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[SPEAKER_00]: Stealing someone else's breast milk sounds like a criminally abhorrent act.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yet, over the course of 6,000 years, we've turned cows milk into a global industry worth around $718 billion.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But besides the slightly weird implications of drinking another animal's motherly milk, are there any other reasons we may want to lay off dairy?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Cows only produce milk after they've had a baby, and with a billion dollar industry writing on it, you can bet that farmers will do anything to get their daily squeeze.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Repeatedly artificially inseminating cows is common practice, and the cows frequent pregnancies can cause a condition known as moustitis.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not only is this painful for the cow, it causes their milk to become contaminated with blood and pus, but not in quantities that are always easy to detect and filter out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Mastitis milk is widely accepted as the FDA allow for 750 million cells of pus per leader in the U.S.
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[SPEAKER_00]: While in Australia, there is simply no limit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And if that doesn't leave a sour taste in your mouth, then perhaps this will.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In 2016, it was reported that the Australian grocery store calls actually had to remove milk from their shelves because it contained not some, but too much cow poop.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Which considering the proximity of cow but to utter, plus the fact that these animals are hooked up to machines all day, it's reasonable to assume this is a common occurrence.
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[SPEAKER_00]: While pasteurization gets rid of harmful bacteria, it's still pretty unnerving to think about what else we might be gusling down with our cereal, oat milk suddenly just got a lot more peeling.
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[SPEAKER_00]: On the topic of harvesting animals reproductive materials, we also need to talk about chickens and the unfertilized eggs we love to devour.
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[SPEAKER_00]: With the original life-giving purpose of the humble chicken egg in mind, creations like the long egg almost seems satanic.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This defilement of all things holy was designed in Denmark 46 years ago by the company Danayag, with a view to make cutting perfectly uniform boiled eggs a breeze.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In order to create this manufacturers, first separate the white from the yolk, the white is cooked into a hollow cylindrical tube, leaving a hole through the center where the yolk will be injected, in order to forge the appearance of a perfectly proportioned egg when sliced.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And while it's still 100% egg, something about the whole process just gives me the creeps.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As long as man has existed, so has his love for alcohol.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, Jesus wouldn't say no to a cold one with the boys, would he now?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Our eternal booze cruise is thought to date back to 7,000 BC, but as far as wines concerned whether you're a red kind of person, white, or rosé, there's something fishy going on with all of them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You probably assume your vino is made up of just for minute grape juice, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: After all, that's mostly true.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yet there's a slippery ingredient often used in wine known as Eisen Glass, which is
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[SPEAKER_00]: Gross, huh?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And the worst part is that it isn't even necessary.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's only purposes to efficiently clarify the wine and make it less cloudy, something which most wine does by itself within a few days.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But with a 1.8 trillion dollar industry riding on it, time certainly is money, so they choose to speed it up the fishy way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, this isn't to say that all wines contain fish bladder, but, many do, making it especially difficult for our vegan friends to get their next tip.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Rest assured though, experts claim unfiltered wines without eyes and glass are still just as good to go, and honestly, after a few glasses everything starts to look a little hazy anyway.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In 1963, humanity was blessed with the humble chicken nugget thanks to agricultural scientist Robert C. Baker.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Since then, Americans have come to consume an annual average of around 2.3 billion nuggets, and that's just from McDonald's.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But is it really chicken that lies beyond the crispy batter?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Or is it something more fraudulent?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like the pink Goop Internet legend would have us believe?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well McDonald's have dismissed these rumors that tarnish their nuggets good name.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That notorious pink Goop from the viral photos is, depending on which source you consult.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Reportedly either soft-survice cream or a mix of scrap meat and ammonium hydroxide used as filler for pet foods.
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[SPEAKER_00]: McDonald's meanwhile claimed their nuggets are made from 100% chicken breast.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Though when that stuff's ground up, it hardly looks much better.
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[SPEAKER_00]: However, not all nuggets are created equal, and online sources claim that nuggets from other restaurants and retailers may have a few special ingredients in them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: These being tendons, connective tissue, fat, and even crushed up bones, meaning there's a lot more of the chicken in most nuggets than you may realize.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And on that bitter note, that's all from me today.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let me know in the comments if the platform allows it, what's the grossest thing you've ever found lurking in your food?
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[SPEAKER_00]: As always, thanks for listening, and I'll catch you in the next episode.