A meal-breaker is an unexpected and usually disgusting object that is found in otherwise perfectly ordinary food. Meal-breakers can range from the relatively innocent (such as dirt in poorly washed salad) to the diner’s worst nightmare . . . literally.
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Human blood in food is more common than wed like to think. Chefs and fast-food employees spend their days using knives and cutting equipment, so cuts happen.
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In 2004, a California woman literally bit the bullet. In fact, she bit twoand they both came from the same hot dog. She was eating a hot dog from a local Costco when she suddenly found herself chewing metal.
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A condom is probably one of the most disgusting things you can find in your food, even if its a bacon-flavored one. A customer of a California seafood restaurant experienced this the hard waywhen she found a rolled-up condom in her clam chowder.
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In 2009, a man opened a can of Diet Pepsi and took a sip. Instead of the familiar cola taste, his mouth filled with a strange liquid that tasted so awful he could not even describe it properly. When he poured away the undrinkable liquid, he found a small, frog was slowly decomposing inside the can.
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A Texas school cafeteria accidentally served beans in glass shard sauce because a badly constructed glass barrier near the food was literally chipping away.
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Mice get caught in food production lines, ending up deep-fried and salted in bags of potato chips.
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Some fast-food companies actually use razor blades for cleaning purposes, as theyre handy for scraping difficult corners clean. These blades are not always stored properly.
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Spiders are often found crawling inside shipments of fruit. These spiders are usually as exotic as the fruit itself, and they can often survive the trip to the grocery store.
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All it really takes is one freak accident at some point in the manufacturing process. Maybe a packing line employee gets hit in the jaw by a piece of malfunctioning equipment. Maybe someones dental hygiene is so bad that their teeth just keep falling off.
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Cymothoa exigua commonly known as the tongue-eating louse. Although fish companies know to look for these parasites, sometimes they slips through the control system and end up in supermarket fish counters.
