Gross things that almost end up in your belly?

[Iowan]

I ate one of my hearing aid batteries a long time ago!!! I had it sitting next to my vitamins and when I looked for it, it wasn’t there. It was big and bold on my X-ray a couple hours later. It “sparked my husbands jokes for months.

 

[BevG]

Yeah, I poured 2nd cup of coffee into a mug without checking what had maybe crawled into it earlier that day to get my last drops from the first cup. Lovely beetle bug found after I had already drank over half the cup.

Eating the cat treats reminded me of a funny story. So growing up with 6 kids, my mom had to hide things to kept us from eating them before she could use them. My sister found a bag of jerky on the fridge and ate it all -- only to find out later that it was dog treats. We got her dog jerky several Christmas in a row as gag gifts.

 

[londoncuppa]

This is so gross, I'm reluctant to share, but here it goes.

A few years ago, I had purchased this "gourmet" imported Cream of Mushroom soup from Canada (not knocking Canada...that's just where it came from). I opened this beautiful $7 jar, poured it into a bowl and snuggled up in bed for a relaxing evening of warm soup and a mystery movie.

Suddenly, I felt something in my mouth that DID NOT feel like a mushroom. I spit it into a napkin and then tried not to throw up as I looked down and saw HALF of a GIGANTIC roach (we call them water bugs here in the South). The other half was still in the bowl. Ugh...still gives me shivers.

Thank goodness I didn't swallow it, but just knowing it was in my mouth, even briefly, put me off soup for YEARS. Do I win the gross-out story...lol?

 

[londoncuppa]

I ate one of my hearing aid batteries a long time ago!!! I had it sitting next to my vitamins and when I looked for it, it wasn’t there. It was big and bold on my X-ray a couple hours later. It “sparked my husbands jokes for months.

Lmao!!!

 

[GlazeFamily3]

Not me, but my grandma...

she was eating at a biscuit place in town and felt something crunchy... she opened her biscuit to find half of a cricket... apparently she had eaten the other half.

Also, we were at O'Charley's once and my daughter was making this huge deal about eating her mandarin oranges. She kept saying they were "spicy". I just figured she didn't really want them that night, so I packed them with our leftovers. When we pulled out the leftovers the next day, she kept saying they were spicy. Finally, I just tried one and oh my GROSS. The oranges were definitely spoiled and completely disgusting. Then, I felt bad about all the ones I had made her eat.

 

[Christina W]

This is so gross, I'm reluctant to share, but here it goes.

A few years ago, I had purchased this "gourmet" imported Cream of Mushroom soup from Canada (not knocking Canada...that's just where it came from). I opened this beautiful $7 jar, poured it into a bowl and snuggled up in bed for a relaxing evening of warm soup and a mystery movie.

Suddenly, I felt something in my mouth that DID NOT feel like a mushroom. I spit it into a napkin and then tried not to throw up as I looked down and saw HALF of a GIGANTIC roach (we call them water bugs here in the South). The other half was still in the bowl. Ugh...still gives me shivers.

Thank goodness I didn't swallow it, but just knowing it was in my mouth, even briefly, put me off soup for YEARS. Do I win the gross-out story...lol?

Oh my heavens - that is the WORST! I think *I* might be put off cream of mushroom soup for life!

 

[bellbird]

Well I guess this reflects more on me but I thought gross things that almost end up In your belly was a reference to spam _ the spiced ham kind... Never eaten it or the other gross stuff I can't click like on in this thread!

 

[jenn mccabe]

Well I guess this reflects more on me but I thought gross things that almost end up In your belly was a reference to spam _ the spiced ham kind... Never eaten it or the other gross stuff I can't click like on in this thread!

HaHa ... I think your "other job" as the moonlighting Spam cleaner here at The Pad ... just has spam on your brain all the time Justine! (but I agree - I won't eat that stuff either. so gross!)

 

[jenn mccabe]

I can't believe so many of you have gross stories like this. Eating bugs or near encounters with eating bugs and other stuff is pretty prevalent here at the Pad! Who knew. Most of your stories make my tiny little spider incident look almost innocent ( I will say he was very much alive and crawling around the bottom of the bag!) Oh and .... I'm sure Bart is rolling his eyes at all of us like ... what's the big deal. LOL!

But Carol @Iowan I think you get the prize with the swallowing of the hearing aid! That is quite the story!

 

[carrie1977]

I was planning to drink one of those pre-made protein shakes that come in like a juice box. Took one sip and it was obviously rotten (even though not expired} -- it was really, really thick, lumpy and disgusting tasting. GAG!

Spoiled milk products are the worst! I'd rather eat a bug...and I hate bugs. I will not drink milk if it has been open more than a day or two. I just can't.

 

[KarenW]

We have a lot of smaller flies that love to crawl all over your face, esp when there are bbq's happening. Have swallowed at least one of them every summer, always a joy...

We also have a lot of huntsman spiders that hang out in the house. More than once i have woken up with one of those floating in the glass of water that i keep next to my bed. The worst time was waking up to find one crawling over my face. I was so shocked that i didn't even scream. I just flicked it off. It was big enough that I heard the splat when it hit the wall. Not eaten though!

I will admit reading these stories has made my stomach churn, blech...

 

[Kiana]

Ewwwww gross......

One time hubby made some fresh veggie soup with cabbage. He's a really good veggie washer, but this time, there was a stow away that made it into the soup and got cooked. I almost ate a little veggie worm.....GROSS!!!!!!!

 

[cookingmylife]

Well nothing quite tops cockroaches (aaaaargh...) or stink bugs OR hearing aid batteries, but on two occasions I have been 'the woman who swallowed a fly - and worse'. In Thailand, I had a glass of iced tea and had my mouth open to drink some but between opening my mouth and swallowing the liquid, a fly flew in. My maid and my girlfriend just looked at me wide eyed. I would never have known otherwise.

Then in Malawi, we had an open air market with vegetables, rather gross meat just hacked into chunks and then the piece de resistance, deep fried flying bugs. We foreign white women were easily known to the vendors and one teased me one day, offering me a free bug. I decided it would make the rest of my time there a lot easier to just take one. I did and managed to almost swallow it whole rather than chew. A lot of clapping and I immediately got something to drink right afterwords. Once was enough. But I did get somewhat better cut meat from that time on.