a fly in the fries

[Emmeileia]

Not mine, but my mom's...

Back in the day, when my parents were dating, they stopped at KFC. Mom got a two piece meal, and when she lifted out the first piece she found...a fried ciggarette butt. She tossed it out the window and kept eating. My Dad thought it was gross, but mom just said that the frying would kill any germs, and they both smoked anyhow...

Another I just remebered, though it was not takeout but family Thanksgiving dinner years ago...

Mom: So how was the turkey
Me: It was pretty good
Mom: Oh good, cause when I cooked it, I found this HUGE boil on the bird, but I didn't have time to make a new one, so I just sliced around it and served the meat sliced instead of carving the turkey at the table...
Me:...MOM!
Mom: What, I cut around the boil...

[ReverendBSB]

I was eating with my mom in Chilis once, and I found one of those big metal box staples in my burger. We asked for the manager, and all she offered was a new burger. I thought we should have gotten my food comped at least.

Compare this to a steak place I ate at with my dad, his girlfriend, and my brother. We all ordered steaks and apps, my dad and his girlfriend ordered drinks. Everyone ordered their steaks medium except me, I ordered medium rare. While we were all waiting the fire alarm kept going off, false alarms. Finally the manager comes to us and tell us that due to a problem with the grill they cannot put any more food on it, and my steak cannot be cooked. We tell him thats okay, he offers to comp our meal. When the food arrives, lo and behold there is my steak. Steaks are not cooked perfect, but good enough, the potatoes are a little cold, but not bad. Meal is overall very good. Then the bill comes and we are still comped, the only charge is for my dads girlfriends glass of wine. 3.50 for a 100 dollar meal. Thats good service.

[tollbaby]

That's not good service, that's a manager afraid of a large order walking out and never coming back.

When did "good service" become getting stuff for free?

[RebeccaOTool]

I've been lucky with take-out food so far, but my sister has not. She got a fried ciggerett butt in her McFries a few years back.
It hasn't stopped either one of us from eating at Micky D's though.

[Lil Bunny]

Back in the day a bunch of us here in Omaha used to get together for a chat room that we frequented. This included doing lunch at different places. Well one time they went to a place up from me a bit. Great mexican food and killer margs.

So they're sitting there and someone notices a mouse scurring up the wall behind a coffee pot burner with said coffee pots sitting there full and hot. Next thing you know, it stops and takes a flying leap off of the wall thingy and straight into one of the pots of coffee.

Sadly I missed that lunch but to this day the suicidal mouse gets talked about.

[air914]

It makes you really afraid to eat out, doesn't it???

When I was really little, I bit into a chicken nugget (not Mcdonald's) and as I pulled the nugget away from my mouth, it kept stretching - and stretching - and stretching - I started crying and my mom asked what was wrong and looked at me (we were in the car) and saw this "growth" coming from the nugget. Turns out a plastic bag had been baked INSIDE of the nugget!!! We took it back to wherever we got it from and they offered us MORE nuggets.... um offering more food when it could have been in the same "contaminated" batch is NOT compensation. I was afraid of whatever that place was and never returned - can't remember what place it was though - I think I've blocked it from my memory. There's a good reason I really don't eat fast food......

[MadRocketScientist]

My wife and I went to an old fashioned drive-in once and got an order of fries with fried wasps.

YUM!

[Dragon_Dreamer]

While eating at a local restaurant when I was little, a fly kept buzzing around and landing on our food. Finally, it landed on my cup of coleslaw. My mother, finally annoyed with the fly, buried it under more of my coleslaw.

Haven't been able to eat the stuff since until a year or two ago, and I used to LOVE 'slaw.