Every year hundreds of foreign objects are found inside food items with dozens of customers reporting injuries after biting into their tasty treat, including cuts and instances of choking
Customers who found bizarre items nestled inside their food have shared their strangest finds – from a decades-old coin to a random keyboard piece.
In a series of posts shared on Reddit, customers shared the oddest items they came across inside their food or orders that left many baffled and revealing their own strange finds. Many of the posters appeared to be from the US where hundreds of foreign objects are found in food every year.
According to the most recent study into foreign object complaints in 2017, there were 387 items were reported. Among injuries reported include 15 cuts, 11 instances of chocking and 21 cases of toothache.
One McDonald’s customer was ready to tuck into their chicken nuggets when they discovered a keyboard piece nestled inside the take-away bag. The key, brandishing the word “serve” on it was held up to the camera with the post including the customer’s comment: “McDonald’s accidentally threw a key in our bag.”
The unusual item prompted a wave of tongue-in-cheek comments about how the customer would now have to “serve” McDonald’s by working for them. But there were others who questioned how it ended up in the take-away bag in the first place.
Reddit user Proof_Anybody1618 said: “Haha, this is the button they press when they’re cleaning your order off the screen. I remember they pop off so easy so they can be cleaned.” Baxwellll added: “How the hell does this even happen? I get that they might pop off easily, but how did it get in the bag? This was somebody’s last day or something and it came off and they said “**** it” is my guess.”
Since being shared online, the post attracted more than 35,000 after being shared to the r/mildlyinteresting page on Reddit. Another customer shared a highly-unusual case of a plastic bottle cap being found inside an unopened bottle of apple juice.
A photo of the bottle, which was upvoted 55,000 times, was shared with the caption: “This (unopened) bottle of apple juice came with an extra cap.” The snap prompted many online to quiz how the plastic cap ended up inside the apple juice bottle.
Forgottensharpie said: “More than likely that apple juice was hot making the bottle hot and it could have been a cold day in the factory causing the cap to be smaller than normal and squeeze the cap into the top of the cap machine to routinely put a cap on top.” ThinBrilliant1821 added: “My guess is a jam downstream probably flung a damaged cap into a bottle upstream. That bottle then entered the capper and got capped. Honestly still seems super unlikely, but this same mechanism is how we would get glass inclusions in bottles.”
Another strange instance was shared on the same Reddit page with the caption: “My grandmother found a 10 lira coin (old Italian currency before Euro) in her sealed mozzarella packet.” A photo uploaded in the post showed the coin next to an opened bag of mozzarella in the sink.
The Lira was the currency of Italy until January 1 when it was replaced by the Euro. It ceased to be legal tender on February 28, 2002. Many shared their concerns over the freshness of the product with some pondering how it ended up inside. Bostiq said: “Mozzarella as fresh as a 24-years-long’s abandoned currency (sic).” While BrassWhale commented: “I wonder if the coin was wedged into the machine and slowly wiggled its way out years later.”
