Fast food can surprise you, and not always in a good way! Imagine eating your favorite fast food meal and finding something totally unexpected and gross. We’ve seen everything from fried chicken heads to bullets in hot dogs. This article delves into the top 15 grossest things people have found in fast food. Get ready to be shocked, and maybe you will not get fast food for a meal for a while.
15. Human Finger in Wendy’s Chili Bowl
In 2005, a lady named Anna Ayala found a finger-tip in her chili at a Wendy’s in San Jose, California. With this incident, Wendy’s got a lot of attention from the media, and their sales went down. But after investigating the incident, they discovered that Ayala had put her finger there herself to get money. According to the police description, Ayala’s husband gave $100 to a co-worker for the fingertip, which the guy lost in a work accident. Then the court sentenced Ayala to nine years in jail.
14. Rat Head in a KFC Chicken Bucket
A customer complained in 2006 that he had found a rat head in his fried chicken order at KFC. Finding “rat head” in their food seemed to be very disgusting to people. Where KFC got the opportunity to verify these claims.
KFC soon discovered that the “rat head” claim was based on a weirdly shaped chicken piece that looked like a rat’s head upon first glance but did not belong to a rat at all. Although the claim was false, it was enough to make many people feel nervous about fast food for a long time.
13. Cockroach in a Burger King Whopper
What will you do if you find a cockroach in your burger? That’s what happened to Brian Garmon at a Burger King in Panama City, Florida. He sat down to eat his burger, and when he was about to take another bite, right next to his mouth, there was a roach.
Garmon said: I took pictures and then told the manager so that they don’t do it to other people. The manager said sorry, gave him a free meal, and refunded him 8$. The restaurant promised to fix things, but he did not think they were serious enough and was not happy about it.
12. Bandages in Pizza Hut toppings
This is what Ken Wieczerza from Ballston Lake, New York, found in his Pizza Hut order in 2011. He hoped for a delicious slice of pizza but got a finger bandage instead. But that is not the worst — he chewed on it! Yuck, right? Ken didn’t swallow it, lucky for him! He bagged the finger and took it to Pizza Hut, hoping they would pay for his blood tests. Pizza Hut said no. They claimed the bandage and the dough did not match their stuff.
11. Needle in a Burger King Sandwich
In other similar unfortunate cases, Angelina Cruz was having a bad day in the morning of 2001 when the Astoria, New York resident bit into her Burger King breakfast sandwich and discovered a needle that hurt her cheek and made her bleed. This is why she sued Burger King for $11 million.
10. Chicken Head in a McDonald’s Wings
In 2000, Katherine Ortega received a very unpleasant surprise with her McDonald’s meal in Newport News, Virginia. She almost served the wings to her kids when she noticed something awful—a fried-coated deep-fried chicken head. It had a beak and little black eyes, and so she screamed.
Following a disappointing phone call to the McDonald’s she bought that meal from, which only responded by offering her money back or granting a box of free wings, she contacted an attorney and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Nobody could determine if it was a genuine mistake, a joke by a worker at McDonald’s or a prank. In any case, this “McNasty moment” created a buzz.
9. Rodent in Subway’s Sandwich
It is disgusting that a dead mouse was found in a sandwich at Subway in Lincoln City, Oregon, in 2015. Matt Jones was amazed when his coworker discovered a dead mouse in the sandwich. It was not only dead but squished between the spinach and cheese. They first showed the Subway manager, who refunded them fully and called the health department to investigate. The health inspector believes the mouse entered with some of the bagged food.
8. French-tip Nail in Taco Bell’s Nachos
In 2015, Kailynn Roland wasn’t too thrilled when she received an unpleasant surprise at a Taco Bell in Florida. She ordered nachos at the drive-thru and found an acrylic French-tip nail at the bottom. Feeling disgusted, she began to vomit almost immediately.
After that, Kailynn didn’t keep quiet; she had talked about it on the news and contacted Taco Bell. What did they decide? They offered Kailynn $40 in gift cards to return and order more nachos, presumably without any additional fingernails. Kailynn turned down the offer. She has decided that Taco Bell is no longer a place for her.
7. Dead Rat in a Chick-fil-A Sandwich
Suburban Philadelphia’s Ellen Manfalouti had one of those lunch stories you’ll find hard to believe when she found a dead rodent in her chicken sandwich from Chick-fil-A. According to reports, a colleague had provided her with a chicken sandwich to consume at work in November. As Ellen took a bite, she claimed that something seemed off.
As she turned the top of the bun over, she first thought it was burnt, but the small rodent was visible. Her coworker, Cara Phelan, quickly identified it, including its whiskers and tail. Ellen then threw the sandwich. After Chick-fil-A didn’t respond to her complaints, she sued them for over $50,000.
6. Tooth in a Snickers Candy Bar
Biting into a Snickers and finding a rat’s tooth? That was Payton Davis’s experience in November 2021. When she ate the Snickers purchased from a Family Dollar store, Payton thought the front of her tooth broke and chipped because she bit on a hard nut. Instead, she had actually bit on a tooth, which cut her mouth and took her to see a dentist.
Upon examination, the dentist told her that it was not from a human—which likely belonged to a rodent. Payton reached Snickers, and they realized that they should fix the issue. They sent her some coupons, but really, coupons of the same product after a tooth is found in your candy? Payton and her lawyer, D.J. Gregory, considered all available legal alternatives because that was legitimately terrifying.
5. Serrated Knife in a Subway Sandwich
The craziest story of them all took place in New York in 2008. John Agnesini got a real surprise after one bite of his Subway sandwich because there was a 6-inch knife baked into the bread! Fortunately, he only bit the melted handle, not the sharp blade. Talk about being lucky! After this scary sandwich, John eventually settled with Subway for $20,000. What a story just from biting into a sandwich!
4. Blood in Taco Bell Tacos
When Briana Ralston opened a Taco Bell meal in 2006, she got a very unpleasant surprise. There was human blood on her taco bag and wrappers. Briana called Taco Bell, where she bought her order, and then their manager apologized and said that one of the employees had cut his finger and bled into her order accidentally.
3. Bullets in Costco Hot Dog
One day in 2004, Olivia Chanes from California experienced something unbelievable: eating a hotdog at a Costco snack bar. During the meal, she unexpectedly bit on something incredibly hard. A live 9mm bullet!
But that was not everything – a few hours after eating, Olivia had severe stomach aches and had to go to the hospital. And what do you think they found in her stomach? Another live bullet, which she had swallowed without noticing. It is terrifying to have such accidents during a regular shopping trip.
2. Tampon in a Steak
The following case took place in 2009 at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. A German tourist named Axel Sanz-Claus had a terrible dining experience shortly after being seated in the restaurant. He ordered a $40 filet mignon at the Bull and Bear Restaurant, and to his surprise, he tasted a bloody tampon in his first bite.
Axel Sanz-Claus was shocked. He immediately rinsed his mouth with brandy and headed straight to the hospital. The doctor confirmed it was a used tampon and sent him for examination, as some diseases can be transmitted through blood. What an awful thing to happen during a fancy dinner!
1. Lung Inside a KFC Chicken
In February 2016, an Australian KFC customer discovered an unusual find in their three-piece chicken meal: an animal organ that resembled the lung! Here is how Business Insider reported the story: KFC also responded that it was only “a little of waste” and that some of the animal organs were left in the meat by accident. As KFC later explained, their chicken is inspected and prepared by hand in their restaurants.
However, they admitted that leaving the giblets “inside” during frying is occasionally overlooked. As they said, the body parts are edible but look rather undesirable.