Don’t you just love biting on those cheesy bacon burgers — but wait, what’s that moving thing on your burgers? 😱 I sure hope that’s just a fickle of our imaginations! Over the years, customers have discovered horrifying surprises in their fast food meals, turning what should be a satisfying bite into a nightmare. Get ready to cringe as we uncover the top 15 disgusting fast-food moments you won’t believe are real.
15. Acrylic Nail
Sure, tacos give us the crunch, but the crunch in the tacos of Kailynn Roland and her boyfriend was actually from an acrylic nail. She allegedly found the acrylic French Tip nail in the bottom of her nachos. What’s even more bizarre is the $40 gift card that the chain offered her so she could order more nachos next time without an acrylic French Tip in it.
14. Feathers
While Raquel House was munching on her McDonald’s McNuggets, she felt a strange texture in her mouth. It revealed a white hair and when she looked at the chicken nuggets, she realized that the piece she was munching on had feathers coming off.
13. Serrated Knife
John Agensini claimed that he was nearly cut from the 7-inch knife that he found on his cold-cut 12-inch Subway sandwich that he bought from New York City. He said that he felt “severe stomach issues” for hours after eating the sandwich, attributing it to food poison from the knife that he found.
12. Sharp Plastic Bits
An Oklahoma mother and child found razor-sharp plastic bits on their McDonald’s chocolate chip cookie after the mother realized that she had cut her tongue. The mother reached out to the McDonald’s location where they bought their meals and she realized that the same plastic shards were found in a particular batch of cookies.
11. Chicken Head
When Katherine Ortega’s son didn’t want to eat his meal since he was playing at the playground, she did not let the chicken nuggets go to waste. Before she could bite into the nugget, she was horrified to see it staring at her. It turns out that the supposed nugget was actually a chicken head. She contacted the Food and Drug Administration since she was unsure of what to do next.
10. Unidentifiable Chicken Organ
A couple took home a Popeye’s fried chicken for their little one. But as soon as they opened the box, it revealed dark remnants of the chicken’s heart or liver dangling from the deep-fried breast part of the chicken.
9. Human Nail
Lyn Richie from Ireland was horrified after discovering a long human nail on the McDonald’s Big Mac of her daughter. It was her daughter who saw the nail on top of the patty and even asked her what it was. She alerted the staff and was offered a full refund after confirming that it really was a human nail.
8. Bloody Bandage
Ken Wieczera from Ballston, New York, claimed that he discovered a bloody bandage on the crust of his Pizza Hut. He said that it felt like biting into a folded-up plastic. Fortunately, he found it before he could even swallow it. He claimed that the “Pizza Hut cronies” insisted he was wrong as it wasn’t consistent with their protocol.
7. Fried Rat
A woman shared on TikTok via Daily Dot that she ordered fried chicken at Popeyes, only to be served fried rat. She held up the supposed chicken and pointed out a tail that resembled a rat. The video was already taken down, and Popeyes responded that they were “confident that no rodent was featured.”
6. Cockroach
A man from Reddit shared a photo of a cockroach found in his McDonald’s hash brown. Before he took another bite, he felt an unusual texture at the bottom of his hash browns, and upon further inspection, he realized it was a cockroach. He reported it to McDonald’s, and what they did was just mark his receipt so he could get the same meal.
5. Bullets
In 2004, Olivia Chanes was hospitalized as doctors found that she swallowed a live bullet from a Costco Hot Dog she had eaten earlier. She actually knew that she had bitten on something hard while eating the hot dog, but she thought that it was her braces. It turns out that the hard object that she’s bitten is a live 9-millimeter cartridge bullet.
4. Human Blood
Back in 2011, Susan Mosher and her husband headed to Cracker Barrel in Houston, Texas, to buy a meal. She ordered a BLT, but halfway through her meal, she discovered something red in her fries. She alerted the staff, who had bad news for her since the chef responsible for her order had accidentally cut himself, which made the red liquid human blood.
3. Needles
A man from Hawaii accidentally swallowed a needle after taking a bite of his Burger King Triple Stacker Burger. This caused a lawsuit for the burger chain as the man was reportedly injured. It caused him to be hospitalized for a week due to the needle that made its way to the man’s small intestine.
2. Rotten Snake Head
In 2009, Jack Pendleton complained at T.G.I. Fridays about an alleged rotting snake head that’s been included with his order of broccoli. After the company learned of this, they requested the New York State Police to open an investigation so the snake head was brought for testing. According to the results, it had never been cooked and was just added to the broccoli. No one knew where it came from.
1. Human Flesh
Here’s another case of kitchen mishap, and this time, it’s from Arby’s. David Scheiding sued Arby’s for more than $55,000, claiming that he had found a three-fourth-inch-long slice of human skin on his chicken sandwich. It turns out that the manager had accidentally sliced his skin while shredding lettuce. He sanitized the area, but he didn’t throw away the lettuce.