What is the grossest thing that you have experienced at a restaurant?

Answer 1

a chewed on toothpick baked into a pancake at IHOP BuenaPark, CA

Answer 2

OMG, have I got an answer for YOU. Many years ago, (now, I do NOT want to offend anyone who is Vietnamese here- I just don't like your choice of food.) I went to this Vietnamese restaurant called Pho Hoa (means beef soup, I think) anyway, we were always driving by the place, and we were kind of intrigued by it so we made plans to go there for dinner one night. We went in, and there were a lot of people there, so that was one reassuring thing, so we sat down and a waiter came with our menus. After studying the menu, we had absolutely zero idea what would be the best thing to order. So we asked the waiter, who recommended the beef soup. I also ordered some sort of drink that SOUNDED good; it was listed as Plum Soda. Okay. So first of all, the waiter brings the soup, and it looks kind of strange, but we try it, and we both notice the beef is in an odd shape. "Like puppy dog ears" my friend whispered. I nodded uneasily. Then the waiter came back with some weird vegetables you were supposed to put into the soup- I'm sorry, but those vegetables looked as if they came from Star Trek or something, I'd never seen such bizarre looking veggies. THEN the final insult. My drink came, and it was basically club soda with a rotten plum in the bottom. I swear, we tried, we REALLY tried, but we could NOT choke down the soup. I nearly spat out the drink. We thought maybe the restaurant was playing a trick on us. We looked around and everyone was happily slurping up their Pho. My friend said, "Let's pay the bill, and get outta here!" We did, and the first place he wanted to go was to Der Weinerschnizel! He ordered chili dogs and said to the guy at the window, "Ahhh, American food!" Ha. But, I just cannot eat Vietnamese food. I really am questioning the *beef* in that soup.....

Answer 3

The grossest thing I've seen was working in a high end seafood restaurant a cook dropped a portion of egged and breaded oysters that were ready for the grill. He scooped them off the floor and tossed them on the grill. I guess it probably killed most of the germs, but I wouldn't want to have eaten them even if I liked cooked oysters.

Answer 4

I've been fortunate to never find a roach. Bleh.

However, JUST this weekend, we went to a beloved, four-star restaurant in our city. It is so well known that the place bottles their own salad dressing. People rave about it.

Yeah. Never going there again. I found three (count 'em, 3) hairs in my cloth napkin.

Also, my boyfriend and I went to a place on the scarier side of town, and he took a bite of something and pulled two blond hairs out of his mouth. He nearly puked right there at the table.

EDIT: James, you're a joke.

Answer 5

I was on a date at a Thai restaurant when I happened to glance down at the floor. Sitting next to a woman's shoe was a mouse eating a piece of food that had fallen on the floor. A few minutes later, three guys (whom I nicknamed Moe Larry and Curly) cameout of the kitchen and started chasing the mouse around the restaurant. It was years before I ate Thai food again.

Answer 6

A fruit fly half-cooked into a chicken tender (at Ruby Tuesdays). I was about to take a big bite and noticed something black wiggling. So I look down and it's a fly half cooked/stuck in the chicken tender and it's legs are up in the air wiggling. No kidding. It was nasty, but after a few seconds I couldn't stop laughing. The manager kept apologizing and I just couldn't stop laughing about it.

Answer 7

When I worked in a restaurant I saw a co-worker forget to box a persons food and throw it away. He then remembered and took it out of the trash and put it in a box. Gross.

Answer 8

my husband and i once went to a chinese restaurant with another couple, we sat down at a random table, the floor felt slippery, so my husband and the other guy looked under the table and my hubby said "you better not look, let's go"
so i later asked why... it turns out that slippery thing was a puddle of puke...
of course i never ever ever went back to that restaurant, it grosses me out to even think about it

Answer 9

Well we were at this italian restaurant and there was a rock in my meatball! Then my cousin had her hands under the table and there a big glob of snot under the table. This was at Olive Garden! I would NEVER go there again.

Answer 10

Once, my husband was eating dinner at a nice Mexican restaurant when he suddenly bit into something hard. It was a plastic part from the kitchen's automatic dishwasher. Yuck!

P.S.--He got a free meal out of it!

Answer 11

A cockroach in my Lo Mein at a chinese restaurant in San Francisco.