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Acme Sells Me Edy's Ice Cream, 8 Months Past Expiration
Chicago-Area Subway Now Being Blamed For 78 Illnesses
NYC Health Dept. To Post Letter Grades On All Restaurants
McSpaghetti & 14 Other Fast Food Failures
Sushi Restaurant Really Sorry For Serving Whale Meat
Domino's Gross-Out Video Star Gets 24 Months Probation
Last spring, two morons videotaped themselves doing unspeakable things to the food they were about to serve at an unidentified Domino's restaurant. The video was posted to YouTube, and the situation didn't end well for anyone.
Based on a few clues, Consumerist commenters tracked the specific location down. The employees behind the video lost their jobs, that location closed a few months later, and no one could eat products from Domino's without imagining that parts of their meal had been crammed up someone's nose. While camerawoman Kristy Hammonds is still waiting for her trial, star Michael Setzer has been sentenced to 24 months of supervised probation. More »
Banquet Spaghetti Meatballs Box Vs Reality
Walmart: Just Take This Chicken For Free, We Don't Actually Sell It
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Oh Look, There's A Severed Frog Head In My Green Beans
Would You Buy This Meat?
Bottle Of Sprite Includes Free Inch-Long Cockroach
Our Top 13 Grossest Food Stories Of All Time
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Tales of unacceptable food don't just appeal to our more prurient interests. They do hit the "eww, can't look away!" center of the brain quite squarely, but these stories do more than that. They give us an uncomfortable insight into the complexity of the Western food supply, how industrialized and automated food processing really is, and how underpaid restaurant staff can be really obnoxious sometimes. Fast-food employees in particular.
In that spirit of public education and outreach, here are 13 of the grossest food-related stories from the last four years and change of The Consumerist. Enjoy. Learn. Try not to vomit.
This post does contain pictures, but they're tiny and it's difficult to determine what's in them. Well, mostly. More »
When Should You Freak Out About Critters In Your Food?
McDonald's Meat Is Safer Than Your Kid's School Lunch
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Customer Claims McDonald's Gave Her Mucus-Filled Iced Tea
Say you're driving along sipping your iced tea when you suddenly realize that your mouth is full of something slimy. You would probably freak out. One McDonald's customer says this happened to her and she is definitely freaking out. More »
Surprise! Frappuccinos And Coolatas Are Not Health Food
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have just released the findings of a 2007 study on "blended coffee beverages" served by Dunkin' Donuts and Starbucks. The conclusion: "Calories in blended coffee beverages are high ... modifying standard formulations of blended coffee beverages, such as using low-fat milk or smaller serving sizes, would also reduce calorie content." Um, yeah. More »
Maker of Yummy Vat-Grown Fungus Sued Over "Dangerous Reactions"
The food-safety watchdogs at the Center for Science in the Public Interest report that an Arizona woman is suing the makers of Quorn, a meat substitute made from vat-grown fungus. According to the CPSI, the company does not disclose "the fact that some people have serious allergic reactions to the main ingredient in its Quorn line of meat substitutes." The lead plaintiff in the class-action suit, Kathy Cardinale, says that she became violently ill when eating Quorn's Chik'n Patties. "I felt like the soles of my feet were going to come out of my mouth, I was vomiting so hard," she said. More »
Good News,That Dead Mouse In Your Diet Pepsi Was Actually A Toad
Remember the purported mouse that a man in Florida purportedly found in his can of Pepsi? Lab tests are back, and it turns out that it wasn't actually a mouse. More »
Iowa Woman Claims Rodent Of Unusual Sauce Served As A Hot Wing
I'm no connoisseur of chicken wings, but I've heard that they aren't supposed to contain fur. However, that was what a woman in Des Moines allegedly found in her hot wings. She's stashing the unacceptable food item in her freezer until further notice. Is it an Iowa Fried Mouse, or something else that doesn't belong in a meal? More »
McDonald's Now Serving Free Take-Out Scorpion With Breakfast
Science teacher Jeff Tallman in Arizona ordered an egg McMuffin yesterday morning, and it apparently included a side he didn't order. Not hash browns: a baby scorpion. More »