Gross me out, man!

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Lepplady

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Still remember this, as a kid, reaching into the cupboard, pulling out a box of raisins, grabbing a handful for a snack, popping them in my mouth, realizing something weird was going on, reached in my mouth and pulled out a maggot. The rest of the mouthful went shooting into the sink about .5 seconds later.


This isn't gross, but we were at a ... Chili's, I think? And I'd ordered a boneless chicken platter, and I kept hitting, yup, little bitty bones. I kept extracting them from my mouth and assembled a little pile on a napkin. Just as a courtesy to the establishment, told the waitress about it, that they might want to check with their food supplier.

She was horrified at the pile. "Oh, I'm so sorry!"
"No problem. You just might want to check with your food supplier."

A minute later, the manager is at the table, apologizing like crazy.
"No problem. You just might want to check with your food supplier."
"May I pay for your meal, sir?"
"No, the meal was tasty. I just ran into these bones. I thought you might want to check with your food supplier."

He motioned to the napkin, not touching it. "May I take these, sir?"
"Chicken bones? Sure. Knock yourself out."
He folded the napkin and picked it up like it contained a donated organ.

"Are you sure I can't buy your meal, sir?"
"No, I pay my way. Good luck with your food supplier."
"Thank you, sir. I'm sorry, sir."

Evidently, they are sensitive to these issues.
They have to be. Someone less forgiving would have sued their pants off. That's why they wanted to take the bones, in case you changed your mind later.
 

Lepplady

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Following a newspaper report a of a mouse baked in a loaf, I've taken to checking my sliced bread carefully!
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Oh, yuck. I'm glad I can't eat bread anymore.
 

blunthead

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Nursing potentially offers great examples of gross out. I had an elderly patient once who had testicular cancer. At the time I was in the Float Pool - that is, I didn't have an assigned nursing unit, but had to go where I was needed - and so was unfamiliar with the patient. His scrotum was very swollen, maybe as much as five times a normal size. When I went to his room on my first rounds with him I noticed that the soaker pad under him wasn't sufficiently underneath his scrotum, so I carefully began to move the pad. Immediately the scrotum burst open and a flood of yellow fluid began running out all over the place. I'd never in my experience seen such a thing and didn't know what to do or what it meant. So I hollered out the door for Help! One of the regular nurses came right in and, smirking the entire time, helped me clean things up. She became a good friend of mine, and so as such never let me live down the fact that I was white as a ghost when she came into the room.
 

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We had a 10' x 40' steel cargo container in our yard at work that we used for storage. It had 4 or 5 inches of air space under it and it weighed several thousand pounds (so, no moving it easily). One day, we started to smell something dead. We looked all over and couldn't find what it was. The next day, the smell was stronger and we looked all over and couldn't tell where it was coming from. Then the smell started to get so bad, we had to get serious about finding it. Finally, we realized that it was coming from under the storage container. A couple of us had to lay on the ground (where the smell was really bad) and shine lights under this container to try and find the dead critter. With only 4 or 5 inches of space, my face was right on the ground looking for this. We found it and of course, it was probably 3 feet away. We had to get broom handles and move this animal out where we could dispose of it. It was breaking apart as we were trying to get it out from under the container. It seemed like it took an eternity to get it all out. That was really gross. (It was a feral cat)
 

Shasta

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Two years later I still can't eat scrambled eggs.
I also have a story about why I won't eat eggs.

10 year old me decided to make scrambled eggs for my dad in bed one day.

Crack one egg. Fine.

Crack two egg. Fine.

Crack three egg. Half a developed chicken plopped into the bowl.

Yep. I haven't eaten eggs in 24 years. Or meat in 15.
 

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When I was about 7 or 8-years-old, I stayed over at a friend's house. He was a pretty snotty kid at the best of times, but when I slept at his place he had a very heavy cold which made his nose run like a hose pipe.

During breakfast he sneezed and dumped a serious amount of thick green snot into his bowl of cornflakes. At first I laughed, assuming that his mum would simply make him another bowl of cereal. My laughter turned to sheer horror when, rather than give him another bowl, she did her best to fish out the snot and then made him finish the cornflakes!

He protested (obviously), but he finished the cornflakes and I think it was several years before I could bring myself to eat cereal of any kind again.
 

FlakeNoir

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When I was about 7 or 8-years-old, I stayed over at a friend's house. He was a pretty snotty kid at the best of times, but when I slept at his place he had a very heavy cold which made his nose run like a hose pipe.

During breakfast he sneezed and dumped a serious amount of thick green snot into his bowl of cornflakes. At first I laughed, assuming that his mum would simply make him another bowl of cereal. My laughter turned to sheer horror when, rather than give him another bowl, she did her best to fish out the snot and then made him finish the cornflakes!

He protested (obviously), but he finished the cornflakes and I think it was several years before I could bring myself to eat cereal of any kind again.
:icon_eek: Oh hell, I've just sat down to breakfast... yes, cereal. :barf:
 

Neesy

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I will never eat sushi again after seeing this.
Now THAT's fresh! (still moving) yuk - does it cost extra for the live protein?

(I ate sushi once (only once) - we ordered a giant wooden boat full of it - it looked like a big ship covered with different types of sushi - got sick and had abdominal discomfort and a rash for two days - I avoid that stuff now (blecchh!) - and this was 10 years ago.
 
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This is so gross that I had to do it twice ;-D

1 - I was playing golf on a small par 3 course (It's a driving range, mini golf and small par 3 course all in the same location) and I hit a ball in the woods. I went into the woods to look for it and stepped in human poop. :barf:I left my shoes in the woods and finished my round with no shoes (looked like a real redneck on the golf course with no shoes ;-D)

2- Fast forward a year or so - I have to go to my office to get something on a Sunday morning. We had a locked gate with a padlock that you had to unlock to get to the building. Anyway, I pull up to the gate, step out of my truck and step directly in human poop. We were in a bit of an out of the way place, so I guess someone was driving around the industrial park the night before and had to go. Again, I went home with no shoes on.

I don't know anyone that has done this once and I have done it twice now. ;-D:barf:
wouldn't it be funny if the pooper was the same guy both times?
 

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I will say, I had exposure once to a civil case of, shall we say, contamination of food within a fast food joint.

I won't say what it was. I won't say what the chain was. What was disturbing was the alleged act itself and then the reports of how it happened around the universe of these types of places.

I'm a pretty logical, compartmentalized (disconnected?) guy at times. I can watch Uma Thurman squish a fake eyeball and eat dinner at the same time because they're disassociated events.

But this one? I rarely get fast food anyway, but there was NO QUESTION that I was avoiding it for a few months after this, and particularly that franchise.

Icky, icky.
 

Walter Oobleck

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Have some navy tales I can't share, alas. My wife tells of a time at a sub shop, she and her sister stop and place an order, guy behind the counter gets busy making a sub...a couple breads, cut 'em, slather some mayo, sneezes...a lunger with some size to it splashes down in the mayo. His back is to them...not the famous sub shop where Jared goes to lose weight...or is that the diamond outlet? Same difference. They look at each other eyes bulging, turn, and flee. But think of the weight-loss possibilities. Imagine nasty counter-commercials, workers at such-and-such a place blowing looeys onto sandwiches, badly mishandling hamburger patties, the clientele camped out in the booths blissfully unaware.
 

FlakeNoir

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Have some navy tales I can't share, alas. My wife tells of a time at a sub shop, she and her sister stop and place an order, guy behind the counter gets busy making a sub...a couple breads, cut 'em, slather some mayo, sneezes...a lunger with some size to it splashes down in the mayo. His back is to them...not the famous sub shop where Jared goes to lose weight...or is that the diamond outlet? Same difference. They look at each other eyes bulging, turn, and flee. But think of the weight-loss possibilities. Imagine nasty counter-commercials, workers at such-and-such a place blowing looeys onto sandwiches, badly mishandling hamburger patties, the clientele camped out in the booths blissfully unaware.
:eek:


A long time ago I got a really bad case of food poisoning from a chicken (teriyaki) sub... I've not been back to Subway since, this was about 10 or more years ago... I still *shudder* when I think of it.
 

HollyGolightly

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Nursing potentially offers great examples of gross out. I had an elderly patient once who had testicular cancer. At the time I was in the Float Pool - that is, I didn't have an assigned nursing unit, but had to go where I was needed - and so was unfamiliar with the patient. His scrotum was very swollen, maybe as much as five times a normal size. When I went to his room on my first rounds with him I noticed that the soaker pad under him wasn't sufficiently underneath his scrotum, so I carefully began to move the pad. Immediately the scrotum burst open and a flood of yellow fluid began running out all over the place. I'd never in my experience seen such a thing and didn't know what to do or what it meant. So I hollered out the door for Help! One of the regular nurses came right in and, smirking the entire time, helped me clean things up. She became a good friend of mine, and so as such never let me live down the fact that I was white as a ghost when she came into the room.
That poor man!
 

GNTLGNT

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...I will spare many of the prison stories I could conjure...and simply leave you with this gem....we were eating at Golden Corral not long after they introduced the magical chocolate fountains...as I peered about the room(I watch crowds A LOT, given where I work and the ongoing chances of assault)I noticed a young boy of probably ten who was industriously giving his old snot locker a good cleaning with his forefinger up to about the third knuckle...once he'd concluded his nasal janitorial duty he walked right up to one of the chocolate fountains and proceeded to stick the very same finger into the downflow of sweet delight...needless to say I smoked the carpet getting to the manager and getting the thing shut down and sanitized...
 

HollyGolightly

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You must be joking. I'm a Paramedic, gross is almost all I ever see. I wouldn't even know where to start.

My least favorite job is picking up body parts QUOTE]

...the magical chocolate fountains....
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Egad! I don't know how you do this - going to places where you don't know what's going on or what kind of grossness you'll endure. It's a heroic thing you do- and GNLTGNT and blunthead and the other nurses on the board.

:rofl: my husband is a germaphobe - big time - and the dreaded chocolate fountain terrifies him - he won't even let the kids go near one... or water parks
 

Sigmund

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I also have a story about why I won't eat eggs.

10 year old me decided to make scrambled eggs for my dad in bed one day.

Crack one egg. Fine.

Crack two egg. Fine.

Crack three egg. Half a developed chicken plopped into the bowl.

Yep. I haven't eaten eggs in 24 years. Or meat in 15.


Hi!

Well, thank you so freaking much for your post. Ha!

I love eggs. Breakfast, breakfast tacos, breakfast for dinner. (Brenner? Brinner?)

I do believe I shall never break open an egg again. (I shall now recruit my son to break open the eggs. ~~~Nope. No eggs for me. Ever.)

Egads! :barf:

It's gonna be a long time for me to get THAT image outta my head. Luv Ya!

Peace.