Waiter, There’s a Fly…
– – People are forever finding flies and other repulsive foreign objects in their food, in some cases putting such objects in the food item themselves in the hopes of pursuing profitable litigation or at least getting a free meal. I’ve found hair in restaurant food on numerous occasions. Well, along these lines a woman in China recently bought some yogurt, ate half of it in the morning, and put the remainder in her refrigerator, returning that afternoon to consume the rest of it. When the afternoon’s yogurt tasted funny, the woman spat it out to find…a dead fly!
We hope you weren’t eating, gentle readers. Anyways, when the woman complained to the yogurt manufacturer, Bright Dairy & Food Co., company officials didn’t apologize or offer the customer a refund. Rather, they asked her to autopsy the fly to make sure that it had gotten into the yogurt before she had opened it. This rather put an end to the matter, as there aren’t many medical examiners offering fly autopsies.
Instances of food adulteration like this have given rise to use of the term mealbreaker to refer to a nasty, non-edible surprise found in food while it is being eaten. Examples might include the bloody bandage reportedly found baked into a pizza, and of course the overalls found in Mrs. Murphy’s chowder…
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FOXSYLVANIA 
August 12, 2011 at 5:20 pm
BEN JOHNSON (as “Short-Grub”): “Hey, McCartney!”
DUB TAYLOR (correcting him): “_Mr._ McCartney!”
BEN JOHNSON: “There’s somethin’ crawlin’ around in these beans.”
DUB TAYLOR: “Well, you can speak to it. But, don’t play with it. Otherwise, the others’ll want one in their beans, too!”
—from THE UNDEFEATED starring John Wayne.
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August 12, 2011 at 8:25 pm
They say we all eat our peck of dirt…and even peanut butter has a federally-specified allowable amount of insect parts!
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