A Roach In My Burrito…Seriously

Posted on 12.03.07 in Blogging and there are 25 comments.

It’s our family tradition to eat Mexican food after church. I don’t think Taco Bell actually qualifies as Mexican food, but we eat there often anyway.

Until Sunday.

The 8 Layer Burrito

I opened my 7 Layer Burrito and saw an odd brown speck on top. I briefly thought, “I’m sure it’s nothing and I’m hungry, I’m just gonna take a bite.”

But I’ve never truly trusted Taco Bell, so I chose to investigate. I carefully picked the brown thing out and noticed that it had antennae...and wings.

Say It Isn’t So

Yes, it was a roach. Apparently, I got a special “8 Layer Burrito.”

24 hours later, we’re still doing the “Disgusting Bug” dance.

The Somewhat Blurry Proof

No, we don’t plan to eat at Taco Bell again any time soon ever.

Your Turn

Have you ever found something gross in your food?

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oh my goodness!  Did you let them know?  Did you call that guy from Houston that does SLIME IN THE ICE MACHINE!!!  WOW! I don’t know what I would have done!  Oh My goodness, this is all I can say!

I once ate half of a roach.  Yes, I barfed when i realized it.  All I can say is, don’t ever eat at the HO HO China cafe in Richardson, TX.  Hummm, extra crunch sesame chicken (I thought the sesame seeds were supposed to be white?)

I feel your pukeness.  Arrrrgggghhhhhh!!

Yuck!!!!!!
I’ve heard really bad stories about taco bell and people finding things in their food…

The worst I’ve seen is when my brother found a band aid on his pizza.

Diana, Marvin “Slime in the ice machine” Zinler died a few months ago.  The passing of an icon here in Houston - we miss his quirls, the false hair, the sunglasses, the slime reports.

Kat, Mrs. E and I were eating at a McD’s in the College Station mall some years ago.  She was eating her normal chicken nuggets when biting into one she found it to be raw.  Not just raw, but still half-frozen, bloody, and nasty.  After running to the restroom and puking her guts out, she has never eaten McD nuggets again.

OMG!!!! SUE!!!!

yeah, i haven’t eaten at taco smell in years.... for reasons such as this…

you really should let them know

WOW!  That’s really gross.  I once found a fingernail in an apple pie from Sam’s.  Also....a cap off of some sort of condiment bottle (like ketchup or something) in a burrito from Taco Bell. 

And Diana (me and her go WAY back), that’s Marvin Zindler, and he died this year. :(

Kat, I love reading your blog!

You’re missing an opportunity here, Kat.  Yes, we’re not supposed to sue people (1 Cor. 6) but nothing’s said about THREATENING to sue somebody.  Especially if it gets you some cash.  Cash you could use to do some good stuff...like buy your soft rock star friends Christmas presents.  Oh, what?  I’m the only one?  Kat, it’s not about you and your burrito and your cretaceous stowaway. It’s about me and the stuff I could get because you were emotionally damaged and whatnot.  Stop thinking about yourself, Kat, geez.  Hire an attorney to write a mean letter.  Better - I’ll get my attorney to and fax it over this afternoon for you to sign.

Sweet.  Merry Christmas to me.

Yuck....I’m doing the disgusting bug dance right now.  And I’m super disappointed because I really like taco bell, but I don’t think I’ll be eating there anytime soon either!

Diana,
Jimmy went and got our money back. It was interesting how quickly they got rid of that burrito after they saw it…

Deemus,
Yuck!

Kristin,
A band aid? I think that’s more disgusting than a roach.

Euphrony,
Wow. Glad I don’t really eat at McD’s.

Crystal,
You know when I blogged about the dangers of hand sanitizers awhile back, the folks from Germ X contacted me and sent me some of their new product - a foaming alcohol free hand sanitizer (which I love, btw). Maybe Taco Bell will send me something - other than food coupons…

Mimi,
We did. I think we’ll also let the local health dept. know so that they can check them out.

Susanna,
A fingernail? Ew! I’m glad you like my blog! Any friend of Diana’s is a friend of mine.

Shaun,
Ooooh! Great idea!  And with my windfall, I’ll buy you one of these.

Lisa H,
I’m disappointed too. I’ll miss Taco Bell.

I never eat at Taco Bell. One too many stories like this.

I had a weird roach encounter last night. Our main library on campus is open until 4 am this week because of finals, and last night at about 1:00am a girl sitting a few tables down from me flies out of her seat and runs away squeeling. Crawling around on the wall behind her is some sort of beetle-roach-type-MONSTER at least 3 or 4 inches long. Finally, some girl chased it down and squashed it while all men nearby sat casually by reading their books. I felt itchy all night long...I can’t imagine if I had almost ate it haha.

Don’t know what you have against getting a little more protein in your meal. After all the years I cooked for you and your brother, I’m suprised you’re shocked by a little roach. Ha Ha! I agree it is gross but here in Texas where roaches are prevelant, that could happen anywhere, but I have to agree that the prepared foods should be either covered or closely examined prior to serving.

Thats NO bean! NA-AA-SS-STY!!!

Smart girl, take a picture. I encourage you to call the health department.

Thanks, Kat!

I will not be eating there!  We don’t usually eat at Taco Bell, but still...GROSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!! I’m guessing it’s the one in your area?

I would have been crying.  No, but for real that’s GROSSSSSS!!!!!

It kind of makes me leery to eat out at any place!

Wife’s family (pre-me) was enjoying a delivered pizza one night when they found a fly cooked into the last piece of pizza. They still shutter when telling the story.

A friend used to make yeast rolls in a local restaurant known for their yeast rolls. One day he had a cut on his finger, so he put a band-aide over the cut and then put one of those… um… finger condoms (?), over the band-aide. When he finished hand rolling the 1,000 or so yeast rolls for the morning, he realized that the “condom” was missing. He didn’t tell anyone, and no complaints were received.

Now, try not to think about that story next time you go out to eat.

My wife found a fly in her meal at the Olive Garden once.  They guy apologized and claimed that all the meals come prepared and all they do is heat it up, so it couldn’t have been from that particular restaurant.  I didn’t find that particularly encouraging.  At least we got a free meal out of it.

My grossest moment was when I ordered a burrito ceso (sp?) at a mexican burrito joint where I was the only person (customer or otherwise) speaking English.  It turns out that ceso is not something that I wanted to be eating.  It dawned on me after eating 2/3rds of the most bland burrito I had ever eaten (especially from an authentic mexican joint) that I might look more closely at the meat.  The white color and little swirls gave it away even before I looked ceso up to confirm my suspicions.  I could have handled a tongue burrito or pig’s feet burrito, but I threw the rest of the brain burrito away.  I’m not interested in getting Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

MB

I found a dead lizard in my Mission Tortilla Chips.  Of course it was at the very bottom of the bag and we didn’t find it until we had eaten most of them.  You were smart by taking pictures.  I called the Company and they said I could have gotten lots of free stuff if I had taken pictures. 

OK, I was not going to tell this story, but I just can’t help myself.  I love gross stories, especially when they don’t happen to me.

A friend tells this for the truth.  He is a construciton worker, and they had a spanish guy that drove the “burrito truck” to his jobsite everyday. 

And everyday they bought burritos from this guy.  One day, a co-worker was chowing down on his burrito, when he winced and cursed loudly (this is common behaviour for construciton workers). 

Upon investigation, it was found that he had gotton a, are you ready?  A cats claw stuck in the roof of his mouth.

Double yuck.  They then understook why the burritos had the most tender meat of any they had ever eaten.

Ok, a big ewwww to your story and to Deemus’ cat burrito story! 

I once found a corkscrew in the cole slaw at KFC.  I complained, and they said they didn’t even have corkscrews on the property, so it couldn’t be their fault!  What, I’m going to plant a corkscrew in my food??  That was more disturbing and infuriating than downright disgusting like your story.

Wow. There sure are a lot of disgusting food stories!

Daddy,
I don’t mind protein. It’s the antennae that bother me.

And I remember some yummy meals...Tuna Surprise anyone?

Crystal,
A LIZARD? That’s really gross.

Once I was at this diner, late at night, and I ordered a bacon and cheese omelet.  For some reason, when I got the omelet, I decided to open up the egg and check out the inner workings. 

I let my fork surgically slice open the egg and what did I see?  The biggest tight and curly black hair that could be imagined. 

Nasty.

I’ve also suffered from a bug in the Taco Bell food.  It was kind of a beetle treading lightly in the lettuce of a soft taco.  This bug was much less disgusting than a roach, so I took it out and kept eating.

That was in my college days.  I don’t think I would have the same apathetic response now.

Seth,
Somehow even finding a hair in your food sounds cool when it’s in a NYC diner…

...well almost…

Cool dad,
Treading...was it still alive?

Yes, and since he was walking lightly, I figured he wasn’t doing much harm to my taco.

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