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non-food items found in food (mostly
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restaurant (or
product)
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date found
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what was it?
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| blackbird, minneapolis | may 17, 2011 | green plastic, i think, in my soup. |
| good earth, edina, mn | april 5, 2009 | a piece of white, curly plastic (think dental floss diameter, but sturdier) about an inch and a half to two inches long in the nachos. i was temping fate, i guess, having such a bad experience before we got our food, and did say... 'i bet i find something in my food or something else will go horribly wrong.' it was both, kinda. |
| sea salt, naples, fl | february 19, 2009 | aluminum in the crab cake 'slider.' i think the chef was out that day. |
| chanticlear pizza take out. | january 18, 2009 | anchovy filets, idiots... filets. not whole ones. and when i put some cheese in mom's mini food processor to cover the anchovy removal holes, more plastic came off into it. that's getting tossed. |
| plastic doohickey from
a mini food processor |
january 4, 2009 | sabotaging myself... i had made tuna dip per the request of my mother, using her mini food processor. the first bite i took of it (after many others had consumed it) was a bit of her food processor that fell off into the dip... it looked like a tooth. |
| cafe maude, minneapolis |
january 2, 2009 | a 2, 2.5" bone in duck confit. i shouldn't eat that anymore, should i? anyway, this one was very thin and sharp, just begging to be impaled in the soft palate. i'm so not going back there. |
| mort's deli, golden valley | december 21, 2008 | gobble. a bone in the rotisserie turkey on my sandwich. |
| corner table, minneapolis |
september 2, 2008 | quack. there's a bone in my duck confit. a small one. first bite of the stuff. and since two other people were being served the same dish at the same time, i had a one in three shot of the bony version. |
| familia mexican buffet, brooklyn center | july 25, 2008 | avocado pit in the guacamole.
at least i know it's freshly made. |
| duplex, minneapolis |
june 11, 2008 | someone didn't clean the crab in the crab cake so very well, so i got a crunchy bit of shell. or maybe it was plastic. but not crab. given my recent dental luck, i am surprised i didn't break a tooth. |
| at sara's table chester creek cafe, duluth |
may 10, 2008 | well, if the riverview left a small bit of rosemary in the soup, this place left pretty much almost a full branch of rosemary, with many wooden stems, on top of my pizza. roasted. the thing could've friggin' caught fire there was so much wood on it. |
| box of organic salad greens | april 28, 2008 | a black wire. i wonder if it was triple washed. |
| taste of thaiyai, apple valley |
march 28, 2008 | i'm pretty sure that was a hair in the rice. maybe it was something like a strand from a canvas bag the rice might came in, but it wasn't rice for sure. |
| edina grill, edina |
december 7, 2007 | kind of like the riverview wine bar, not quite as bad as a lot of the rest of the entries. the apple/currant crisp had some apple stem in it. |
| famous dave's, minnetonka |
november 12, 2007 | an extra sharp plastic shard in the midst of a bbq stuffed baked potato. (found by jill, not me) |
| ravello, long lake |
may 7, 2007 | part of a bag that held mussels. it was in the bowl of mussels, which at least made some sort of sense (see: asparagus at chez daniel). |
| riverview
wine bar, minneapolis |
december 25, 2005 | well, i think technically it counts... rosemary was in the soup, but alas, they left the small branch they took the leaves off of was left in there. not as bad as the rest of the lot, i think. |
| saigon uptown, minneapolis |
april 19, 2005 | wooden skewer left inside a shrimp, not visible from the outside of the shrimp |
| falafel king, minneapolis |
september 9, 2005 | a half-inch long wooden splinter in the hummus. then again, they had tuna on the vegetarian plate, maybe they just don't know.... |
| bloomington park tavern, bloomington | april 3, 2004 | toothpick in the chicken salad (not holding the sanwich together, but *in* the sandwich |
| hope's silver spoon/ chow mein, richfield |
july 16, 2003 | plastic from the brush they were using on their grill |
| chez daniel, bloomington |
circa december, 2002 | plastic used to hold a bunch of asparagus... though i ordered nothing with asparagus |
| ciatti's, eden prairie | circa 1993 | broken bits of glass in scrambled eggs. (found by jill, not me.) |
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