There Is A ____ In My Food!

Published on Monday, June 6, 2011 by Katherine

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I’ve never really been a puzzle person, mostly because I just don’t have the time.  But at the beach house, time is a little slower and life allows for just a bit more.  So in April we broke out a puzzle and started to work on it as a team each weekend.

On a side note, I will tell you that I’ve learned a bit about my amazing, poised and generous mother during this puzzle building process.  When she is focused on a particular section, she is protective possessive obsessive enjoys the challenge ahead.

Last weekend my 17 year old came back from swimming before my mother and I did.  When I finally arrived, he met me at the top of the stairs with his head down.  In his sweet pretend child-like voice he said, “Mommmyyyyy… ummmm…. Mommmyyyyy…. There was a little accident with the puzzllllllle….”

My eyes widened as I cupped my hand over my mouth and ever so slowly looked towards the counter.  The puzzle was there, intact!  I turned questioningly towards my son.

Out of his mouth spilled, “I was making my sandwich just like I always do and I wasn’t really near the puzzle  I promise and then I sat down and started to eat and I noticed one of the pieces of meat was kind of chewy but I kept trying to eat it and when I realized it wasn’t meat I took it out of my mouth and… well…”

He then slowly opened his hand to reveal the following:

I started to chuckle, and then to laugh, and then by the time he finished blurting out, “I have NO IDEA HOW THOSE PUZZLE PIECES GOT IN MY SANDWICH!” I had tears rolling down my cheeks.

As for me – if there is something gross in the food, I will be the one to find it.  I’ve come across fingernails, fishing line and plastic.  The worst?  It was a hamburger in the college cafeteria.  I took my first bite and felt resistance.  Hamburger still in hand, I looked down to see a hair leading from the bite still sitting in my mouth to the middle of the burger I was holding.

Yea, I know.

Have you ever found anything in your food that simply should not have been there?