11 quite disgusting things people found in their fast food

Human teeth

This week McDonald's in Japan apologised for a variety of objects found in its food, including teeth and bits of plastic.

Source: Business Insider

A syringe

In 2001 an American woman sued Burger King for $9 million after claiming her cheek was pricked by the tip of a hypodermic needle in her food.

Source: New York Daily News

Maggots

In 2011 a man in Melbourne said he bought a McDonald's burger infested with between 20 and 30 live maggots. Leigh Savage said police and staff laughed at him when he complained, and that all he was after was a refund.

Source: Herald Sun

A condom

Police launched an investigation when a seven-year-old girl from Sweden found a condom inside her Happy Meal.

Source: NBC

Gold teeth

Sixty-two-year-old Terence Fitzgerald claimed to have found a gold tooth in his Mars bar in 2007. "I managed to cough it up and at first thought it was a bit of metal or something. With closer inspection I realised it was a gold tooth with a bit of the tooth still attached," he said.

Source: The Argus

A chicken head

American woman Katherine Ortega claimed to have pulled a breaded and fried whole chicken head, beak and all, from a box of chicken wings while out with her children.

Source: ABC News

Blood

In 2011 a cancer survivor was horrified to realise that the red sauce on her fries was not ketchup, but human blood. It transpired that her food had been made by a chef who had cut himself while preparing other food.

Source: ABC News

Bullets

Olivia Chanes, 31, was admitted to hospital after biting into a live 9mm cartridge and swallowing another hidden in a hotdog.

Source: The Los Angeles Times

Cigarettes

A Kent mother-of-four found herself with cigarette-fried rice after discovering one smouldering in her reheated Chinese takeaway.

Source: Daily Mail

A mouse

A man in Baltimore in the US found a fried mouse along with his fried chicken he had bought from a restaurant closed twice in two years for mouse infestation.

Source: WBALTV

Nails

A Swedish man said he felt "indescribable" pain biting into a 2in nail lodged in a McDonald's burger. Yusuf Bercil said that he would make home-made burgers from now on.

Source: The Local

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