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Warning! Not for the weak of stomach!
You were warned.
This happened when I was about five or six, I don't really remember exactly, but it sure did stick in my head.
My parents took me out to Denny's for a meal - it was a late lunch I think - and all I remember was that I. Wanted. A. Strawberry. Waffle. You know the kind, smothered with strawberries and whipped cream. Mmm.
So, I get my waffle, and I'm about halfway through it... when I notice something that's not waffle or strawberry, and it's actually IN the middle of the waffle. As in, cooked into the waffle, not on top or underneath. And it looked like I had already cut into it, which probably meant I had eaten part of whatever it was.
I look closely, being a child at the time it took me a couple minutes to manipulate my fork to get the thing out of the waffle and look at it. I ended up only getting a portion of it out, and realization and utter horror dawn on me as I see a green-specked black carapace and a wing of some type of beetle. Er, PORTION of beetle... that... I had already eaten part of... !
The words out of my mouth... ".... moooomm..." *cue almost-tears and turning green at the horror of my despoiled strawberry waffle* "THERE'S A BUG IN MY WAFFLE!!!"
To shorten the rest of the story, my mom tried to make me laugh by telling me that she was SURE I hadn't ordered the extra protein version, though she told me in later years that it was because she was trying to prevent me from either bursting into wailing or throwing up, because it looked like I was about to do both. I couldn't help but giggle, I was a kid and my mom was teasing me about eating bugs! But I distinctly remember wanting to cry or throw up or both.
The manager kindly made me another whole waffle hot and fresh, and I picked that sucker apart into centimeter portions before I ate any of it.. but it was good. And we only paid the price of one meal for all three. (The manager was insisting that we got it all for free, but my Dad insisted on paying SOME because it was only my meal that was faulty, and I got a full replacement anyway.
I still get faintly queasy when I think about it, but I have to laugh, even if it was just because of my mom's handling of the situation.
EDIT: (Not quite sure if it's the right board, sorry if it's not, but it was sucky to go through, and it COULD have gone so much worse if we hadn't had a good manager at that time!)
You were warned.
This happened when I was about five or six, I don't really remember exactly, but it sure did stick in my head.
My parents took me out to Denny's for a meal - it was a late lunch I think - and all I remember was that I. Wanted. A. Strawberry. Waffle. You know the kind, smothered with strawberries and whipped cream. Mmm.
So, I get my waffle, and I'm about halfway through it... when I notice something that's not waffle or strawberry, and it's actually IN the middle of the waffle. As in, cooked into the waffle, not on top or underneath. And it looked like I had already cut into it, which probably meant I had eaten part of whatever it was.
I look closely, being a child at the time it took me a couple minutes to manipulate my fork to get the thing out of the waffle and look at it. I ended up only getting a portion of it out, and realization and utter horror dawn on me as I see a green-specked black carapace and a wing of some type of beetle. Er, PORTION of beetle... that... I had already eaten part of... !
The words out of my mouth... ".... moooomm..." *cue almost-tears and turning green at the horror of my despoiled strawberry waffle* "THERE'S A BUG IN MY WAFFLE!!!"
To shorten the rest of the story, my mom tried to make me laugh by telling me that she was SURE I hadn't ordered the extra protein version, though she told me in later years that it was because she was trying to prevent me from either bursting into wailing or throwing up, because it looked like I was about to do both. I couldn't help but giggle, I was a kid and my mom was teasing me about eating bugs! But I distinctly remember wanting to cry or throw up or both.
The manager kindly made me another whole waffle hot and fresh, and I picked that sucker apart into centimeter portions before I ate any of it.. but it was good. And we only paid the price of one meal for all three. (The manager was insisting that we got it all for free, but my Dad insisted on paying SOME because it was only my meal that was faulty, and I got a full replacement anyway.
I still get faintly queasy when I think about it, but I have to laugh, even if it was just because of my mom's handling of the situation.
EDIT: (Not quite sure if it's the right board, sorry if it's not, but it was sucky to go through, and it COULD have gone so much worse if we hadn't had a good manager at that time!)
), we went to this really great BBQ restaurant in Fort Worth. I got a BBQ sammich. When I bit into my BBQ goodness on bread I noticed a texture that shouldn't have been there . . . apparently the fat from the meat had liquefied while cooking but hadn't dripped off the meat and merely re-solidified on the bottom in circular discs . . . 
I nearly threw up and refused to eat the rest.
).
The manager rocked, but your parents rocked too! 
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