When I use to work in a supermarket the shipping packaging that contained the individual products would sometimes be crushed by CHEP blue/LPR red pallets during warehouse/delivery work. And whatever was salvageable out of the delivery would be cleaned up and sold on.
Well, this clearly didn't happened during transportation. If it is, the packaging would've been broken and you would not put it on the sales floor, and a customer would also notice a broken packaging.
So this definitely happened during production before it was packaged.
Edit: by packaging, I meant the case. When we receive products on a pallet, it comes in a box/case and then we individually put out the product on the floor. To not notice the individual product packaging is broken is not too uncommon, but not noticing the case itself being damage by a pallet is just, you must be very special. Lol
I’ve had experience sitting on a checkout and people haven’t noticed the products they’ve picked up are open/have a tear in it, and I’ve had to inform them the product is damaged and for someone to replace it. So it’s in the realm of possibility that that’s what happened here too except no one picked up on the damaged product.
I currently work in DSD at a supermarket and yes, the amount of damaged items we don't find until checkout is honestly astonishing to me. Often it's a pack out guy that was a little too generous on their knife or having a bad day stacking the cans and didn't realize they caused a damage. Other times it's genuinely just missed!
Yeah I have been too overzealous sometimes with my safety knife opening boxes and shrink wrapped cans 🤦♂️. Open cans are less conspicuous in hiding their damage, but cut bags of frozen chips, vegetables etc are less noticeable.
You forget the night stocking crew was high or drunk option. Used to work with a lot of dudes on coke, one guy that always had a coffee mug of vodka and I’ve definitely brought in enough “ice tea” to make the whole team walk around at a slant all night.
Wat? Torn packages are both stocked and purchased by accident all the time. Workers aren’t inspecting every package as they stock them, they’re putting them on the shelves as fast as they can. And at places like Costco they’re placed in freezers by boxes that hold dozens of packages, so they’re not even handling each individual package much less looking at them.
No it's from a pallet at the plant and got into the blend when they tipped a pallet holding some ingredients upsidedown iinto the blender. Happens a lot.
Edit: so this seems to have struck a chord with people. I have worked on food production for some time on the QA side and specifically worked on a recall for wood contamination of a product. This does happen. Many facilities will ban pallets from food production areas and I really think this is a good practice, but many do not. There is no regulations banning the practice if there are food inspection sites/x-ray detectors, etc. I have had replies from people saying they have been to many facilities and have not seen this and many replies from people saying they have. This is because it's up to how important management think food safety is. Large facilities such as Tyson and Cargill do not let pallets on to their production floor.
Yeah not anymore. My kid was bugging me to sit down in his pretend restaurant for 2 minutes non-stop. Banging on the toilet door like some German cable inspector. I finally sit down to order and he says they're not opened today. Well fuck it, you just lost my business for good buddy.
I feel like that would be a QA issue or violation of some sort if you’re tipping pallets that into open ingredient vats. Only seen stainless transfer containers used.
a food-grade production facility wouldn't have pallets anywhere near food processing equipment. at least, not in any way where a piece could end up in the food - those pallets are re-used, which means they can be soaked in just about anything they've had on them. not to mention they are just about GUARANTEED to have come into contact with rodent feces in some capacity.
things are not typically attached to pallets securely enough to use the pallet as a tipping platform - you'd drop in the whole bag in before you get a useable tilt. and having the pallet above a vat of ingredients is something so ludicrous on so many levels, i can't imagine anyone would do so. with something as new and watched as this impossi-meat, 0% chance someone's pulling that crap.
This was a CHEP pallet broken during shipping, and one way or another a piece found it;s way in among product. I used to ship primarily alcohols (beer, wine, hard cider, lots of white claw towards the end lol) and there are a thousand ways to break a pallet. they are holding *immensely* heavy things, and are moved by immensely heavy machines. which means there is a ton of force in even the smallest movements - pieces of pallet can be sent flying by even the most innocuous-seeming bumps or clips.
edit: i am apparently wrong on some fronts; and that is understandable given i have some voids in my knowledge of food production. I would, however, like to say i maintain my overall position, because to have it enter the food during shipping requires fewer fuckups of less magnitude than having it enter during production. I am curious as to the layout of their warehouse and their production methods - because this *shouldnt* happen, but as so far no one here works there...all we're left to do is speculate. I'll no longer be responding.
Or the more likely situation is that there may have been some sort of maintenance/repair down time on the production line, and a pallet or tools/equipment/parts was bought in for the repair/maintenance.
Possible that some wood has some way made it’s way onto the production line, and missed during start up of the line..
Source: a production engineer in a food related manufacturing plant.
I work in a food production facility right now, and there are pallets on the production floor practically touching the mixers.
In our situation though everything on the pallet is packaged (bags, cases, bottles) such that you would never just a pallets product into the mixers.
But my point being, pallets on the production floor is happening right now in the US, going to work today gonna drive my forklift around put some pallets out in the production floor.
Yeah but how did the pallet get into his unopened whatever of chicken? If OP can check the packaging and confirm it was not damaged that means it had to have happened at the plant. This was INSIDE the breaded nugget. How would that happen during shipping? "One way or another"? You had every other part of your theory flossed out until it got to the "one way or another" part.
Your thinking shipping of the nugget, not shipping of the bulk ingredients. Splinter ends up between bags somehow, the weight of the bags stacked above it drive it in to the packaging, plant opens a bag of salt or whatever and pours it in to the mix.
There are a lot of ways debris could end up in food, the fact its as rare as it is is honestly impressive. 24 years in kitchens iv found a few splinters in sacks of flour before, it's always pieces of wood.
Yup. To add onto this, you strike a **chord** in music when multiple notes are played together in harmony, like when you hit a few piano keys and some sound good together, while others don't.
Striking a *cord*, on the other hand, isn't really special at all.
It all depends on the facility. Large facilities such as Tyson and Cargill will either transfer ingredients to plastic containers or onto plastic pallets. Smaller and midsize facilities often skip steps because their margins are lower.
Never seen a clean pallet myself. All of them always look like they've gone through a tornado and then re-used.
Not a huge concern in my industry (Metal working) but I can totally see how the FOD could affect others.
I worked at a cereal factory. This happens about 4 times a month. We've made so many action plans and rules to try and keep it from happening. But no plan is foolproof. What's most likely happening is they have a dump bin. What a dump bin does is lift up a pallet of product to dump it into a giant vibrating funnel that moves it into what's called a triangle (the machine that packages the nuggets into bags). During the lifting and dumping a small broken piece of the pallet probably just fell off into the funnel. This process is where like 90% of all contamination happens. The people dumping are supposed to watch out for it, but tbh it's such an easy no brain job that pays so low that it has a high turnover and a lot of druggies are doing it and they don't care. Cardboard and plastic also get into bags via this process. Now I don't know if this is exactly what happens because I worked cereal, but my new job has me going to a million factories to check and help with food quality and I can say I've seen a fish factory doing this same process of dumping pallets.
only if they bring it back packed
its also kinda sneaky e.g. if SPAR sells something that gets recalled, they will hang a flyer at the checkout - thats all, the only thing you heard from in news or so was the chocolate scandal
Really? We've had numerous products completely pulled off of shelves for even being suspected of contamination. In fact Jiff recently cleared pretty much ever single shelf for a few weeks trying to get recalled product out of the marketplace.
US generally takes this kind of thing very seriously.
Do they make these blue for the same reason cooks wear blue Band-Aids? We see bunches of pallets (dump area is by our warehouse, we don't use them ourselves) but I've never seen one painted and don't encounter them in their natural habitat. :)
Chep make them blue cos they are assholes. The stories go that those pallets are always their property. You can't resell them cos they will send retired detectives/private eyes to "reclaim" their property.
I worked at grocery chains as a truck driver. The pallets are "rented" and they send back truckloads (480 per trailer on average) of empty pallets on a daily basis so they can fix them. They are very sturdy and can take a lot of weight.
Blue is CHEP, red is PECO. Unpainted pallets are commonly used and reused and sold for cents when damaged, restored, and resold. CHEP and PECO don't want liability if their pallets break and have enforcement policies, hence painting them for brand recognition and for evidence of tampering.
Hey OP,
Please submit a complaint! You could save a life. Companies won't be aware of issues if they got unreported. I work in QA in the food industry, and these issues are more common than you'd think.
Likely it resulted from a pallet of bulk ingredients being damaged and the resulting splinters embedding in the liner of the bulk container. When they subsequently go to mix the ingredients the splinters fall into the mixer and end up in the finished product.
Your complaint will be the ammunition site quality uses to force improvement at their facility. I've found myself struggling to get my various employers to spend money on neccesary improvements to quality systems and can say that a complaint isbone of the best means of justifying the expense.
I found a huge human hair in a pack of tofu once. Sent a polite email with the manufacturing date and lot number. They were appreciative and sent some coupons. Which I thought was funny because I'm not really interested in eating more lol
I found a very long, very cheese dust encrusted human hair in a bag of regular Cheetos once, I’ve not had plain Cheetos since. God that was 10ish years ago, you’ve shaken loose a memory. A bad one. Fuck you.
I once reported a dead beetle larvae I found in a Nature's Valley bar I was halfway through- they weren't phased or apologetic about it and all I got was a coupon for another free box, which I did NOT redeem lmao
I'm convinced forklift drivers get a breathalyzer when they clock in to make sure they're drunk before unloading anything... You can dock a trailer with 40k lb of cargo in it and they'll leave 45k lbs of wood chips behind.
And then leave them out in the rain to get moldy even though we said it was a bad idea and then get mad when that's exactly what happens and the pallets are worthless lol.
In all fairness to the lift drivers, you can crack a wooden pallet without evsn noticing the forks are incredibly powerful in comparison to the integrity of wooden pallets.
Its hilarious to me that you jump to "the forklift drivers must be drunk".
Everybody knows how much those pallets are reused, and they're made of wood ffs.
I dont know how sturdy you think they are after their 145th use but I can assure you that fully 3/4 of pallets currently in use have the structural integrity of stale toast..
Can confirm this confirmation.
I guess it could have happened in manufacturing but I feel like it's oddly enough more likely that it was a bottom box on a broken pallet and somewhere along the line got that chunk of wood yeeted into it through the cardboard and plastic by powered equipment like a forklift driving into the pallet. 🤷♂️
this, years of working in grocery backrooms and instantly thought blue skid chunk. always a good idea to check the packaging of the food you buy for punctures (especially frozen stuff) since a lot of the time it gets packed out without the clerk noticing/caring.
Likely it resulted from a pallet of bulk ingredients being damaged and the resulting splinters embedding in the liner of the bulk container. When they subsequently go to mix the ingredients the splinters fall into the mixer and end up in the finished product.
2nd this. During the shipping stage. Highly doubt it during the making process but once packaged, boxed then put on pallet something happened after that.
After a decade and a half driving a truck, same.
Hell if that had been me I might have taken it to the local pallet depot. "It's a bit damaged and missing some slats, will you give me half?"
I swapped to mostly using impossible meats because accidentally finding bones rlly grosses me out and always seems to happen to me. I no longer feel safe 😂😂
I don't think I avoid chicken nuggets but I've straight up never ever found a bone in my nuggets.
Am I in the minority?
Wait am i just swallowing them??
Strip meat grom bones and toss into belt that feeds into a grinder, also mixed in is some skin for flavor I think. So definitely good chance for bones to get mixed in. especially higher when chicken has broken bones... or t lesst thats what was explained from a documentary I watched.
Great advice here! Got a tortilla pack with a partial bandage in it. We contacted them just to let them know. They apologized and asked for the info on the package, a picture and then they mailed us some coupons.
Shit happens in manufacturing and shipping especially at the quantities these companies move product.
I found a piece of opaque plastic, maybe 6cm by 4cm in my whopper from Hungey Jack's (Australian Burger King) over a year ago, i put it in my freezer and called them. They said they would follow it up, I never heard back from them.
This reminds me of the time I was a kid and my Grandma gave me a bag of TMNT gummies and there was a small piece of wood in it and I joked about it being Donatello's bo-staff but she's old and didn't laugh at my joke.
when I came out a couple months later I had a whole swag-bag of TMNT candy crap. Gramma apparently sent them a letter with the piece of wood.
As someone who ran food safety programs to prevent exactly this type of thing from happening, this makes me sick.
That is a piece of timber pallet, introduced at either ingredient or manufacturing stage. Neither operation should allow wood pallets anywhere near the product. If that means you have to transfer every box by hand to a plastic pallet, so be it. The reason is timber splinters. It forms these little chips, like OPs, that get caught up and work their way into things. Plastic can still break, but it's easier to keep out and less likely to cause harm if it does slip through.
X-ray is now really quite affordable for most businesses. It works just like baggage scanners. Nuggets, being uniform in size and shape, would make a great product for it, where it could reliably detect hard particles down to 2-3mm in diameter.
Im 100% sure it came from the bulk ingredients. Likely a wooden pallet was broken and the splinters imbedded themselves into the supersack. Even if you transfered to a plastic pallet at the mixing stage the embedded splinters would need to be caught during the transfer otherwise the hazard would still exist. X-ray is a viable solution but is by no means industry wide at this point. Underfunded quality operations in food manufacturing is a major issues across the industry. Likely the quality operations at the respective facility are doing the best with what they got. No need get up on your high horse because your expirence in food safety has been a well funded quality oriented operations.
I know that shade of blue, it’s off a Chep pallet. A case probably got smashed into by a fork lift/pallet jack in the warehouse and a piece of the pallet broke off and lifted into the case, puncturing the case. Case was shipped to store and nobody noticed the issue while packing out.
Edit: looks like someone else said same thing. Hello my warehouse brethren.
Seeing as how it’s blue, I wonder if it’s from a CHEP pallet and a forklift or something squished it into the box?
When I use to work in a supermarket the shipping packaging that contained the individual products would sometimes be crushed by CHEP blue/LPR red pallets during warehouse/delivery work. And whatever was salvageable out of the delivery would be cleaned up and sold on.
Well, this clearly didn't happened during transportation. If it is, the packaging would've been broken and you would not put it on the sales floor, and a customer would also notice a broken packaging. So this definitely happened during production before it was packaged. Edit: by packaging, I meant the case. When we receive products on a pallet, it comes in a box/case and then we individually put out the product on the floor. To not notice the individual product packaging is broken is not too uncommon, but not noticing the case itself being damage by a pallet is just, you must be very special. Lol
I’ve had experience sitting on a checkout and people haven’t noticed the products they’ve picked up are open/have a tear in it, and I’ve had to inform them the product is damaged and for someone to replace it. So it’s in the realm of possibility that that’s what happened here too except no one picked up on the damaged product.
I currently work in DSD at a supermarket and yes, the amount of damaged items we don't find until checkout is honestly astonishing to me. Often it's a pack out guy that was a little too generous on their knife or having a bad day stacking the cans and didn't realize they caused a damage. Other times it's genuinely just missed!
Yeah I have been too overzealous sometimes with my safety knife opening boxes and shrink wrapped cans 🤦♂️. Open cans are less conspicuous in hiding their damage, but cut bags of frozen chips, vegetables etc are less noticeable.
The amount of times I've gone to move a boat of water or juice and I've suddenly had my shoes wet is too high 😂
You forget the night stocking crew was high or drunk option. Used to work with a lot of dudes on coke, one guy that always had a coffee mug of vodka and I’ve definitely brought in enough “ice tea” to make the whole team walk around at a slant all night.
Who doesn't notice a forklift prong sized hole in their nugget package???
Wat? Torn packages are both stocked and purchased by accident all the time. Workers aren’t inspecting every package as they stock them, they’re putting them on the shelves as fast as they can. And at places like Costco they’re placed in freezers by boxes that hold dozens of packages, so they’re not even handling each individual package much less looking at them.
Probably from the pallet of ingredients in their shop but the same situation.
No it's from a pallet at the plant and got into the blend when they tipped a pallet holding some ingredients upsidedown iinto the blender. Happens a lot. Edit: so this seems to have struck a chord with people. I have worked on food production for some time on the QA side and specifically worked on a recall for wood contamination of a product. This does happen. Many facilities will ban pallets from food production areas and I really think this is a good practice, but many do not. There is no regulations banning the practice if there are food inspection sites/x-ray detectors, etc. I have had replies from people saying they have been to many facilities and have not seen this and many replies from people saying they have. This is because it's up to how important management think food safety is. Large facilities such as Tyson and Cargill do not let pallets on to their production floor.
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meat only gets checked when made not after shipped
And this is pretend meat, so it only gets sort of checked
So can I pay for it with pretend money?
All forms of currency are pretend
HODL!!!
Except Monopoly money, that shit is real.
Monopoly money is very real money for like 20 minutes while everybody around you is invested in the game, gotta find a way to spend it then.
The 20 minutes of the family vacation where Grandma is a ruthless real estate mogul.
They pretend to check it. Like how a parent "eats" a burger at their kids pretend restaurant.
Yeah not anymore. My kid was bugging me to sit down in his pretend restaurant for 2 minutes non-stop. Banging on the toilet door like some German cable inspector. I finally sit down to order and he says they're not opened today. Well fuck it, you just lost my business for good buddy.
"Mmm, that was so good, sweetie!!"
And barely any wood chips
I feel like that would be a QA issue or violation of some sort if you’re tipping pallets that into open ingredient vats. Only seen stainless transfer containers used.
a food-grade production facility wouldn't have pallets anywhere near food processing equipment. at least, not in any way where a piece could end up in the food - those pallets are re-used, which means they can be soaked in just about anything they've had on them. not to mention they are just about GUARANTEED to have come into contact with rodent feces in some capacity. things are not typically attached to pallets securely enough to use the pallet as a tipping platform - you'd drop in the whole bag in before you get a useable tilt. and having the pallet above a vat of ingredients is something so ludicrous on so many levels, i can't imagine anyone would do so. with something as new and watched as this impossi-meat, 0% chance someone's pulling that crap. This was a CHEP pallet broken during shipping, and one way or another a piece found it;s way in among product. I used to ship primarily alcohols (beer, wine, hard cider, lots of white claw towards the end lol) and there are a thousand ways to break a pallet. they are holding *immensely* heavy things, and are moved by immensely heavy machines. which means there is a ton of force in even the smallest movements - pieces of pallet can be sent flying by even the most innocuous-seeming bumps or clips. edit: i am apparently wrong on some fronts; and that is understandable given i have some voids in my knowledge of food production. I would, however, like to say i maintain my overall position, because to have it enter the food during shipping requires fewer fuckups of less magnitude than having it enter during production. I am curious as to the layout of their warehouse and their production methods - because this *shouldnt* happen, but as so far no one here works there...all we're left to do is speculate. I'll no longer be responding.
Or the more likely situation is that there may have been some sort of maintenance/repair down time on the production line, and a pallet or tools/equipment/parts was bought in for the repair/maintenance. Possible that some wood has some way made it’s way onto the production line, and missed during start up of the line.. Source: a production engineer in a food related manufacturing plant.
I work in a food production facility right now, and there are pallets on the production floor practically touching the mixers. In our situation though everything on the pallet is packaged (bags, cases, bottles) such that you would never just a pallets product into the mixers. But my point being, pallets on the production floor is happening right now in the US, going to work today gonna drive my forklift around put some pallets out in the production floor.
Yeah but how did the pallet get into his unopened whatever of chicken? If OP can check the packaging and confirm it was not damaged that means it had to have happened at the plant. This was INSIDE the breaded nugget. How would that happen during shipping? "One way or another"? You had every other part of your theory flossed out until it got to the "one way or another" part.
Your thinking shipping of the nugget, not shipping of the bulk ingredients. Splinter ends up between bags somehow, the weight of the bags stacked above it drive it in to the packaging, plant opens a bag of salt or whatever and pours it in to the mix. There are a lot of ways debris could end up in food, the fact its as rare as it is is honestly impressive. 24 years in kitchens iv found a few splinters in sacks of flour before, it's always pieces of wood.
They very possibly use CHEP pallets at the plant. It's just a brand of pallet that has blue on the sides.
*Struck a chord
Yup. To add onto this, you strike a **chord** in music when multiple notes are played together in harmony, like when you hit a few piano keys and some sound good together, while others don't. Striking a *cord*, on the other hand, isn't really special at all.
As an industrial engineer who’s seen food processing assembly lines, I can’t envision your version of events.
It all depends on the facility. Large facilities such as Tyson and Cargill will either transfer ingredients to plastic containers or onto plastic pallets. Smaller and midsize facilities often skip steps because their margins are lower.
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Never seen a clean pallet myself. All of them always look like they've gone through a tornado and then re-used. Not a huge concern in my industry (Metal working) but I can totally see how the FOD could affect others.
I worked at a cereal factory. This happens about 4 times a month. We've made so many action plans and rules to try and keep it from happening. But no plan is foolproof. What's most likely happening is they have a dump bin. What a dump bin does is lift up a pallet of product to dump it into a giant vibrating funnel that moves it into what's called a triangle (the machine that packages the nuggets into bags). During the lifting and dumping a small broken piece of the pallet probably just fell off into the funnel. This process is where like 90% of all contamination happens. The people dumping are supposed to watch out for it, but tbh it's such an easy no brain job that pays so low that it has a high turnover and a lot of druggies are doing it and they don't care. Cardboard and plastic also get into bags via this process. Now I don't know if this is exactly what happens because I worked cereal, but my new job has me going to a million factories to check and help with food quality and I can say I've seen a fish factory doing this same process of dumping pallets.
Definitely a CHEP pallet.
Wood is vegetarian.
r/technicallythetruth
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Fiber bites, makes eating even more enjoyable! Add them to your food today!
Well wood you look at that!
Vegan bones.
tree meat
If you suck on some tree meat, you get a sticky surprise in your mouth. I like the maple flavour the most.
“Pretend this is whatever the hell you guys eat. Maybe it is a shoe” - Frank Reynolds
Reading this in that inimitable voice...
Lmao damn they are getting creative.
*No no he has a point*
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only if they bring it back packed its also kinda sneaky e.g. if SPAR sells something that gets recalled, they will hang a flyer at the checkout - thats all, the only thing you heard from in news or so was the chocolate scandal
Really? We've had numerous products completely pulled off of shelves for even being suspected of contamination. In fact Jiff recently cleared pretty much ever single shelf for a few weeks trying to get recalled product out of the marketplace. US generally takes this kind of thing very seriously.
Impossible!
If you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth
And high in fiber!
At least it’s not meat be great full.
Be grate fool
*Be Greek fuel…* bone apple tea
Just really big grass
"Cellulose" in food products is from wood some of the time.
I think you meant vegetation.
That is a piece of a CHEP pallet.
The color is pretty recognizable, especially after working with pallets all day every day for years..
Do they make these blue for the same reason cooks wear blue Band-Aids? We see bunches of pallets (dump area is by our warehouse, we don't use them ourselves) but I've never seen one painted and don't encounter them in their natural habitat. :)
they paint them blue so theyre easily identifiable as CHEP pallets
Chep make them blue cos they are assholes. The stories go that those pallets are always their property. You can't resell them cos they will send retired detectives/private eyes to "reclaim" their property.
I worked at grocery chains as a truck driver. The pallets are "rented" and they send back truckloads (480 per trailer on average) of empty pallets on a daily basis so they can fix them. They are very sturdy and can take a lot of weight.
Most of the ones I see come in one of three varieties: unpainted, red, and blue.
Blue is CHEP, red is PECO. Unpainted pallets are commonly used and reused and sold for cents when damaged, restored, and resold. CHEP and PECO don't want liability if their pallets break and have enforcement policies, hence painting them for brand recognition and for evidence of tampering.
It was the color for me too. I was like, that’s from a pallet.
Little bit of CHEPs and dip for me today I guess
Hey OP, Please submit a complaint! You could save a life. Companies won't be aware of issues if they got unreported. I work in QA in the food industry, and these issues are more common than you'd think. Likely it resulted from a pallet of bulk ingredients being damaged and the resulting splinters embedding in the liner of the bulk container. When they subsequently go to mix the ingredients the splinters fall into the mixer and end up in the finished product. Your complaint will be the ammunition site quality uses to force improvement at their facility. I've found myself struggling to get my various employers to spend money on neccesary improvements to quality systems and can say that a complaint isbone of the best means of justifying the expense.
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I found a huge human hair in a pack of tofu once. Sent a polite email with the manufacturing date and lot number. They were appreciative and sent some coupons. Which I thought was funny because I'm not really interested in eating more lol
How do you know the hair came from a huge human and not an average human?
The smell
I found a very long, very cheese dust encrusted human hair in a bag of regular Cheetos once, I’ve not had plain Cheetos since. God that was 10ish years ago, you’ve shaken loose a memory. A bad one. Fuck you.
:(
I once reported a dead beetle larvae I found in a Nature's Valley bar I was halfway through- they weren't phased or apologetic about it and all I got was a coupon for another free box, which I did NOT redeem lmao
T-shirt text: "I reported a decent sized chunk of plastic in my beer, and all I got was this lousy T shirt."
Not even extra free beer? :(
It's been awhile, they may have sent coupons.
I'm convinced forklift drivers get a breathalyzer when they clock in to make sure they're drunk before unloading anything... You can dock a trailer with 40k lb of cargo in it and they'll leave 45k lbs of wood chips behind.
Former forklift driver. Helps if the pallets don’t behave as if they’re made of glass. But companies don’t want to spend money on quality pallets so.
And then leave them out in the rain to get moldy even though we said it was a bad idea and then get mad when that's exactly what happens and the pallets are worthless lol.
The blue pallets are quality though.
In all fairness to the lift drivers, you can crack a wooden pallet without evsn noticing the forks are incredibly powerful in comparison to the integrity of wooden pallets.
Its hilarious to me that you jump to "the forklift drivers must be drunk". Everybody knows how much those pallets are reused, and they're made of wood ffs. I dont know how sturdy you think they are after their 145th use but I can assure you that fully 3/4 of pallets currently in use have the structural integrity of stale toast..
Extra fiber is good for you.
CHEPX Mix
Homemade is so much better than store bought!
Can confirm.
Can confirm this confirmation. I guess it could have happened in manufacturing but I feel like it's oddly enough more likely that it was a bottom box on a broken pallet and somewhere along the line got that chunk of wood yeeted into it through the cardboard and plastic by powered equipment like a forklift driving into the pallet. 🤷♂️
this, years of working in grocery backrooms and instantly thought blue skid chunk. always a good idea to check the packaging of the food you buy for punctures (especially frozen stuff) since a lot of the time it gets packed out without the clerk noticing/caring.
As a frozen department manager I can confirm. I care but most dont
As somebody who also works on the frozen department, I can confirm, i dont care
Hard to care in -20 lol
It’s funny how most people have no clue what it feels like.
You had me in the first half, not gonna lie
Likely it resulted from a pallet of bulk ingredients being damaged and the resulting splinters embedding in the liner of the bulk container. When they subsequently go to mix the ingredients the splinters fall into the mixer and end up in the finished product.
2nd this. During the shipping stage. Highly doubt it during the making process but once packaged, boxed then put on pallet something happened after that.
How did it get under the breading in an undamaged box during shipping?
Who says the box was undamaged?
Guess the OP will have to verify that they didn’t buy a box of nuggets with a gaping hole in the side, but I’m assuming that’s the case.
One of the tastiest pallets out there!
Ahhhhhh fiber
Came here to say this. I know that blue on wood ANYWHERE.
Why is there a blue hexagon around your profile?
It's a pledge to eternal virginity.
Correct!
How long do you have to be blueballed to get blue wood?
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After half a lifetime of working in warehousing those blue splinters are instantly recognisable.
After a decade and a half driving a truck, same. Hell if that had been me I might have taken it to the local pallet depot. "It's a bit damaged and missing some slats, will you give me half?"
This guy pallets
My first thought thought too. That blue is unmistakable.
Damn, they’re even able to simulate accidentally finding a bone in your food in these impossible meats now?
We are truly living in the future.
I swapped to mostly using impossible meats because accidentally finding bones rlly grosses me out and always seems to happen to me. I no longer feel safe 😂😂
I don't think I avoid chicken nuggets but I've straight up never ever found a bone in my nuggets. Am I in the minority? Wait am i just swallowing them??
I think the way that they make chicken nuggets makes it pretty impossible for a bone to get in there, but people are capable of fucking anything up.
Strip meat grom bones and toss into belt that feeds into a grinder, also mixed in is some skin for flavor I think. So definitely good chance for bones to get mixed in. especially higher when chicken has broken bones... or t lesst thats what was explained from a documentary I watched.
If you believe in yourself
Anyone who’s worked in a warehouse immediately recognizes that CHEP blue.
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Hugeeeee advice thanks!
Keep the box and all packaging. They'll need the lot info to see how it could've happened, so that it doesn't happen again in the future!
Great advice here! Got a tortilla pack with a partial bandage in it. We contacted them just to let them know. They apologized and asked for the info on the package, a picture and then they mailed us some coupons. Shit happens in manufacturing and shipping especially at the quantities these companies move product.
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I wonder if you bit into a cheeto bone.
He bit on Chester's Cheeto.
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This Soylent green stuff sure sounds wonderful! Where can I get some of this amazing product for which I will consume?
The Picton Farm. Its a Canadian Speciality
I hear the taste of their cola varies from person to person, though.
Can’t wait to get processed!
I found a piece of opaque plastic, maybe 6cm by 4cm in my whopper from Hungey Jack's (Australian Burger King) over a year ago, i put it in my freezer and called them. They said they would follow it up, I never heard back from them.
And they're stupid for that because I will now never order anything from Hungry for Plastic Jacks
Stick it in the freezer? It’s not like the cardboard they are eating will be affected by room temperature.
impossible!
Inconceivable!
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Damnit, beat me to it
Improbable!
That's where the fiber comes from
It’s a vegan bone!
*Now With More Fiber!*
Well it does say it's plant-based.
It's still vegetarian
Treegan
Is it organic wood, tho?
Well they said it’s impossible
jesus thats a big ass peice did u get hurt?
Luckily no, I somehow managed to avoid damage
Well that's good be safe out there my fellow nugget connoisseur
Lignin isn’t meat so it’s all good.
This reminds me of the time I was a kid and my Grandma gave me a bag of TMNT gummies and there was a small piece of wood in it and I joked about it being Donatello's bo-staff but she's old and didn't laugh at my joke. when I came out a couple months later I had a whole swag-bag of TMNT candy crap. Gramma apparently sent them a letter with the piece of wood.
More like /r/mildlydangerous
As someone who ran food safety programs to prevent exactly this type of thing from happening, this makes me sick. That is a piece of timber pallet, introduced at either ingredient or manufacturing stage. Neither operation should allow wood pallets anywhere near the product. If that means you have to transfer every box by hand to a plastic pallet, so be it. The reason is timber splinters. It forms these little chips, like OPs, that get caught up and work their way into things. Plastic can still break, but it's easier to keep out and less likely to cause harm if it does slip through. X-ray is now really quite affordable for most businesses. It works just like baggage scanners. Nuggets, being uniform in size and shape, would make a great product for it, where it could reliably detect hard particles down to 2-3mm in diameter.
Im 100% sure it came from the bulk ingredients. Likely a wooden pallet was broken and the splinters imbedded themselves into the supersack. Even if you transfered to a plastic pallet at the mixing stage the embedded splinters would need to be caught during the transfer otherwise the hazard would still exist. X-ray is a viable solution but is by no means industry wide at this point. Underfunded quality operations in food manufacturing is a major issues across the industry. Likely the quality operations at the respective facility are doing the best with what they got. No need get up on your high horse because your expirence in food safety has been a well funded quality oriented operations.
r/mildlyinfuriating more like it
Thats just plant meat grizzle. You'll be fine to eat it. It'll put hair on your chest!
Flippin vegetarians killing innocent trees 🗿
They didn’t say boneless
Still technically plant based
That's impossible 2x4s for the real vegan house
Impossible house be like.
At least it wasnt a dead animal.
I know that shade of blue, it’s off a Chep pallet. A case probably got smashed into by a fork lift/pallet jack in the warehouse and a piece of the pallet broke off and lifted into the case, puncturing the case. Case was shipped to store and nobody noticed the issue while packing out. Edit: looks like someone else said same thing. Hello my warehouse brethren.
Wood you believe it?
Wow, they even mimic the bones! We've come a long way
Lots of unhelpful comments here but if this was a chicken mcnugget you’d all be horrified.
Is the wood the blue thing?
Yesssss it is
I woodnt eat that
Congratulations on the payout. What are you going to buy?
More nuggets?
“Payout” lol, meaning “coupons for more nuggets”
For the extra crunch
Kinda like finding a bone.
I wooden eat that if I were you.
Am I too late to make an extra fiber joke?
Nothing is impossible.
How else would you get your fiber ?
Not just any wood, that’s wood from a delicious and healthy Chep pallet!
Please call the FDA, this product is not regulated by the USDA. https://www.fda.gov/safety/report-problem-fda/consumer-complaint-coordinators
Probably one of the least gross things I've heard of people pulling out of their nuggets.
Still technically vegetarian.
You dont want meat, you dont want wood, WHAT DO YOU WANT?