Stories about the Worst thing you have Ate or Drank

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Last night wanted to eat some oreos, bought some oreos.
I don't eat oreos all that much, but it's kind
of a cool, fun snack toward the end of the day.
Or it's just like, grab a handful of oreos and
then get myself a nice glass of milk. I think
we've talked about this before of how you eat an oreo.

(00:20):
I take like I get the double stuff oreos because
I like the stuff on the inside, and I like
try to just gently finagle it to where I can
pull off one of the cookies and try to make
it as clean of a pull off as I can,
so none of the the stuff the you know, the

(00:44):
middle part gets on the other cookie. I want to
leave it all nice and slid on the other side.
And I'll eat the Plaine cookie first, and then I'll
eat the stuff off of the second cookie, and then
I'll eat this cookie, and then I grab my glass
of milk two percent usually, and then I'll take a

(01:07):
nice swig or two and rinse and repeat over and
over again. Now this is an important factor because I
really can't eat oreos any other way. Like that's just
it's part of the process. It's part of the ritual

(01:30):
for me. I need to have all of those things
in place. So last night, as I'm wanting this snack
at like nine thirty at nine, after I've eaten dinner,
you know, I'm like, oh, oreos nice. But before I
even grab them out of the box, I know I
need to go check their fridge for what your two
percent milk usually, And I open the fridge door and

(01:53):
there's like a tiny bit of milk left the very
bottom of this carton of milk. So first and foremost,
it's already expired. Now, I don't know how you feel
about expired milk, but I give it like three or
four solid days. I give it a snipcheck. Yeah you
can tell. Yeah, it's just like they put that date

(02:15):
there so they sell it by a certain date. That
doesn't mean you have to drink it by that date,
So you give it another couple of days. It's not
that big of a deal. It's not nearly enough for
me to fully enjoy with my oreos. So I just
had a punt on the oreo thing, but it got
me to thinking, right, my wife said, oh, I can
use that much milk for something I'm going to do
in the kitchen, whether it's you know, make your coffee,

(02:36):
which I drink coffee that has milk in it, or
I'm putting milk into something that I'm cooking. That would
be enough. I'm like, okay, but it got me thinking
how long would that possibly potentially sit there and have
to sit there before I finally was like, oh, you know,

(02:57):
move on. I'm usually pretty careful about this. I did
the weirdest and grossest thing recently that I've actually eaten.
And I'll have a local thing as to why this
is important. I ate a grape, Like I bring grapes
in and sometimes I accidentally leave them in the fridge

(03:20):
here for like multiple days because I eat other things
and just like I'm not feeling grapes and I just
accidentally leave it in the fridge. And then by the
time I get around eating them, I'll take a bite
and I'm like, ooh, like what happened to this grape?
And I'll just try to get rid of that cheese too.
Sometimes I'll have cheese and sometimes the cheese just gets
a little old, but it's not like harmful, it's just

(03:41):
like I can taste the dif friends, what about you,
has there been anything that you've accidentally eaten that you
were thinking, Oh, it's probably not the best thing for
me to actually consume this, but you still gave it
a go. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
I have two of them real quick. One of them
I consumed was sour cream.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
Sour cream in general is a tough sell for me.
I kind of like dairy products in general, but anything
like I once ate a taco that I didn't anticipate
having sour cream on it, and it had sour cream
on it. No it as a brito. I would have
seen the sour cream on a taco in a burrito
and I took a bite and I almost gagged. Wow,
because it's just the texts. He's a little thick, you know.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
It was about three months expired. I needed it for
what for some dinner, and I stirred it. I like
really checked it, and I was like, did you know
it smelled? Yeah, but I really wanted some sour cream.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
And it passed.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
I didn't get sick at all, and it was fine.
But dairy products are particularly questionable when it comes to
that stuff, Like you feel like the expiration date matters
on something like that more than.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
Yeah, it's way more perishable than others.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
But to finish, I ate a box of macaroni and
cheese from my grandma's house that expired in twenty nineteen.

Speaker 4 (05:00):
Huh.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yeah, when.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
Over the court within the last year or so it
was it. I was over at their house, made up,
looking in the cupboard for a box of mac and cheese.
It was tucked back in the corner twenty nineteen, huh
And I made it and it tasted fine, just normal.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
I don't know if I like that. I don't know
if it's a good thing. Like, is it good that
that whatever however that's made can last that long and
still taste okay?

Speaker 2 (05:28):
You know, it probably isn't good for the human body.
There's a I mean, there's a reason why it was
probably okay, and that's a bad thing for.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
The body, you know, Right, It's like how many preservatives
have been put into food like this that allows it
to be good five years later. You know. I've seen
videos of people like finding old beers because people are
I think, are a little more cavalier about this stuff
with like beverages. Yeah, it can kind of be cool.
They find a beer that's like from the eighties and
they open it up and they take a swig and

(05:59):
they like fall over with how terrible it is. But
dairy products, I feel like you're a lot more dangerous
in food that you're just like you're nobody's drinking beer
to like feel like you got the right nutrition, right
of course, Yeah, it's like a bit of a different thing.
You need sustenance. You grabbed the mac and cheese because

(06:20):
you wanted sustenance. You needed something in your body. You
found some that was five years old or longer. You know,
that's kind of crazy to me that it tasted fine.
I'm sure everybody has a story like this. What's the
craziest thing that you've ate or drank you probably shouldn't have.
And I say this because more than two pounds of

(06:44):
this barbecue pork jerky product from Korea which has been
at Costco and Sam's Club, have been recarved because it's
been contaminated with pieces of metal. According to Federal health officials,
they found the metal and the products that originated from
a conveyor belt that they used during production. So it's

(07:04):
uh LSI Incorporated recalled the jerky product labeled Golden Island
Fire Grilled Pork Jerky, Korean barbecue. That's the product, ladies
and gentlemen again. Golden Island fire grilled pork, jerky Korean
barbecue recipe.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
Would you rather have metal infused a jerky or radioactive
shrimpimember one.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
The radioactive shrimp was a tough one. That was a
tough sell. You know what if this is small amounts
of metal, like trace metals, theoretically I could handle that, right,
you know, like we probably get some of that little iron. Yeah, yeah,
you probably get a little tiny bit of that stuff
every once in a while. But they whatever, you know,
it's just a strange phenomena, I guess. But if you

(07:49):
got something that's on your mind that you think would
fit in with this conversation, what's some of the craziest
stuff that you've eaten or drank? Well? When you got
the phone lines open four, two, five, five, eight, eleven, ten,
and we'll start with Scott. Scott, welcome to our show today.
What's on your mind?

Speaker 5 (08:05):
Hi, Emory, I was just gone because it made me
think of a when I was a in my twenties,
I remember discovering my grandmother still had a jar of
Apricott preserves that she had.

Speaker 6 (08:20):
Canned.

Speaker 5 (08:20):
I assumed from the last year that she had the tree,
and I think I was probably sick when that tree
was cut down, and I was I was in my
twenties somewhere, so I'm gonna guess in that jar was
at least twelve fifteen years old, and they did not
look advertising. But I wanted them pretty bad because I

(08:43):
just had so many good memories with eating fruit from
that tree and I wanted it. So I ate him
and I had no nothing was wrong. I got scolded
by my fiance at the time because then it was
a dumb thing to do, but I didn't get sick
or anything. It was it was worth it.

Speaker 7 (09:02):
It tasted okay, Oh yeah, they tasted just as good
as I remembered him, so.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
All right, well this is not an endorsement.

Speaker 5 (09:10):
I had a beer story like that too. She had
at you remember the stubby bottles of Budweiser they used
to sell.

Speaker 1 (09:15):
Uh yeah, yeah, yeah, the little guys.

Speaker 5 (09:17):
Yeah, they haven't sold them for a long time, and
I had. I had found one in her fridgs that'd
been there ever since I was a kid, too, and
I I was like, all right, I'm twenty twenty something
now I'm gonna I'm gonna give it a try. Yeah,
it tasted absolutely terrible.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
Yeah, I was gonna say.

Speaker 5 (09:35):
That spit out of your mouth situation. But it was
definitely not good.

Speaker 1 (09:39):
Yeah, I can't imagine. I bet it was a pungent
smell as well. It probably would have. Oh yeah, yeah,
that's it. That's tough with Scott. Hey, I appreciate the
call man, thanks for listening to us.

Speaker 5 (09:51):
All right, thank what.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
That is not an endorsement in any way of eating,
you know, fifteen year old apricot preserves. Please don't do that.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
If it was, if it was jarred properly, though, it
should be okay, right, like if the Mason Mason jar.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
I don't want to tell you only that I okay,
maybe it is, but if they did, like if it
looks not the same and it looks old and like
an appetizing thing about this fruit is insanely perishable. Now
you could do whatever you want, preserves wise to like
make it lasts longer. Fifteen years? Is he crazy? That's

(10:29):
a long time, he said, He'll line. But it's just like, wow, yeah,
do not do that, like, you know, he had a
sentimental reason as to why he did that. But I mean, gee, whiz,
Kevin's on the phone line at four O two five
five eight eleven ten. Welcome to eleven tin.

Speaker 8 (10:46):
Kfab Hey, every just want to say it. By the
third or fourth time, I apology. I really appreciate what
you do. I always enjoy talking with you.

Speaker 1 (10:54):
Appreciate it.

Speaker 8 (10:56):
So when I was in Iraq, about you out and
I was training Iraqi police at one of the police
stations there, and they had a big like get together,
a party or something that I got invited to, and
they had fish and vegetables from the local economy, and
so against my better judgment, I ate the fish and

(11:17):
the vegetables, and you know, just enjoyed all every bit
of it. And I didn't get sick, So I was
I was real lucky there.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
So yeah, were you with anyone?

Speaker 9 (11:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (11:30):
Yeah, I was with my uh my unit was out there,
and uh I was the only one that chanced to
eat in the local cuisine that day. So a lot
of guys got sick for me, even chicken and rice
over there. Yeah, for some reasons, vegetables.

Speaker 3 (11:44):
And fishing do anything.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
Well, I guess that's a positive. Kevin. What does that
mean about your insides? I mean, are you made up
of some sort of like mechanical situation you can just
like crunch up anything.

Speaker 10 (11:55):
I don't know.

Speaker 8 (11:56):
Usually I can eat pretty much anything. I got a
pretty iron stomach. When people get schick on stuff, I
don't for some reason. So I guess I'm just blessed.

Speaker 1 (12:03):
Yeah, well there you go. Hey, Kevin, appreciate the call today.
Thanks so much for being a part of the show.
We always appreciate it, all right, thank you. Yeah, that's uh,
that's interesting. I am awful with this. I am absolutely terrible.
I was dating a girl, which, by the way, she
was a nightmare. I mean just an absolute nightmare, and
hindsight is just like, what were you doing?

Speaker 6 (12:23):
Man?

Speaker 1 (12:24):
But you know we all have those. We all have those.
Maybe not everybody, but I had those, and uh, you know,
you know what ended up happening is, uh, she was
in uh if you know these people, they live in
Kansas City, so hopefully you don't know too much about it,
but figured out she I was dating her. We were
like eighteen, her brother was engaged to a Hindu Indian

(12:50):
woman and it was her brother who was getting married.
Does that make sense? So I'm like two or three
full degrees removed from what is happening with this wedding,
and it's a big deal right now, apparently like it's
a white woman. He's getting married to like a normal
Caucasian woman, and he's an Indian Hindu guy. So the

(13:10):
wedding was actually the Hindu wedding, and then there was
going to be this like a normal traditional wedding. I
believe down the line somewhere she was willing to, like obviously,
participate in her family was willing to participate in all
this stuff. It was a wild weekend. I had no
idea what I was doing with myself. I was only eighteen.
I shouldn't have been doing some of the stuff I
was doing, for whatever it's worth, But yeah, it was

(13:30):
memorable for all the wrong reasons. We went and they
had this huge party with all of the people at
this house, at their house, and we were there and
I smelled the food that they were making, and I mean,

(13:51):
the mid thirties Emory would have been like, I can't,
I don't want to be here and eat this food.
It was already weird enough that they were bound down
to cocaine or pineapples or whatever they do. And you know,
this is not to I don't want to get to
racy with my description here, but you know, like as
a guy who was raised in a Methodist church, it
is just like it all felt very odd, and I

(14:13):
didn't feel like I wanted to participate too much in
the religious happenings of what was happening there, and I didn't.
But then the food happened, and I was like, oh,
I can't even be in this. I can't even be
in the house. It felt so bad, and everybody was
having a great time and they were eating all the food.
I'm looking as like, is there anything, Is there one
thing that I'd be willing to eat here? And I

(14:35):
just I couldn't bring myself to do it. So I
had to slip out at like eleven PM and drive
to McDonald's and like eat a super late dinner because
I was starving to death, and I had to eat
fast food because I couldn't bring myself to eating what
I'm sure was for most people absolutely delicious Indian food.
And for those that family, I apologize. I hope that

(14:57):
they didn't feel too offended that I needed to eat
McDonald and some of the food that they prepared, But yeah,
me going over to a place like Iraq and or
anywhere honestly and eat that type of food. It's just
not gonna happen now. Spanish food or Dutch food. That
was all right. I don't know what it is. Maybe

(15:18):
Europe is a little bit different than India and Japanese
food and Chinese food and Arab food, all of which
just does not at all advertize me. But Alas, like
I said, I'm pretty just generally kind of careful. I
don't I used to eat a lot of fast food stuff,
and I know people are like, dude, that stuff's terrible
for you. I don't eat a ton of fast food
these days, so I don't have like a lot of

(15:42):
And I've always been a little bit My mom was
like this, very like, I'm a picky eater for the
most part, right when it comes to trying new variations
and types of food. But I also I'm just like
for stuff in my own house if it's a little
past the do date. I mean, you've seen me in
here with bananas, and I'm just I'm a little bit

(16:05):
conservative with the bananas. Yeah, you're critical of your banana color.
You can usually tell what the banana though, it's easy, right,
it's a visual on the outside and it's not bad
for you. It's just like I don't like the mush
it's a texture thing. Yeah, it's like a little too soft.
They save it for the banana bread, which I also like.
But alas, that's kind of like I'm a little bit
more conservative with my food and I just don't like

(16:27):
stuff that's not super duper fresh, sometimes to a fault
where I'll eat something that's a bit overripe, just because
my brain tells me that that's better, even though it
doesn't taste nearly as good. Phone lines are open. If
there's some crazy expired thing or some exotic drink that
you have had and you maybe shouldn't have done that,

(16:48):
I'm interested in your stories today. At four h two
five five, eight eleven ten, we got Dan on the
phone line today, Dan, what do you think about this?

Speaker 10 (16:56):
Alrighty, well, I'm going to show My age goes back
to nineteen seventy two. I was sixteen. It was my
first job, being a sack of groceries at a grocery
store over and count the bluff. And it came time
from my break, and so I went and grabbed me
a bottle of pop, and you know, found the church key,
and I headed up to the breakroom and sat down

(17:16):
and took a big old swig of my squirt. Oh,
and looked up and there's a spider floating around inside
that bottle. Needless to say, I did not finish it
at all, and there was squirt spread all over that
break room by the time I get done spitting it out.

Speaker 1 (17:33):
Now, all right, a couple of things. Yeah, I love squirt,
all right, Squirt is underrated. Soda love squirt. I know
I I haven't had me a squirt in a while.
I'm gonna have to go find me one number two.
I just had this happen. I was at Valas yesterday,
and they'll give you, like when you give you ciders,
they give you these cups. Right, It's not like a

(17:54):
bottle or anything. They give you a cup. And there
were a lot of flies that were just kind of
like around insider. I'm sure everybody knows it's very sweet,
so they do attract It would attract bugs. If you
spilled it somewhere, bugs would be around and wanted to
like get some of that sugar. Well, one of these
flies got a little too close to the sun, Dan,

(18:16):
and landed right in my drink, like just right. I
was holding it in my hand and I looked down
there he was. It's just a normal looking fly, just
like floating around at the top of my drink. And
I was wondering if he had, you know this, he
killed himself by flying in there, or if he was
still alive. So I reached in, I scooped him out
of there. I sat him on the table and I

(18:37):
could see him move a little bit, and I was like, oh,
he's still alive. And then I flicked him into you know,
the woods or whatever. So maybe he could dry off
and go bother somebody else. But I don't know. And
this is the weird thing about me, Dan, I probably
would have just removed the spider if I could, and
I would have kept drinking that thing. I don't know.
Maybe I'm a weirdo.

Speaker 10 (18:57):
Well that sider trick. That's a cure for mosquit and fly.
That's the way you catch them. Yeah, you put fighter
inside of a jar, poke holes in the lid, and
they fly into the hole and they don't come out.

Speaker 1 (19:08):
There you go. Now, see this has had a pest control,
natural pest control gotta love it, Dan, thanks for coming man,
appreciate it later. Man, it's good. I like Squirt for
anybody out there who hasn't had a Squirt before, very citrusy.
I like it. It's a good soda. Underrated soda. It
doesn't get to love because it's not, you know, one

(19:29):
of these gigantic brands. And I like soda. I still
drink soda from time to time, like real soda, not
the you know, Stevia plant soda that I generally drink
because it's got less calories. But still. Craig's on the
phone line calling us four two, five, five, eight eleven ten.
Welcome in, Craig. What's on your mind?

Speaker 11 (19:50):
Oh?

Speaker 12 (19:50):
The nastiest thing I probably drank is back when I
was a kid in the late sixties, I got a
Doctor Pepper and that was a big preat we were
kids back in them days. I'm chugging down this doctor
Pepper and I can see in the bottom of the
bottle of cigarette, but it's stuck to.

Speaker 1 (20:07):
The bottom of it on the inside.

Speaker 12 (20:10):
On the inside. I haven't drank doctor Pepper to this
day because of that.

Speaker 4 (20:18):
Yeah, okay, bottles used to be returnable, you know.

Speaker 12 (20:21):
They'd wash them and then oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (20:27):
Oh that's terrible. I hate that, all right, Well that's
a visual that I'm I can see why they don't
do that anymore, there, Craig. Man, jeez, well, I would
be scarred by that as well. If that's a tough
image you get out of my brain. I'm sorry you
had to deal with that, Craig. Hopefully you found other
good sodas to drink.

Speaker 12 (20:47):
No, I don't drink pop anymore.

Speaker 1 (20:49):
I ruined the whole thing for him, and I get it,
and it's probably better off in the long run, Craig.
I'm with you. I appreciate the call, though, Man, thanks
for listening.

Speaker 5 (20:56):
You bet yep, oh gosh.

Speaker 1 (20:59):
So yeah, you'd have the glass bottle, you'd rent them
out and then you'd take it back and then they'd
refill it at the bottling plant. And that that's awful.
I hate that. Melinda is on our phone line at
four O two five five eight eleven ten. Melinda, you're
on eleven ten kfab Hi.

Speaker 13 (21:17):
Calling in with your conversation about food with bugs and
stuff like that. I heard, by the way, I love
your show. I'm up here from Kansas City working in
the area, and I listened to you all the time.

Speaker 1 (21:28):
Oh, thanks, appreciate that.

Speaker 13 (21:30):
Anyway, back in Kansas City area, one time I went
to go grab a quick salad at a Burger king
near my house and I had just thirty minutes to
have lunch and drove away. When you parked my car
opened the lid and there was a freeze drive flight
in the salad, and.

Speaker 10 (21:48):
I can't lie.

Speaker 13 (21:49):
I checked it out the window and went ahead and
ate the salad.

Speaker 1 (21:52):
I you know, I would have done the exact same thing,
Like I said, I the amount of stuff that's on
your hands, if we could just do a study, even
if you wash your hands fairly regularly, Like having stuff
on your hands is a lot dirtier than almost anything
that would like crawl, including like I know, I know
we don't want bugs or anything like, but any bug

(22:14):
or anything like that, you know, you know what bother
me more is somebody else's hair. Honestly, Oh I know,
Oh yeah, that would have been way worse to me.

Speaker 13 (22:23):
I don't like eating wings or anything out in public
because of simply licking your fingers. Things like that kind
of just sort of disgusting to me, And so I
try to get things that are not finger food.

Speaker 8 (22:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (22:34):
Yeah, the freeze drieds live. He'd have been alive, it
would have been a different story. But it was freeze
dried can be concuminated.

Speaker 1 (22:43):
Exactly. If he would have flown in your mouth, you
could have eaten it and it wouldn't have made you sick.
For whatever it's worth, right, I.

Speaker 13 (22:47):
Wouldn't even have known it been looking at.

Speaker 1 (22:50):
Yeah, exactly. You know what, it's just a little protein,
just a little time of protein in there. Melane appreciate
the call, Thanks for listening. Day Wade is on the
line here. Wade, appreciate you for being a part of
the show. What's on your Mind today? You theeremy, Yes, sir.

Speaker 4 (23:09):
Yeah, I had one one evening. We were driving back
from Denver to Cheyenne, and and I was a passer
and I was drinking a beer and I got down
to the bottom of the beer and I picked up
something in my mouth. It was pretty large, and I
pulled it out and it looked like a larvae, like

(23:30):
like a worm, like.

Speaker 11 (23:33):
You know what.

Speaker 4 (23:34):
I was just disgusted like, and my buddy even pulled over.
I was like, look at this. When we're trying to
figure it out. Well, come to find out, I was
eating pork rinds, and a pork rind like fell right
in the can of beer, you know, and it like
reconstituted it. You know it was. It was disgusting up
until I figured it out.

Speaker 1 (23:55):
You know, that still would have bothered me. My brain
would not have let that go there, Wade. But yes,
that is on a heck of a story. Maybe maybe, uh,
maybe that's the lesson. No no beers in the car.

Speaker 5 (24:07):
I don't know your passager.

Speaker 11 (24:10):
You know you're good, aren't you.

Speaker 1 (24:11):
It depends on the state or the jurisdiction. But I'm
not here to say you say nay or boo? Is
a you do you? Wade? Appreciate the call today, all right, Yeah,
see you later. Yeah, I don't know. We'll have to
get a get a ruling on that from all fifty states.
I'm not telling you to do that though. That's bad idea,
and I know for a fact in Iowa that's something

(24:32):
that's against the law. John's on the phone line four
O two five, five, eight eleven ten, John, what's on
your mind on this?

Speaker 14 (24:38):
Okay? I came in on the middle of the conversation
twenty years ago, or so. Uh, I mixed a sprite
and the doctor pepper. I was okay if I had
them separate. But when you mix those those soft prinks
together sometimes they call them a suicide.

Speaker 1 (24:54):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 14 (24:55):
And I began so I began salivating worse than Papalov's dog.
And it took me forty five minutes. I was driving.
I had an empty cup of that I was spitting
into and I filled half the cup and I had
to pull over inside the road. It was so bad.
I have a real quick one. The second one, all right,
when I when I was fifty years ago, I was

(25:16):
bailing hay for a farmer. He told me a story
of when he was out working. He had a jug
of water that they drink from and he was thirsty,
and so he started drinking the jug from the jug
and he looked down inside at the bottom was a
dead mouse. What yes, wow, Yeah, that was a long

(25:39):
time ago. But yeah, I mean he was thirsty and
didn't see the dead mouse in the in the bottom
of the judge until he drunk some of the water.

Speaker 1 (25:50):
Oh that's bad, Okay, Yeah, that's that's the worst one
we've had so far. That's that's a bad one. All right. Well,
now I'll every time I see a mouse in that
bucket trap that I set in my basement all the time,
I'll think about that. Could I could be drinking water
with a dead mouse at the bottom of it. Yeah,
that's terrible. John, appreciate the call today, Yeah, for sure,

(26:11):
appreciate the call, buddy. Thanks for listening to our show.
Connor is on the line and he'll start us off
this hour. Connor, Welcome to the show. What's on your mind?

Speaker 15 (26:19):
Hey, Marine, thanks for taking my call. So we're talking
about discusting foods. And when I was in the military,
it was in the Army to be specific. I got
an mr one day, sat down to eat it and
it comes with this amazing thing called a juice powder,
which is essentially just the military's version of kool aid. Okay,
and shook it up, put it in my drink and
got about halfway through and there was a crystallized cockroach

(26:43):
side of my drink.

Speaker 14 (26:44):
What so.

Speaker 15 (26:47):
Powered through it, drank it and just spit it out.
And what about my day?

Speaker 1 (26:50):
You spit out the cockroach?

Speaker 15 (26:53):
Yes, sir, I didn't find it until after I drank it.

Speaker 1 (26:55):
It was in your mouth. Yes, sir Ah, why gross.
Oh I don't know, man, that's that that would have
messed me up. I was like, send me home, discharge
me now it's I don't know if that's that's how
that works. But well, uh, Connor, I I don't I

(27:20):
don't really have anything good to say except that might
be the grossest thing that we've heard so far today.

Speaker 15 (27:26):
If anyone can top it.

Speaker 5 (27:27):
More power to them.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
But appreciate the call today. Thanks for listening to our show.

Speaker 6 (27:33):
Problem.

Speaker 1 (27:34):
Yeah you too. Let's get to Steve here on the
phone line of four oh two, five, five, eight to
eleven ten. Welcome in, Steve. What's on your mind?

Speaker 16 (27:40):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, thanks for taking the call. This is
something that happened long, long ago. My first wife and
I took a trip out to the National Forest out
in western Nebraska, and back then it was kind of
calming to pick up some beer and have a beer
while you were driving around. And I bought a six

(28:03):
pack of Slits.

Speaker 1 (28:05):
Okay, I remember that back in the day.

Speaker 16 (28:07):
Yeah, yeah, way back, and drinking this beer and I
got down to the bottom and I had something in
my mouth and it would look like a leg off
of a grasshopper. Huh oh oh in your beer that
I didn't Yeah, I didn't drink canned beer for a
long time after that.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
Why would you? How does that happen? A lot of
people are just like, yeah, this went through the bottling plant.
Somebody would have had a can or bottle this stuff,
and then you know, I found it after I drank it.
How does that happen? Yeah, that is crazy to me.

Speaker 16 (28:41):
Yeah, yeah, sure is well, Steve.

Speaker 1 (28:44):
I'm glad that you survived that. I appreciate you calling in.

Speaker 16 (28:47):
All right, okay, thanks, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (28:49):
No problem. Dan is on our phone line of four
h two five five, eight eleven ten. Welcome in, Dan.
How's it going today?

Speaker 3 (28:56):
Doing great? I got a good one for you, all right?

Speaker 1 (28:59):
Hit me.

Speaker 3 (29:00):
I lived in Omaha at the time. In the fact,
I worked at KFAB Radio.

Speaker 1 (29:05):
Oh cool.

Speaker 3 (29:05):
But I stopped out at Baker's Supermarket and bought some
yogurt and one of them was a raspberry yogurt, and
I took a couple of bison and I took one
and I thought it was a raspberry in my mouth,
but I pulled out a leg of a cricket, A
leg of a cricket, A leg of a cricket and

(29:26):
I spit the rest of it out and it was
a full bodied cricket that was in my raspberry yogurt,
in your yogurt.

Speaker 1 (29:34):
Yeah, yeah, Now I have to I have to admit.
And I talked to this girl a couple of times,
and I felt bad for my immediate gut knee jerk
reaction of this. But there was a girl, a girl.
She was a woman who was living in ames Iowa.
I was living in Des Moines, and she started a

(29:56):
company of like basically making food with crickets as the protein.

Speaker 7 (30:02):
Oh, I know, right, so but but she but she
wouldn't but it was interesting and weird is she wouldn't
do it, Like I guess maybe you could have ordered
just like what they looked like, like just regular crickets.

Speaker 1 (30:20):
Yeah, but it was like they were ground into powder,
you know, you know, so like you would have never
you would have never. And I tried eating it, even
after I knew it, right, your brain's telling you one thing,
and I'm just like, oh, I'm not so sure about this.
And then I tried it, and it's like you would
never have known it does like there isn't like an
obvious tell in the taste because she would make, you know,

(30:41):
different flavors of chocolate or something, but it was like
a protein bar almost, but the protein was crickets. So
oh wow, Dan, I I don't know how she did
it and stuff, but my brain it took me a
bit to like come to the to the conclusion that
maybe it's just our brains that are saying that it's
not good. But if it was the bug, I'm out, Like,

(31:03):
I am so far out. I couldn't even tell you
how far out I am.

Speaker 3 (31:09):
Oh me too.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
Yeah, well you had to experience that. I'm sad for
you on that. Thankfully I have not accidentally eaten or
had a cricket in my mouth, but that appreciate it, buddy.
Thanks for the call. Horror stories that you may have,
you know, it's Halloween week, but horror stories about how
you've dug into maybe some food that might be a
bit expired, maybe a drink that was really old, and

(31:32):
you're like, eh, how bad could it be. It's kind
of evolved from that to conversation about bugs getting into
your food or or your drink and you're not noticing
until you're already like in the process of consuming it,
which is also a problem. Seems like everybody has their
own variations of these stories, and if you want to share,

(31:55):
you can call us at four h two five five,
eight eleven ten. Shad is on the phone line to
start us off this segment. Welcome in, Shad. What's on
your mind?

Speaker 4 (32:03):
Well?

Speaker 17 (32:04):
One night I was driving down the highway, it was dark,
it was nighttime, and decided to swing into a gas station.
I was with my girlfriend at the time, and uh
decided to get a drink. And on the way to
the counter, I saw one of those clear cups with
the donut holes in him right there, probably half a
dozen in there. So yeah, and got back to the car,

(32:26):
driving down the highway eating the donut holes, and I
thought this things tastes kind of funny. And I told
my girlfriend. I said, he things really don't taste very good.
So I turned on the light in the car and
looked in the cup and they were covered in green fuzz.

Speaker 1 (32:44):
Green fuzz.

Speaker 17 (32:45):
Nobody green fuzz, completely covered with mold.

Speaker 1 (32:49):
Nobody. Nobody saw that while they were sitting there.

Speaker 17 (32:53):
Yeah, I think there was dark in the car. I
didn't look at it in the way to the register.
It was my own fault. But there were two left
in that, so I got quite a few of them done.

Speaker 11 (33:03):
Apparently.

Speaker 1 (33:04):
Did you have any complications afterward without you know, being
too descriptive?

Speaker 17 (33:09):
None, I had no problem afterwards, but after seeing them
completely covered in green spots, it wasn't very out.

Speaker 6 (33:16):
They got little.

Speaker 17 (33:17):
It went back on, they got setting the floor in
the backseat and thrown away when I got home.

Speaker 1 (33:21):
Yeah. Yeah, that's that's a bit disconcerting that they would
even still have those available for somebody to buy and
and didn't even bother to check and a good story
out of it, I suppose, Chad, I appreciate the comment. Man,
thanks for listening to us.

Speaker 9 (33:38):
Thank you.

Speaker 18 (33:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
I did a science experiment when I was growing up.
I'm sure everybody did, of trying to grow mold. It's
like you'd get like your bread, and we had this,
you know. It was it was an easy quick way
to It is a quick way to learn the scientific method,

(34:01):
you know, with like the questions and the hypothesis and
the all the different like details. You have to be
very descriptive. That was kind of part of the lesson.
And I think it was in biology that we did this,
and we had a little piece of bread, and we
put it in a container and then we would like
put a controlled amount of water on it, like we
have like a little eye drop or whatever, and then

(34:22):
we would square it a couple of different things. And
the experiment was is like the mold that would grow
on and over the days, right, And we didn't really
know what the heck was happening, you know, as part
of the science, but like did more water equal more mold?
Did different air conditions? Like can temperatures affect the mold?
It was kind of interesting, but I always remember when
I first saw that as just like it's crazy that

(34:44):
stuff like that can grow on food, you know. And
if you've ever reused a glass or a cup a
lot without giving it a good wash, you can notice
some little tiny moldy areas in the cup. And that's
happened to me before, where it's just like you know,
some times, like I use this water bottle like all
the time and only water ever goes in here. So

(35:05):
usually it's it's fine, but every week, for sure, like
I'm making sure it gets a good thorough wash and
will switch bottles out.

Speaker 6 (35:13):
You know.

Speaker 1 (35:15):
It's just interesting that little tiny organisms can like grow
out of that stuff just by the introduction of water
or some variable like like the sugars in grain. It's weird.
But yeah, yeah, I wouldn't like that, wouldn't like to
eat that. It'd be a mess. Four h two, five, five,

(35:36):
eight eleven ten is the number. Freedom is on the line. Interesting, Okay, Freedom,
welcome to the show today. What's on your mind?

Speaker 11 (35:45):
We love the show. I'll take one monly crooked sandwich
to go, please.

Speaker 1 (35:52):
Gross.

Speaker 11 (35:52):
Well, well, well, we were bowling one night and I
had little butt head brother in law a couple of
years younger, and I'm having a Coca Cola, just enjoying myself,
and wound up with a dip old Copenhagen. I'm just
chilling that sucker up. We're bowling, having a good old time.

(36:13):
I sat on the table and I turned around and
I saw him going for.

Speaker 8 (36:18):
It, and I said no, and he just went.

Speaker 11 (36:21):
For it and chugged that sucker figured out tasting like
a beer with cigarette bub to that, and it was good.
Most disgusting.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
Okay, but but hey, just real quick, Freedom, And wouldn't
you you just watched him drink it so you didn't
have to actually experience that.

Speaker 11 (36:45):
Yeah, he drank my spit from the COVID.

Speaker 1 (36:51):
Oh that's nasty. Hey, you know what, it makes for
a good story, and that's what we're here for. And
now you've gotten to see that to CAFA be nation. Freedom,
that's awesome.

Speaker 11 (37:00):
We deserved it.

Speaker 1 (37:03):
Satue limitations is over with. If you intentionally did it,
it's all good. I appreciate it. Freedom. You have a
great rest of your day. Man, Teresa, what's your story?

Speaker 9 (37:12):
Hey, Emory, thanks for taking my call. Yeah, so, I
alwayn't have anything gross like buzzs in my cup or
anything like that. But long ago, when I was pregnant
with our youngest child, we went to Valentino's to the
food bar, sure, and I was starving. I was very,

(37:33):
very pregnant. I was starving, and I got pasta with
I really wanted the white, like the mushroom kind of sauce,
not the red sauce. So I got it, even though
I kind of had the second guess because there was
kind of this scan on the top of it, you know,
like when it's been sitting there.

Speaker 18 (37:51):
Yeah, and I got it.

Speaker 9 (37:54):
Anyway, I was so hungry ate it. About two o'clock
in the morning, I woke up and I was really
regretting eating that stuff because I was extremely horribly sick, ok,
the entire rest of the night into the morning, and
when you were nine months pregnant, that is absolutely no fun.

Speaker 1 (38:17):
I couldn't imagine. The whole thing sounds terrible, the pregnancy.

Speaker 8 (38:20):
Thing, it was awful.

Speaker 9 (38:22):
I've never eaten their hand I've never eaten that kind
of sauce again.

Speaker 1 (38:25):
Yeah, I was. I was going to say, you know, like,
there's got to be something in the sauce if you
don't feel that way usually, But what was it a
craving you just had in that moment? You were like,
I just really want to taste that.

Speaker 3 (38:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (38:38):
Yeah, it just looked really good. I mean it just
sounded good and I just really wanted that. And you know,
when you're pregnant, you just.

Speaker 1 (38:45):
Eat what That's what I hear. You got to make
the taste buds happy, that's for sure.

Speaker 9 (38:52):
But man, was I sorry?

Speaker 1 (38:55):
Well, if it makes you feel any better. When I
accidentally don't give myself enough time to like get put
food together and the like it's late, go to one
of these taco fast food joints, and I love how
it tastes. I mean, it goes down real easy for
the next like five hours, especially when I'm in bed.
Oh it's always one hundred percent of the time. I
regret it, but I still fall for it because it

(39:17):
will always tastes so good, you know, like what are
you going to do with yourself? It's just part of
the deal. Teresa, appreciate you sharing that with us today.
Thanks for listening.

Speaker 19 (39:25):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (39:26):
Cherry's on a phone line four O two five, five,
eight eleven ten. Look theme in, Sherry, what's on your mind?

Speaker 18 (39:31):
Well, hey, they're speaking of tacos. Let me give you
a taco story. Okay, it's been a few years. I
worked on the city campus at the University in Lincoln
and a new taco restaurant when in close to the campus.
Still there's still those restaurants in Lincoln. I might add
first words taco.

Speaker 1 (39:52):
Figure that one I got you.

Speaker 18 (39:53):
Yeah, A couple, a couple coworkers and I walked down
the street, went to the new taco place, ordered beef
soft soft taco and a drink, and we sat down
to eat and took a bite and swallowed it was like, oh,
that's okay. Took another bite and it couldn't couldn't bite
it off so I removed it, Yeah, removed it from
my mouth and pulled it out and opened up the

(40:15):
soft taco shell, and inside there was a strip of
cow hide that was about an inch and a half
wide and about four inches long with the hair on it.
It was a black and white cow what. Yeah, I
still won't go to that taco restaurant. Impossible, Well, you

(40:38):
tell me.

Speaker 1 (40:39):
How would that even get in there?

Speaker 10 (40:41):
I suppose.

Speaker 18 (40:46):
Only it was doffed and she covered in taco staff,
But yeah, yeah it was. I won't go to that.
I have not been back to that taco restaurant ever
since then. Then it's been fifteen years.

Speaker 1 (40:59):
Yeah, I can see why, share you it's not a
big fan of that. That doesn't sound fun at all. Well,
I appreciate.

Speaker 18 (41:07):
Story, all right, thank you.

Speaker 1 (41:08):
Yeah, that's a tough one. I don't know if I
don't like that one at all. I don't even know
how that would happen, And wouldn't the guy who's like
making the taco wouldn't if he had seen that, Like
that would be what I thought, But I don't know.
Mary's on the phone line four two, five, five, eight
eleven ten. Welcome in, Mary, what's on your mind.

Speaker 19 (41:28):
Well, this isn't my story. But when I used to
work for a manager who went to survival training. He
was the Air Force. He was in survival training school
and one part of survival training they had to eat ants.
Now that which I find funny because how many ants
would have to eat it full?

Speaker 11 (41:47):
But he said they.

Speaker 19 (41:48):
Tasted like lemon drops, lemon drops weak, that's what he said.

Speaker 1 (41:53):
They tasted like, yeah, were they just like crawling around
you just like eat them? Yeah? I mean I like, yeah, well,
you know, Mary. One of my favorite animals in the
animal kingdom is the giant ant eater, which if you
if you go and you look at videos, this thing's
actually kind of stocky, like they're pretty big. I've seen

(42:13):
some in like zoos, and they're really cool. They're they're
cool animals. Their demeanor is very dog like, honestly, Like
if you see one. There are videos out there of
anteaters like playing with people, like in captivity, they're like
playing with their people like they're a dog. It's yeah,
it's crazy. They're like really in the ants obviously in
termites are a big thing that they like to eat.

(42:34):
But they say something like that thing will eat like
every single time it's tongue flares out and goes into
like an ant hill or something. It gets like a
few dozen ants or termites in one swoop, and that
thing is eating thousands of them every single day. So
I couldn't imagine and like as as big as they are,
I mean, humans are twice three times the size of

(42:57):
even the biggest ant eater. So like think about just
like the sustenance that you would need. You need to
find an entire ant colony and just like gobbled it
down like to be able to like even feel full
after one day. So, uh, that's tough.

Speaker 19 (43:12):
Well I'm wondering if at eaters then like lemon drops.

Speaker 1 (43:17):
Now, see this is where we should go. We could
I mean, I'm sure there's a way we can experiment
with this somehow. I appreciate it. Mary, Thanks for the call.
Uh yeah, that's good stuff. We'll take one more call.

Speaker 6 (43:28):
Here.

Speaker 1 (43:28):
Bob is on the phone line four oh two, five, five,
eight eleven ten. Welcome in, Bob. What's on your mind today?

Speaker 6 (43:33):
Well, one time I was at the bar and I
thought I'll go get some cashews. So I walked over
that had the machine you put the corner in twist
the knob and the cashews come out. You lift the
little chrome.

Speaker 1 (43:45):
Plated door, and yeah, I've seen those.

Speaker 6 (43:48):
Yeah, went back, sat down, threw a few in my mouth.
Well that tastes odd. I went to do it again,
and my buddy sitting next to me grabbed my wrists
and said look down, and there were chocolate sprinkles in
with the cashws. Well it wasn't chocolate sprinkles. It was
mouse droppings, uh, Bob, or mouse had gotten in the machine.

Speaker 1 (44:11):
Are you feeling okay, Bob? Because I've heard bad stories
about halfs the people eat that stuff.

Speaker 6 (44:17):
Well, I didn't get any haunt or anything. But the
bartender was right there. That just got done. Poured a
buddy of mine and knob creek and he just handed
me the bottle and I took a couple of good
hugs and disinfected deode her eyes and it seemed to work.

Speaker 1 (44:30):
So all right, Well there you go, Yeah, there you go.
Now we know if you accidentally eat mouse poo, just
like chug a bit of whiskey and you'll be fine.

Speaker 6 (44:40):
Yeah, should be. Well.

Speaker 1 (44:41):
Appreciate you sharing that with us today. Thanks so much
for listening. Uh yeah, yeah, Like the learned a little
bit about that hantavirus after Gene Hackman and his wife died.
She died of the hantavirus, which is a very strange
thing to die from. It like, that's like the exposure
and potential consumption of mouse droppings of a certain type

(45:04):
of mouse. It's not great, not great. Don't like that.
I'm glad Bob's all right, though. I got I wanted
to read before I get out of here. This email
Sarah sent to kind of round out this conversation because
it is a dial with the Oh God, an email
here to wrap up our conversations about crazy things that
we've eaten or drank. And it's been a lot of fun, honestly,

(45:26):
to reminisce about these and share our stories. To get today.
And I have a bunch of different emails, and I
apologize of how you know, I don't know. There's a
few different emails. I wanted to read here first and foremost.
Mike said we were moving and in the process of
getting junk out of the attic, I found a package
of fruit stripe gum. Have you heard of fruit stripe gum?

(45:50):
I think so. It's got like a zebra on the front. Okay,
you know, like stripes, and it was always great gum,
like you would put it in your mouth and the flavors,
no matter what flavor it was was great. So you
see this and you're excited, right like I would be excited.

Speaker 6 (46:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (46:03):
Yeah. But also it like within ten seconds, like the
flavor is gone. So whatever flavor saving methods that they
have come up with in the gum you know sector
these days, apparently never got to fruit strip well, Mike says,
we were moving into the process of getting junk out

(46:23):
of the attic. I found a package of fruit stripe
gum that had to be at least twenty five years old.
I thought, how bad can it be? It was indescribably bad.
My face was contorted for quite a while afterward. So, yes,
apparently gum doesn't last forever, especially that gum.

Speaker 2 (46:42):
It's just doesn't doesn't last long in the first place
alone twenty five years.

Speaker 1 (46:46):
It tastes so good when you just put it in
your mouth, but unless they have somehow like infused it
with some of this new gum flavor technology, it's never
going to be. It's it's just not It doesn't last
long enough to to risk it. You know, this is
the best one I've gotten so far, Sarah says. Growing up,
we were broke, broke, my mom took the walk of

(47:09):
shame and had went to the food pantry. Literally, the
last two things in our house were rice and pasta sauce.
My stepdad was a disabled vet from the Korean War.
When we were sitting there eating, just happy to have
something to eat, then I noticed the rice was off.
There had been a moth larvae in it. They were cooked.
We were totally eating maggots camouflaged by the ice. I

(47:33):
announced it to the house. My stepdad, serious as can be,
looks at us and says, I've eaten worse. This just
adds protein. I ate it, he ate it. My mom cried.
My mom cried, well, Sarah ikes, that is a that's
a tough one, But I do I do find it

(47:55):
to be I find that be a tough that's a
tough beat right there. Like And this is why they say,
you know, be on the lookout for the bugs and stuff.
And we've gotten much better at this. In my house,
I've talked about my mouse problem. I did find a
live mouse on my counter trying to eat my dog's food.
That she didn't eat for breakfast. Kind of sometimes we'll

(48:16):
just pick it up, we'll put it on like the
table or the counter and just leave it there until
the next meal. And then at some point my wife
walked back into the kitchen after not having been in
there in a while, and she noticed the live mouse
on the counter. Now, this shouldn't be a thing. We
have done plenty of repellent, but I know that we
have a few that are just bouncing around in the house, right, so,

(48:36):
you know, the process of actively trying to catch this
thing so it can't go back and hide. You know,
I'm thinking to myself, like how am I going to
catch this guy? And what he was moving. He was
grabbing the food, dog food and putting it in his
mouth and carrying it to another side behind our blender
where there was like a little nook all and he
was he was hiding the food behind the blender and

(48:58):
we found the entrance. Huh no, no, he literally I
don't know where he came from. Oh, just saving it
for later. He was just putting it for later. He
was just Yeah, he was like taking it out of
the bowl thinking he'd get away with it, just hiding
it behind the blender and I saw that. I was like, okay,
that's what it and that's what we caught him because
he was going back and forth and trying to get
as much of it as he could. And eventually I

(49:18):
figured out how to get him out of the house.
You know, he's pretty close to the back door, and
you know, you grab a container and you just have
to you have the man up. You know, it's like,
you can get real afraid of a guy like this.
But I've seen enough mice and taking care of mice
the way that I take care of them over the
last couple of years, and I resolved it. But you

(49:40):
know what you do after that, You learn your lesson
and you disinfect everything and got peppermint everywhere to try to,
you know, get them out of our way. Really clean
everything you make, you put lids on everything, You really
seal everything up. There's no food source. Where there's no
food source, a lot harder for them to try to
take up residence in your place. So there's my recent

(50:00):
example of you know what we have to do