There are some legitimately appalling cases involving foreign objects in food—the woman who said she found a severed fingertip in her Chinese chicken salad at Applebee’s, the guy who discovered a used condom in his French onion soup, the man who said he found two dead baby geckos in his can of Heineken beer.

There’s even a slang term for it: “Mealbreaker,” which The Huffington Post defines as “a nasty, non-edible surprise found in food while it is being eaten; often lawsuit-provoking, sometimes fabricated, always disgusting.”

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