Large Spider Discovered in Chef Boyardee Dinner - as part of the news series by GeoBeats.
Discovering a bug or another unidentified object in our food is one of our worst fears.
A Florida woman got a nasty surprise when sat down for dinner with her fiancé. Upon biting into her Chef Boyardee Ravioli, Vicotria Jean Harrah noticed an unusual crunchy texture in her pasta, which she identified as a spider before contacting the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, and ConAgra, the company responsible for producing the ravioli. “They told me it was a figment of my imagination, the woman on the phone said they have people who call all the time and that it was just a piece of meat. But this was a spider. You can see its legs. It’s in the middle of the noodle, it’s got eyeballs and big hairy legs.” said Harrah.
The FDA has legal regulations on what can and cannot be in the food that is sold commercially, but they say some contamination is unavoidable and allow for a certain amount of "objectionable matter contributed by insects, rodents, and birds; decomposed material; and miscellaneous matter such as sand, soil, glass, rust, or other foreign substances."
