This Is Too Stupid Not to Post

Tell me this - who takes a FUCKING BITE out of a loaf of organic multi-grain bread at Costco and then puts it back on the shelf?

(Notice I didn't ask who doesn't think to check for FUCKING HUMAN BITE MARKS when purchasing a loaf of organic multi-grain bread at Costco.) 

(Because that would be me.)

Comments

[Kathy]

De-lurking because that is nasty. They had to open the package, right? Who'd do that?

One of my biggest supermarket pet peeves is those little sample cups of -- usually ice cream -- that shoppers toss anywhere except maybe in a trash can.

[kylie]

hhahhaha. amazing.
did you still eat it?
and isn't the bread like .. packaged?
how would someone do that and no one who works there notice? if we can't protect our bread how can we be worried about protecting our country? hehe.

[Karina in T.O]

Can't stop giggling over the 'defiled nuts' comment. Hehehe...aren't they all?? Hehehe. Clearly I'm sleep deprived...

I just remembered about hitting the salad bar when I descided on a working lunch at the office. So, as I get around a corner I spot this kid (and I call him that because he looked like he was about 18) picking out grapes with his hands! Not having a brain to mouth filter thats on when in public, I bust out "Hey Pacey, they leave tongs out for a reason, eh?" Freaking dork got busted.

[Reluctant Housewife]

Toddlers.

When in doubt, blame them.

[Laura]

I was so confused. I thought it was you that ate the bread :P

Sorry... that is gross.

[Col]

OK, seriously? That's disgusting. I mean, when I was in college, we used to steal apples from Wal-Mart and walk around the store eating them. I mean, I know shoplifting's not right, but at least I didn't but down my narsty apple core and let someone else pick it up, right?? How gross can you be?!

[Jen]

I shit you not - LAST NIGHT I stopped at CVS and my girlfriend impulsively bought a can of mixed nuts (yum) and when we opened the can later at home 1/2 of it was gone. I teased her about her lack of self-control...but nope! Costco bread muncher story all over again. It was quite surreal actually....having read this and the comments earlier in the day (Jennifer - I ordered your books this week...can't wait to devour them!)

[paige]

Was the bite out of just the bread or the wrap as well? Cuz a kid can't/doesn't have the sense to take off the wrapper. They just chomp. I am the gal who often buys just 5 bagels in a sleeve b/c I don't think think to count if all the bagels are there. I still have a hard time fathoming that there is someone out there who will open up a sleeve of bagels, take one and return the sleeve to it's pre-raped appearance. When I return them the customer service rep always shrugs as if to say, "Yeah people suck."

[Hilary]

ummm...Ewwwww. I love Costco. Now i'm not ever buying bread there again. Ewww. Ewww.

[Amily]

My first job was at the soup, salad, and sandwich place that is known for their passion for bread. It's still the food business, but a little bit more upscale, so I thought. That was until my manager made me clean up a huge pile of poop in the bathroom. Someone had decided to skip the toilet and relieve themselves right next to it on the floor. I was 16 at the time, and tried my best not to get sick...To this day I pray it was a little kid that committed the crime!

[ally]

Some people are really gross. I was at Jewel the other night and I saw a guy stick his hand in the bin candy and eat some. He was snacking away from several containers when I told him to use a bag or I was going to tell the employees what he was doing. He scuttled off probably to eat the produce for free.

[Anne]

WHO DOES THAT? Who takes drinks from the milk container in grocery store and puts back the jug 1/4 empty. Maybe after having a bite of bread they needed something to wash it down.

[Danielle]

Um, okay. That's...

OMG THAT'S THE GROSSEST THING I'VE EVER HEARD IN MY WHOLE ENTIRE LIFE AND I WATCH CRIME DRAMAS AND EWEWEWEWEWEWEWEWEW!

Do you think this kind of thing ever happens to the Amish?

[Michelle]

Maybe try the organic white bread? I hear all the crazies really go for the organic multi-gran stuff...Freaks.

[Kate]

Ewwwwwwwww.

Another weird story, although not food related. How the hell does this happen?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-woman-in-bathroom,0,5799884.story

[Wendy]

oh yeah, sorry about that, I got hungry

;-)

[pineapple]

a while back i was at costco with a coworker getting snackers for the office...and this fat, balding, nasty ol' pile of a man was standing BY THE CHECKOUTS at a giant barrel of nuts display stickin' his greasy paw into the canister and shoving nuts into his face. (heh) then he sees us gaping at him and has the audacity to offer us defiled nuts before putting the plastic lid back on the canister (which he has ripped the damn safety seal off of!) and just walking away like it's nothing!

I VETO COSTCO!

[cj waggs]

i am never shopping in a grocery store again.

[Lulu]

I, too, have seen a used maxi pad stuck to something in a public restroom.

It was a Sears store. I was there to get my kids' photos taken and when I walked into the restroom I saw this little room with a changing table and a couch. The couch had a VERY used pad stuck on the seat.

I turned right around and left the store. (Thankfully we had already done the photos.)

Nice, huh? People can be so disgusting sometimes.

[Shannon]

Eww, yuck. Working retail in the Fort, we had a nasty woman pee and shit in our dressing room. I conveniently left work early that night with a migraine, 'cause there was no way in HELL I was cleaning that up.

But finding half-eaten bread? Ewww...so much for organic. Hope they flossed.

[Lisa M]

Disgusting.

Jocelyn... that had to be a friggin' huge mouse.

[jocelyn]

I think it was most likely a mouse!!

[OHmommy]

Oh no. Say it isn't so.

[Becca]

I used to work at a retail store also and I found (not on one occasion but TWO seperate occasions) a USED sanitary pad stuck to the wall of the fitting room. I didn't know which was worse; there are either two people that think of this idea and do it or that the same person did it more than once in one store. Either way I was pissed and disgusted. Go to a damn bathroom people.

[Kasey]

I was reading the comment about the home goods store and the stained bra. I used to work in retail, but it was a higher-end chain, so, everything was usually pretty nice and normal, except one day a woman returned a pair of pants, and when we were folding them - a pair of underware fell out of the leg. Absolutely disgusting. People are so gross.

[Shelly]

Well, when I read your post, I was going to comment, "Who would ever think that you *needed* to check your loaf of bread for bite marks?". But I've been thoroughly educated by your commentors. And now I need a shower.

[Erin]

Not food-related, but still dry heave inducing -- I used to work in a home goods store and while stocking one night, a co-worker found a stained bra rolled up behind the white porcelain serving pieces; she thought it was wadded up tissues and I'm not sure which would have been the less gross scenario. A) Who debras in the middle of a store full of cookware and pillows? B) Were the trash cans outside the store not good enough for the boulder holder? We immediately posted it on the bulletin board in the break room for shits and giggles.

[Annamarie]

I brought home a half-gallon of Chocolate Marshmallow ice cream that had a big scoop taken out of it.

But, as a bonus, it contained the white plastic spoon used to take that scoop, complete with lipstick schmears. Nice, huh?

[Jenny]

Kids, I'm guessing kids.

Icky, germy, non-mannered kids. Parents, pay attention!

[Jenn]

That is really disgusting!

[Ev Straker]

shasty mcnasty!

[Kathryn]

the same person who takes a scoop out of the yoghurt, carefully replaces the film coat and the lid and puts it back on the shelf in the daiy case

that's who

(I check now)

[Karina in T.O]

Holy Jeeezus, I can't stop laughing! That is just friggin' fantastic!

Its a sad reality that you really do need to check just about everything before you buy it, because there are just way too many nasty people out there.

Funny story: We use to have a crazy older lady working in our office who was a notorious nose picker. I mean, like she just kept digging for gold no matter if people were watching or what. One time another gal was handing out chocolates....lets just say when she got to Phyllis, she pawed half the chocolates in the box before choosing one! Everyone was just in the background gaggin and commenting 'hell no, I don't want any chocolates now!' type of dialogue.

Stay strong Jen. And keep sharing the stupid!

And always, I mean ALWAYS check the margarine, I once found a THUMB print in the damn I Cant Believe It's Not Butter. Oy!

[Ashley]

I was at the 'roll back' store once and saw this lady eating a sandwich right outside the door. She probably hadn't taken a bath in week. At first I was confused that someone would make a sandwich right outside the store, but when her sister asked for a bite it got GROSS! She handed her sister the sandwich, then the dentures from her own mouth. Oh yeah, the sister put them in her mouth and took a bite. I almost threw up.

[Carey]

Sick!

When I worked retail, I once found half of a giant-sized dill pickle under a pile of white sweaters. The smell was less than delightful.

[Lipster]

IF I had the nads to actually take something in the store that wasn't offered on a toothpick by an old lady in a hair net, it definitley wouldn't be bread - I'd head for the "spirits" section.

Although I have to admit (sorry mom) that when I was young and my mom took us grocery shopping, I was the weirdo poking my finger through the plastic to touch all the steaks. But I turned out ok.

Oh and I would occasionally fake a limp hoping that other shoppers would feel sorry for me... I know.. WTF?!?!

[Somedayme2]

that Bites! Nothing worse than coming home to find your stuff is been messed with! That rates right up there with going to pick up the cake you ordered and they don't have the order! Happy Birthday Son....I had to buy your cake off the shelf!

[amanda]

Wow. Crazy experiences. And to think I've spent a good portion of my life feeling guilty for the jar of peanut butter I knocked off the shelf, which broke, and I left it there. I was like, nine at the time, jars were still made out of glass (the good old days). Now I see that wasn't such a big deal! I can move on.

PS to Mindy--was the poopy store food lion???

[Katie]

Ughhhhh. That is the nastiest thing ever. Maybe whoever the hell did that was related to the bitch who I saw at Costco last week who felt the need to shove her grubby hands into nearly every container of grapes and try some, only to decide that they're "too damn expensive" and book it out of the produce area.

[Bonnie]

Totally disgusting, yet, not unsurprising, sadly. You know what also makes me sad? Poor grammar.

[Joleine]

Oh wow.. That's really disgusting... I'd expect that at Walmart, but Costco? Come on..

[sizzle]

They couldn't even have the decency to rip it off, they had to bite it?

Now that's class-less.

[Heather]

High School......Pillsbury Cookie dough in the round tube thingy...it was a pretty new concept and minimum wage was like 3 bucks an hour......I worked at Camelot Music....needless to say, i had to TRY the raw cookie dough....ok I ate half the tube..put it back on the shelf..it ROCKED........so before I became a Major Crimes Detective I was a street officer...nothing better on a hot Tennessee night, than to roll up in your POLICE car to the grocery store, BUY some cookie dough, get back in your POLICE car and jet down the road looking for law breakers while eating cookie dough...."That's right gunslingers, mama's got the dough........don't screw with me"

[jenna]

Chips Ahoy cookies at Vons. I was in high school at the time and had no money. I almost ate them but then realized that there were bites out of like 12 of the cookies. Then I took them back to the store (I wanted my cookies!) about 10 minutes later and had to return them to one of my friends from high school. I think he thought I took the bites and tried to return them. very embarassing! But I got my cookies.

[Tara]

OMG....WTF is wrong with people? Seriously...

[Shannon D.]

I am wondering- if you are going to be gross and taste test unpurchased items- why bread? I would choose a doughnut to gnaw on, not something blah like a loaf of bread. What kind of weirdos are out there?!!? But seriously- i am sorry this happened to you. Yuck. However, isn't it fortunate that you hadn't CONSUMED part of the bread BEFORE discovering the crime? That would ruin bread for you forever.

[bakingbarb]

OMG! My daughter (15) introduced me to your book and we love you! You have attitude and now we feel like we have kin! We have your attitude but probably not your style but that's ok I am country and she is gonna be city!

[summer]

gross!
another question: why does NBC choose to make the African American couple on biggest loser the BROWN team?

[Sabreya]

I work at *ahem* in retail... and i have to say... it was probably someone's kid. I see it ALL DAY LONG people let their kids do anything (including eat and knaw on whatever) just to keep them quiet in the store...

[Ally]

A couple years ago I was at a grocery store and a woman and her teenage daughter were opening jars of relish, sticking their fingers in and tasting them. They were trying to find "the one they had before." (I of course listened to their conversation while trying not to hurl in Aisle 9) I told the manager...his reponse? " I can't just throw them all out, whichever ones they opened won't have the jar cap that goes pop thingy when the person who buys it opens it so they will know it is bad and has been opened before." I called their corporate office, they sent me a letter saying "sorry about your experience, here's $5.00.) FANTASTIC. Grocery stores are gross. Sad this happened at Costco bc I do love that place...