When you find a little hair in your meal

India
July 4, 2008 12:54pm CST
what do you do? Simply take the hair out, and carry on with the meal? Reject the meal altogether? Fire at the person who prepared the meal? How do you react? I have no other alternative but to take out the hair and little portion of meal along with it, and then proceed with the meal!
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28 responses
• India
4 Jul 08
I agree with your opinion. I don't think shouting to the people who prepared the food.It is a good tendency to show patience.No body purposely putting the hair in the food. Civilized people can't behave harshly.
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@mEisky (824)
• Philippines
4 Jul 08
yea..i agree with that too!!i think yelling at those people who prepared some dishes wont work at all..it would be a shame!!
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• Philippines
5 Jul 08
I'm with you!
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@hellcowboy (7374)
• United States
4 Jul 08
If I was having a meal and I found a hair in it,I would simply pull the hair out,and continue eating the meal as if nothing had happened,because a hair in a meal is no big deal in my opinion,and I do not see how some people can go crazy,and start shouting and cussing at the one who prepared the meal,all because of a simple hair.
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• India
4 Jul 08
Well a very good question my friend. i srongly recommend to charge at the person who has served you this type of food and complaint to higher authorities and take a penalty if possible and do mind you if you adjust then you will never get anything thats worth your money as it is said that if you do like this by adjusting indirectly you are not giving any value for your hard earned money. GooD Luck. Happy Mylotting.
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• United States
5 Jul 08
I totally agree with those who said that no-one would purposely put hair in the food. The best thing to do from my point of view is simply eat around the hair or push it to the side of your plate and eat the rest of the food. I would not eat the actual hair; but I would eat the rest of the meal and not mention the hair as to not hurt the cook's feelings.
@setroc (853)
• Philippines
5 Jul 08
i do what you do, just take out the hair then go on eating, i dont find it really disgusting to throw away the food
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@bellis716 (4799)
• United States
6 Jul 08
I'm sure I'd do likewise, if I were at a friend's house. If I were at a restaurant, I think I'd send the food back.
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@YoungInLove (1254)
• Canada
5 Jul 08
To be honest, I cant be bothered to put up a fuss. Im not a big fan of confrontation so I wouldnt be good in that sort of position. I think Id just carry on with it, unless it was really really gross or there was alot of it.
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
4 Jul 08
snakequeen sorry but I disagree wholeheartedly. a hair in my food would make me pretty leary about eating it, as I do not know what is on that hair, what germs, what virus yuck. I would call the waitress, show her the hair and ask for a new hairless plateof food. I did not spend good money to have to eat something that has been contaminated by someone else. I think a lot of other people would agree with me.
@eagle_f15 (1827)
• Malaysia
27 Jul 08
I have encountered this many times......and the most recent was only yesterday. I would just take the hair out, put it aside or wash it away at the sink (if I am at home and the food was a take away), if it's eating out side then I will just put the hair aside then proceed with my meal............no stomache upset, no nothing but just gotten full from the meal...that's all
@agihcam (1914)
• Philippines
5 Jul 08
We have a lot of experiences for this one in my company. Yet, we don't have choice but to take off the hair and eat the food. We then provide feedback to the owner of the canteen and they have provided a hair net to their employees all the time, that way having hair in the foods was eliminated. This is also happening in our home, we sometimes found a piece of hair from our cooked foods. I guess a piece of hair could not cause any damage to human when you eat the food. However, having some insects like fly on the foods will cause damage or illness. So when there is fly in my food, I did not eat the food.
• Japan
6 Jul 08
It depends on person to person. If I am a guest, I will just remove and without anybody's notice put it down. If it is my mother, I will talk about the unclean condition of our home. If it is my wife (love to her) I will just be angry and will say something to make her weep.
@Valenas (1507)
• United States
4 Jul 08
I think that I would do exactly as you: pick the chunk of food out that has the hair in it, and then resume eating. I could just not see wasting food for that reason. At least it is not spit in the food. Hair sometimes falls into food. It happens. I think that it is a bit immature to throw it away for that reason. Also, it is inconsiderate.
• United States
5 Jul 08
I send it back and get a new meal but I would think my appetite would not be good then. I would feel kinda disgusted. I certainly would not yell at anyone. Things like that happen.
• United States
5 Jul 08
I would send the meal back. Then I would ask for my money back and never eat at that place again. Finding a hair in my meal is disgustion.
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@Bethany1202 (3431)
• United States
6 Jul 08
It all depends. I have two dogs and once in awhile one of their hairs will end up in my food. That doesn't bother me too much. In public if I discover a hair in my food I gt a bit grossed out, but, to be honest, it would all depend on how grossed out I was, how hungry I was, how much hair and what type was found in the food, etc. If I was starving I probably wouldn't make as much of a fuss than if I was somewhat fulland especially if the food wasn't good. Either way, it totally grosses me out to find a hair in any food that's not prepared at home where I can identify where the hair is from!
• India
6 Jul 08
Hello snakequeen, hope you are doing good. I know its disgusting situation, when you find hair in food. But food can't be wasted, i just pull the hair out and continue with my meals. take care , happy mylotting!
• Nepal
6 Jul 08
Same as you and look at the situation and react . That depends on my mood .
• United States
5 Jul 08
i wouldnt get mad but i would let them know politely that there was something in my food and i would like them to bring me some fresh food.
• Singapore
6 Jul 08
oh!!!!! jesus i cannot take it........ I do not know what happend to me that day that was last saturday i was having my supper made by myself only i do not know what went wrong i found a little hair in meal and i was yuuuukkkk how i cannot take this meal any more....... my eyes were full of anger i was shouting on my myself and my husband helped me to calm me down i was feeling like puking out i cannot see hair in my meal eating that food is nowhere mathces....... But thanks to my husband he pampered me like anything else, suddenly i realised that my husband is in the kitchen and he is making a nice pasta for me i was like choooooooooo sweet i kissed her and said sorry that was my mistake i left my food without a cover and i was the one who was shouting we had our pasta and then went to bed to sleep....so hair no no no no no no
• United States
5 Jul 08
I patiently explain to the waitress that there was a hair in my food and ask for a new plate. I just cannot keep eating food when there was hair in it. I almost have a fear of it. I just hate it.