Would you like a slug with that, madam?

Image: Thairath

NAKON SI THAMMARAT: - What is the strangest thing that has ever appeared on your plate in a Thai restaurant? We are not referring to food that you actually ordered but a creepy crawly that somehow "wormed" its way onto your plate.

Well, a bank employee out with friends at a recently opened department store in Nakorn Sri Thammarat got the shock of her life on Sunday lunchtime.

In a very fancy restaurant she ordered the steak with hydroponic salad. It all looked yummy until she felt something slimy and chewy in her mouth after helping herself to veg.

It was a slug about the size of a little finger covered in mucus. She regurgitated it up onto the plate then vomited up the rest of her dinner. The manager was called but only offered weak apologies and the return of her 1,000 baht. All her friends were revolted - and they all went home in a hurry.

Jaranya, 36, who is a bank employee in Sichon district said that every time she thinks about the incident bile comes up into her throat and she wants to wretch all over again.

The slug is called "thaak faa" (Sky Slug) in Thai or perhaps more appropriately "thaak lin maa" - Dog Tongue Slug.

Needless to say the experience was shared on Facebook with much comment from people who did not expect such an object to be found in a fancy, expensive restaurant.

Source: Thairath

-- Thaivisa 2016-08-02

Extra protein - no charge.

Seriously, though.

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Snails and slugs are hosts to certain parasites known to cause meningitis. One does not even have to actually eat the snail or slug to ingest the parasites. The parasites can be deposited by the gastropod in their slime trail and cases of meningitis in humans have been traced to having eaten lettuce and other garden vegetables that were improperly washed. The slime trail of a snail or snug on the vegetable being the vector of the disease.

https://brain-health-neurology.knoji.com/they-are-not-escargot-do-not-eat-garden-slugs/

Salt is your friend sometimes.

Imagine the face lost there, with all her colleagues, ouch.

Next Rupert Murdoch will be filing reports for calling it a Sky Slug.

Probably sneaked quickly onto the plate whilst taken to the table...

It would have been nice to know the name of the restaurant so I know where not to go.

We know now if she spits or swallow. 

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56 minutes ago, MikeTexas said:

It would have been nice to know the name of the restaurant so I know where not to go.

 

Think what the biggest steak chains in Thailand are and compare images of the table on Google 

6 hours ago, seahorse said:

Extra protein - no charge.

Seriously, though.

https://brain-health-neurology.knoji.com/they-are-not-escargot-do-not-eat-garden-slugs/

That's put me off eating healthy food. I'll stick to KFC me thinks !!!