Bugs to Become the Next Hip Topping in our Midtown Salad Bars?
This one is for those of you who can’t resist a good “I found a bug in my salad” post (we’re looking at you, Eater!) From Lunch’er Jenna: “I went to chopped [sic] for lunch today and ordered a kebob Cobb wrap and as I was eating it a ALIVE BUG came crawling out of my sandwich!!!!!!! I was so grossed out that I took the rest of my sandwich back to chopped and they refunded my money and said they try to clean the lettuce. Just want to get the word out there that if you go to Chopped you may bring back a bug!!!” Don’t be too upset Jenna… some people in Brooklyn would pay good money to eat that bug!
The photo she sent us is a particularly gross one, so as a public service we’ve placed it after the jump.
Once again we need to point out how incredible it is that a bug could ever even survive the chopping block at a Midtown salad joint!
Posted by Zach Brooks at 2:30 pm, September 29th, 2010 under Salads.
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I had a similar incident at Carmine’s (on the Upper West Side), but the bug was dead.
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try crushing it and see if it’s a stink bug! i hear they emit skunk-like odors. :)
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I had an infestation in college. They do….they do. *shudder*
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woa. really?? i first heard about them in a recent NYT article. that’s yucko.
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Nice to know “Chop’t” gives out prizes with their food.
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and a refund was all she got? that’ll teach you to go to Chop’t.
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Certe introduced bug salads weeks ago. Thats what the B on their door stands for. BUGS
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Lol @Harry
Someone in the office found a bug in the Cosi’s salad around 43rd and 3rd.
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Just goes to show: Don’t eat salads!
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These are just the ones that are found. Can you imagine how many have been unknowingly ingested?
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In Mexico you have to pay for those, lol. That’s a bigassed fly!
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That’s some form of bee-like bug, not a fly. Toast a handful of those and put it in a taco with salsa and the NYTimes and every other blog with be gobbling it up as the new food craze. Grasshoppers were so 2008.
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That is foul and wrong. You should sue for emotional distress.
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I ate at Chop’t yesterday and there were no bugs in my salad. I’ll be writing a letter to the editor of TV Guide about it.
Welcome to life. Once in a while something undesirable gets into somewhere unwanted. People want everything to be organic, pesticide-free, and not made in a factory. They shouldn’t flip out to discover the occasional insect. It’s perfectly reasonable to get a refund, though as Zach points out, how in the world did that thing manage to avoid the mezzaluna? I wonder how many Chop’t bug parts I’ve eaten.. I go there fairly often for my man salad (Santa Fe + fried chicken (1100 calories)).
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Agreed. I’m all for more pesticide use if it helps get rid of bed bugs, rats etc.
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bugs are high in protein, whats her problem?