Generally, I lose my appetite first, then I bring it to the server's attention, then I refuse another plate of food.

Oh, and I NEVER go back to the place after that, ever.

How gross! I would tell my server, refuse to pay for the item and never go back either. And I would tell the manager why I will never be back too.
Clare

I will tell the server. It's the only time I will send food back.

I gave SubWay a second chance. After the second time I never went back.

I don't know if everyone knows Del Rancho drive in, they have a chicken fry sandwich. I pulled out a hair about a foot long with crust hanging from it. I never got another one.

Oh gross, yuck, ewwww....did happen to me also, and besides doing all of the above, also advised all my friends what had happened, so I'm sure the restaurant felt the reprecussions.

I think that if we knew what went on in the back kitchens of some restaurants we wouldn't even entertain eating in them. My opinion only.

I am currently holding back my urge to vomit! Why or why did I open up this thread!

LOL

I can't even think about it.

I'm sure I'd send the food back and leave.

About Subway, I love their sandwiches, but there is one of their stores I would never go back too. Yep, they wear plastic gloves OK. Then use the same glove to ring up the cash register and pick stuff up off the floor for the trash.

Gayle

Curly: There's a hair in my soup.

Moe: You're crazy. That's a crack in your plate.

Curly: I never saw a crack go that way.
[he makes a curving motion with his hand]

Moe: Well, that's neither hair nor there.

On a serious note, I was at a now defunct restaurant years ago and one of our party found a Band-Aid in her salad! Presumably it fell off the finger of someone in the kitchen.

YUMMY!!!

Coincidentally the wife & I are going out for dinner tonight, something we rarely get to do. Great timing, eh?

I probably shouldn't be eating while reading this. That is so gross and ewwww Kim that is even more disgusting!

What do you do when you find a hair in your food at home?

I'm just getting sick... ugh... think I'm going to throw up! Better read something else...

When I was driving a semi-truck, I would just eat around the offending hair. There was no way I wanted to chance sending the food back to a truck-stop kitchen. No telling what would come out as the replacement.

I would definately say something, send it back, refuse a replacement and it would take a LONG time before I could go back. GAG!

We were at a popular restaurant one night and a girl at a table across from us found a cockroach in her salad. Instead of being apologetic, the manager came over and said, "I understand you have a friend in your salad". Oh my heck that girl and everyone at the surrounding tables immediately got up and walked out. Everyone else in the restaurant sat gape mouthed as we all walked out.

Buzzard...I would have never sent anything back in a truck stop restaurant either. I drove a truck for 2.5 years and that is exactly what I thought about it, what will I get back? Or what would they have done to it?

cheryl-I literally gagged reading that it was in your mouth.

For some reason, hair just disgusts me like nothing else would! I'd tell the manager or server, send the food back, and wouldn't be able to eat anything else. I'd probably hold a grudge and not be able to eat there for a LONG time!! Just wouldn't be able to enjoy it without thinking of the nasty incident!!

I've eaten at three different Chik Filets in three different cities. There was a hair fried into my food at each one. I probably would never have gone back after the second experience, but I was with a friend. She insisted I wouldn't have that problem again. She laughed so hard after that. I think I'm traumatized for life.

I once found a worm crawling in a salad in a very upscale restaurant. I ate around it. At my sister's wedding, at a very nice place, I found a fly baked into a dinner roll. I gave it back to the server. And there I was, seated right by my sister. My groomsman partner saw it too. He laughed. If I ever got food with a hair in it,I think I would vomit. When I worked at a restaurant,everyone in the kitchen wore a hairnet and a cap over that.

It makes me sick the even think about it. I've just asked for another plate of food.
In Lousiana it is not required by law to wear hair nets or rubber gloves while serving food. Workers have to wear a cap or some kind of restraint on their hair, though. Seems so sickening to me to see them at fast food places using their bare hands to fix my hamburger. I guess it doesn't sicken me enough though, because I keep going back. I pray that they wash their hands as they are supposed to and don't scratch their head too much. GAG
Lu

My top is short of hair ...

... I don't have much to spare!

ole joyful

My Grandmother told me, you have to eat a peck of dirt before you die. My immune system is pretty good. I have eaten plenty of dirty food. I'm still alive.