Last Friday was a busy day for me. I met my father for lunch, which then overlapped into getting together with a childhood friend who was in town for the week. In the midst of all the fun, I somehow forgot to give even a single thought to planning dinner. My husband had worked a 3 A.M. – 3 P.M. shift, and there was no way I was going to ask him to prepare a meal. (In our family, the person who works gets an automatic pass on meal prep and cleanup.)
So I ordered Thai takeout.
Pad thai, salad rolls, green beans in black bean sauce, sesame beef, chicken in lemongrass. Yum, yum, yum!
And it was delicious until my younger son found a nest of hair in his food.
Gag, gag, gag.
I called the restaurant, and they immediately refunded the price of the entire meal.
At this point we all pretty much stopped eating, (although we’d all filled up anyway.)
I looked through the rest of the containers, and wasn’t able to find any more hair, but it was nonetheless tainted and unappetizing. However, I did put it all into the fridge, where it still sits. Which brings me to the question:
What should I do with the leftover Thai food? I neither want to throw it away, nor do I want to feed it to anyone. I feel like such a privileged American, but there you have it.
Please join the conversation and share your thoughts in the comments section below.
Katy Wolk-Stanley
“Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without.”
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Was just in Potland. Got my pic taken at the “got a bird on it” shop. What fun! my sis won’t let me be a tourist very often.
Maybe we can meet next time?
Don’t have cable but watched the first episodes on Netflix, do love that Portlandia show.
Sadly, that show is hardly even satire, it’s pretty much just a day in the life of Portlanders.
I’d be more than happy to meet for coffee, just give me heads up.
Katy
OK, OK…after thinking about it more and visualizing a *hair nest*, I’m leaning toward just composting it. Especially given the curbside composting that can handle meat scraps.
Wow. If that’s not the king’s consent, I don’t know what is!
And I didn’t want to gross people out too much, but the hair was short, curly and blonde. At a restaurant where all the workers have straight black hair.
Glurp. (That’s how I spell the gag sound.)
Katy
Yeah, I vote for compost.
Compost, now!
Acky! Sorry I have 3 small kids and this is the first word that comes to mind
Personally, I would compost it all. No guilt whatsoever. If it were one hair, I would probably only toss the single container it was in. A whole nest? I’d be sick from thinking about everything else in there that I *can’t* see.
Gag! Toss it! I can ignore 1 hair, but a nest? Disgusting.
Chickens love spicy food! I know you have neighbors with chickens! If it isn’t super spicy I’ll feed it to my dog. She loves ethnic food!
Compost or feed to next door’s chickens with no hesitation whatsoever. Nope, none. Well, apart from a call to the local Environmental Health department who may need to see the offending item before going to the restaurant and getting medieval on their asses.
I would feed it to my dogs, cats, or chickens. I wouldn’t waste it, just feed it to an animal. If you have no pets then feed it to the birds.
Leave it in the fridge at work.
Put a bird on it and call it art!!!
I’d take the food back to the restaurant (if it’s convenient).
I couldn’t eat it without gagging. Sorry, I would compost.
Shudder…..toss away.
I think you might have crossed a line from frugal to cheap by even considering keeping it. Compost it already and try to forget it ever happened. Ugh! At least when I cook my own meals and I find a hair in them I know it is mine LOL. Does that make it better?
I just feel so bad wasting such a large amount of rather yummy food.
Blegh.
Katy
Sorry, food with hair in it and the word yummy just doesn’t compute! I don’t think I could even bring myself to compost that. And if anyone wasted food here, it isn’t you, it’s whoever up the supply chain wasn’t following the most basic hygiene procedures…or worse. Guilt-free garbage, IMHO.
Nest of hair in take out food = automatic toss.
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