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RATabora, on 10/12/2007, -23/+142That is disgusting.
- Cenobite, on 10/12/2007, -18/+1480It's just a coin, man.
- slowmo, on 10/12/2007, -9/+382Who cares what it is. What we're all dying to know is how does it taste?
- mrfreeziexp, on 10/12/2007, -19/+174It looks like part of a bee hive.
- Rayfound, on 10/12/2007, -18/+408Its just a glob of corn meal that didn't get made into a chip. No big deal.
- Easty, on 10/12/2007, -11/+455It's an adolescent Tostito.
  Kill it before it breaks free from its cocoon and kills us all.
- realitybias, on 10/12/2007, -150/+11Oh man. I come from the south, and its OBVIOUS what this is to me..
  
  Its a Wasp nest, that is where they deposit their eggs and stuff. Go look under barn roofs and the corners of overhangs if you want to see an example.
- ohthehumanity, on 10/12/2007, -63/+6hey kevin WhereTF is our Pic section you promised , uh months ago now ?
  
  /Comment Abuse
- lunasunshine, on 10/12/2007, -61/+18Does it blend?
- realitybias, on 10/12/2007, -105/+9Why am I getting dug down?
  
  Here, I'll show you pictures of one:
  
  http://www.saferbrand.com/bitingstinging/images/paper_wasp_nest.jpg
  http://www.cirrusimage.com/Hymenoptera/paper_wasp_nest_.jpg
- lebe0024, on 10/12/2007, -10/+150You're a moron. You don't have to be from the south to know that is not a wasp nest. Heck, you can google and see what a wasp nest looks like.
  
  I think it's a chunk of salt or corn from the food processing.
- realitybias, on 10/12/2007, -62/+5I was just saying that I was commonly exposed to this kind of thing, it isn't like I was dissing anyone who wasn't from the south. I'm sorry if I rubbed people the wrong way, but it seems like that's what it is.
- JDPoZ, on 10/12/2007, -19/+191LOL at the 2nd comment. Very creative...
  
  "It's a rare fabled Qinghai Desert Pringles Dragon.
  Only 4 were made by mysterious Wise Men in the deserts of China, 7,000 years ago.
  The circle is complete. Eat it and fulfill the prophecy.
  Report back afterwards to tell us how tasty it was."
- Absinthminded64, on 10/12/2007, -10/+49Oh, I know! . . . . Linda Tripp's hang nail?
  
  @Reality it's not a wasp nest. Wasps aren't exclusive to the south.
- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -16/+8It does vaguely resemble a wasp nest. However, remember the scale -- it's not that much bigger than a quarter. They don't make wasps small enough to fit in that "nest".
- LayZAss2I, on 10/12/2007, -20/+11it honestly looks like a piece of fish
- DryvBy, on 10/12/2007, -12/+5It looks like corn. Eat it, it's good for you. Lots of protein.
- LandStander, on 10/12/2007, -6/+106I found something like this in a Lays Salt & Vinegar Chip bag a long time ago. It was a ball of salt and vinigar and i assumed unmolded chip parts. It was disgusting looking. I got a free bag of chips for it. I never knew what it tasted like though. I have many regrets.....
- mixplate, on 10/12/2007, -12/+2looks like a fried fish fillet.
- eddieo, on 10/12/2007, -5/+61It's the Mother Mary...quick, put it on ebay while the interest is high!
- jas168, on 10/12/2007, -5/+173Hah, I've actually gotten something like that in a bag of Tostitos once.
  
  Unfortunately, I'm not a blogger, so I just threw it away and never told the internet.
- jgrgg, on 10/12/2007, -16/+6lol @ eddieo
  he is refering to the piece of toast that resembled the virgin mary which sold on ebay for a ton of money a while back for those of you who dont get the joke
  of course the toast was said to be 7 years old and didnt have mold with no proof
- NaziHatinChimp, on 10/12/2007, -16/+6At least 400 diggs.
- AegisGFX, on 10/12/2007, -14/+21Its the inside of an alligator's *****.
  
  Mighty fine eatin.
- AaronTyler, on 10/12/2007, -25/+53http://blog.wfmu.org/photos/uncategorized/easterneuropeskincondition1c.jpg
- dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -2/+31You can all look at this in a bad light, but, "Hello!": FREE TOY!
- CedEx, on 10/12/2007, -7/+43@ jas168
  
  You never told the internet?!?!?!
  
  You selfish bastard!
- flxstr, on 10/12/2007, -11/+5i coughed up something like that just an hour ago
- popfrogs, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4You're getting dugg down because although it appears to be a wasp's nest, it's just a superchip. These come out of the chip presses every once in awhile.
- OoO3xOoO, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3wow.....a Linda Tripp joke? Must be running low today....
- b3mus3d, on 10/12/2007, -4/+42aarontyler-
  what the hell IS that?!
- charliecharlos, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11It's obvious, it's your you ticket ro richtown, LAWSUIT HERE I COME!!!
- mohabitar, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1that is by far the nastiest lookin thing ihave seen in years
- JernejL, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3looks like a piece of sunflower head (minus the seeds).
- seven90, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Just ask Leo and Dick, they probably know...
- weeeeeeee, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10It's the King of the Tostitos!!
- blahtastic, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19@aarontyler
  Dude....the skin condition link...that was..not....cool.....worst image association to food ever. You just made me throw up in my mouth a bit...
- djlosch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10it's just corn...
  
  tostitos are fried processed corn. the machine that shapes the corn into triangles must have gathered some of the processed corn paste and it fell off onto the heater belt, which later ended up in your bag. this happens a lot more than you think, and this is by no means an isolated case. it just doesn't happen often, and most people don't blog it.
- schoate09, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2Pics or it didn't happen.
- oxdeltaxo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3It's just a husk of corn that slipped through the cracks......or was intentionally dumped in by a pissed off employee.
- joeydoo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3What should be done is to sue. Not for the money.... but because you would be able to get some executive to eat it, thus proving to you that it's edible...
  Do that, take a picture of him eating it, hell make a video, THEN put it on digg.
- Gizza, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Its a Poppler.
  
  Oh, already posted by angouleme way down further.
- opiniastrous, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3@Cenobite
  
  Wow. I think you must now have the world record for most diggs on a single comment! 1250 at my last count (that was mine btw). Seriously, Cenobite FTW!
- Caruthers, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1bury, wrong thread
ReikoX, on 10/12/2007, -9/+104Looks like a piece of corn cob.
- Satanael, on 10/12/2007, -11/+64Well now we know they use real corn in their chips.
- daRoach, on 10/12/2007, -5/+196Real corn is easier to manufacture than fake corn.
- GoldyFish, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7That prolly is what it is, you can see its been pressed by something too(the cross-hatching type parts)
- sjbdallas, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5I was thinking either corn cob or snake skin. Could really be either one I expect.
- po43292, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4go green man, go green....corn is the future man!
- xed122333, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Looks like a chunk of salt to me.
Aeaus, on 10/12/2007, -22/+68Money :)
Sturminator, on 10/12/2007, -36/+5WTF!
coheedcollapse, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20I wouldn't doubt it if it was just a misshapen blob of whatever they press those corn chips out of. Looks like it's made out of the same stuff, just thick and blobby instead of flat how it should be.

I really have no idea how those chips are made though, so I wouldn't know.
- unusualbob, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25time for a visit to how its made!
- Tsmith10803, on 10/12/2007, -11/+2It is. It's what happens when the chips cook for too long, they roll over, like how you get curved chips, and even rolled chips. These ones were placed to close to each other, and as they got cooked all rolled into each other, it's just a big chip. If you weren't just posting for the sake of shock and awe, you could tell by just feeling it
frodsteamin2, on 10/12/2007, -29/+7i just had lunch and threw up a little bit in my mouth
- LoompaOompa, on 10/12/2007, -5/+17frodsteamin2, if that made you throw up a little I'd hate to think of what happened to you when you read this story:
  http://www.setexasrecord.com/news/193627-episiotomy-delivers-doctor-to-court
cheez, on 10/12/2007, -20/+3that's disgusting. put it on consumerist
- chrismartens26, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5I can see the title of the article already...
  
  "18 confessions from outraged customers who got a deadly blob of something in their Tostitos Bag!"
Dayyve, on 10/12/2007, -9/+22It's a chunk o' maggot patty, of course.
- robotsongs, on 10/12/2007, -16/+13bleugh. I just tasted breakfast again. Thanks ass-face. ;)
Farik, on 10/12/2007, -5/+29That looks disgusting, but try biting into a nice juicy chicken breast from KFC and finding a lung.
- x0nIMIn0x, on 10/12/2007, -3/+93Thank you! You just solved a mystery that has haunted me for years.
  
  I once bit into a fried chicken breast from KFC and found something attached. I was completely unable to identify the organ. It was a dark rubbery mass tethered to the meat with a stretchy tube. Utterly revolting.
  
  After reading your post, I did a Google image search on "chicken lung", and lo and behold: a match.
  
  I never ate at KFC again, and don't plan to start, but I'm relieved to find the chunk wasn't what I always feared it might be, a tumor.
- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -12/+101Once upon a time (a whole century ago), when men slaughtered their own food, I'm pretty sure finding an organ in your meat wouldn't have been a big deal. It's amazing what tremendous pussies we are these days.
  
  Meat is made from animals. Seriously.
- weareglass, on 10/12/2007, -7/+38Don't worry, it wasn't a chicken lung.
  
  It was a "chicken" lung.
- x0nIMIn0x, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14@ merreborn
  
  Of course, you are right. Meat is made from animals, and, obviously, vice-versa.
  
  I mentioned I was relieved to resolve the mystery after all this time. A lung in some fried chicken is novel, and probably, to many people, pretty gross, but certainly not outrageous. I imagine there are some cultures where a deep fried bird lung is an acceptable food.
  
  However, my fear at the time was that I had bitten into diseased flesh and had chewed on a cancerous growth. Honestly, I don't think it makes one a huge pussy to not want to eat a sick animal. The idea of eating a tumor is repellent to me.
  
  The thing that really stuck with me, and contributed foremost to my subsequent avoidance of KFC, was that I really had no idea what I had put in my mouth. Now that I've figured out what it was, who knows? Maybe I'll pick up a bucket on the way home tonight. And if I find anything else I can't identify, I'll save it for you.
- Paperthin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Dude, you can't "catch" cancer from a chicken, or anyone for that matter. But still....ewww
- CapeKid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9@x0nIMIn0x
  "It's not a tumor!"
- jiggawoot, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Chicken hearts are a rather tasty Brazilian dish. They're kinda rubbery (or maybe my sister didn't cook them properly) but they taste great. I'd imagine a chicken lung could taste rather nice also.
- zeero, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4@merreborn
  animals also roamed free and werent fed ***** of hormones and drugs while not being allowed to move in their tiny cages. so no, we're not pussies, it's just nasty to eat this ***** that might be disease ridden, geneticaly engineered and deformed.
- GliTCH82, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Yeah, here's the thing, when you kill your own chicken and clean it and cook it, you know exactly what the hell is in that thing, so that's fine.
  
  But when you pay someone for food you expect it to be clean as well, I'm sure if I knew I bit into an organ I would be a little revolted but that's if I knew it was an organ. Since I didn't kill, clean or cook this chicken who knows that the hell is in it, and your first reaction is to think its something really, really bad.
synned, on 10/12/2007, -19/+6Here we go again...
It's a tampon.
- InfinitySnatch, on 10/12/2007, -17/+5"Tampons, NOT in MY vagina?"
  It's more common than you think.
bluemeep, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14Just looks like a chunk of warped corn cob to me. Probably made it through whatever processors they use and wound up in the bag.
lokier, on 10/12/2007, -16/+3It's the last of Imus's career!
- deeboe, on 10/12/2007, -9/+7@ lokier
  Kinda looks like Imus though.
profOblivion, on 10/12/2007, -4/+45I'm inclined to believe zachatsfsudotedu's comment on the photo itself: "It's a rare fabled Quinhai Desert Pringles Dragon."
- InfinitySnatch, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11"Ah, the great Quinhai Pringle dragon. I've been hunting it all me life."
  
  "Um sir, no you haven't!"
- Goombellaofgoom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's obviously a *scale* from an adolescent male Quinhai Pringle Dragon. The dragon was down on his luck and got a job at a Tostito plant, where one of his scales accidentally shed on the conveyor belt.
  
  What we have here is an unusual variation of the "hair in my sandwich" that happens from time to time at restaurants.
imperialbeast, on 10/12/2007, -38/+1is this really a nessary news... i don't get it.... so what? (burried)
- seventoes, on 10/12/2007, -8/+10Then dont ***** look at it. Noone is forcing you to.
- shinynew, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3you are just mad cause you can unsee it.
  
  That is possibly the best shock thing to see.
- JoeDiggsIt, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3Why dont you go "burry" it in your backyard?
- herrshuster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2tostito.cx
mashlin, on 10/12/2007, -11/+5at least it's not a screw in your tuna
- NCSUspoon, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2W00t Kenan and Kell reference!!!! way to go dude!!!
NoDo, on 10/12/2007, -14/+3crazy mexicans
speedk0re, on 10/12/2007, -10/+1Eat the Hell out of it!!!
MADEOFWOOD, on 10/12/2007, -11/+2eat it, if he gets sick... $$$
^^
RedSirus, on 10/12/2007, -8/+9Dugg for zachatsfsudotedu's comment.
- dilberter, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3Dugg for zachatsfsudotedu's name!!!
- zeromancer, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21it really isn't that crazy of a name... zach @ sfsu . edu
ikspand, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4It's defiantly a hemp bracelet.
Marvelboy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+31Ok, I worked at frito lay for a year. My parents have worked there my whole life. That thing looks like a piece of ventilation from the ceiling. I didn't read too much into the person who found this, but if it came from anywhere in my area it's from the local potato chip plant. Also, I can guarantee that Frito Lay is going to do some HARDCORE damage control on this.

Oh, and the stuff around it is probably part of the frying process.

Edit: upon closer inspection it looks like an entire corn cob...which in and of itself is gross.
- InfinitySnatch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+70Fried asbestos? More like Asbestlutely delicious!
- sjbdallas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Don't give the frito guy any ideas. We don't want them trying to market Nacho Cheese Asbestos or Cool Ranch Asbestos do we?
- ToRoE, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3an entire corn cob, the size of a quarter? Guess that is proof, his parents worked at frito lay his entire life...
- Marvelboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hey, I looked quick...and since when is it cool to bash a guys 'rents on digg?
dorxincandeland, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Looks to me like tostitos byproduct floor gunk peeled from the bottom of a non-slip shoe sole.
- Marvelboy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9did you work at frito too?
- dorxincandeland, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1nope, just an opinion.
orbit1979, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..................... :)
XStatic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+105Looks like a years supply of free Tostitos to me...
- madcreator, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Actually, I think the way it goes is Tostitos would give him a years supply for NOT posting it on Digg.
jonesyhahaha, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Looks like a piece of corn to me.
venom8599, on 10/12/2007, -29/+6This guy was working in the factory.

http://blog.wfmu.org/photos/uncategorized/easterneuropeskincondition1c.jpg
- Racerx52, on 10/12/2007, -9/+8Aww man, holy *****.
  
  What the hell is that? I'm physically sick
- PhillipJFry, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15sorry man, that ***** was too gross.
  
  burried
- davesbrain, on 10/12/2007, -7/+26Isn't that what happens from masturbating?
- openyoureyes17, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13omg, i made it through all the nasty comments, but THAT made me throw up.
- dylan420, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1nice
- lunasunshine, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3Thats an extreme case of systemic fungal infection. Seriously. We create living petrie dishes in our cancer and AIDS patients and this is the result: opportunistic fungal infections.
- Toshibi, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10Jesus H. Christ! Who is he, Barnacle Man! Fighting crime on the side of boats?
- venom8599, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15Actually, it's Lewandowsky-Lutz dysplasia, an extremely rare skin condition. That's from a Romanian man with a particularly bad case.
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidermodysplasia_verruciformis
  
  Sorry about the gross-out, it's just one of those things... I just had to do it.
- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I didn't even look at the pic, but from the comments, I'm pretty sure I saw that on boing boing about a month ago, and it haunted me for at least a week.
  
  And I'm used to seeing sick crap. Goatse doesn't even bug me, these days.
- ablez3, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3i hate you so much....
  
  buried you so no one else will have to go
  through what i went through
- dhVyse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8How does THAT make you throw up? Have you never seen goatse, tubgirl, or meatspin?
  
  I'm pretty much insensitive to internet vulgarity by now.
- tizz66, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Why did that make you vomit? It's just a guy with mushrooms stuck to his hands. Isn't it?
- Dirtydog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5*Sigh* why do I read all the comments about how gross the picture is, yet I still click on it?
- Caruthers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@ DIGGsCRUSADER
  
  You're a sick bastard but I still laughed. +1 to you
Langford, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Maybe it's a lump of cornmeal that fell out of the machinery.
Or, a chip that got way too much salt on it.
EdgarVerona, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Check out the large version of the picture: it kind of looks like a large block of rock salt with either dirt or some burnt fragments of something (chips?) on it.

If it is part of the ventilation as Marvelboy above said, that's really really gross. I guess no matter what it is, it's likely not something pleasant. =)

What I want to know now is if his friend ate any of the chips in the bag before/after he found this. =)
ShinerMan, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9I don't know what the hell that is but I wouldn't feed it after midnight or get it wet just in case.
SubKamran, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1It looks like corn, though I'd still throw it all away. Glad I don't eat Tostitos.
GCarden, on 10/12/2007, -1/+32It's the quality control guy's last day on the job.
xutopia, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4It looks like dried up sushi.
ChicknBot, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15Tostitos are made of flour, they use molds to make every chip look exactly the same, when a mold breaks or there is a problem in the production line, a big chunk of dough gets trapped in the machine, this one apparently got cooked, processed and undetected by quality control made it to a bag...nothing special, I am sure that thing is edible and the taste is as any other tostitos chip.

Carry on...next story.
- robotsongs, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1TOSTITOS PLANT!!!!!
- dhVyse, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I highly doubt that tastes like any other chip. It looks like a huge chunk of salt and flour barely cooked.
jackwills, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1It looks like tripe.
- JoeDiggsIt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Why are you the only one to say that...It really does!
BenKenobi88, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8corn chips are no place for a mighty warrior!
- Hollandboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3strong bad quote!! sweet.
notbrittish788, on 10/12/2007, -10/+14comment from flickr: "looks like a quarter"
- seventoes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Look up.
- bart9h, on 10/12/2007, -10/+1NO QUARTER
  
  Close the doors, put out the light
  You know they won't be home tonight
  The snow falls hard and don't you know
  The winds of Thor are blowing cold
  They're wearing steel that's bright and true
  They carry news that must get through
  They choose the path where no-one goes
  They hold no quarter.
  They ask no quarter.
  
  Walking side by side with death
  The devil mocks their every step
  The snow drives back the foot that's slow
  The dogs of doom are howling more
  They carry news that must get through
  To build a dream for you and me
  They choose the path where no-one goes
  They hold no quarter, they ask no quarter.
caution, on 10/12/2007, -15/+9Id' hit...

Pics or it didn't.....

Hmmm.

This is madness.
- InfinitySnatch, on 10/12/2007, -12/+3Blasphemy before madness.
- mainfr4me, on 10/12/2007, -8/+45Madness? THIS IS TOSTITOS!!!!
- plastek, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11You forgot "Will it blend?".
- rootneg2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6proof that this was dugg by many an annoying person:
  
  svodka: "will it blend?"
  ackza: "But will it blend?"
  cpeter9: "will it blend?"
  johnmccreath: "Will it blend?"
  lunasunshine: "Does it blend?"
  
  The answer is always yes, now please stop posting and go away. this is seriously getting out of hand...
  
  I bet there will be another 5 of these comments before the story dies.
- srdeuss, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Yes, but will it blend?
bluezinc, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1If your friend is a russian spy, it might be a present from Putin.
MrRockabilly, on 10/12/2007, -2/+31Just last week I opened a bag of Cheese Doritos and there was a giant chunk of cheese in there and just a couple of chips.

. . . the cheese was delicious btw.
- GliTCH82, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Ah, if only Rome had deformed corn chips signaling the fall of their great empire.
CaptMonkey, on 10/12/2007, -2/+45It's the queen cornchip. The other Tostitos tend the hive while the queen hatches more chips. Don't they teach kids anything in school these days? Frito-Lay will probably want that back.
- robotsongs, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2After the Quinghai Pringel Dragon comment, that was the bestest!
StatiK69, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Deep fried snake skin, that's my vote.
maexus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Some people have already referenced it but it looks similar to something found in another digg story a few days back.
mulletmusketeer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5The best part of this story is the guy's other picture in his photostream. Even as a joke, who tries to buy uranium on ebay?
thatsmyaibo, on 10/12/2007, -13/+3How is this on the front page. The headline might as well be "Look! I found an ingredient in a bag of Tostidos!". Stop making something of nothing.
Morelia, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3It looks like a broken away piece of a wasp's nest that has been treated with corn meal and then baked to a tasty golden perfection.
Paul, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3I'd Hit It
- GabrielS, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1GB2A
  
  Go Back to Akon thread.
ichbinladen, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2I was wondering where that went...
gnarbuckets, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0kill it KILL IT!!!
EKinnee, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0If eaten we need a Trip Report.
skidme, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1I'd hit it.
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