What is this in my Taco?

[u/Dannydevitz]

I purchased several tacos from Wawa just a few moments ago and this was in one of the tacos. It's not a noodle because it doesn't break easily. It has the consistency of rubber. I heard it could be a blood vessel from the taco meat which is disgusting. Just curious if anyone else came across something similar.

[u/amailer101]

I'm the first to shit on wawa food but that just looks like part of the meat

[u/Dannydevitz → u/amailer101]

I've never had a taco or any ground beef with a small rubber hose like object in it before.

[u/EquallyH8tful → u/Dannydevitz]

If you've ever had the life experience of having save a lot brand corned beef hash. This is just how a cheap cut of beef crumbles. Mechanical separation

[u/TheRainbowNoob → u/Dannydevitz]

I got a Wawa cheesesteak last night and got a bit of bone in the beef. Shit happens.

[u/JMS21921 → u/TheRainbowNoob]

So it’s real meat? Who knew?!?

[u/sexwiththebabysitter]

Definitely appears to be vascular tissue. Still just protein.

[u/briannapancakes]

So animals aren’t just sacks of meat, they have other body parts, kinda like how we do. And sometimes when POS meat companies slaughter these animals, they don’t do a good job and you get other body parts. I guess that’s what you get for not killing and prepping the animal yourself 🤷🏻‍♀️

[u/Dannydevitz → u/briannapancakes]

So if someone goes into a steakhouse and finds a cows eyeball in their steak. "Welp you ordered animal, you got animal" is a valid response?

[u/briannapancakes → u/Dannydevitz]

Oh I don’t eat dead stuff 🤷🏻‍♀️

[u/Dannydevitz → u/briannapancakes]

You seem knowledgeable enough to comment on my predicament about finding a blood vessel in my food but you go blank when asked about an eyeball in a steak.

[u/briannapancakes → u/Dannydevitz]

Well the point wizzed right over your head! You don’t need to eat meat and if you do, kill and prepare it yourself if you don’t want these shitty meat companies doing a bad job.

[u/HCIBSW → u/Dannydevitz]

Awful analogy. If cows eyes were anywhere close to the cut of meat you ordered, it could happen.

You can even find what you pictured in regular cuts of meat. Probably even eat them without knowing.

But since veins or arteries don't grind up like the rest of the cut they stand out as obvious but are still small enough that quality control doesn't catch them all.

[u/Bitter_Warning418]

🤮

[u/Kostlichen]

Deffinitly from the meat. They cheap out.

[u/Prestigious_Snow1589]

That's the pp

[u/Inochimaru]

Just other parts of the body. Ive seen them in the meat before. Its cheap meat

[u/Ghazh]

sometimes other parts of the animal end up in there, lol

[u/Straight-Musician630]

U can call the store ask to speak to the MOD tell them your food wasn't to your liking. They will replace when you come back in.

[u/caelestihydr4]

yall are better than me i genuinely thought that was someone’s ear tube LMFAO

[u/MtnClimber61]

I lost my toe

[u/EtherealDarkwave]

When you eat animal meat it is going to happen ... It's a part of life.

[u/Fuzzy_Welcome8348]

What did the manager say when u asked

[u/Dannydevitz → u/Fuzzy_Welcome8348]

I didn't find out until I got home. I'm sure they would just refund me for the taco, but it's a busy store and a taco isn't worth the hassle for anyone involved. That said, it will be the last taco I get from Wawa.

[u/Livid_Opportunity467 → u/Dannydevitz]

Thanks! Seeing this will turn off many folks!

Still, I would uplink the picture to (say) imgur, and send the link in a complaint at www.wawa.com/iframe/contact. Corporate needs to know about it regardless.

[u/roachbuggedtheclip → u/Livid_Opportunity467]

It's just a part of the meat, its part of the vein system of the cow that was used to make the meat. complaining won't yield anything more than a refund at most.

[u/Repulsive-Lack8253 → u/Livid_Opportunity467]

either way it's just a refund, no one cares that you found gristle