A KFC customer was left feeling 'physically sick' after discovering a 'caterpillar' wriggling across her fried chicken.
Jody Bishop and her partner had ordered from the Ebbw Vale branch of the fast-food restaurant and were enjoying a cosy Friday night with a takeaway at their home in Tredegar before making the discovery.
The pair had each ordered a meal for one, containing two pieces of original recipe chicken, two hot wings and two fillets, and tucked into their food.
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But, after putting her plate down partway through the meal to go and get herself a drink, Jody returned from the kitchen and said she noticed something small and dark "doing a little dance" on the hot wing she had bitten into just moments earlier.
The tiny insect, which the pair said they believe to be a caterpillar, can be seen in a video wriggling on the plate as it is gently prodded by a piece of fried chicken, with Jody and her partner struggling to believe what they were seeing.
"We'd ordered these two meals for one for delivery," she said. "We were halfway through eating it and everything seemed to be fine. I went to get myself a drink and came back, and noticed something moving along the chicken bone.
"It was doing a little dance on the chicken, it was horrible. That piece of chicken had just been in my mouth, and God knows how many more there might have been in there."
After finding the discovery Jody stopped eating immediately and was left feeling "physically sick".
"I had to run to the toilet and be sick," she said. "It was so unpleasant, to say the least. I actually couldn't believe that it had happened, but it left me feeling so unwell, knowing I'd just taken a bite out of that chicken.
Jody even had to go home early from her job on a Covid testing site the following day, as she continued to feel ill hours after.
She said she has tried repeatedly to get in contact with KFC to complain about the incident, but, while the pair did get a refund for the meal, she says that more should be done.
"We got our money back, but that's not really good enough, is it?" she said. "It's absolutely disgusting to find something like that in your food and it's caused me to feel really sick. How can they get away with serving that to their customers?"
The caterpillar isn't the only unwelcome guest to appear in a fast-food order, however, with a pregnant woman recently left 'disgusted' after discovering 'maggots' in her Coke Zero from McDonald's - after finishing the whole drink.
KFC has been approached for comment.
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