Woman orders Taco Bell and takes a bite, but what she discovers mid-chew leaves her with more questions than answers

A TikTok user from California named Kelsey (@kezleyyy) recently shared a shocking find after she bit into her Taco Bell Crunchwrap Supreme. She found a piece of knotted plastic covered in sauce stuck inside her meal. Talk about a nasty surprise! This is the kind of mistake that leaves you completely grossed out and wondering what really happens behind the counter at your favorite fast-food place.

According to Bro Bible, Kelsey posted a video about what happened, and it quickly got over 444,000 views. She was clearly very angry about the whole thing. She started her TikTok video by talking directly to the fast-food chain. She said, “Taco Bell, you better count your f***ing days, OK!” That’s a pretty strong way to start a complaint video, but it makes sense. She explained that she was right in the middle of taking a bite when she found the strange, sauce-covered object.

She held up the item for the camera, which was clearly a piece of plastic tied into a knot and covered in the messy filling from the Crunchwrap. She asked, “What the f*** is this? Why is there a plastic bag?” The really frustrating part is that Kelsey couldn’t get any answers from the location where she bought the food, which just made everything worse. If you’re a customer, you expect the restaurant to at least explain what foreign object you almost ate.

Finding plastic in your food raises serious concerns

Since nobody gave her an explanation, Kelsey started guessing about what was in the plastic bag. She jumped straight to a really wild idea. She suggested that the bag “might have ‘rugs’ in it.” While this is a pretty extreme thought, finding a knotted bag in your food that shouldn’t be there definitely makes you think of all kinds of theories. It’s not the first time restaurant transparency has been called into question, especially after a host exposed OpenTable’s customer labeling system.

It’s easy to laugh about it, but this kind of secret drug selling has actually happened in real life. For example, police found out that a fast-food location was selling drugs after they realized ordering “fries, extra crispy” would get you a drug offer. This isn’t just a problem in the US, either. A German pizzeria was raided by police after they discovered that ordering a “number 40” meant the customer would get a bag of cocaine.

However, the real answer to Kelsey’s mystery is much more boring, though still really gross. A commenter who said they used to work at Taco Bell shared a much less exciting explanation. They said the plastic is the top of a carry-over bag.

This makes complete sense to anyone who knows how fast-food kitchens work. Taco Bell workers get the pre-cooked beef in a plastic bag. The top part of that bag is a tie-off point that has to be removed before the meat can be used and put on the steam table.

It seems very likely that someone removed this piece of plastic and, instead of throwing it away right away, accidentally dropped it into Kelsey’s Crunchwrap Supreme while making it. Taco Bell experiences aren’t always smooth, as one woman learned when her card got declined twice during a date. While that explanation solves the mystery, it shows a serious problem with quality control. There should have been much better safety and cleanliness rules in place to stop it from ever happening.