New Yorker Believes To Have Found Teeth In His Food, Then Realizes It Is Actually Something Way More Special

Jan 03, 2019 by apost team

Statistics indicate that thousands of people unhappily find foreign objects in prepared meals every year. Diners discover a wide range of strange inedible ingredients that often include bones, insects, glass, wood and other disgusting objects. This New Yorker really had a pearl of a meal!

New Yorker Rick Antosh now joins the collective after having lunch with a friend at the Oyster Bar in Grand Central Terminal.

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Antosh was enjoying a dish of raw oysters when the event occurred. He slid an oyster in his mouth and soon felt something hard. Initially, he thought he might have broken a tooth or lost a filling. He pulled the object out of his mouth and was puzzled at what he saw.

The object was small, round and all white with the exception of a tiny black dot. The strange thing looked similar to a doll's eye. He thought perhaps the object was part of a kitchen tool that may have inadvertently fallen into the oyster.

After examining the sphere a little longer, he wondered if what he had indeed encountered was a pearl.

Upon hearing of the situation, the chef arrived at Antosh's table. He verified that what the diner was holding was, in fact, a pearl. The chef also shared that in his nearly three decades of food preparation, he had witnessed such an event only one time before.

Authentic pearls are prized in the jewellery industry and often come at a hefty price. Freshwater varieties are created by mussels and pearl clams. However, these are typically very rare. Pearls are most often created by saltwater oysters in various parts of the world.

The process begins when a grain of sand or other irritant manages to pass into the shell and pass the protective mantle covering. In order to protect themselves from damage, the oysters cover the foreign invader with a material known as nacre.

Nacre, which is often referred to as mother-of-pearl, consists of microscopic calcium carbonate crystals. Layer upon layer of the substance encompasses the irritant. These layers become the pearl.

Pearls form anywhere from six months to four years after the oyster encounters the irritant. The longer the process takes, the larger and more valuable the pearl.

Pearls come in a wide range in colors, which depends on the color of the oyster's shell and the geographical location of the oyster. Some oysters capably produce multiple pearls during their lifetime. This was truly a pearl of a meal!

What do you think about Rick's finding? Have you ever found something in your food that did not belong there? Hopefully it was as special as Rick's pearl! Show this video to your friends and family, they won't believe this story!