An Australian man “threw (his) guts up” after finding what appeared to be a chipped human tooth in his provided meal on board a Singapore Airlines (SIA) flight back home from New Zealand to Melbourne on Tuesday.
According to his account to the Australian Associated Press, Bradley Button had been eating a rice dish onboard flight SQ248 when he crunched down on something hard. He spat out the object and it turned out to be a human tooth, and it was not definitely his, he said.
“For the rest of the flight I was not well, just the idea of having someone else’s body part in my food is not nice,” he told AAP.
As one can imagine (human teeth aren’t appetizing ingredients, FYI), Button was livid — and grew even more so when an SIA flight attendant tried to assure him that it wasn’t. Understandably, she was “adamant” about taking the alleged tooth away for investigations and testing, but the passenger was convinced that he did have someone else’s molar in his mouth.
“I threw my guts up.” #9News https://t.co/qEqi03YpE3
— Nine News Australia (@9NewsAUS) February 27, 2019
He was then given a $75 voucher which could only be used to buy duty-free products on board SIA flights.
“Disappointed by this discovery”
SIA has since apologized to button for the experience and assured that the object will be sent for analysis in Melbourne.
An SIA spokesperson confirmed to TODAY that a customer had indeed found a “foreign object” in his meal and that the meal was not prepared by Changi Airport’s airline catering service provider Sats.
“Once the results of the analysis are known, we will determine what the most appropriate course of action to take is,” the SIA spokesman said in a statement.
“We expect all of our meals to meet a consistently high standard and we are disappointed in this discovery.”
