Customer comes across “rubbery but hard chunks” in Aldi pasta and seeks help: “What is that?”. “It’s not food and it shouldn’t be there,” advises one woman.

One user suspects that it is most likely a machine part that got into the noodles during production. Such production errors can happen from time to time and - if they are noticed - are often the reason for a recall. But if the machine part stays under the radar, unsavory moments like this arise.