Yuck! Texas Woman Finds Stranger’s Tooth In Her Milky Way Candy Bar

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What’s the most shocking thing you’ve ever bitten into? For Sue Calhoun of Brownsboro, Texas, that question has an easy answer after taking a road trip bite of her go-to candy bar combo. As Calhoun chomped into her Milky Way candy bar, she encountered something tougher than caramel or nougat. Stunned, she pulled from her mouth a full tooth—silver filling and all—baked right into the sweet treat.

“I took one bite and it was fine, so I took another bite and bit down on something and thought, ‘Well, it may be a peanut,'” Calhoun recalled.

Understandably disgusted, Calhoun grew nauseated thinking about the tooth’s origins. Had the tooth come from a factory worker? Gross!

She needed to get to the root of the matter. After phoning Milky Way’s maker Mars Candy, Calhoun was asked by the company to return the contaminated candy and tooth for inspection.

Calhoun was skeptical she would ever see the tooth again, so she considered other options: “What I think I’ll do is have my little dentist down here in Brownsboro… examine the tooth and see if it was a jaw tooth,” she told KLTV.

Even without the tooth to examine, the candy manufacturer sent Calhoun some coupons for free candy bars.

For now, the tooth’s past remains a mystery. But its future is settled — Calhoun confirmed she won’t be mailing back her gross discovery or Mars Candy’s offered coupons. After the tooth incident, she understandably lost her sweet tooth, joking the situation makes her “sick” to her stomach.

“Every time I think about it, I kind of get sick to my stomach because I don’t know what kind of mouth it come out of,” said Calhoun.

Mars Candy responded firmly about their strict safety standards, concluding “no conclusion has been reached at this time” regarding the tooth’s origins. But their statement provided little comfort for Calhoun, who was left with a lingering bad taste over the incident.

We recently learned of the possible presence of a foreign object in one package of our Milky Way product, in the Brownsboro, TX area.  Food safety and product quality are of paramount importance to Mars and we are committed to the highest standards of quality and safety.  We therefore take issues such as these extremely seriously.  We have been in touch with Ms. Calhoun and have already taken steps to ensure that the product in question is returned to us for evaluation.  Since we are currently in the middle of this process, no conclusion has been reached at this time.

All Mars products are manufactured and tested through a series of strict processes, based on recognized international standards.  We remain confident in the quality and safety of our products.

Mars Candy

What weird things have you found inside your food? Bullets? Condoms? Snake heads? Please let us know in the comments! And don’t forget to bite into your next candy bar with caution!