Nashville Man Goes To Cheesecake Factory For His Birthday Lunch—Then Spots Something Off-Putting In His Dessert
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A woman who calls herself a devoted Cheesecake Factory fan says her loyalty is being tested after two back-to-back issues with her food.
Most commenters agreed she may be making a bigger deal out of it than necessary.
What would you do in her place? “There’s no one on this planet that loves Cheesecake Factory more than me.”
So when her husband, Chris, chose it for his birthday lunch in Nashville, she was thrilled. The video was meant to be a cheerful “what we ate” recap: bread with the perfect bread-to-butter ratio, Asian chicken nachos, steak Diane, and chicken Bellagio. But things shifted when dessert arrived. She was about to dig into the cheesecake when her husband stopped her—he spotted something she hadn’t: a hair on the slice.
“No big deal,” Jules says. The server brought a replacement piece, but it also had a hair on it.
“Listen, we’re super chill and understanding,” Jules says in the video. “But happening once? That’s fine. Twice? That’s crazy.”
They alerted staff so the cheesecake could be discarded and left disappointed they didn’t get to enjoy dessert.
“It wouldn’t be a birthday without a #cakegate saga to add to the repertoire,” she wrote in the caption.
Why finding hair in food feels like such a big deal
Coming across a hair in your food triggers a strong reaction, even though, rationally, it’s harmless. According to Bon Appétit, swallowing a stray hair won’t hurt you. Hair is mostly keratin (the same protein found in skin and nails), and your digestive system simply passes it through.
The FDA has no record of anyone becoming ill from ingesting stray hair. Individual strands don’t carry meaningful levels of pathogens, and while hair can pick up bacteria from the environment, a few strands are very unlikely to cause health issues.
As dermatologist Amy K. Bieber told Bon Appétit, eating hair “isn’t dangerous—it’s just ‘gross’ because society tells us it should be.”
There’s simply something off-putting about finding someone else’s hair in your food.
What you’re actually supposed to do
According to Food & Wine, the first step if you find a hair in your food is: don’t panic.
Before assuming it came from the kitchen, take a look. Is it resting on top of the food or cooked into it? If it’s just sitting on the surface, it could have fallen from your own head or someone at the table. If it’s coated in sauce or baked in, that points to a kitchen issue.
Tell your server calmly and privately. Most restaurants will apologize, remake the dish promptly, and possibly comp it. After that, accept the apology and move on. If you decide to leave a review, mention how the restaurant handled it—not just that it happened.
Has this ever happened to you, or what’s the worst thing you’ve ever found in your food?
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