Michelle was driving home from work one day and she was starving. Not wanting to worry about cooking dinner once she got home, she decided to stop for some take out. She pulled into her local Taco Bell and ordered a burrito. She enjoyed her quick meal and when she was done she headed home.

When she woke up the next day, her tongue felt sore and a little swollen. It bothered her all day, so she went to see her doctor to find out what was wrong. The doctor didn’t find anything on his initial examination, so he told her to come back if it got any worse.

Days later her tongue swelled up considerably and became very sore. She went back to the doctor and he decided to do a minor surgery. When the doctor had cut open her tongue he found a cyst among her taste buds filled with cockroach eggs. They traced the eggs back to the burrito from her fast food dinner

urg...are you kidding?
thats gross.

xoxo,
Paola,3

The purpose of stories of this type is to sow distrust of "foreign" elements among us, including citizens who have been fully Americanized for 150 to 200-plus years.

Thus there are tales of leprosy picked up from Chinese-American laundries, scalp diseases from Italian-American barbers, food poisoning from Italian-American restaurants and German-American butchers and so on. Years ago it was stories of being murdered by your own Irish-American servants. And God only knows how many of these nasty yarns were circulated about African-Americans, and continue to be.

Or a CEO from the Fajita Grill or MOE's chain started that email to kill business for Taco-Bell. Definitely an Urban Legend.

From what I understand roaches do not implant their eggs into victims. I think someone made up this story. Where's the source??

Female cockroaches are sometimes seen carrying egg cases on the end of their abdomen; the egg case of the German cockroach holds about 30–40 long, thin eggs, packed like frankfurters in the case called an ootheca. The eggs hatch from the combined pressure of the hatchlings gulping air and are initially bright white nymphs that continue inflating themselves with air and harden and darken within about four hours. Their transient white stage while hatching and later while molting has led to many individuals to claim to have seen albino cockroaches.

Common household roaches A. German cockroach, B. American cockroach, C. Australian cockroach, D&E. Oriental cockroach (♀ & ♂)A female German cockroach carries an egg capsule containing around 40 eggs. She drops the capsule prior to hatching. Development from eggs to adults takes 3-4 months. Cockroaches live up to a year. The female may produce up to eight egg cases in a lifetime; in favorable conditions, it can produce 300-400 offspring. Other species of cockroach, however, can produce an extremely high number of eggs in a lifetime, but only needs to be impregnated once to be able to lay eggs for the rest of its life.

Source

This tells me that your urban legend is false.

Not happening. A sist full of eggs is a lot, too many to get in through a small cut. And people usually shew their food, ne? but this reminds me of a more believable myth.

A woman licks an envelope and cuts her tongue. After it heals it becomes inflammed and a trip to the doctor tells her that there are roach eggs in her tongue from the cut. And seeing how roaches love to eat the sticky stuff on the stamps and envelopes(Fact) it's more likely.

citation needed

Not happening this time either. Though seeing tiny baby cockroaches might be deceiving, they're actually born in capsules,kinda like peas, and hold around 40 little roaches in each. Now take out a ruler, the capsule measures about 3mm to 7mm in length.

Now assuming this story is true that must have been one hell of a cut, she thought the roaches eggs were M&Ms, and forgot to swallow?

That's certainly a possibility. Something extremely similar was eventually discovered responsible for the genuinely vicious and absolutely false rumors 20 years ago that not only was Cincinnati's giant and respected Procter and Gamble Company entirely made up of Satanists but that they were quite open about it.

Wha? I heard that on Ripley's Believe it or Do Not Believe it

And I find it very unlikely that ANYTHING can live in a human mouth for very long other than microbes.

Anyone hear the story of a centipede in a cavity?

saliva is the poison of humans, any insect in your mouth will not live for long.

Come on!!! Gross

Usefully for this particular posting, Snopes.com has examined this particular urban legend and it covers both the envelope theory and the Taco Bell story in one investigation. It is, of course, a load of old cack.

Here you go.

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/tacobell.asp

im actually quite relived it isnt true, put me off my food hehe

love to believe it but thats to sad its already on
replys dont believe it so o well sucker!

W...T...F!!! that's freakin weird...not to mention disgusting...but wat a way to end someone's obsession with burrito's =)

Any fast food story like this one makes me ill , just think about the employees handling your food..
to hear the things people do to your food OMG !

haha. I ate a burrito right before I read this.

Your title made me believe it had something to do with 'Hot Sauce', but to my dissappointment.

Burritos are american, just like 'Cup of Noodles' are, and the Pizza. All "Americanized" if thats a word, from foriegn dishes.

I hate cocroaches and I would hate for this to have even a little truth to it. I even dislike hearing dried friuts left out on the ground to dry out and knowing insects to cockroaches to rat droppings are all over them and sold as is in packages. Yuck

lol a burrito you gotto be kidding

"Taco Bell *is* the devil's food. Never eat that junk before a trans-Atlantic flight, you'll be fighting turbulence at the back of the plane while that big red jerk laughs his head off." - Uncle Russell