Two of my colleagues and myself went to Wendy's restaurant for lunch Wednesday.

I got two crispy chicken sandwiches, a baked potato and a side salad.

I was about half-way through the salad when it happened.

I took a bite of the lettuce and felt a sharp pain. I immediately spit the food out onto a napkin. Something's not right, I thought. There's no way lettuce is that crispy and sharp.

Now this might appear gross, but I digged through the chewed lettuce with a fork and found a small piece of clear plastic.

The piece had sharp, pointed ends. It was about the size of my fingernail, maybe a little bigger.

I didn't finish the salad. I kept thinking what would've happened to my insides if I would've swallowed it.

I went to the counter with the piece in my hand and asked for the manager. I explained what happened and asked how it could've gotten into the salad because the container it came in had a sealed lid.

The manager didn't know. He was nice and apologized. He asked if I would like a refund. I said yes and got my $1.29 back.

I did an Internet search on items people have found in fast food, thinking my find was mild compared to what others have discovered. It was.

Here's what I found, or should I say, what others have found.

* An Alabama man claims he found a unused prophylactic condom after ordering a Big Mac at a McDonald's on Oct. 6, 1995, in Hoover, Ala. He tried several times to bite through what he thought was a pickle but then peeked under the bun and saw a condom, still rolled, as if it were just opened.

* A Virginia Beach firefighter found two used bandages in his Quarter Pounder at McDonald's in 1994.

* In 2004, an Ohio man found some skin (part of a thumb) in his Arby's sandwich. Guess you can call that some finger-lickin good food!

Also, there was the well-publicized with the woman who claimed to have found a finger in a bowl of chili at Wendy's. However, it was later determined that the finger came from an associate of her husband who lost the digit in an industrial accident. She planted the finger in the chili in an effort to extort money from the restaurant.