Chili’s Serves Steak With Worms.

A Chili’s restaurant in the UAE has been fined after serving up a steak crawling with worms.

After being served a worm infested steak, a Chili’s customer complained to the local health department in the Sharjah Municipality of the United Arab Emirates. Health department officials inspected the restaurant and slapped Chili’s with a fine for an undisclosed amount. It’s all part of Chili’s decline in health standards throughout the Middle-East. In June, a Chili’s location in Abu Dhabi was actually closed for a laundry list of offenses including “overflowing sewage.”

Without more details about the unsanitary conditions at Chili’s we can’t know for sure if the worms infested the meat at the restaurant or if they were in the meat when it arrived from the slaughterhouse. The whole thing isn’t too surprising, meat is generally full of worms and parasites but most are just cooked and killed before ingesting. One cubic inch of meat contains over a thousand parasite larvae. That’s like eating a thousand parasitic larvae in every bite.

The UAE location is just one of about a thousand Chili’s locations worldwide contributing to their parent company’s $716 million in yearly profits. You’d think with as much cash as the company has they could buy steak with less worms or at least a colder fridge.