Found this in my BGE lump

Moon rock

NSA tracking device

YEMTrey said:

I have really bad allergies, and when I do a sinus flush...........

I was thinking the same thing...

JRWhitee said:

Frog.  )

That's what I saw, too! )

I have never found any ping pong balls in my bags of RO from wally world. No wonder the BGE brand costs so much.

That's gold, Jerry, gold!

A shred if insulation that melted. I had a small piece in a bag of RO a couple of years ago.

I have been finding a lot of rock or ceramic in my royal old from Walmart. At least one piece per bag

Looks like the melted plastic tip of a 1987 Panasonic vibrator.

JRWhitee said:

Panasonic makes vibrators? :((

That's what Little Steven tells me.

NecessaryIndulg said:

JRWhitee said:

Frog.  )

That's what I saw, too! )

+1

nolaegghead said:

Looks like the melted plastic tip of a 1987 Panasonic vibrator.

That would truly be a pity, definitely a classic instrument and deserves a much better fate than ending up in a bag of lump. 

No clue what you have there in that frog/snot like item but I bet it wouldn't have smelled very good.

I can deal with a rock per bag. I'm not crazy about finding stuff like this: Insulation

A nice heavy chunk of metal 1/2" thick x 8 1/2" long

And a good chunk of brick

Still haven't found any really cool items yet. However, I might attach a handle to the piece of metal and use it as a lump buster.

stlcharcoal said:

In defense (even if it's for the competition), it happens......especially the rocks.  A rock covered in char dust looks a lot like a chunk of charcoal, especially when you have 5 lbs per second coming down the feed ramp into the bag.

All kinds of things get wedged, hammered, and/or shot into trees.  Wire, fencing, bailing string, etc get wrapped around them.  Fast forward 50 yrs and the tree has grown those items and has made an ugly knot(s).  Those knots get tossed out of the mill and they get made into charcoal.  Sometimes you won't even see that item until after the charcoal has been burned up because it was completely encased

Now, manufacturing related junk in your charcoal is another story--concrete, insulation, metal banding, etc.  This is more identifiable, but still slips by sometimes.

Give them (and us) a break on the rocks at least.  If the lump charcoal industry has to guarantee that there isn't a single 1 oz rock in a 20 lbs bag of charcoal, you're going to have to pay 4x a bag what you're paying now.  If everyone is cool with a single rock in every other bags, it will keeping charcoal prices stable (well, at least for the manufacturing portion of the cost........can't control fuel or wood prices.  We experience the lumber cost changes six-fold.)

BTW, if you're lucky enough to find an arrowhead, civil war era bullet, or old coin in one of our bags, I will gladly take it off your hands for you. 

Sometimes I think so folks have a vision of Ethyl and Lucy in their pink dresses and hairnets processing the pieces of candy as they come down the line, if you ever saw that episode, lol!  Nope, charcoal ain't like that.

Lucy's Famous Chocolate Scene

In my last bag of RO I had big piece of pine bark.  I'm ok with a rock or two but having pine in the bag is a little concerning.