Woman finds bullet in avocado purchased at a Sprouts Farmers Market

A Reddit user's friend found a small-caliber bullet in her avocado that she bought fresh from a farmers' market. Photo: NicheOfLess reddit A Reddit user's friend found a small-caliber bullet in her avocado that she bought fresh from a farmers' market. Photo: NicheOfLess reddit Photo: Reddit Photo: Reddit Image 1 of / 29 Caption Close Woman finds bullet in avocado purchased at a Sprouts Farmers Market 1 / 29 Back to Gallery

Imagine cutting open a fresh avocado bought straight from the grocery store only to come face-to-face with a small bullet embedded in the flesh.

One Reddit user has gone viral after sharing a photo of a friend holding a piece of an avocado and a small-caliber bullet, with the caption, "[m]y friend found a bullet in an avocado that she bought from Sprouts."

The image sparked a flood of comments ranging from comical scenarios to legitimate suggestions for how the bullet may have ended up in the fruit.

"I'm actually thinking this guy just got himself involved in the vegetable Mafia," said one user.

Another commentor suggested that small animals eating the crops could be to blame. "Squirrels eat avocados like crazy so farmers shoot them. Hence the small caliber bullet."

One user who claims to work at a lab that analyses foreign objects in food (among other things) says that finding things like bullets or other debris in grown food is not uncommon.

Chron.com reached out to Sprouts for their thoughts on the matter, but they were not immediately available for comments.