A Nova Scotia woman says she found a nasty surprise in an order of mashed potatoes at Bubba Ray's Too on Bayers Road Friday night.

Melissa Warner was dining with her boyfriend when she bit down and chipped her tooth on a metal object she says looked like a pin or the tip of something metal.

"A chipped tooth can be fixed and gums can heal, I'm just grateful I didn't swallow it," she said.

Warner alerted the manager of Bubba Ray's, who confirmed Warner found the metal piece. He says the object was about the diameter of a thin finishing nail, and about a centimetre in length.

The staff at Bubba Ray's checked all of their equipment to see if anything had broken off a kitchen implement but found no issues.

The restaurant still has the metal object and the manager says he plans to call the RCMP.

He says he's sent an email to the restaurant's supplier to find out exactly where the potatoes came from, but he says their mashed potato recipe contains other ingredients and it's possible the potato many not have been the source of the metal.

There have been sporadic reports for months of other metal objects being found in potatoes around Atlantic Canada.