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A Cambridge student has taken to Twitter to share her disgust at finding tiny maggots wriggling in the tomato ketchup dispenser of a city centre McDonald's.

Bella Ritchie posted the grim footage which clearly shows the critters wriggling in the transparent tubing of the dispenser on Wednesday (October 3).

Tweeting the @McDonald's brand account she wrote: "Never going near the ketchup in McDonald's again. For those of you who can’t tell, these are MAGGOTS."

She went on to clarify she had made the discovery at the Cambridge Rose Crescent branch.

She added: "I told one member of staff and she literally just ignored me and carried on serving customers.

"We had to literally stop someone from eating it because they didn’t realise.

"My friend pumped it before we noticed and flies flew out with the maggots and ketchup."

Dozens of people tweeted the student to express their shared disgust at the stomach churning find.

An American user tweeted: "Noooooo....just noooooooooo. I'll never even use these ketchup dispensers anywhere every again (I'm in the US) UGH!"

Others simply deployed several 'sick face' emoticons and labelled the incident plain "disgusting".

Around 12 hours later a spokesperson for McDonald's replied on Twitter: "I'm very sorry to see this happened.

"So we can investigate, can you please send us a DM and let me know which restaurant this was and the time of your visit?

"Our teams will then be able to look into this for you immediately."

The company then told the Mirror Online: "We're extremely sorry to see this, and have tried to get in contact with the customer directly.

"Our condiment area and dispensers should be checked for cleanliness every day and we are looking into what happened here.'"

So far Isabella's video has racked up over 39,000 views, including some horrified Cambridge locals.

A Cambridge resident told Cambridgeshire Live she and a group of friends went to the same branch recently, but won't be returning after seeing this footage.

She said: "I went to Rose Crescent McDonald's on Friday night.

"Now I am wanting to retch after seeing this video. It's put me off ever having McDonald's again."