A BRISBANE man ate a McDonald’s breakfast burger that he claims made his skin crawl.

Postal worker Joshua Camilleri, 37, was about to take a third bite of his morning McMuffin two weeks ago, bought from the Coorparoo restaurant, when he saw what appeared to be a cockroach cooked into the egg.

“I threw up pretty much straight away. I went to the bathroom and threw up. It’s disgusting,” he said.

“I will never eat McDonald’s again in my life.”

Mr Camilleri took the half-eaten burger back to the take-away chain after work and was reimbursed for the meal.

media_camera A picture of the muffin that was allegedly served containing a cockroach to a Brisbane man.

He said the manager offered no explanation for the incident and asked for the burger back to allow for an investigation.

But Mr Camilleri refused, keeping the burger in his fridge “just in case I needed it.”

A McDonald’s spokeswoman said without the burger the corporation could not properly investigate and “at this time we have no reason to believe this contamination occurred in our restaurant.”

“The customer has refused to provide us with the product to allow us to look into this. Without the cooperation of the customer, it’s hard for us to investigate any further,” the spokeswoman said.

After being contacted by The Courier-Mail, the Brisbane City Council planned to conduct an inspection of the restaurant.

“Council has a zero-tolerance policy for food businesses that do not have safe food practices and immediately suspend operations until major safety issues are rectified,” a council spokesman said.