Microwave Popcorn...Possible Mouse/Rat feces?

Maybe this is more of a health question, but I was eating some microwave popcorn and bit into a piece that just tasted absolutely terrible. Rest of the bag tasted like normal and wasn't overly burnt or anything.
Anyways it hit me that....holy crap I might've eaten rat feces. Is this something I should be worried about? I mean I imagine a bag of popcorn gets pretty hot inside...so wouldn't it eradicate most bacteria/etc...
Best Answer
Microwave popcorn bags operate on being sealed and trapping the heat inside in order to get the temperatures you need to pop the popcorn. If a rat had defecated in your bag he would have broken the seal to do it. No you didn't eat rat poop.
Rather you likely ate a singly rancid popcorn kernel which tasted pretty crummy. This is not altogether uncommon and therefore the far more likely explanation.
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