CLOVER, S.C. – Students at Clover High School in South Carolina got more than they bargained for with their Michelle O lunches this week, and their parents aren’t too happy about it.

Parents are demanding answers from the Clover School District after Jennifer Sain’s 10^th grade daughter highlighted a problem with her school lunch Tuesday – it was served with a side of meal worms, WCNC reports.

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Sain told the news site she received a text message from her daughter Tuesday with a snapshot from her lunch, and it was disgusting.

“What in the world is that?” Slain questioned when she saw the image of the small worm in her daughter’s lunch rice. “It’s definitely either a maggot or a meal worm.”

Sain said her daughter and a friend discovered the bug and immediately alerted school lunch workers, who did not initially take their concerns seriously.

“When they took it up there and told the lady, the lady said no, that’s just a piece of rice that didn’t puff when it cooked,” she said.

School officials eventually realized the worm was real, and contacted the food vendor that provided the rice and removed that particular order of rice from all schools. District officials also checked other rice orders, and contacted the health department, which inspected school cafeterias, according to a district statement.

“We take this incident very seriously and are conducting a thorough supplier investigation with our Quality Assurance team,” it read. “As soon as we were notified we immediately removed the product from lunch service and have pulled all associated products from the schools.

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“The Department of Health and Environmental Controls inspected our schools … and gave our food service operations at (sic) 100-percent for sanitation and food safety practices.”

Sain said school officials told her they believe the worms came prepackaged with the rice.

“The principal led me to believe that it may have come from the people that provide the food to the schools,” she told WCNC. “I think parents should be notified when anything like that happens. There could potentially be a health issue there, somebody could get sick from ingesting them.”

This is the worm I found in my lunch at HHS! I love some protein! #thanksmichelleobama pic.twitter.com/fxwifd3Tiz

— Wyatt Maxwell (@JulieAndrewsBae) November 13, 2015

The incident is certainly not the first time students have found a little bit of extra protein in their government lunches. Just last week, Harrisonville High School student Wyatt Maxwell posted a picture to Twitter of a special surprise he found in his food.

“This is the worm I found in my lunch at HHS! I love some protein! #ThanksMichelleObama,” Maxwell tweeted.

Officials at Sheehan High School in Wallingford, Connecticut also launched an investigation in March after numerous students reportedly found worms in their fruit cups, the Record-Journal reports.

District officials attempted to label the find an “isolated incident,” but students and parents quickly countered that claim and alleged the problem had persisted for weeks with no action from the school.

Sheehan food services director Sharlene Wong told the news site she contacted the district’s food supplier, and the company essentially said worms in fruit are a fact of life.

“They stated that ‘organic matter’ can appear because it is impossible for fruit to be effect free due to the limited amount of pesticides being used in orchards,” Wong explained.

“They process thousands of pounds of fruit through the high speed processing line and a fruit worm could be in the middle of a piece of fruit and make it into the can. The canning process cooks the organic material,” she said. “They stated there was no danger of any foreign matter surviving.”