When Territorian Jessiica McDonald settled in to watch the footy with her family, they didn’t expect to make a gruesome snack-related discovery.

“Beers while watching the footy,” Jessiica wrote.

“Only to find the beef jerky we just bought isn’t beef at all. Instead it’s marinated dried toad!!! Yuckk.”

That’s right, a jerked toad. At least it was marinated though.

Jessiica spoke exclusively to the NT News about her families’ snack surprise.

“I actually wasn’t the unlucky one who had a taste,” she said cheerfully.

“But my father took a bite. He was so into the footy game he didn’t realise until he took half a leg of what was supposed to be jerky – it was crunchy dried toad. Absolutely putrid.”

tags: toad jerky