One lucky man found the treasure while having dinner with his fiancee and some others at a local restaurant for his fiancee's birthday.
Jimmy Lee was dining at The Quayside restaurant in Stourport, England when he noticed something unusual in his food.
Lee's fiancee, Paige Hawkins, said she was at the restaurant with a group of friends and family to celebrate her birthday when Lee ordered mussels for dinner, SWNS reported.
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“We go to this restaurant every year for my birthday and I can't say enough great things about it,” she said.
“This year, I ordered lobster and Jimmy ordered mussels.”
In the picture, Paige Hawkins holds the pearl her fiance found inside a mussel while dining at The Quayside. (SWNS)
Hawkins said her fiance was eating the mussels when he felt “something hard” inside them.
After he stopped chewing, Lee surprised everyone by removing a rare natural pearl from his mouth.
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“It shocked all of us. It was just a small thing. [but] “I didn't know it was coming from mussels,” Ms Hawkins told SWNS.
The pearl pictured above was discovered inside a mussel that made it to our dinner table. (SWNS)
She added: “I've eaten a lot of mussels and stuff in my life but I've never seen anything like this.”
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Lee gave Hawkins the pearl as a birthday gift, and she said she planned to keep the stone and make it into a necklace.
“They need to store it in something special, like a necklace or jewelry, to keep it safe,” she said.
A man went to a birthday dinner for his fiancée and discovered a rare pearl (not pictured) in his food. (SWNS, iStock)
But her curiosity has piqued, and Hawkins said she plans to take the pearl to a few jewelry stores to find out how much it might be worth.
“It was a very special moment and something I'll always remember,” she told SWNS.
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Vee Alexander, front-of-house manager at Quayside, told Fox News Digital that the restaurant sells 55 pounds of mussels every week but has never seen a pearl.
The Quayside's front-of-house manager told Fox News Digital that the restaurant sells 55 pounds of mussels a week but has never come across a pearl. (SWNS)
“We sell 25kg (55lb) of Cornish mussels a week and this is our first pearl in four years of trading,” she said.
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She added: “It was a really special find, really rare.”
