A Kiwi has shared a ‘disgusting’ discovery he found lurking in his lunch after he chomped down on a mystery piece of meat.

The man pulled the piece of ‘meat’ from the filling of a budget supermarket steak and cheese pie after being unable to chew through it. He then snapped a pic and shared it online.

‘Here in New Zealand, this is the cheapest pie you can buy,’ he informed members of the Facebook group Dull Men’s Club.

‘The pies are generally dull all round, however, did I just find an a**hole in my pie?’ he asked.

Many viewers were quick to suggest the bizarre bit of beef could be seen to resemble a cow’s anus.

‘Hole-y cow!’ one wrote.

‘Damn, that’s disgusting,’ another added. 

‘It’s like when cereal came with a toy but, with how bleak the world can be, it’s this instead,’ a third said.

A New Zealander snapped a picture of a ‘disgusting’ piece of ambiguous meat he pulled from a supermarket pie

‘How did you find out? Did you bite it and notice something chewy?’ one reader asked.

The New Zealander confirmed their suspicions.

‘Basically, I chewed it for a few seconds then stuck my tongue through it and thought to myself … that’s an a***hole, then spat it into my hand to inspect it further,’ he wrote.

Others, however, doubted the piece of meat originated from a cow’s rear end.

One suggested it was instead a cow’s belly button.

‘I don’t know much about cows but I’m guessing their chocolate starfish are a bit bigger than this,’ another said.

One queried whether it might have ‘shrunk with the heat’.

‘It’s probably minced heart and a slice of major artery (or) vein from off the top,’ another said.

The company behind the Pam’s brand, Foodstuffs, said it has thorough protocols in place to ensure food quality. 

‘We take food safety very seriously and have strict processes and protocols in place to ensure we maintain the highest standards and are compliant by NZ standards,’ a spokeswoman told Daily Mail Australia.

The Kiwi added that he had recently shared the image ‘just for a laugh’ after taking the original picture in 2019.