CelticRose
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28 Mar 2009, 8:21 am
It's flour moth season here - and I found a moth in some rice yesterday and ended up throwing all 16 oz's of it in the garbage. I tried to fish him out and lost him. I tried desperately to find him but I think his body evaporated into the rice.
I hated to waste the rice but I just knew I wouldn't get over it. Then just now - I found a dead baby moth worm in my iced tea. I think it fell off a cabinet somewhere into my tea.
I am *this close* to a meltdown if I have another run-in with a moth in my food. I will be forced to throw out all our dry goods. (I've done it before) I won't use pesticides and those little sticky things are so-so.
On the otherhand, mmmmm....I love crab, lobster, crawfish, and shrimp. Buggylicious!
I keep my flour, etc. in my refrigerator for just this reason. The bugs can't survive the cold temperatures, and if there's no food around for them to eat they'll go elsewhere.
I think the worst I found was a caterpillar and other assorted bugs in a bag of organic salad. Now I won't buy anything labeled organic unless it's something I can wash before eating.
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28 Mar 2009, 9:06 am
It's flour moth season here - and I found a moth in some rice yesterday and ended up throwing all 16 oz's of it in the garbage. I tried to fish him out and lost him. I tried desperately to find him but I think his body evaporated into the rice.
I hated to waste the rice but I just knew I wouldn't get over it. Then just now - I found a dead baby moth worm in my iced tea. I think it fell off a cabinet somewhere into my tea.
I am *this close* to a meltdown if I have another run-in with a moth in my food. I will be forced to throw out all our dry goods. (I've done it before) I won't use pesticides and those little sticky things are so-so.
On the otherhand, mmmmm....I love crab, lobster, crawfish, and shrimp. Buggylicious!
I keep my flour, etc. in my refrigerator for just this reason. The bugs can't survive the cold temperatures, and if there's no food around for them to eat they'll go elsewhere.
I think the worst I found was a caterpillar and other assorted bugs in a bag of organic salad. Now I won't buy anything labeled organic unless it's something I can wash before eating.
28 Mar 2009, 9:26 am
apparrently some wise old fellows love to eat figs, and they say figs are the fruit of the gods.
figs are the reward when one reaches an idyllic oasis after many parched weeks traversing the desert.
but figs only become figs because a wasp crawled into them and laid it's eggs and then died inside the fig. god knows about the maggots from those eggs, and where they go. anyway, i can not ever know what a fig tastes like due to the disgusting method of pollination.
The larvae grow into wasps and get out (in most cases), I looked it up.
I agree on the 'never trying a fig' front - bugs in my food (or on my food or NEAR my food) frightens and disgusts me. Although I have eaten chocolate covered grasshoppers (got $120 cause no one thought I would and bet money I wouldn't) it was gross
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28 Mar 2009, 3:01 pm
I agree!
28 Mar 2009, 10:44 pm
apparrently some wise old fellows love to eat figs, and they say figs are the fruit of the gods.
figs are the reward when one reaches an idyllic oasis after many parched weeks traversing the desert.
but figs only become figs because a wasp crawled into them and laid it's eggs and then died inside the fig. god knows about the maggots from those eggs, and where they go. anyway, i can not ever know what a fig tastes like due to the disgusting method of pollination.
The larvae grow into wasps and get out (in most cases), I looked it up.
I agree on the 'never trying a fig' front - bugs in my food (or on my food or NEAR my food) frightens and disgusts me. Although I have eaten chocolate covered grasshoppers (got $120 cause no one thought I would and bet money I wouldn't) it was gross
I had chocolate covered crickets once. Certainly weren't $120 bad, though nothing to write home about.
29 Mar 2009, 11:05 am
Update: Threw out an entire cabinet full of crackers and nuts. It appears the moths and larvaes were going after a couple bags of roasted shelled peanuts from last summer. 
As soon as I moved the bags - a whole flury of moths scattered all over. GROSS! They are kind of fun to catch, though. They're slow and kind of fly like helicopters.
I didn't stop to look and check out the larvae. I can handle the moths but I get very nauseous looking at the disgusting little squirmy wormies.
I have never intentionally eaten a bug. For $120 I would, but I don't think I have any friends who'd pony up that kind of cash.
I ate eel last year for the first time (after a couple shots of sake). That was a BFD for me.
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29 Mar 2009, 11:30 am
Oh yeah, I HAD to read this just before dinnertime, didn't I... 
Once I found a dead caterpillar in between the little stems on a piece of broccoli. I stopped eating broccoli for YEARS, and then in the heath-makeover my mum agreed to let me just cut off the leafy bits and eat those while leaving the possibly-infested stems.
The other week I dreamt there was a cockroach in my bathroom, and I touched it by accident. *shudders* GROSS.
It kinda bothered me when we went on holiday to Malta and the villa had a few dead cockroaches in the corner of the living room.
I think some bugs are cool, just, y'know, not in my food or anywhere where I might accidentally touch them (in my bed is another place that bugs should not be, because if I accidentally roll over a spider then it'll be dead, and dead spiders can't go anywhere, so it'll stay there).
29 Mar 2009, 11:43 am
As soon as I moved the bags - a whole flury of moths scattered all over. GROSS! They are kind of fun to catch, though. They're slow and kind of fly like helicopters. I didn't stop to look and check out the larvae. I can handle the moths but I get very nauseous looking at the disgusting little squirmy wormies.
I have never intentionally eaten a bug. For $120 I would, but I don't think I have any friends who'd pony up that kind of cash.
I ate eel last year for the first time (after a couple shots of sake). That was a BFD for me.
Each person bet me $20 I wouldn't so it wasn't so much the amount of cash bet but the amount of people betting. It was great cause I later spent the money I won on going out to dinner with the family. I checked that food for bugs like crazy
29 Mar 2009, 11:49 am
The other week I dreamt there was a cockroach in my bathroom, and I touched it by accident. *shudders* GROSS.
It kinda bothered me when we went on holiday to Malta and the villa had a few dead cockroaches in the corner of the living room.
Cockroaches used to just gross me out. But then a few years ago, I was reaching into a cabinet at night to get a drinking glass and I swear I felt something bite my hand! The cabinet has mirrors behind it so I saw this like 2 inch cockroach running around. Maybe he just ran over my hand but it felt like a nip.
So - yeah, now they gross me out AND I'm afraid of them. (Plus they say if you squash one it could be a pregnant female and you could release millions of cockroach eggs or something horrific like that.)
29 Mar 2009, 12:17 pm
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29 Mar 2009, 2:32 pm
I hate those meteorite sized cockroaches (palmetto bugs as they call them in FL.) I leave boric acid tablets in all cabinets, behind the silverware in the drawer, as well as position "Combat" brand roach poison containers in strategic locations. They are so disgusting and messy to squash, I'd rather let them take poison home to their little families.
29 Mar 2009, 3:07 pm
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29 Mar 2009, 5:29 pm
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29 Mar 2009, 8:38 pm
Once, before I put my glasses on in the morning, I saw something on the floor, reached down to pick it up, and touched a LIVE cockroach.
I only get one or two cockroaches a year in this place, but they're the sewer roaches.
It's amazing how long you have to run a vacuum cleaner with one of those inside in order to kill it. 
29 Mar 2009, 11:48 pm
29 Mar 2009, 11:50 pm
Which brings me to my big fear of creepy crawlies: worms. When I heard you could get fish worms from sushi I didn't touch the stuff for like 6 months
