25 Mar 2009, 4:23 pm
Do you FREAK out when you find a bug in your food, suspect there's a bug in your food, or worst of all, find out you've just unknowingly eaten a bug that was in your food?
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!
25 Mar 2009, 4:59 pm
25 Mar 2009, 5:19 pm
Although I don't remember the last time I found a bug in any of my food, my sister told me she found a maggot in her rice before. Now every time I have rice, I watch very carefully when I eat. The bad part about it is that some rice grains have those little specks of black that look like a maggots head, so that makes me even more cautious. 
25 Mar 2009, 5:51 pm
Now every time I have rice, I watch very carefully when I eat. The bad part about it is that some rice grains have those little specks of black that look like a maggots head, so that makes me even more cautious. Its also why I break open sunflower seeds by hand. I've found little maggots or worms or whatever, curled up in the shell. (That's what those bitter sunflower seeds are - I think.)
25 Mar 2009, 5:56 pm
25 Mar 2009, 5:59 pm
Now every time I have rice, I watch very carefully when I eat. The bad part about it is that some rice grains have those little specks of black that look like a maggots head, so that makes me even more cautious. Its also why I break open sunflower seeds by hand. I've found little maggots or worms or whatever, curled up in the shell. (That's what those bitter sunflower seeds are - I think.)
That's nasty to think about too.
I only eat the shelled ones anymore, but sometimes you find them with little hole bored in them, from the worms. To date, I haven't found any worms, and that's good because I would have to stop eating them by the handful, if I did. 
25 Mar 2009, 6:12 pm
Buggylicious. Good neologism; would use again.
Makes me want some crawfish etouffe.
Ever suck the heads? I draw the line there. Or the crab "mustard" (brains, guts, whatever it is.)
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25 Mar 2009, 8:37 pm
25 Mar 2009, 9:05 pm
Buggylicious. Good neologism; would use again.
Makes me want some crawfish etouffe.
Ever suck the heads? I draw the line there. Or the crab "mustard" (brains, guts, whatever it is.)
Nope, that's new to me. What's it taste like?
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25 Mar 2009, 9:20 pm
Buggylicious. Good neologism; would use again.
Makes me want some crawfish etouffe.
Ever suck the heads? I draw the line there. Or the crab "mustard" (brains, guts, whatever it is.)
Nope, that's new to me. What's it taste like?
25 Mar 2009, 9:29 pm
Well that's...absolutely revolting.
26 Mar 2009, 4:54 am
Argh! After reading this thread I will never eat anything ever again!! ! :mrgreen:
26 Mar 2009, 5:02 am
26 Mar 2009, 3:55 pm
26 Mar 2009, 5:32 pm
when i was a kid, a white zebra-striped elongated beetle landed on my dinner, and boiled to death there and then
the horriblest part was that i immediately noticed that this was an insect i had never seen before, and it came into my life, and immediately died, cooked, ON my food.
frrrrrrreaky 
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26 Mar 2009, 11:08 pm
