random thought (and don't read if you haven't eaten your dinner)

[gategrrl]

The grossest thing I ever saw in any kitchen of mine was when I looked into a burlap bag of rice from Thailand and saw little white maggots squirming around in it.   Guess what we didn't have for dinner that night?

What's the grossest thing you've ever seen in *your* kitchen (of food origin)?

Comments

[fantasyecho.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's a hard meme. I've seen mold, maggots, fruit flies, weevils (I always had to wash the rice in Malaysia just to get the weevils out) but it's hard to decide which is the grossest!

[gategrrl.livejournal.com]

I have no idea what weevils even look like, so I wouldn't know what to look for! Mold doesn't gross me out, but live squirming bugs in the food do. Ick.

Fruit flies...they're gross, but when they're little maggots, that's even worse.

[fantasyecho.livejournal.com]

Like that. Except much much much much smaller. They kinda dig into rice grains and lay their eggs there? Little black bugs. When you kill then, they make a little crunch sound. A bit like popping ticks and lice. They're more annoying than gross, I guess.

[gategrrl.livejournal.com]

Oh! I have seen pictures of these things before. I just didn't make the connection.

Lice? Are truly disgusting. I hate lice. The only time I got lice was on my trip through Nepal and India. Right around Bhuj I found myself scratching my head in my sleep. I woke up to the scratching. Had no idea what the little bugs were. The man who owned the hotel told me to go to a drugstore and get medicine (still without telling me I had lice). Needless to say, I shampooed my hair every day for a week with that poisonous shampoo they sold me. I ran into another traveler from the US who shaved all her hair off to get rid of them.