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)?

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[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

Ew! That reminds me of the time I ate half an Oreo and then looked at the other half and saw some sort of worm/caterpillar/something in half a cocoon. :-( (This happened in 1980, package of Oreos bought in an independent convenience store. They'd probably been in the store for a long while.) To this day, I have to *see* food before I can eat it. This was reinforced to me a couple of years ago when I got to the bottom of a box of crackers in the car (in the dark) and, after we stopped somewhere and turned on the lights, discovered that they were covered with mold.

Another time, I bought lyraeinne a chocolate bar at the health food store, and it had a dead bug in it--sticking out of the smooth side, its back in the chocolate and all its little legs sticking straight up out of the back of the candy bar. I have no idea how it lasted in the package like that....

Another time, too, same brand of chocolate, I had eaten part of it, and then found a WORMy thing in it--eating the chocolate, too.

Until you mentioned that, I had completely forgotten about these incidences. *g*

(BTW, the chocolate brand was Tropical Source. I thought the worms came from the store as it was not well-kept, but after lyraeinne found the whole bug [different store]--some sort of beetle thing, and it was not small but maybe 1/2" in body size or a little less--we never bought chocolate bars of that brand again. I have still sometimes bought vegan chocolate chips of that brand, though. heh Tropical Source used to make the most delicious chocolate I'd ever had, and maybe they still do, but two bug experiences was enough for me. In my mind, the chocolate chips are totally different, even though that's illogical.)