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!

[khek.livejournal.com]

I opened a box of "boil in bag minute rice" once, and it was full of little black bugs. I still don't really know what they were.

I lived in graduate student housing in Rhode Island when I was going to school, and that kitchen had cockroaches. I tended to leave the lights on in there all the time, because I hated watching them scurry when the lights went on suddenly.

[betacandy.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure you could call it "food origin" but once I bit into a Poptart, and the fucking thing had mildew INSIDE the fucking pastry. Guess what I never ate again.

[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

Years ago (like probably 1981 or so), I bought some Rice-a-Roni, and it had little worms in it. Weevils? These things were terrible. I have never bought Rice-a-Roni since then. The little bugs also kept coming back. I threw out all my flour, cereal, etc., scrubbed and disinfected my cupboards, and still...the little bugs came back a few months later. Now I think it's because I did not toss out all my spices, too. I've since learned they can live in spices as well. Ew!

I think the grossest thing I've ever seen, though, was rice I bought that had live moths in it!!! Still inside the bag, somehow they hatched and grew into moths in my cupboard. Double ew.

Since I've lived here, twice I've bought either rice or pasta that was in a box and it had bugs in it. Now I won't buy either unless it's in a plastic bag. Doesn't prevent it completely (as above), but I feel better. *g* The time it was in the rice (Near East brand flavored rice), I had a bunch of similar boxes of rice on the door in my fridge and the bugs got into every box. You'd think they'd die in the fridge, but no. Apparently not.

In my cupboards, I don't leave anything unopened. I don't even keep flour in original containers. I put the entire bag inside a ziploc bag or dump into into some other contained that can be sealed. Cereal or crackers or anything like that into containers or ziploc bags. I learned this from other military wives early on in my marriage. *g* I grew up in a house where we'd open the cereal and then just fold the bag down.

I've seen lots of other gross and disgusting things in my kitchen, but bugs are the worst.