Have you ever found an insect (YECCCH) in a piece of fruit?

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... that you weren't expecting to be there?
When I was a kid my older brother told me that worms burrow into apples and then close up the hole they made, resulting in a brown spot. I eat fruit all the time with holes, spots etc. but always cut out the area around the hole before eating. I am fairly sure I once found a large (but incompletely developed) potato bug gestating in the middle of a potato I had just cooked. Am I just paranoid?

― Bnad, Monday, 21 March 2005 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

double yr pleasure double yr fun

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 21 March 2005 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I am fairly sure I once found a large (but incompletely developed) potato bug gestating in the middle of a potato I had just cooked.

MY BABY!

― Distraught Potato Bug Mama (Dan Perry), Monday, 21 March 2005 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

and triple when you find you've already bitten through it

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 21 March 2005 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

we had apple trees in our backyard so yeah we would find them, that's life.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 21 March 2005 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

what is the factoid abt eatin eight spiders a night as we sleep!?

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 21 March 2005 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe that's how the breatharian managed it!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 21 March 2005 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Have you ever found a piece of fruit (YECCCH) in an insect?

http://www.exn.ca/news/images/1998/11/05/19981105-bugcover.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 21 March 2005 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!

― Bnad, Monday, 21 March 2005 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

wasps used to always eat all the apples from our tree in the back garden

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 21 March 2005 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

in little deck chairs

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 21 March 2005 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahaha!

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 21 March 2005 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

This phenomenon is a significant part of my Phruit Phobia. You just don't know with fruit. It could be mushy in there, or hard, or grainy; there could be bugs; there could be nasty spots. I mean, maybe one in ten pieces of fruit is actually ideal, and that's only for the length of a day. I love me some fruit, but I'm scared of it: it grows on trees! There are no guarantees with those things! If something horrible happens, who are you going to complain to -- God?

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 21 March 2005 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

what could posssssibly happen?

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― mark s (mark s), Monday, 21 March 2005 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I found a whole choir of maggots in an artichoke not too long ago.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 21 March 2005 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a good thing the food we normally eat is made by robots and never touched by any living thing.

― Jacques Cousteau (Jacques Cousteau), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I found a whole choir of maggots in an artichoke not too long ago.

Performing Carmina Burana.

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 00:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I've seldom if ever found anything living in my fruit. I did have the perfect banana last night, though. You know that banana that's just... perfect?

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)

*resists dirty joke*

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Insects in fruit are kind of good and I find them strangely comforting when they're in there even if it's a little gross. This is on the assuption that if an insect can live in it, the chemicals and pesticides used were either minimal or non-existant.....or i guess, the bug is hardcore and probably built up a resistance to the chemical (this is not so good).

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Protein!

― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo (cindigo), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 04:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I get paranoid about this, I am glad it's not just me. I once bit into a plum & looking back at me was this little pink worm/maggot. I spat the mouthful out follow by the contents of my stomach! I tried to actually bite into a plum the other day for the first time since it happened. It wasn't too bad, I was brave.

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Well off-topic, but grim enough to be forgivable - remember that woman who found a mouse's head in a Topic?

― Huey (Huey), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't you see holes or something when there's a bug inside?

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I got put off cherries for a long while - I absolutely love them, and will sit and eat a ton of them, but one time I was eating some and for some reason bit off half, rather than putting the whole thing in my mouth and spitting the stone out, and there was a maggot wiggling at me from the other half of the cherry (thankfully it was still whole)

I did wonder if I'd eaten the whole thing in one whether I'd have noticed or not.

I eat the things too fast too look at closely enough to see whether there's a whole. Well I used to

― Vicky (Vicky), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh god this thread is feeding my phobia something fierce.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

THe other night while making a salad I was getting ready to wash the lettuce and as i was inspecting it, i noticed at least 100 little green bugs on it. I vomited and went to the store to get a new bag.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 11:03 (twenty-one years ago)

What the crap is wrong with you people? What's the diff between eating a prawn and an earwig?

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 11:12 (twenty-one years ago)

chris if you ACTUALLY WASHED THE LETTUCE then problem solved surely?

locusts are the prawns of the air!! it says so in that book linked further up!!

earwigs are the prawns of the HUMAN BRANE!!

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 11:14 (twenty-one years ago)

washing to me was not the solution at that point. once i saw the bugs it was over.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 11:17 (twenty-one years ago)

What the crap is wrong with you people? What's the diff between eating a prawn and an earwig?

Um, if I don't eat prawns, am i still allowed to be grossed out by worms in my fruit?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 11:18 (twenty-one years ago)

It's also true that for figs to ripen and mature, a wasp has to set the wheels in motion by laying eggs inside right?

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 11:18 (twenty-one years ago)

A worm fell out of some celery I was chopping once. Irrational as it may be, I am utterly utterly terrified of worms. It fell on the kitchen counter and started looping in that way they do. This is giving me shivers as I write it.
Anyway, I got completly hysterical. Ran upstairs and woke up my flatmate shrieking "THERE'S A FUCKING WORM IN THE FUCKING KITCHEN. PLEASE GET OUT OF BED AND MOVE IT FOR ME."

Unsurprisingly he told me to fuck off.

Second flatmate called from his parents house and recieved a diatribe about how it was all his fault because if he hadn't gone to Leeds he would be there to move it. Third flamate came home from work and found me refusing to go anywhere near the kitchen. She found it and said: "Is that it? It looks like a Supernoodle."

I have not eaten celery or Supernoodles since.

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 11:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't much care if I accidentally eat a bug without knowing it, but WITNESSING the things might stop me in my tracks. As an April Fool's joke once when I was about 12 I put a slug in a salad - the way it burrowed right through a slice of cucumber and just stayed there suspended in the middle of it, ready for my dad's fork, was PURE DRAMA. My dad was not amused though, in fact I've never seen him more angry.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I found a few maggots in a candy bar once. My favorite kind, too, dammit. Wasn't able to eat that kind of candy bar again for at least, oh, a week or so. ;D

Love the slug story, btw.

― Hey Jude, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

candy bar?!?

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

liver nut crunch

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 24 March 2005 02:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I found a worm in my salad during my one and only blind date. The whole day had been a disaster, so the worm just seemed like another reason to end it.
I have waitressed, on and off, for many years, so my concern was to let the waitress know that I didn't BLAME anyone for the worm - especially not her. My date was going into conniption fits about it - wanted to make unreasonable demands on the restaraunt, etc.
We ended up fighting over the worm in the salad, and i suppose I was defending the worm.(The smaller, more organic worm.)

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Thursday, 24 March 2005 02:31 (twenty-one years ago)

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