Comments | arks: Well. THAT's never happened before.

arks

Well. THAT's never happened before.

Sep 03, 2011 11:35

Big ol' clump of mud RIGHT in the middle of my bundle of spinach.

What the hell.

** ETA: Alright, this deserves a little more unpacking. See, they sell two kinds of spinach in nearly every standard grocery I've been to here in the big city. There's your normal no-frill twisty-tied bundle of >> SPINACH << , with the barcode and three different ( Read more... )

gdit, let's cooking, i just want lunch, overthinking

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zenzaan September 3 2011, 15:37:20 UTC

grooooooossssss. Still not as bad as squished crop pests hiding between your celery stalks, tho... **shudder**

arks September 4 2011, 01:56:40 UTC

Oh ew ew ew - and yet.

Some days I would cringe at that thought and shrink away. Others, I'm all, 'hey, extra protein.' Bugs are different depending on the day.

... Assuming you mean bugs. And not, like, box toads.

zenzaan September 4 2011, 08:41:54 UTC

Indeed I do mean bugs. Haven't found a vertebrate in my produce yet.

spamchang September 3 2011, 16:16:58 UTC

i've always been taught to wash everything before cooking...the joys of shopping at small-scale asian markets, heh.

urbanberber September 3 2011, 17:00:31 UTC

Oh my god sick.

Cae and I found a caterpillar in lettuce that comes sealed in those plastic boxes. You know, the kind that's ready made for salads apparently.

arks September 4 2011, 01:58:00 UTC

Aw now caterpillars are your friends! It just wanted to make your salad extra-special.

no but I found a slug in my blueberries in Vermont a couple weeks back, and after that I ignored Dad's insistence that they didn't need to be washed.

urbanberber September 4 2011, 02:04:25 UTC

jkhdsfhghgdf oh my god oh my god oh my god D:

arks September 4 2011, 02:50:01 UTC

IT WAS LIVING INSIDE ONE OF THEM. AND ALMOST THE SAME COLOR.

I bet I've already eaten like six.

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crystal_sun396 September 4 2011, 01:12:25 UTC

I pretty much expect mud on my vegetables, tiny winged bugs in my (dried) mushrooms, and so on. (Also worms, but that's from poor choosing at the stands.) I guess what I mean is, the first bit of this post doesn't make much sense to me unless you're annoyed at being extra charged for the dirt-mass.

But I hate extraneous packaging too. I tend to horde it in case it wants reusing, somehow, and that doesn't work at all. Probably from Science Camp as a kid and constructing model landfills.

arks September 4 2011, 01:59:07 UTC

It's that it was a big slimy lump, with the spinach all around it already going bad. I wash all my veggies and I expect a bit of dirt and sand, but really?

crystal_sun396 September 4 2011, 02:45:38 UTC

Okay, then I'm probably just not imagining the extent of the grossness well enough. I believe you that it was full of ick.

maggiekarp September 4 2011, 12:46:57 UTC

Now I'm kind of worried that I haven't found anything really gross in my food before. WHAT HAVE I BEEN MISSING