I just wanted al dente for dinner. Instead I got...

[Magus]

Dozens of bugs in my Master Choice Penne Rigate bag of pasta.

MOTHER****ING CHRIST.

I already had the water to boil and I was pouring the pasta in when I noticed little specks floating around at the top. I thought "****, how is the pot not clean?" then I noticed the specks in the bag of pasta. They weren't ****ing there before, I must've woke them up or something.

Thing was, I noticed two or three of them on the counter, squooshed 'em and paid them no mind. They must've crawled out when I opened the bag earlier. So, **** MY ASS my dinner was postponed and I didn't know I had A PANDEMIC ON HAND. I FEEL SO FILTHY AND VIOLATED.

JOHNNY RICO AND THE ROUGHNECKS WOULDN'T STAND FOR THIS ****.

[DK]

Re: I just wanted al dente for dinner. Instead I got...

Ugh, that's pretty scary. I had a similar encounter when trying to feed my cats, there were ants all over their food.

It's like that roach guy in Creepshow.

EDIT: come on, thats too much.

((I can play post-picture, too ))

[John Mora]

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A friend of mine had millipedes in his Cheeze-Its.

[DK]

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At least you didn't have maggots in your rice...

Or worms in your noodles!

Right, Michael?!

[Vonwert]

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At work, we had ants and maggots in the Krispie Cream Donuts. Though it was the first time it happen when this crazy woman who has failed her drug test 7 times started working.

She had the nerve to spray bug spray in the case....

It gave a whole new meaning to sprinkles on the donuts.

[Ryner]

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One time I bought a Kit Kat, and there was no crispy wafer inside, it was just a hunk of chocolate.

[The Toecutter]

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Ever eat peanut butter? It's approxamately 5-10% insects(Gotta' love the FDA!).

In fact, vegetarians in India get the bulk of their vitamin B12 from insect larvae in rice.

No need to worry. They pose very little risk and practically no harm, even though they are literally in everything processed which we eat.

[Magus]

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So I should've kept the little buggers in for added nutrition?

[DK]

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Ever eat peanut butter? It's approxamately 5-10% insects(Gotta' love the FDA!).

I just like had two PB & J sandwiches for dinner...

it was super chunk, too.

[Manyak]

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I ordered a pizza from Pizza Hut one time and it had like, 5 of those potato-bug* things on it.

*You know those ones with the hard shell and if you touch them they curl up into a little ball and look like a potato?

[The Toecutter]

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Honestly, I'd have thrown it out given the quantity involved and also how intact the specimens were. But if you had to wonder, they posed little risk. I'd be more worried about what that particular food is enriched with and how it was produced.

Even still, insects in food are not desirable to begin with. For the food industry to be somewhat secretive to the consumer as to what's in their food could arguably be egregious, given that the consumer does not intend for those added surprises in the product and makes the purchase with the mutual agreement that the product does not contain those undesirable items.

[Nixon]

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One time I found some weevils (I think that's what they are called) in my cereal. I was already halfway through the bowl, and it was the last of my milk, so I just ate it all anyway.

It's best not to think about it.

[RPGD]

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One time I found dozens of dead ants in a box of Corn Pops. That must say something.

[The Toecutter]

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Ants are bitter as all hell when they're alive. I don't recommend them.

[MRevelle83]

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Silverfish in a bag of nuts.

The worst of all, I once heard (thankfully not seen) someone opened up a carton of milk and found it to be mostly a mound of crushed earthworms and its excrement.