I JUST FOUND A MAGG0T IN MY AER0 BAR

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OH HOW LOVELY.
LOOK AT YOU...
JUST CRAWLING ALONG THIS CHOCOLATE BAR I'VE MADE IT HALF WAY THROUGH.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 03:27 (twenty years ago)

It's not that I mind sharing... but EW GROSS

Anyhow - I have no idea what I should do.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 03:28 (twenty years ago)

Yeah. OK, well, uh, we found, uh, this mouse in a bottle of YOUR BEER, eh. Like, we was at a party and, uh, a friend of ours - a COP - had some, and HE PUKED. And he said, uh, come here and get free beer or, uh, he'll press charges.

and take photos just for proof.

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 03:31 (twenty years ago)

Already done.

I have not been able to swallow for 20 minutes now.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 03:33 (twenty years ago)

this changes my view of maggots. i thought they only liked stinky rotting meat. but they like chocolate too hey?

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 03:34 (twenty years ago)

He appears to have enjoyed himself a good little bit of it too. Fucking fat ass magg0t

So do I call the Aer0 bar hotline???
Should I induce vomiting?
Do I write my MP? Write a song?

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 03:36 (twenty years ago)

Wait, was the maggot INSIDE the chocotreat? Or just in the packet on the outside of the choc?

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 03:39 (twenty years ago)

yeah write a song! an indie ditty about a maggot in your aero would fully fit into the emo craze.

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 03:39 (twenty years ago)

Um, not that it matters really, cuz ew ew ewww!

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 03:39 (twenty years ago)

Hey Thermo what's grosser than finding a maggot in your Aer0 bar?

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 03:39 (twenty years ago)

ahahahah HALF A MAGGOT

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 03:39 (twenty years ago)

You're not helping the poor man! =)

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 03:43 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha.
he was chilling on the outside - but I also have photographic evidence of the parts of the bar he got to.

gem - you've given me an idea!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 03:47 (twenty years ago)

What's on my ipod?

so here's a few pics of the bastard and his meal.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v622/dysign/ilx/thatfucker.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v622/dysign/ilx/maggotfood.jpg

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 03:59 (twenty years ago)

huh. wonder where the rest of the brood went.

(YOUR STOMACH HA HA)

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 04:02 (twenty years ago)

make noise and maybe they'll send you a case. be sure to be as foppish as possible in the letter.

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 04:04 (twenty years ago)

I don't think I want another Aer0 bar ever - let alone a case of the stuff!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 04:07 (twenty years ago)

http://www.cartoonstock.com/lowres/dca0281l.jpg

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 04:07 (twenty years ago)

oh but you'll be jonesing for its chocolatey goodness before you know it

squishy maggot protein and all

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 04:09 (twenty years ago)

xpost

that statistic is from the "book of lists".

what, do they have a list called "acceptable amount of maggots, by food"?

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 04:10 (twenty years ago)

also don't feel bad, once i found half a cockroach in my campus lunch burrito.

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 04:10 (twenty years ago)

i thought it was a badly burnt bean, at first, until i saw the little twitching leggys.

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 04:11 (twenty years ago)

this changes my view of maggots. i thought they only liked stinky rotting meat. but they like chocolate too hey?

-- gem (gemilyinterrupte...), September 14th, 2005.

even maggots these days are getting spoiled

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 04:12 (twenty years ago)

the book of lists/people's almanac are awesome.

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 04:12 (twenty years ago)

roach.gif

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 04:12 (twenty years ago)

TWENTY MAGGOTS per 100g can of food? Awwuughhghg *vom*

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 04:20 (twenty years ago)

That cannot be right.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 04:20 (twenty years ago)

check those lists for "rat droppings" too.

Upton Sinclair didn't accomplish all that much in the end, it seems.

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 04:30 (twenty years ago)

yeah surely that is wrong... that would mean thermo could only complain if there were more than five maggots in his aero bar, isn't a chocky bar 50g? he didn't get photos of the ones he already ate...

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 04:30 (twenty years ago)

he didn't get photos of the ones he already ate..

well, there's always one way that he could...

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 04:31 (twenty years ago)

that maggot looks a lot bigger than 2mm! are you sure it's not just a WORM?

anyway the avg weight of a maggot is like half a milligram. so in 100g of mushrooms you're only getting 5/1000 of a percent of maggots-by-weight.

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 04:35 (twenty years ago)

maggots-by-volume might be larger than that, though. how dense is a maggot?

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 04:35 (twenty years ago)

probably depends how much chocolate he's gobbled

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 04:37 (twenty years ago)

do maggots pooh?

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 04:38 (twenty years ago)

from fda.gov:

Sec. 585.500 Mushrooms, Canned or Dried (Freeze-Dried or Dehydrated) - Adulteration Involving Maggots, Mites, Decomposition (CPG 7114.13)

REGULATORY ACTION GUIDANCE:

The following represents the criteria for recommending legal action to the *CFSAN/Office of Field Programs/Division of Enforcement (HFS-605)*:

Analyze for maggots or mites by AOAC 44.115-44.116, 14th edition or subsequent current revision. Analyze for decomposition by Macronalytical Procedures Manual V-100. Actionable if examination of minimum of six 100 g portions of drained canned mushrooms and proportionate amounts of liquid (contents of each can analyzed separately), or a minimum of six 15 g portions of dried mushrooms, from one code in lot shows one or more of the following:

1. Maggots -- An average of 20 or more maggots of any size per 100 g of drained mushrooms and the proportionate liquid, or an average of 20 or more maggots of any size per 15 g of dried mushrooms;

An average of 5 or more maggots that are 2 mm or longer per 100 g portion of drained mushrooms and the proportionate liquid, or an average of 5 or more maggots that are 2 mm or longer per 15 g of dried mushrooms.

2. Mites -- An average of 75 or more mites per 100 g of drained mushrooms and the proportionate liquid, or an average of 75 or more mites per 15 g of dried mushrooms.

3. Decomposition -- An average of 10% or more decomposed mushrooms by weight.

*Material between asterisks is new or revised*

Issued: 11/21/79

Reissued: 10/1/80

Revised: 12/8/88, 3/95

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 04:40 (twenty years ago)

Chocolate
Defect: Insect and rodent filth.
Action level: An average of 60 or more insect fragments and one or more rodent hairs per 100 grams.

Example: A typical 2-ounce chocolate bar could have as many as 36 insect fragments and about half a rodent hair and still be sold.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 04:45 (twenty years ago)

Maybe he is a worm. i've named him Coco.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 04:47 (twenty years ago)

i note it doesn't say anything in there about insect faeces. but coco must be getting rid of it somewhere.

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 04:47 (twenty years ago)

That's gross, but at least the maggot itself has come out of its close contact with your Aero Bar remaining quite tasty-looking.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 05:09 (twenty years ago)

If you look closely at the pic he's got chocolate all over his wittle face!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 05:11 (twenty years ago)

Man, I'm so hungry right now. Yesterday I made the mistake of trying a Buttered Popcorn Jelly Belly and now this - I'm scarred to put anything else in my mouth!

Maybe I'l just rely on the sun's rays to provide me with the nutrients I need.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 05:13 (twenty years ago)

after reading some of the fda compliance reports i never want to buy any food ever again!

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 05:17 (twenty years ago)

They are just being realistic.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 05:20 (twenty years ago)

You should have gone for mint aero - it tastes nicer and it has maggot-proof green insides.

― , Wednesday, 14 September 2005 08:32 (twenty years ago)

What is worse than finding a maggot in your aero bar?

― Paul Kelly (kelly), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 09:16 (twenty years ago)

CANCER!!

― Paul Kelly (kelly), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 09:16 (twenty years ago)

Example: A typical 2-ounce chocolate bar could have as many as 36 insect fragments and about half a rodent hair and still be sold.

Rodents get haircuts?

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 09:38 (twenty years ago)

If you've ever collected mushrooms - porcini specifically - then the number of maggots you get in them is truly staggering. You just try to get rid of most of them (maybe even throwing away the most infested shrooms) and the rest will die during the drying process.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 10:02 (twenty years ago)

Can maggots cause heart burn? i don't normally suffer but had a bit of it last night.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

There's no way that's a maggot. It's a caterpillar!

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

Whenever I want a chocolate bar now I'm going to open this thread. Hey presto - successful dieting!

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

yeah it's a worm/caterpillar of some sort - i've never heard of a maggot in a bar of chocolate

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

i think it's kinda cute

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I'd eat it.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

my co-worker found a wormy type thing in her bar of chocolate not too long ago, too

but it wasn't alive!! WAIT is your worm alive??

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

Coco is a cutie isn't he? I'm going to knit him a little sweater.

xpost yup

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

HAHAHAHAHAHA don't eat aero it's nestle of course it's got maggots in it's made by fucking maggots.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

I don't think I ever want to eat chocolate again.

― O'so Krispie (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

wow coco is alive! i think he's CUET - put him on myspace.com!!

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

feed him until he pupates, then report on the creature he metamorphoses into. chronicle it on the myspace page, it'll be rad!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

can i go ahead and start the myspace page? im bored

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

Sure! I'll get some shots of Coco making emo faces for it.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

damnit, i screwed up. i put coco's b-day as two days ago and now myspace.com won't let him have a profile. i did make him an e-mail address, though! it's dontwormmychicks@yahoo.co.uk, password is aerobar

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

ha ha haaa!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

i just found a bit of plastic in my tuna sandwich!!!

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

Is it still alive?

― O'so Krispie (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

i agree, that's not a maggot. maybe an inchwarm? awwww

― ai lien (kold_krush), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

inchworm. hi.

― ai lien (kold_krush), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

FOOLS! It's not just ANY caterpillar!

http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~m2yip/screamapillar.jpg

― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

screamapillar!

― ai lien (kold_krush), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

...never suspecting any problems with the bar, continued to eat approximately the first half of the bar. During this, I became aware that the taste did not seem right...

― wetmink2, Wednesday, 14 September 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

once i bought a pack of cigarettes from a convenience store up the street. got home and opened them. took one out to smoke it. set the pack on the table. i noticed a tiny hole or 2 in the paper of the cigarette but didn't think anything of it and lit it up. but then i did start to wonder about it. perhaps the other smokes in the pack also had this flawed, holy paper. so i took out a few. there were more holes. then i saw something moving on the table next to the pack. a tiny beetle. then i saw more. in and around the pack. 30-40 tiny little brown beetles. all crawling in and around the cigarettes. the celophane had holes in it. i was disgusted, naturally, and put out the one i was smoking. i took the pack back to the store and told them i wanted to exchange for another pack. they laughed at first but i showed them what was up and they obliged.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/irresistible/4432062/detail.html

― Jed Suet, Wednesday, 14 September 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

http://www.whatsthatbug.com/pantry.html(12/11/2003) Dear Bugman,
My roomate and I recently opened up a chocolate bar only to find a fat worm/maggot had eaten a hole right through the bar. The chocolate was in a box full of more chocolate bars that are maybe a year old. We were totally disgusted, and when we opened up the remaining bars, we found a few more that also had the worms. The worms had eaten holes right in the chocolate and on some, they seemed to shave the top of the bars off - there was chocolate shavings on the surface. Some of the worms looked like they had spiny tails, but it was hard to tell for the others whether they also had the spines. Do you know what kind of worms are these? And how did they get into our chocolate??
Kate

Dear Kate,
Pantry beetles are known to infest chocolate. The immature beetles are wormlike grubs, much as you describe.

― Haaj nz, Wednesday, 14 September 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

"I look on the table and on the chocolate, and there's a maggot walking around," she said. "It's really disgusting."

the real story here is these walking maggots.

also, they got the bars at a Shell station. that's where i got the beetled up cigarettes!

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

walking maggot, tophat + cane = SOOOO CUTE

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

Aha ha haa!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

hello my baby hello my honey...

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

also, they got the bars at a Shell station. that's where i got the beetled up cigarettes!

and the one I linked was a 76 station. Something about gas stations...

― wetmink2, Wednesday, 14 September 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

According to an Ohio State University Extension fact sheet, most Americans unintentionally swallow 1 to 2 pounds of insects and insect pieces each year.

grodey article in salon

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

...Hello, my ragtime gal...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v622/dysign/ilx/wearesickpeople.jpg

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

gosh he just gets cuter

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

yes!

― ai lien (kold_krush), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

I finally heard back from Nestlé.

They had a bunch of questions for me - they want to know some product # from the bar, the store I bought it from and my address so they can send me oodles of free stuff!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 23 September 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)

hey what are those little insects that you find in pasta when it's too late and you've already dumped the box of pasta in boiling water and they all come floating to the top as little boiled, popped bellied crunch balls?

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 23 September 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

xpost
good for you, btw. i sometimes wish something like this would happen to me.

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 23 September 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

32 minute xpost!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 23 September 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

Weevils, Aaron?

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 23 September 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)

And trust me - i would have been much better off had i just gotten a regular maggot free chocolate bar.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 23 September 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

Sixty Secondly,

― Cruciverbalist, Friday, 23 September 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

CHOCOLATE PARTY AT THERMO'S PLACE MMMMMMMM

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 23 September 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

mmm...those weevils sure are tasty. sweeeeet....

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 23 September 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

Seriously, Barry - you will prolly be the one to reap the benefits of my impending choco income!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 23 September 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

Taking our cues from Bob and Doug MacKenzie, we must now figure out a way to get maggots into chocolate bars so we can cash in on FREE CHOCOLATE.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 23 September 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

Don't you mean beer?
I'm sure if we hit up Hurricane's a few more times we might accomplish this! (if you mean beer)

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 23 September 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

THERE'S A MAGGOT ON MY IPOD :(

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Sunday, 8 January 2006 19:42 (twenty years ago)

According to an Ohio State University Extension fact sheet, most Americans unintentionally swallow 1 to 2 pounds of insects and insect pieces each year.
grodey article in salon

-- Homosexual II (mandeewrigh...), September 15th, 2005 6:46 AM.

From the Salon article:

I have arranged to meet with an entomologist named Dana Ludwig, who works in the FDA's Alameda, Calif., Filth Lab, which analyzes thousands of samples of foods, most imported from the Pacific Rim, each year. In a moment of social ineptitude, I have asked Ludwig if the ludwig is a relative of the earwig.

Hardy har har. But what's the name of the writer of the article?

By Mary Roach

― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 9 January 2006 01:27 (twenty years ago)

Alameda represent!

― [tuvan throat singer's profound lyric sheet-must read again] (nordicskilla), Monday, 9 January 2006 01:44 (twenty years ago)

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