blimey a slug in my lettuce!

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aarrgh i was just eating my organic couscous lettucey salad thing and i looked down at the lettuce leaf and there was a tiny wee slug on it! of course being a treehugging hippy i took the slug (still on its leaf though confused somewhat by the lumps of couscous surrouding it) outside and put it under a bush, but still ugh. you may now tell me to bloody wash my veg before eating it, or you may regale me with your similar experiences!

― katie, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

tiny wee slug

[x] to thr...ect

― Graham, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

i am now eating the rest of my lunch v v carefully. i hope the slug didn't have its mates round for lunch or they will be being digested by me right about now! the only other time animals have made their way into my food was when a wasp flew into the peas that my mum was about to microwave, and she didn't notice, and i had peas 'n' wasp. i did not deal with that as calmly as i appear to have dealt with the slug.

― katie, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

When I was a kid my sister opened a bottle of Coca-cola that had a big fat WURM at the bottom. I was so happy I had gotten some apple juice, at least you can see if there are little critters swimming in it.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Oh God this brought back a terrible guilty memory: on the last night of a crashingly dull two-family holiday in Wales, the children of the party agreed to cook the final meal. We made a lovely messy pizza and a fresh green salad to go with it. Wouldn't it be hilarious, we thought, if we secreted a slug in said salad? (Obviously we felt that the adults needed punishing for the hideous holiday.) So we carefully dropped a slug in the bottom of the salad bowl, imagining what a good laugh we'd all have when someone found it. Oh dear. My usually mild- mannered father found it, thought it was made of plastic, laughed a little, was told that it was real and WENT MENTAL. I hope to never see the likes of his rage that night again. I suppose it was a bit unhygienic, as practical jokes go, but my god you'd think I'd had my nipples pierced, got engaged to a heroin dealer and stolen his life savings (my dad's not the heroin dealer's).

― Archel, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

ewww sorry for bringing that memory up Archel! if it makes you feel any better i am thinking FAR too much about the possibility of having eaten a slug, and my stomach is thinking about feeling queasy...

― katie, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I once opened a packet of Saltine crackers and found a dead worm inside. I still have no idea how it got in there but I've been wary of eating crackers ever since.

― Justyn Dillingham, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I once found a moth baked into the crust of a loaf of bread.

― Anna, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I shall refrain from telling my oft told statistic about the number of people a year killed by an allergic reaction to slug slime on unwashed lettuce. Did you make this yourself or buy it - cos if you bought it sue sue sue.

― Pete, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Katie, I suggest you drink Saxa in case you have swallowed a slug.

― Jonnie, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

nah i constructed the salad myself out of, um, bits of lettuce and couscous (and french dressing, i suspect the slug was roused from its refrigerator-torpor by the sharp smell of mustard and vinegar). and i've been drinking apple juice - i think that drinking salt water would make me very ill indeed!

― katie, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Eat crisps. That will kill the slug. Alternatively swallow a bird.

― Pete, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

How absurd!

― Jonnie, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

i'm sure that even if i had swallowed a slug (which i'm pretty sure i didn't) the strong acids churning in my stomach will get rid of it far more effectively than drinking salt THANKS ALL THE SAME CHAPS!

― katie, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

on no! The years of veganism will have weakened your stummuck's flesh crunching abilities and the slug will thrive and you will be OVERTHROWN! OH NO!

― Graham, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

pah Graham my insides have been toughened by YEARS of breaking down hard-ass chickpeas and wholegrains! aint no bag-of-goo SLUG gonna topple me now! (though ahem i do not make a habit of eating molluscs)

― katie, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I found a frozen snail whilst eating frozen peas once. *shivers* (appropriately)

― DG, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

And to think we were this close to an animated GIF of Ktee swallowing a cat...

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Hell you think you've got it bad - i had a glass of goat's piss over at the ILE abr and didn't realise till the bottom anthony's monkey had ejaculated in it.

― Queen of the young uns who ask what exactly is rimminG, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Those of us who stick with crisps and pies are obviously risking their health far less than these people who insist on eating vegetables (other than crisps and chips, the good vegetables, obv).

― Martin Skidmore, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

i found an Arkansas Steamer Bean in my fried rice.

― Chris, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I am astonished by the number of different stories of insects in food y'all have. Katie I think if you'd eaten a slug you would've noticed, don't you?

― Maria, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

What if slugs taste like couscous?

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

http://showideas.com/images/TE-1_extra_worm_spaghetti.JPG

can be found in

http://www.planetscott.com/store/bookimages/ManEatingBugs.gif

Eating Bugs on the Modern Interweb

― mark s, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

NASTY.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

You eat at least three spides a year whilst asleep, apparently. Possibly you didn't want to know that.

― Matt, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I really want a mint grasshopper lollipop now

― Honda, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

i realised that OBV the ecologically friendly way to kill slugs is... BEER!! oh yes!! and now i am v hung over. curses.

― katie, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Beer? I prefer vodka with scorpion

― Honda, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

have just spotted that the tasty spaghetti image above is WURMS... dear god.

― katie, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Insects I have eaten: locust (like prawn), fly (like pills apparently as it didn't touch the sides) and cockroach (crunchy - in a truffle - and it was meant to be there).

― Pete, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

there were stalls in Bangkok selling all this gubbins, like deep fried scorpion etc, I steared clear. I'm not as squeamish as my flatmate however, who threw out an entire lettuce cos he found a caterpillar in it!!

― chris, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I figure if you've had at least a few fast food hamburgers in your life you've devoured a variety of suspect things.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Yeah, like a fast-food hamburger.

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

MY POINT.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Suspect things don't get much more flavor-filled and nummy than a Whopper. (Unless, of course, you're talking about anything from Taco Bell.)

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Now them's tasty.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

about as tasty as this???? http://www.wvec.com/news/local/mcchicken_head.jpg the new McChicken Head.

― Chris, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

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