A company that imports lettuce to the US recently took the blame for āunknowinglyā giving us lettuce with a crop disease. It made a lot of people sick that ate lettuce from fast food restaurants.
Also grown in Mexico by Taylor Farms, parasite thought to come from recycled water contaminated with feces. Farm hadnāt been inspected in seven years, not much hope of things getting any better since RFK gutted the agency of people that do inspections. Also look out for berries, cilantro, basil. Probably more to follow
Haha! Though the horticulturalist in me needs to ruin your joke by pointing out that sprays are also used on organic produce. Thereās just a list of allowed/not allowed sprays.
Yum! This happened to someone I was having dinner with at the Rainbow Room in Manhattan (back when it was still a restaurant.) The staff were very embarrassed. Offered us desserts, free drinks--we could easily have demanded the dinner comped, but it was actually a company dinner being paid for by an outfit that was absolutely raking in the cash at that time (software bubble) so we didn't care. We asked them to bring us a round of grasshoppers. They were pretty good, I'd never had one before!
One time my niece ( age 5) got a lady bug on her salad at a restaurant. My sister quietly told the waitress, no big deal. But then the other kids all wanted ladybugs too ššš
It was at a local steakhouse and for 75 cents you could add a small salad to a kids meal if you were wondering why the kid ordered a salad
We were so trying not to make a big deal about it, but we had a 6 yr old, 3 5 yr olds and a 4 yr old at the table. I promise those kids knew how to behave but all of a sudden the talk was all about how come they didnāt get a ladybug and they wanted a ladybug! All 3 of us Moms trying to shush them.
There was a young Australian guy named Sam Ballard who swallowed a slug on a dare. He contracted "rat lungworm disease". As a result, he suffered meningitis, went into a coma, became paralyzed, and ultimately died some time after.
I don't knowā¦ maybe slugs are yummy, like snails but no need to dig their corpse out of a shell. I never had snails but dined with several people throughout the years who frequently ordered them (usually escargot).
A guy got paralyzed and then died after eating a slug from a dare. You couldāve sued the shit out of that place i reckon. Couldāve been a life changing accident
Thatās different than eating a bug directly. I mean, by this logic the next time you eat any fruit or veg then consider that as some point it consumed the nutrients out of animal shit. Mmmm, cow manure
Saying that you're eating wasps by eating figs is like saying you're eating grass by eating cow.
It was essentially eaten and metabolized by the fruit before it ever gets to you.
Most figs you can buy at the supermarket arenāt pollinated so wasps have never been inside. The ones that are pollinated by wasps, the wasps will have been fully dissolved and you wouldnāt be able to tell the difference. Itās like how the cows and chickens we eat also consumed insects, but the meat doesnāt have insect parts in it because the insects were digested.
Definitely almost ate a cricket once. If I hadnāt been looking closely it blended right in! I threw away the entire salad after that. I got it from -you know who- Farms
Yeah, I probably would have eaten it without even realizing and thinking that last bite must have been a bit of veggie stems that were crunchier than usual.
Iāve eaten them a lot in SE Asia when I lived there. Street vendors sold them on carts in bar districts. They were fried in semi dirty looking oil and garlic. Actually quite delicious with a cold beer. Sort of like chickeny popcorn. Youād have to pick the legs off cos they scratched your throat on the way down.
Once I saw a cocktail roach on the cart and the vendor just flipped him into the pan and cooked him alive along with the dead crickets. I swear the dude looked around to see if anyone saw but we locked eyes and he just pretended it didnāt happen.
Was cocktail roach a autocorrect fail for cockroach? Or is this a bug I donāt know about?
Because if itās not I am forever calling cockroaches cocktail roaches, it makes them sound so upscale and classy, like theyāve got a little tuxedo and spats on!
Chapulines are fantastic if properly cooked. It has a texture similar to a popcorn with a slightly crunchy exterior. Flavor is actually a bit like popcorn as well.
Once, when I was working at Japanese restaurant owned by a Chinese family, I took a fried rice a customer had found what I think I remember was a caterpillar in it. It may have been a different bug, Iām not sure. The Chinese FOH manager was just casually like āin China, we eat those on purpose.ā
I was like āAmericans donāt. I mean Iād personally be willing to try it, but this particular customer is upset that there is a bug in the fried rice and you need to go talk to themā
Yeah. My partner ate fried grosshoppers once and kissed me 5 minutes later and I had to take a Benadryl. Iām also severely allergic to ragweed. And moderately to banana, melons, cabbage, cucumber, horses, dust, cockroaches.
Damn people allways be complaining when they get ekstra stuff on their plate.
Why cant people be grateful for the ekstra proteins the kitchen serves them š
Yall are saying extra protein werent watching monsters inside me. This is like one of the most common ways people end up with parasites in the US. You dont col a salad. Its snails and grasshoppers. Fuck that cooked grasshopper a okay but this. He'll no no shot
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u/CreamPyre Aug 16 '26
Least you know it was organic!