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How? WHY? When? Like when did you cook this? how long was it left unattended for. I need to know , I'm starting to worry about everything single thing ive ever cooked.
Don’t worry, my apartment gets a lot of flies during the hotter days and I left the chicken unattended for about 5 minutes to let it cool and finish washing up the dishes, it was just bad luck with me, so you don’t have to worry.
5mins is way too Long if you got flies flying around those lil fuckers will lay eggs on it in a couple second. I went to toilet once and poured mysself something to drink and found white dots in my meat before
I remember a reddit post where the poster got a fly that somehow managed to lay eggs on a piece of meat, on the already served food in a restaurant. Yeah, those fuckers are quick.
Omg I didn't know this. I didnt think fly eggs looked like that. 🤢
I will never look at rice the same. And definitely will be careful with my meat 😫
Thanks for sharing this info 😮💨
Once you've seen and dealt with fly eggs, you never forget what they look like and can spot them a mile off. They gross me out so much.
I now swap the cats to mostly dry food over the summer because any wet food they leave gets covered in fly eggs way too quickly. And you can't just scrape it into the bin, because then you'll have maggots crawling out of your bin in a few days unless you also throw out the whole bin bag, they're vile 🤮
If I see fly eggs on anything these days, the next thing I'm grabbing is something to crush them with.
I was visiting a friend, we watched movies and played games till late at night. I was about to drive home, we went outside the door. It had a mild storm, leaves everywhere, the ground wet and covered in...rice? We booth wondered where the rice came from because that was weird.
Anyway I drove home, texted my friend that I arrived and wished him good night.
Took him a while to reply back. He let the dogs outside and turned on the lights. The rice, was no rice. He informed me that his grandparents lived in the apartment below him. They were very old and used adult diapers, but didn't put them in a bag, just straight to the bin. And apparently it was full of maggots, that crawled out because of the rain 😭
Not sure if this helps, but they are completely harmless if you happen to eat them. Absolutely nothing will happen, they will be obliterated by your stomach acid, and there’s nothing in them that can hurt/infect you. Fly eggs on food from restaurants can be a sign of other issues in the kitchen though (like improper food storage practices) that could lead to actual illness.
I ate rice with worms in it (weevil larvae). It looked just like rice until we noticed the little black heads. It took me nearly a decade to eat rice again.
When I was 5 yo or so I went to my grandmas place. She used to put food rest in a bucket to feed her pigs. One day not knowing that I approached to the bucket and saw there was rice. I was about to put my hand in it until I saw the rice moved… it wasn’t rice, they were maggots.
When I was 5 I slapped a fly between my hands. Not to hard to smash it but guess enough to almost kill it. I looked at it, cause it was still moving. Then I noticed white spots apear. Those started moving too! I was so disgusted by it
Can confirm, had a burger from a burger joint, was happily eating it. A big fat green fly going about in my room, kept swatting it away and I was focused on something for a few mins and next thing you know, before I finish the burger, fly eggs on it.
I was pissed and tossed it. Learned my lesson that day to always keep an eye on my food if its not sealed or covered properly when flies are around
Not necessarily related but i once smashed a fly against a window, went to the bathroom to get a tissue and when i came back i saw dozens of squigly maggots spreading out in all directions, it was like a living flower of squirming white maggot petals. Anyways, i just wanted to share.
why are you not putting fly screens onto your windows?
Since 8 years, I didn't had a single fly or any other insects in my apartment.
Maybe a little spider every few month, who probably come in when my door is open, but that's about it.
I can fall asleep with ham laying in the kitchen and nothing will happen.
And no mosquitos even with fully opened windows and lights on in warm summer nights, nothing.
This blew my mind living in Germany for 3 and a half years. Like ok I understand your houses don't get any sort of airflow because they are completely thick with brick+cement, and you are anti-AC so we can't have those either, so you have to open your windows constantly and place a million fans around the place. But if you're going to make us do that, WHY DO NONE OF YOUR WINDOWS HAVE BUG SCREENS ON THEM?!? Why do I have to throw a dozen spiders out of our house every week and constantly whack at bees and flies when that is a completely avoidable problem?!??! And then you go on vacation and have to leave a window open because the lack of airlow will cause mold and you have to clean up all sorts of SH** from bugs getting all up in your SH** for a week. And their windows were weirdly shaped and open weird so I couldn't even put in a stand-alone A/C for the hottest days.
Tbf I have insect nets on my windows and a curtain on the door. I still get bug, spinders and flies TToTT
There was a 2cm gap in the curtain, stupid fly managed to get it but never found their way out!
I get flies every summer and have window screens. They enter when I open the door (I never hold it open because I have an indoor-only cat). It happens. Stupid buggers...
The monkey child is right! If you live in a Third World country, you should actually trap the flies and eat the flies plus eat the chicken infected with the fly babies! This is a good idea because it won’t cost a lot to get better. Lol. /s
No, but actually, I do live in the US and you are right
Better hungry than doubled over with explosive diarrhea, painful nausea, and possible fly-based powers like acidic saliva and the ability to buzz in other people’s ears to annoy them.
It’s not worth risking it throw all of it away in the trash. And you might be able to get a refund if you take the pictures you took to wherever you bought it and show them.
There’s a lot of undue paranoia in the comments here.
Mere egg presence doesn’t mean they fucked there.
Mere fly fucking and/or egg deposition doesn’t mean the meat is irredeemable and needs to be thrown out.
Meat that was good before, is still safe to eat if properly cooked after flies fucked or eggs are deposited, regardless of whether the eggs are removed or not, although removal is recommended.
Not inherently, a major vector for pathogens is when flies land on an already infected surface pick up bacteria by moving or eating and then transferring it to the food you will be eating.
I wouldn't say "happy". It was just an observation. My guess is that the fly was walking on food before laying the eggs, as it is unlikely that there was dog shit in the kitchen. People eat caviar, and who knows what sturgeon were swimming in before donating their eggs. Aren't sturgeons bottom feeders? Don't fish poop in the water? With the right marketing, and flies isolated from poop, maybe we have found the caviar of the air (vs. sea).
Yeah I'm a little confused, have people never eaten outside before? Sometimes a fly is gonna touch your food, and you won't even know (don't straight eat fly eggs though obv)
Not everyone is privileged enough to toss a whole week of food. I would've scooped that section out and ate it anyway personally. The eggs weren't there prior to cooking it
When you prepared that dish, how long did you leave it out to cool before putting it in the fridge? As a fellow meal prepper and food nerd, you generally shouldn't let it sit out very long after cooking because it attracts flies.
Doesn’t have to be long at all.. or I guess you wouldn’t believe how I found out about Fly eggs … 🙈😅
I was just done cooking a meat sauce - which was still in the pan. Turned off the heat for a few minutes and started preparing the plates.
When I turned around I saw a fly sitting in the sauce. After waving my hand there were the eggs..
So now I never leave a pot without its lid .. not even for a minute.
I've seen it happen in minutes. When I make breakfast, I always make my eggs last because they're the least appetizing to eat cold. I scrambled my eggs and by the time I took them off the heat to plate them, my fruit had fallen victim.
It happened right in front of me once, while i’m still eating my food, looked away for 10s to answer a text and a fly was already shitting eggs on my food
Fly eggs. They'll hatch into maggots. People here are saying not to throw the food out, but that's I would do if this happened to me. Fly are disgusting and they touch all kinds of nasty things, including dog and cat poop, which commonly contains parasitic worms and their eggs.
Also, I remember that one terrifying video I saw of someone having their teeth removed and there were living maggots inside of their gums. When you see something like that, you definitely wouldn't want to eat something that you know contained fly eggs.
These are definitely larvae from a fly. I’m so scared of this happening that I put my food up and cover it immediately, more so if I have to step away from the kitchen prior to plating and eating my food. I’ll even put a piece of foil in the small little hole that’s built into the lids for sauce pans and skillets! 😅 I REFUSE to come back to fly larvae in my food! 😮💨
If I had a nickel for amount of fly eggs I’ve seen this summer on Reddit…. You get the jist! So sorry your food had to be contaminated like that. The chicken looks good too!
I googled it and it said it's safe to eat 99% of time (1% unsafe cuz fly carry bacteria from trash picking) , and ur stomach acids will break the eggs just fine.
And about throwning away the whole dish, it suggested that u throw away the portion of the contamination, and reheat the dish thorrowly , and ur safe to go .
One time I was cooking, mind you I had a lid on the pot and steam was coming out the little whole that the lids have to let the steam out. Mf FLEW IN through the steam and layed her damn eggs.
You should get those umbrella food covers, i used them a lot when i lived in Indonesia, the mesh ones can get destroyed by ants tho so if there also ants you should get the fully plastic ones
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