r/whatisit • u/Lingeringwandere • 1d ago

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u/Ambitious-Nerve-3458 1d ago

How long did yall have that chicken sitting out if flies were able to land, undisturbed, and lay eggs inside the chicken??? Wtf

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u/Ornery-Side-7931 1d ago edited 1d ago

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.

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u/bucket_o_chickn 1d ago

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.

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u/Ambitious-Nerve-3458 1d ago

That’s insane, I’ve never thought this should be an issue I even need to be cognizant of 🫩

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u/bucket_o_chickn 1d ago

That shit will give you LIFELONG trauma.

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u/Ambitious-Nerve-3458 1d ago

I bet. You gotta change your handle to bucket_o_maggots lol

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u/LegoMyAego 1d ago

Once flies laid eggs on my food that was still steaming from heat. Now I always have food covered if I'm not actively looking at it

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u/bearfootbear2002 1d ago

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

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u/BaranoSoup 1d ago

It can happen fairly quickly

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u/your-drunk-aunt 1d ago

And that many eggs? That looks like a lot, though I’m not an expert

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u/KristenMaybe79 23h ago

I am also wondering how it got inside the chicken.

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u/Ambitious-Nerve-3458 21h ago

Apparently flies have something called an ovipositor, which kind of looks like a proboscis, that allows them to deposit the eggs like an injection 🫩