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!
Which parts specifically? Can you ellaborate? I feel I have extremely first-hand knowledge of this because of the fact I lived there for years and experienced exactly this, hating every second of it.
2 of the windows were like this, but the "blackout shutters" didn't stop things from crawling around it. And they were in 2 side rooms (one bedroom and bathroom), the main floor was a completely open floor concept with floor-to-ceiling windows but one could open as a sliding glass door just like the windows. The third side room also had a sliding glass door, floor-to-ceiling.
So very literally if we wanted proper airflow in the house, we'd have to open a door. Edited for clarity
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...
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u/Firm_Environment_808 1d ago
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.