These things appeared in friends flat. What are they?

  • @[email protected]
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    162 months ago

    You can put whatever they have infested in the freezer for a few days, then pick them out and transfer the contents to a sealed container.

    When I lived in the tropics it was quite normal to have these in flour, grains, dried legumes, dried chillies etc.

    • @[email protected]
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      222 months ago

      Or, just hear me out—you could throw the whole thing away and try to never think about the maggots again.

      • @[email protected]
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        142 months ago

        I knew someone would come back with something like this.

        You can pretty much forget about eating the things I listed then, oh and dried pasta too.

        Besides, if you don’t think you’re eating that stuff already then you haven’t looked at the USDA or FDA Food Defect Levels. There are allowable levels for fun things like insect parts and rodent droppings.

        • @FuryMaker
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          152 months ago

          La la la (puts fingers in ears) I’m not listening!

        • Lucy :3
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          42 months ago

          Except the USDA and FDA specifically are irrelevant in any other country.

          • @[email protected]
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            22 months ago

            That’s true.

            Do you happen to know of any countries where the allowable level of contamination is zero?

            • @[email protected]
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              22 months ago

              If there is one, they’re lying.

              That doesn’t necessarily mean it’s not gross, at least subjectively, though.

        • @GroundedGator
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          22 months ago

          My grandfather worked in a lab at a brewery. His job was to sample grain coming in. Rejected grain cars were sent to the cereal factories.