YUK dh was just chopping up some strawberries and cut one open to be greeted by a maggot!!!!

They were for ds and I am horrified that he could have just eaten a maggot if we hadn't chopped them up.

Grim or what.

were they from tesco? i found a maggot type thing in my brocolli the other day

yer know... the reason we get fed tasteless, uniform looking mono-food by the supermarkets is coz we get all squeamish about evey perceived imperfection and the odd maggot or two...

could have been worse, you could have found half a maggot in your strawberry!

not just any old maggots, these are m&S MAGGOTS.

Luckily not SouthEastAstra given we both shopped at the same branch this morning if I remember correctly from the other thread!

I crunched on a crouton in my bagged salad the other week. Then I realised there were mo croutons in that salad - it was a snail!!!

lol yes thought there may be problem with the store

ew ruby

ooh just had vision of maggot infestation at Tesco B/hamwood....not nice.

Eww i know the feeling i once found a maggot in a sugar snap pea...gross [sick emoticon]

ewww at snail

I have not recovered from serving myself a 2 inch steamed caterpillar with my purple sprouting broccoli last year

it was like something from Star Trek

I would be so relieved to find signs of life in food I was feeding to DS.

Re-assures you that it isn't just pure irradiate, GM, insecticide, herbicide, fungicide, all round toxic-inside!

blu is on my wavelength here

mind you, i was slicing up some mushrooms i picked from my veg plot (unintended but pleasing crop as i used some spent mushroom compost in filling up my raised beds) the other morning and just sort of brushing off the dirt when i looked closely and a fair bit of the 'dirt' was actually wriggling and moving. hmmmmmmmmmmmm. no idea what it was but i binned the lot anyway [

when I was about 12 my dad cooked some beet greens, which were a favourite with lemon juice and butter. and I CRUNCHED into a huge beetle... eww eww eww never ate beet greens for years after that

Though my dad entertained DS by eating a large carpenter ant at my birthday party the other week before we flew home. Oddly enough I wasn't offeneded by that as I can remeber him eating worms and bugs for me when I was little and being quite entranced.

Aha, I had a parasitic worm in some fish once.
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Morning paper, I never let my mum forget about the big juicy caterpiller in my serving of broccolie a few years ago! making me chuckle thinking of it now! it was HUGE she is really fussy too when it comes to washing food...she reckoned the thing must've sneaked out of the middle during cooking!!!