Would you drink alcohol with maggots in?

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Made some cherry bourbon with cherries from our garden. I did check for maggots as a de-stoned them but a few escaped me and are currently sitting in the bottom of the demi-john. The next step is to strain it, which will get rid of them, but they've obviously already been sat in there.

Would you drink it or chuck it?

If it makes a difference we've been eating the cherries so have probably eaten some maggots too (they are tiny). But we'd be offering the bourbon to friends in cocktails.

I'm currently making rhubarb gin, despite washing it all there's an ant in it.

That's not going to stop me from drinking it.

Omg no way please don't give this to others without telling them first!

I think they bring something 'extra' when I had it in Mexico I swapped my shoes for a three day loan of someone's pet dog.
Took it back to the resort and everything.
Thought I'd had a stroke.
Maggots in drinks could be the lucky catalyst.

I abhor maggots but I would just get rid of them and not be bothered.

As long as they are gone, they are gone - aren't they?

They can't lay teeny tiny maggot eggs so fuck it. Bottoms up

I’d be fine with this. So long as I didn’t know about it!

I guess what I mean is that I would have to be desperate to drink something with maggots in it

Ahh I've just realised the maggots would be gone. That's not so bad! I had imagined a drink with maggots floating in it.

You had me at alcohol.

No-one minds a bit of fruity maggot. Mmmm, extra protein

Strain it out and keep quiet. No one ever needs to know.

Meh, they'll be gone before it's drunk. Just keep schtum and it's all good.

These are not just maggots.

These are the finest cherry-fed, alcohol-infused, sun-kissed summer maggots, young and tender and oozing with fruit syrup that will get you off your tits.

I can't abide maggots, they freak me out.

I'd drink it.

To the people that wouldn't, hopefully you don't drink any shop bought alcohol, because who knows what has been sieved out of that!

This makes me think of donoghue v Stevens and I honestly don’t think I could stomach it

Same here! Although maggots are slightly less crunchy than snails