To never buy broccoli again after reading Ocado reviews?

[SabineDeux]

I feel sick. Was just looking for best broccoli on Ocado and wondered why they are all low rated in the reviews. Most of the comments say the broccoli is full of worms and slugs!!!!!!! 🤢Can this be true? Have I been merrily eating worms all this time? I don't think I'll ever buy broccoli again. Grossed out.

And this is why we have so much waste, people didn't want bugs in their food, even though they're natural. They wanted an apple to look like a picture of an apple, a banana to be perfect so all the so called 'wonky veg' which tastes absolutely no different is rejected and wasted.

A childhood trauma: I bit into a beautiful, really truly beautiful and stunning juicy and sweet pear from my Grandma's orchard. As I am munching on the delicious piece of fruit, I spot a thick white worm staring at me accusingly from the core of the pear. Ever since then I always cut my pears in half. I don't mind eating cherries which could be slightly wormy because you just swallow the whole thing, spit out the stone and there you go but a pear is different.

You know that broccoli is a vegetable and that it grows out of the ground don't you? Then don't be so silly.

Buy frozen? No nasties that way.

Well, they'll be frozen too. You could then make slug ice cream.

Love broccoli.

Ocado fruit and veg is normally pretty crap, though, or at least variable. It's one of the things they don't do well

Tbh I find quite a lot of WR stuff on Ocado poorly rated . I’ve only used them about 5 to 10 times, and whilst their delivery is good and their product range is amazing, I just really don’t like most of Waitrose own label stuff (interestingly, Which doesn’t either)

Just a personal opinion, I feel much of WR is built on the rep of JLP/service as opposed to anything to write home about with regards their own brand.

What differentiates a supermarket is their service and their own label products. Everything else is “Nescafé is Nescafé” and WR just doesn’t do it for me.

Much happier with Sainsbury’s.

Well, they'll be frozen too. You could then make slug ice cream.

I don't know why I.just assume frozen veg is scoured for this sort of thing? I'm totally ignorant of the process however!

I get at least 2 lots of broccoli from Ocado a week, never once received anything in addition to the broccoli in the way of living creatures!

I'm sure by the time you've boiled it for 5 minutes then that would kill any bugs and just drain off the dead bodies in the water haha!!!

I found a caterpillar in my tender stem broccoli from Ocado. I’ve not been able to eat any since. Didn’t leave a review though.

I'd be more worried about worms in fresh fish.

Never had (or should that say noticed!) any bugs in my Ocado broccoli either.

I can't believe the Jesus in the Cabbage Van thread was so long ago now. I have longed for him to deliver to me for years, but sadly I am not one of the chosen ones.

I did get Attila in the Onion Van recently, which was mildly exciting. He asked me for ID for my single small bottle of low-alcohol cider... it was the week before I turned 40!

something which is grown in a sterile laboratory. - like errrr, Beansprouts? That's the only thing I can thnk of that grows without 'the ground'.

I've never found any bugs in my veg (other than my own home grown) although my grapewine harbours a ton of earwigs and woodlice which come with my grape harvest.

We had a slug in a bag of spinach once, ds2 demanded we kept him as a house pet.

Just washed the spinach.

Broccoli does not knowingly enter my house.

like errrr, Beansprouts? That's the only thing I can thnk of that grows without 'the ground'.

Commercial mushrooms are grown in sterilised manure.

@jellypi3 I found slugs in frozen broccoli before. I'd say it is rarer than fresh but the odd one can slip through.

I still remember seeing a piece of broccoli with a big orange hairy caterpillar munching away underneath the plastic in Tesco when I was little. I wanted to take it home and call it Fred.

Ok lweji - mushrooms. They still need 'ground' but I got it. They might still have 'bugs'?

Nothing else is grown in a laboratory - ok maybe Quorn.

Omg as a vegetarian I’m now wondering how often I stray off accidentally by eating a bug 😆 I might just have to invent a new type of vegetarian to cover myself!

I once noticed a boiled maggot when I was draining some broccoli. It put me off broccoli for ages.

Watch out for kalettes- I encountered one with a poor steamed caterpiller, and dismantled the rest to find many caterpillers had perished.... they are delicious but I think I will leave them to the insects to munch :(

People think they want the no-pesticide organic veg ... and then they remember why it is we started using pesticide in the first place.

Ugh - maybe it was organic broccoli

Ha ha - cross posting with womb

My dear old mum taught me to place cauli and brocc in a sink full of cold water with LOTS of salt for a while before draining and cooking it.

That will kill the buggers she said. I think she was right....

Anyhow I buy frozen now and steam it. Same thing, still horrible, but I heard it is good for me?

I didn't eat raspberries for years after finding a shield bug in one once