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Original poster

To serve family a lasagne that had a dead wasp in it?

187 replies

Scarlett555 · 09/08/2019 13:02

Spent all morning making a delicious ragu sauce for a lasagne in preparation for my brother and his family who are visiting this weekend.

It had been simmering away nicely for over an hour. Went to give it a stir and discovered a dead wasp in the sauce Shock. I have no idea how the fucker got in there.

The ingredients were expensive. I made enough to serve 9 people.

Do I need to throw it away and start again? Or WIBU to serve it anyway? (minus the wasp obviously)

OP posts:
PooWillyBumBum · 09/08/2019 13:11

I’d serve it. But I’d eat it too!

SweetAsSpice · 09/08/2019 13:11

It’ll be fine. DD (9 months) somehow found a dead wasp under the sofa and gave it a munch the other day 🤮

Extra protein...

buttertoasty · 09/08/2019 13:12

I wouldn't be able to eat it as wasps repulse and petrify me more than any other insect. I can't even look at a picture and in fact this thread has made me feel sick and put me off lasagne.

What if someone is allergic to wasp venom

I would chuck away and write it off. Bastard fucking evil wasp.

Goodnightjude1 · 09/08/2019 13:12

I’d definitely still serve it....and if my MIL was coming....I’d leave the wasp in for her 😏

TerracottaLeggy · 09/08/2019 13:12

I have never been the pearl clutcher on a thread before in a decade on Mumsnet. Ace.

I genuinely think this is minging and I think it's unethical to serve something that you think people wouldn't eat if they knew what it was.

lazylinguist · 09/08/2019 13:13

YANBU to serve it. YABVU to not be willing to eat it yourself but happily serve it to others.

NameChange84 · 09/08/2019 13:13

This thread is reminding me of why I avoid eating food other people have cooked Envy (not envy). I think it WBU and would never do it myself. Did you not cover the saucepan whilst unattended?

If you wouldn’t knowingly eat it, it’s really unfair to serve it to others. I do appreciate it’s a shame for the food and your effort to go to waste however.

bluebell34567 · 09/08/2019 13:13

in 'i am a celebrity get me out of here' they ate much worse stuff. i wonder if anything happened to them.

Coffeeandcherrypie · 09/08/2019 13:14

Well I know my Dairy Milk is allowed up to 8 insects and a certain amount of rat hairs so I’m not going to get precious about people unknowingly eating a lasagne that had a removed wasp in it.

Teddybear45 · 09/08/2019 13:14

I wouldn’t because I wouldn’t eat a shop bought item if it had a dead wasp / fly / mouse in it - whether it was intact or not. Nothing wrong with it if you would eat it if the lasagna came from Tesco or would be okay if someone else served it to you, but it’s a huge double-standard to expect others to eat shit you wouldn’t.

Gillian1980 · 09/08/2019 13:15

I’d eat it and serve it.

I’m sure wasps, flies etc all land in and on items of food without us knowing. Which then get cooked and merrily eaten with no harm done.

OhMsBeliever · 09/08/2019 13:16

I'd eat it. Wouldn't bother me at all. I've hoiked dead flies out of sauce/boiling water plenty of times. I'm still alive. 🧟‍♀️

Original poster
Scarlett555 · 09/08/2019 13:17

Did you not cover the saucepan whilst unattended?

It was covered initially and then I took the lid off for the last bit of cooking. Slipped next door for a few minutes to watch the start of Loose Women. Got back and my sauce had been invaded.

OP posts:
MyCatHatesEverybody · 09/08/2019 13:18

Isn't there a ceratin % of insects in flour, bread, pasta etc anyway? Your lasagne sheets will already contain dead insect.#

YWBVU if you didn't also eat it yourself though.

64sNewName · 09/08/2019 13:18

I’d eat it. I’d be momentarily horrified but if it was intact and the food well cooked otherwise, I’d get over it. It would be such an awful waste to throw out such a lot of food for this reason.

If you were eating outside and a wasp landed on a dish of food, would you jump up and bin it? Or start warning people not to eat it because a wasp was briefly on it? I don’t think most people would.

KipperTheFrog · 09/08/2019 13:19

I’d eat it and not think twice

Coffeeandcherrypie · 09/08/2019 13:20

In a regular-sized 16-ounce jar of peanut butter, the FDA will allow up to 136 insect fragments and four rodent hairs. The FDA won't allow more than 3 percent of filets to contain copepods, parasitic crustaceans that dwell in fish flesh and form pus pockets there.

QueenOfPain · 09/08/2019 13:21

It’s punishment for watching Loose Women.

Osirus · 09/08/2019 13:21

It will be fine. I can’t believe so many people can be so wasteful.

joystir59 · 09/08/2019 13:22

Even if it was a fly I would still serve it. Spoon the dead insect out and reheat sauce to piping hot. No problem.

matteroflifeordeath · 09/08/2019 13:22

I would. I didn’t however serve the ratatouille after we discovered a baby rat in the oil that was used to make it at the weekend - actual rat-atouille. No idea how it got there or if it got in after it was made. No chances taken 🤢

HouseholdPlantMurderer · 09/08/2019 13:23

I swallowed like 3 little flies yesterday while gardening.🤷
One boiled wasp is nothing😂

SchrodingersMeowth · 09/08/2019 13:23

YABU to want to serve it without mentioning it and not eat it yourself. That’s pretty nasty.

Panda98 · 09/08/2019 13:23

I’d definitely still serve it....and if my MIL was coming....I’d leave the wasp in for her 😂

StCharlotte · 09/08/2019 13:24

Woah woah woah - back up there...

Figs???