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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:
Oysterbabe · 09/08/2019 13:25

I'd serve it without a moments hesitation.

1forAll74 · 09/08/2019 13:27

I would serve it up,and not say anything,as I am sure there would be someone else from the family,who would go all to pieces if they knew about it ha ha.

ImNotYourGranny · 09/08/2019 13:27

I'd serve it, but then I served turkey one Christmas after the cat had had a good chomp on it.

StCharlotte · 09/08/2019 13:27

knowledgenuts.com/2014/06/08/the-disturbing-truth-about-figs/

Every day's a school day...

thenewaveragebear1983 · 09/08/2019 13:27

I've seen a swarm of wasps eating a pidgeon carcass left by a neighbourhood cat.

Coffeeandcherrypie · 09/08/2019 13:28

@StCharlotte seems to be exaggerated:

"Certain types of fig are male and female and so require a special breed of wasp to pollinate the females.
The female wasp crawls inside through a hole so narrow that she loses her wings in the process and becomes trapped. If the fig is a male, she lays her eggs inside. These hatch into larvae that burrow out, turn into wasps and fly off, carrying fig pollen with them. If the wasp climbs into a female fig, she pollinates it, but cannot lay her eggs and just dies alone.

Luckily for us, the female fig produces an enzyme that digests this wasp completely. The crunchy bits are seeds, not wasp parts."

EdWinchester · 09/08/2019 13:28

I’d scoop out the wasp and forget about it.

Panda98 · 09/08/2019 13:29

Like others have said the only unreasonable bit would be to serve food to others you are unwilling to eat yourself

HariboLectar · 09/08/2019 13:31

@StCharlotte I just googled it.

Don't google it Envy

Nottobesoldseparately · 09/08/2019 13:31

It would depend if the sting was still in.

Even dead they can still sting you.

I'm allergic so I'd probably not eat it if you couldn't be sure you'd got it out.

Original poster
Scarlett555 · 09/08/2019 13:32

Shit. Rodent hair in peanut butter. Rats in olive oil. Dead wasps in figs??

Sounds like the wasp in my ragu is the least of my worries.

Envy (absolutely not envy)

Anyone else feel queasy?

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Hecateh · 09/08/2019 13:33

It's a non issue. A wasp landing on one bit of sauce and then being scooped out is no risk whatsoever. You popped out the room for a minute. In that time 10 insects could have landed and taken off again.
Flies may have touched the utensils you are using, wasps may land on the dining plates and fly off again. This poor little wasp wasn't able to take off again, one less of the little fuckers around yay

YABU to not eat any yourself!

Betty777 · 09/08/2019 13:33

I'm Confused at some of the responses on here.

Do any of you ever eat in restaurants? takeaway? have you ever worked in a restaurant kitchen? I can guarantee you that any food cooked commercially is likely to contain far, far worse. Sorry.

Plus if you are already cooking meat, there's not much difference between one type and another....

ElizaDee · 09/08/2019 13:33

@TerracottaLeggy Fri 09-Aug-19 13:08:42
And serve it to people without telling them?

Anyone that eats out has probably eaten worse.

PancakeAndKeith · 09/08/2019 13:34

Meh. I’d pull the wasp out and serve it.
As it’s lasagne I guess it’ll be baked as well.

InvisibleHamster · 09/08/2019 13:34

Yeah after the fig thing it wouldn't bother me at all. Food was still heated after it was taken out, right?

BarbedBloom · 09/08/2019 13:35

I am allergic to bees, don't actually know if a wasp in the sauce would do any harm. I think if you were sure it was intact and not there for long you are okay

Time40 · 09/08/2019 13:35

I'd eat it. It wouldn't bother me at all.

Mybestfriendisanalien · 09/08/2019 13:35

Shit. Rodent hair in peanut butter. Rats in olive oil. Dead wasps in figs??

Who said anything about shit??? Shock

Paperyfish · 09/08/2019 13:38

I’d probably take out a scoop of ragu with it- in my mind that would be the “contaminated” part! Then happily eat the rest. Although my standards may be low. I left a extra Shepard’s pie to cool on the windowsill one dinner time in order to freeze it later and when I can back to it there was a bloody great moth stuck to it. I just picked it off and re smoothed out the mash. Was fine! Any way wasps are better than moths as wasps are practically bees and honey is just bee secretions or spit or something ( I may not be entirely knowledgable or accurate here) and people eat that no trouble. So is fine. Maybe stir some honey in to it!

CornishMaid1 · 09/08/2019 13:39

I thought from the heading that you were serving a lasagne in which you knew there was a dead wasp whilst it was still in there as Russian roulette.

As long as it was whole, I would have scooped out the wasp and a chunk of the sauce around it to get rid of the worst of the contamination, re-boiled it and carried out. Would quite happily eat it too. If I can eat dead animals in the lasagne, a bit of the outside of a drowned wasp isn't really that bad.

mumwon · 09/08/2019 13:57

the main thing is to make sure his/her sting & head & body is out - re allergies (casually bring up the subject of stings & allergies to your guests before serving to make sure no one is hyper sensitive)

MissDew · 09/08/2019 13:59

So the naughty wasp got first divs on the ragu sauce ? It died happy. Just pick it out of the sauce. Re-heat the sauce and continue with the rest of the recipe.

You'll cook it again in the baking process when the lasagne is complete, yes ?

Roomba · 09/08/2019 13:59

I'd scoop it out and eat it, no problem. Unless I knew someone eating it was allergic to wasps or the wasp wasn't intact. Maybe I'm disgusting but I wouldn't be wasting loads of money and time by chucking it! I'd serve myself the bit that had had the wasp in though.

MissDew · 09/08/2019 14:00

You'll cook the ragu sauce again when you bake the lasagne, yes ? Not the wasp. He's had his portion.