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

[Scarlett555]

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 . 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)

It wouldn't occur tom to throw it out- I'd eat it so would expect everyone else to and I wouldn't tell them.

What they don't know won't hurt 'em!

"I'd worry about allergies" Hahaha! Wasps are clean insects and will not carry disease. Just fish it out. best you found it now and now your guest on the plate. It is not a germy fly

Serve it up, decide in your mind which plate has wasp on it. Smile smugly and enjoy yours!

@Confusedbeetle some people are allergic to wasp sting. That's why people mention allergies

@Confusedbeetle @HouseholdPlantMurderer aside from wasp sting, anyone with a shellfish allergy is also likely to be allergic to eating insects because of the exoskeleton.

I caught my cat licking a Bolognese sauce which had cooled in the saucepan. I gave it a stir, reheated it and ate it with a friend. I never told him and he really enjoyed it. That was 16 years ago and we are both still alive. Sadly the cat isn't but he died from natural causes years later.

Wasps mostly nibble wood to make nests.

ImNotYourGranny are you my mum? She did that one year when my cat had a chew on the defrosting turkey leg. She chopped it off and cooked the rest!

I'm glad I'm not a poor family member of yours!! ..... I'd serve it though! If they ever annoy you, you can look back and know you already served up a dish of revenge!

I can't believe you'd consider chucking away 9 portions because a bug fell in! Presumably there's already dead cow in it… I jest (partly), but c'mon, that's madness.

fish it out, tell no one and eat it

@zvjezdica that's good to know! Thanks!

I know my DB, DP and nephews wouldn't be bothered at all and would think it really wasteful if I chucked the lot because of a wasp. They love lasagne. It's my SIL who would be grossed out and possibly my DD.

Trying to think of a scenario where the males get served lasagne and the females get something different but that would seem very weird.

Of course you can still serve it. The wasp isn’t in it anymore. It would be very wasteful and totally unnecessary to throw it away.

I’m also gobsmacked that anyone would chuck a whole lasagne for a wasp. Why on earth would anyone be revolted by that that?
More revolted by people that taste the sauce and put the spoon back in to stir frankly.

There are people on here who would chuck the food away because of a dead wasp?? Jeezo. Fish it out, say nowt, and crack on!

Just serve them it, ignorance is bliss.I presume these people eat out at places? Well a lot of places have cockroaches and rats running about so a wasp is cock all really.

If there was a dead rat in the pan I throw it away but not for a wasp.It will probably add flavour.

Every vegetable in that pan will have been pissed on by rats, if you used flour to make the cheese sauce there's a good chance there's weevils and God knows what else in there. I really wouldn't worry about a wasp. Just fish it out.

Some people delight in regaling vegans (of which I am one) with lists of all the animal/insect bits that are permitted as accidental contamination in veg/cereals/grains, so I have resigned myself to the fact that in my life I have eaten many many insects. I can't say it would bother me unduly serve it up and say nothing!

www.fda.gov/food/ingredients-additives-gras-packaging-guidance-documents-regulatory-information/food-defect-levels-handbook

Light reading!!

OMG. People are so pathetic. The lasagne is full of meat, veg, fruit and probably dairy. Leaving aside the possible bacteria account of the meat and dairy, the veg and tomatoes have been grown in soil made up of plant and animal matter. Animals large and small have copulated, crapped and died and rotted in that soil since time began and yet even the most fastidious of us eat those vegetables. One small insect floating in a ragu will not render it unfit for consumption.

People are WAY too precious.

It's fine. If you saw what happened to food in most food preparation places you'd never eat anything, ever, that you hadn't personally cooked (and had eyes on all the time).

Turn away from the cooker for a second and a fly will land on stuff and be away before you've even noticed. Spiders land in things, fur and hair drift through the air and land in food.

Humans have evolved over millions of years to be able to eat this kind of thing (allergies excepted, of course.)

All those horrified posters saying they'd ditch the sauce, do you throw away entire meals when you eat outside and a wasp lands on your food?!

I would serve it. But I would also eat it. I would not serve anything to my guests that I would not eat myself for reasons of hygiene.

Insects are a growing source of food:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insects_as_food

So your lasagna is actually a bit ahead of its time. It's fine, really.