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)

I would still eat it.

It's quite concerning that so few people can understand the bad ethics of serving it without giving people the choice of eating it after full disclosure

Hahahahaha

I would definitely still eat it, OP.

I'd fish it out and think absolutely no more of it. I'd happily eat it myself. It's a whole lot fresher and more hygienic than the dead cow bubbling away in there anyway

YANBU just fish it out and say nothing

As long as it’s intact, I’d scoop it out and then boil the sauce again

Some people make life sound such hard work. No pan must ever be left unattended without a lid?!

Eat away and enjoy your efforts OP.

The wasp would initially make me think bleurgh, but I'd eat the lasagne.

I am grossed out by the posters serving cat/dog licked food though.

I picked a wasp out of my drink and drank it the other day. I’d serve it.

I love fig rolls but dead wasps in figs 🤮 i hate wasps.Don't think i will ever look fig rolls the same again 🙈. I am allergic to wasps so i would be binning it .

If you're so certain it's fine, why not tell the guests? You have to give them the choice.

I'm not British so I suspect a cultural difference is at play here.

This thread has been eye opening. The whole nightmare with the figs and wasps counting as shellfish.

If it makes you feel better I was half way through my dinner in northern Australia and found a cockroach in it. (staff said it flew in to my food - but it was cooked)

Give me a wasp in my ragu any day

Bet you all think the pie scene in Titus Andronicus is normal behaviour too

This is such a magnificent leap it made me snort!

I’d serve it. But during the starter/pre dinner drinks I’d steer the conversation casually around to allergies. If any guest has a wasp sting allergy, I’d accidentally spill their portion and serve them some toast instead.

Throw away the sauce, throw away the pan and disinfect your entire kitchen 4 times.

DM once served lasagne that had been dropped on the floor and then scraped back in the dish deconstructed style. Your guests should count themselves lucky.

That reminds me of the glorious Fanny Cradock.
She used to do her cooking shows live and did one showing how to cook a roast dinner.
As she got the chicken out it fell on the floor. She picked it up, put it back in the pan and said ‘remember, you are alone in your own kitchen’.

It's quite concerning that so few people can understand the bad ethics of serving it without giving people the choice of eating it after full disclosure

I agree. Been thinking about this all day and don't want lasagne for a while now.

And for all the wasp apologists you do know that hey kill honeybees by ripping off their heads. I think I could like without gigs to be honest.

*figs

I just looked up from reading this thread to see a tiny, tiny, tiny fly landing in my glass of red wine

I’m too sleepy to drink it anyway. It’s been sitting there for ages.

Nope, would not serve it, nor eat it.
Reading this is making me feel

@RubbingHimSourly laughing at 'Every vegetable in that pan will have been pissed on by rats'. Envisioning it on a wanky restaurant menu as some kind of hipster selling point

There is dead cow in there as well right so there might as well be a dead wasp in it too

Exactly! A ground up dead cow, possibly its bum or who knows what parts, with a sauce made from its mother's lactation . A wasp that is now removed is nothing.

I'm getting hungry for lasagne now. OP where do you live and what time can we come over