To throw this food shopping away???

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I ordered my shopping from Morrisons via Amazon prime and one of the bags had a massive fly in it.
I know flies are everywhere etc but that's pretty gross I think? It was stuff like berries, milk, hot dogs etc but I don't have any anti bac wipes and the idea of eating food that a flies been crawling and pooping and whatever else all over seems pretty grim, Aibu tk throe ther bag of shopping away?
I do have a tendency to over react so interested what others would do
(I don't particularly have the money to be throwing bags of shopping away but k also don't want us to get sick, and I don't have any anti bac wipes in to give it a wipe over)

No.

It takes about 1 micro grain of sensitivity and / or perception to see, from the OP alone, that the OP experiences some form of anxiety or ‘issue’. No one would suggest chucking an entire shop of sealed goods unless they had some sort of issue.

Stop blaming the OP.

There is a difference in having OCD and being over the top anal op.

It takes about 1 micro grain of sensitivity and / or perception to see, from the OP alone, that the OP experiences some form of anxiety or ‘issue’. No one would suggest chucking an entire shop of sealed goods unless they had some sort of issue.

Did you not read some of the the many lockdown shopping threads?

@Johnnysgirl and it's very different if you find a fly in your bag and know when/how it got there...

There's no need for people to repeatedly berate the OP. It's nasty.

So it's crawled over the packaging, which I assume you do not intend to consume? I should imagine there's a lot more than one fly crawled all over your fruit seen as it grows outside. I've found snails in lettuces before now.

Can you please clarify the difference(s), in a way that will constructively help the OP? Thanks.

WTF

Complain?

I'm a massive fuss pot over food but I wouldn't throw any of the items you have away. Wipe packages down, wash fruit well, probably wouldn't bother with veg if it is going to be cooked.

I'd be onto the supermarket though, if you kick off enough you might get a refund.
Jesus Fucking Christ.

This reminds me of a time when a budding organic smallholder was giving away some fruit and vegetables in a nearby village and I alerted a friend to this thinking she could grab herself a few goodies-she replied that she was very fussy about where her food came from so wouldn’t touch it with a barge pole! Did she think crops are grown in sterile labs?

I really hate flies, so I would rinse packaging off with soapy water and wash the fruit as I would normally do. If I am eating something and a fly lands on it, I will throw that out. I’m not OCD or even picky about most things, but flies are revolting to me.

So wash the fruit before you eat it. That's what you are supposed to do anyway

I do have a debilitating mental illness actually, but I also have the self awareness to know when my mental illness is making me act irrationally.

Maybe you should work on that, and on your wild assumption making about other people, and nasty passive aggressiveness. Didn't know that was a symptom of OCD.

Huge over-reaction, but wipe it down with a bowl of soapy water if you really must.

Wash it before you eat it.

But with fruit & vegetables, what makes you think that all sorts of insects haven't already crawled on it? Fruit & vegetables are generally grown outside, you know.

I do find people's lack of common sense & resilience nowadays to be astonishing.

Massive overreaction and incredibly wasteful if you threw it out. Wash the berries, fruit, and veg. You would have anyway.

I have a phobia of germs and ocd, so there's always at least some type of disinfectant in my house and failing that there is soap and water. I already wash my fruit thoroughly as flies are outside and fruit grows outside, it would not occur to me to not wash my fruit before eating it. I would not throw my fruit away because a fly had been in its vicinity.

I would make up a solution of something to disinfect the items that were sealed. Or, I would wash the sealed things with soap and water, it's not conventional but it's fine for a one off. Something like a baguette in an open bag would be the only thing I would throw away because I can't clean it or wash it.

And just to counter-balance that from someone who doesn’t have a phobia, we would still eat the baguette. And we would be absolutely fine and well.

(Just because sometimes you need to hear what people who don’t think you way you do would do, if you’re trying to mitigate your OCD and reactions borne from it)

The food will be absolutely fine but if you really can't deal with it then please give it to a foodbank or somewhere similar rather than throw it away. I hope you find some reassurance from the kinder replies here.

You don't need anti bac wipes for this, or for most things. Solution of washing up liquid or liquid soap and water, damp cloth: wipe the containers. They'll be cleaner than the ones you usually happily eat from. Give any loose fruit a good rinse like I'm guessing you normally would and presumably you'd give veg a good scrub before you cook them anyway. Don't stress it. This will absolutely do the job.

Did she think crops are grown in sterile labs?

I once heard a mother tell her child who was picking a blackberry off a bush: 'Don't touch those. They're dirty.' So I guess some people do!

Well given the OP has said she has diagnosed OCD I'm not sure what point you are trying to make?

I'd just wash anything unwrapped that might have been touched directly by the fly.
Flies do land on vegetables growing in fields. They are pollinators too.

Where do you think strawberries are grown?