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Would you eat food an ant has been on?

33 replies

FurBabyMum02 · 21/05/2023 07:18

Posted in AIBU as I wanted the voting buttons.
We bought some nice bread from a bakery yesterday, bit of a treat for us. I cut some for my son's dinner and left it on the side. Husband came in a few mins later and says there's an ant on it and we should bin the rest of it.

The ant was from our kitchen sadly we have been finding 1 or 2 a day for a couple of days and are working on it, so the bakery is fine. He thinks they will have passed some bacteria or something on to it and we shouldn't eat it. I'm also pregnant so perhaps he's being a little over cautious?

I haven't had a slice yet and am disappointed I might not get one! Haha.

YABU- it's gross bin it and move on you cant eat that now
YANBU-its fine it was one ant for like a minute don't waste a perfectly good loaf

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Oysterbabe · 21/05/2023 07:20

I'd eat it 💁

krazipan · 21/05/2023 07:20

If eat it

krazipan · 21/05/2023 07:21

I'd 🤦🏼‍♀️

MBappse · 21/05/2023 07:21

Yes I'd eat it

Not sure why, ant feels less icky than a fly for example.

sittingonacornflake · 21/05/2023 07:21

I'd probably eat it too and try not to think about the ant

PuttingDownRoots · 21/05/2023 07:22

I got bitten by an ant, on my lip, after not realising it had got into my bag of crisps.

I don't think I could eat the bread now...

Maraudingmarauders · 21/05/2023 07:23

A single ant? Yes I'd eat it without a thought. A whole ants nest, no.
Also pregnant.
Non wonder there's a food waste problem if people are throwing out whole loaves of bread over a single ant.

TheIsleOfTheLost · 21/05/2023 07:23

While the ingredients were growing they probably had insects and slugs all over them. Rabbit or fox wee too. Of course I would eat it!

Badbudgeter · 21/05/2023 07:23

I think I’d eat it tbh. Why don’t you toast it which should kill off bacteria/ germs. I hate flies and would be completely put off by one but I’m meh. About ants. Possibly wrong though so will see where the thread goes.

olympicsrock · 21/05/2023 07:24

Wouldn’t bother me at all

MsWhitworth · 21/05/2023 07:25

A single ant! I doubt there’s ever been a documented case of anyone getting ill or dying from ant germs.

MrsMenmen · 21/05/2023 07:26

Definitely eat it, bugs probably go on our food all the time without us noticing

LaMarschallin · 21/05/2023 07:26

MBappse · 21/05/2023 07:21

Yes I'd eat it

Not sure why, ant feels less icky than a fly for example.

I agree.
Perhaps because flies are known to crawl over excrement and rubbish whereas ants are usually found in the garden (when they not carrying Yogi Bear's pic-er-nic basket away).

marshmallowmatcha · 21/05/2023 07:27

Yes.

Toast it if that makes you feel better.

coffeecupsandwaxmelts · 21/05/2023 07:27

Of course I'd eat it.

What a waste to chuck away a perfectly good loaf of bread 😬

Original poster
FurBabyMum02 · 21/05/2023 07:29

Yes this is what I think aswell! Feels such a huge waste of food and totally ridiculous over a single ant. Glad I'm not the gross one here haha

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dudsville · 21/05/2023 07:29

Ive voted, but this has made me wonder what i would not consume after an insect touched it. With drinks visited by a winged thing I'd just tip them out of my glass, so i guess i would feel the same with food, though i associate flies with feces so I'd probably draw a line there.

A woodlouse is a grey area for me, needs more thought but I'm leaning towards no. Then the common worms, slugs and snails that are all hard no's, naturally.

Ants i feel are like spiders, butterflies, moths etc., though ants might make use of my food in a way the others wouldn't, i wouldn't feel a quick passover my food would cause my food to spoil.

usernother · 21/05/2023 07:29

Of course I'd eat it. What a waste not to eat it. I'd still eat it if it had been more than one ant.

Lottsbiffandsmudge · 21/05/2023 07:29

Was the ant on the remaining loaf or the cut slices?
If it was on the slice why would.you throw the rest of the loaf out...
I'd eat it either way.

Original poster
FurBabyMum02 · 21/05/2023 07:30

Yes this, if he hadn't spotted it at that exact minute we would be none the wiser and be happily munching away

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EveSix · 21/05/2023 07:30

We would definitely eat it. Ants are fine.

I think your husband's reaction is a little extreme. Does he worry about hygiene, contamination and cleanliness? Keep an eye out for similar responses to other situations.

I really hope you are able to salvage the bread and don't have to go along with this.

SinnerBoy · 21/05/2023 07:30

Ant's nests are highly antimicrobial and anti-fungal, so it wouldn't worry me.

megletthesecond · 21/05/2023 07:32

Yes. For some reason ants seem like clean pests.

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FurBabyMum02 · 21/05/2023 07:32

It was on the rest of the loaf, gotten quite far down into the bag so his thoughts are that it has crawled over the whole thing. I'm with the pp line of thinking that if it was a bug in my drink I'd just flick it out and carry on so I feel like an ant is kinda the same

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Inkypot · 21/05/2023 07:33

I seem to be in the minority, I could no eat it knowing an ant had been on it. No way.
I also can't drink a drink if a fly has been on the glass or eat anything touched by them etc. I am autistic though so that may play into it in sensory terms.