Slug in a cauliflower

[BetteDavisChin]

Preparing a cauliflower this afternoon.
Found a live slug on my chopping board.

I'd like the general mumsnet consensus as to whether or not you would still eat the cauliflower.

YABU - No way would I eat the cauliflower!
YANBU - Meh, what's a slug trail between friends?

If you were growing the cauliflower in your own garden and saw a slug on it would you have uprooted and binned it?

This reminds me of the time sd dropped a potato on the floor and refused to eat it as it was 'dirty' (the floor had been mopped 10 minutes earlier)

No amount of telling her where they where grown would change her mind and I was a liar-potatoes are not grown under soil-god knows where she thought they where grown

Oddly,now she has to work to earn money and buy her own potatoes,she can kick them round the kitchen floor of her student digs and she will wash and eat it happily

I'd just eat it

Home grown curly kale smells much nicer cooking if you have soaked it in salted water before cooking.

And that's all I'm ever going to admit.

He's definitely being ridiculous

I'm embarrassed for your DH.

one slug is fine.
half one however....

tbh it's fine. even if you were to accidentally eat one or half one they are a good source of protein not poisonous and will not cause harm.

I grow caulis and cabbages. When I cut them I stick them in a bucket of cold salty water. All the critters come crawling out. They’re not grown in a sterile lab!

My dad once found half a slug in his baked potato.....he carried on eating it 🤢🤢😂😂 (very keen organic gardener..... extra protein as far as he was concerned) 😂😂

as a child I had the job of picking the caterpillars of the broccoli and feeding them to the chickens.
only 20 years later was I able to eat eggs and broccoli again...

The sensible part of me says 'eat it' for obvious reasons.
I had a caterpillar in a leek once. I had to bin it. It put me right off leeks for a couple of years. I know what I'm like, I wouldn't be able to enjoy it. I can't even think/talk about anything remotely gross while I'm eating. So, no chance of me eating that cauliflower.

I once found a caterpillar in my broccoli - after I'd cooked it! It was a while before I could eat broccoli again.

My Dad grew lettuces which almost always contained the odd slug or two, and he insisted that swallowing slugs was not only harmless, but provided us with good quality protein.

I agree with the sensible posters who say 'just eat it' but my stomach is easily turned. & when I've forced myself to eat things like that I haven't enjoyed my meal at all. So these days I'd put it in a tupperware type dish & give it to my neighbour. I'd tell her why, she'd laugh at me & they'd eat it happily. Win/win.

Reminds me of when my mum once cooked and served cabbage in a meal.
She took a mouthful of hers and bit straight into a slug, which had expanded on being cooked, causing it to explode in her mouth.
We almost choked laughing at her reaction.

I have found caterpillars and flies etc in veg before and washed and cooked them - however, if it was a slug then no I wouldn't. I read about a man in Australia who ate a slug as a dare and got rat lungworm disease which paralysed and then killed him. So no, I wouldn't, just in case - I know washing and cooking would probably kill the bacteria but it's also the boak factor of a slug being on it in the first place. A caterpillar I can handle, a slug, no.

All sorts of insects and bugs will have crawled over it and any other veg when it was growing. Presumably you washed it. So yes of course I would eat it

Gentle reminder to all those half slug eaters: they can have lungworm which can be passed to humans.

Low likelihood, but a risk all the same.

I would refuse to eat it if I’d seen the slug, but if my husband had removed it I’d probably tell him to still serve it to me.

The cauliflower would only be psychologically ruined!

You just wash it.