Slug & spinach

[filka]

Took a bag with some spinach out of the fridge this evening, it had been there for nearly a week. We are abroad so it's not in a sealed pack. I notice a small 2cm slug, but must be dead as the spinach leaves aren't eaten!

Do I :
Bin the slug, wash, cook and eat the spinach - YANBU
Yeeew, you've gotta be kidding, bin the lot- YABU

Put the poor slug in the garden, wash the spinach and eat it.

unmm what do you think happens to spinach in the field???

I'd eat it. But I have two allotments and everything is "organic".

Poor slug, I once nearly ate a very large green caterpillar that was disguised as broccoli.

Bin it if the origin of the spinach is south of the U.K.

This is due to the spread of a parasite whose microscopic eggs are in slug & snail slime. You eat leaves with the slime, and the eggs hatch, the microscopic worms then ride the bloodstream to your brain and start growing and multiplying there. There is no cure. You eventually die.

Yes washing the spinach could work, you’d wash it anyway, but finding a slug in a bag means there were likely a lot of slugs where it was being grown and your chances of missing some slime are high.

Surely cooking kills the worms?