Would you eat a salad after finding a fly in it?

[Autumnalsky]

A housefly - one of the black and shiny green ones was crawling around inside a Tupperware box of salad. Must have somehow got in there unnoticed. So gross.

I’m now in two minds - reluctant to throw away a largish amount fresh salad, but conscious that the fly may have been somewhere horrid. WWYD?!

Nope. Flies lay eggs

I'd absolutely throw it in the bin 🤢

No, I wouldn't in that situation.
I eat stuff from the garden that's washed, but that isn't the same as a fly that's been trapped, crawling round on my dressed salad, it's not possible to wash it properly.

I am now singing "I know an old lady who swallowed a fly .."

Good god no I wouldn't eat it! Flies shit and vomit where they land....and this one was trapped in a box full of food 🤢🤮

I probably wouldn’t if it was the sort of fly that likes dog shit. I’m strong of stomach and not particularly bothered by things but I don’t think I would on this occasion.

A few years ago, I took a really nice steak out of the fridge to griddle. Went to the loo and came back to a pile of fly vomit and the same type of flu you describe sitting on it. Absolutely gutted. I had to throw it away —over the fence for the foxes— . Honestly, don’t risk it. They are utterly grim creatures.

no it would go in the bin, all of it

There is absolutely no way I could eat that salad, even washing wouldn’t help. 🤮🤮🤮

I'd eat it. It's just a fly. We as humans are becoming ridiculously disconnected from the real world.

I would have to throw it out. I’m autistic and go off my food ridiculously easily. A stray comment from someone can make me stop eating something I love and prevent me eating it again. Sometimes I work my way back, but not always.

Those green shiny flies are all over cow pats and dog shit. Definitely not to be eaten.

Crazy responses here! You guys do know that salad grows in actual fields, right, with slugs and microbes and all the things which make nature do her thing. How much damage do you think a little greenfly could do to you? Compared to washing food in chemicals, for example?

Bin it

I'd do that and eat the rest.

I’m usually Team Eat It on here, but in this case I’d probably do as OP did. Scrape off the bits where the fly was, look sadly at the salad for a few minutes and then bin the lot.

But it wasn’t a little greenfly. It was a bluebottle. They shit and vomit on food. Absolutely no way would I eat that. I would if it were a greenfly!

Nope

Honestly you should be washing that. It’s grim if you eat shitty fly footprints.

When my son was about 5, he got caught short when we were out and about (at a playground). I took him behind a bush and gave him one of his baby brother‘s nappies to poo onto and then IMMEDIATELY wrapped the nappy up and disposed of it as I would have done for the baby. In the space of approx 5 seconds where he finished and stepped away and I started to deal with the nappy, about 15 big fat bluebottles arrived out of nowhere and landed on the poo, it was horrific.

Short answer - nope, no way!