What kind of person are you?

It's a cold snowy winter day and you decide to make some soup using a corn/rice chowder dried mix someone gave you as a present. So you make the soup, it smells pretty good, and as you take a teaspoon of soup to taste, there right at the very top is a nice plump larvae of a what is probably a warehouse grain beetle. Oops. After picking it out and having a look around for any more, and failing to see any, do you:
1. throw the whole pot of soup away anyways.
2. give the soup to your dog.
3. keep quiet about your discovery and feed it to your kids, while having a sandwich yourself.
4. go ahead and enjoy the soup, extra protein and all, so long as they aren't wriggling.

6 comments:

  1. Probably #4. I figure: 1) I've probably eaten plenty of them already without noticing, 2) for all I know there was only one to begin with, and I picked it out so that's not an issue, and 3) the soup's been heated, so it's as good as sterilized and should therefore be safe to eat.

    Also #1 and #4 were my only options anyway: no kids, and Sheba's stomach is plenty touchy already without giving her food she's not accustomed to.

    I'd only throw it out if the soup tasted funny or I found a second beetle.

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  2. I like to make a big pot of food for my lunches each week. Last year, after setting aside several bowls of gumbo for the next couple days, I realized I needed some extra rice. Pulling the bowl out of the microwave, I found several dead adult weevils. Not wanting to waste the probably contaminated gumbo, I ate my lunches the rest of the week with my eye fixed well above the bowl. (ignorance being bliss and all)

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  3. So what's wrong with wriggling?

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  4. Totally 4. I made a tomato sauce tonight with a fruit fly in it and didn't think twice about it.

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  5. Definitely 4. Boil it a bit it'll be fine.

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  6. #1 for me. I wouldn't be able to eat a single bite without thinking about bugs. *shudder*

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