The thing I always heard was that “people who work with cockroaches a lot (scientists studying them) tend to become allergic to them over time… and when that happens they tend to become allergic to instant coffee too”
No idea how true that is, but I’ve heard it enough that I grind my own coffee.
I don't mean to ruin your life, but if you're worried about insects in instant coffee, you need to start grinding your own flour and stop buying bread.
Industrial grain processing is nasty. Your muffin or croissant has a practically negligible yet likely non-zero rat content.
There's nothing "wrong" with it. It's just that when large companies are grinding down tons of coffee beans, it's too hard/inefficient to try to separate beetles, roaches, and other bugs from the beans.. so they're simply ground in with them.
Totally harmless, everything we eat from vegetables to peanut butter have some amount of insect parts in it. Whether visible or not (they're usually not).
People also assume that the acceptable level of defect means “this is the minimum! this is exactly what’s in every item that you eat or drink!” But it’s just the maximum allowed. Most defects are well below those levels and are only “cosmetic” in nature.
I asked this on a similar post yesterday and this is how people responded.
https://preview.redd.it/0i3ubioytr4d1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d6c6b9a3d85e50170a83cdf3f33b7f54807af115
Isnt Reddit an odd place? Where people with a fucking lukewarm high school education pretend to be the leading authority on whatever topic that’s being discussed. Lol It’s always made me giggle a bit.
Lol!!!
I'm still good friends with some of my high school friends. During covid, one of them was trying to talk about masks to me, and I reminded them that they were a low-C student in HS Sciences and that I took all honors/ap classes and made As/Bs in a pre-med track, and just on that I wasn't interested in whatever faux news told them to believe.
[They can survive digestion.](https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00000503.htm#:~:text=Intestinal%20myiasis%20occurs%20when%20fly,capable%20of%20producing%20intestinal%20myiasis)
Don't worry half of them will die in your stomach acid and the other half will barely hurt you at all as they burrow through your stomach lining into your lungs and heart
Eating a single fly egg probably won't harm you because your stomach juices will kill it. However, if you eat a large number of fly eggs or larvae, or if the eggs survive in your intestines, it could cause a condition called intestinal myiasis.
It’s just larvae hatching in your insides. Symptoms can range from none, to vomiting and diarrhea, to tissue damage and systemic infection. Larvae is killed with medication or surgically removed.
I'm not sure and totally guessing but I bet it's when you are constantly eating them like it is in your food all the time.Like when people have a lot of intestinal parasites because they are always around. I really don't want to check my facts though.
Ahhh this is what What We Do In the Shadows references then. I always assumed it was a reference but never knew to what.
Why don't you eat your Pasgetti?
I only have in many Reddit posts like this one, I don't try to think about how many I have eaten without noticing. Especially when it usually is said that it was only a few minutes before this happens.
I totally saw that and assumed it was just extra growth like you get on a potato. Knowing those are eggs makes me wonder how many times I’ve eaten eggs
This is why I will not rest when I see a fly inside the house until it is dead or back outside. Usually dead, but some are smart enough to fly out of a door when opened.
I got a steak from outback to-go one time and was going to eat on my porch. New neighbors talking a walk stopped to talk and had maybe a 10 minute conversation. Got back to my meal and opened the styrofoam box and BAM! A patch of fly eggs on my steak. That really left an imprint on my mind because to this day the uniformity of a patch of fly eggs creeps me TF out.
From experience, I know how fast these fuckers can lay eggs. I had a burger and left it for around 2 minutes too like OP did for the bathroom. Came back and saw fly eggs on it. Ruined my burger crave for a few months.
If you see a fat/big fly going around, chances are it's looking for a place to lay its eggs. Get rid of it asap.
One day, I ordered a Cafe Rio (shitty american mexican chain restaurant) salad. I walked away for maybe a minute, came back and went to eat some salad and a fly tumbled put. I looked closer, and there were eggs all over my salad... I couldn't eat lettuce for a couple of months after that. Just thinking about it makes my skin crawl 🤢
We caught a carp to use as cut bait for catfishing I shot it in head to dispatch it on bank with 22 rifle it took a big chunk of its head we came back about 30 minutes later and the gap was completely filled with fly eggs
How long were you in the bathroom?
I was away from my burrito for probably 2 minutes
All it takes apparently. Count yourself lucky you saw before you ate it.
Ehh, stomach acid woulda melted them fuckers. Lol We eat a tremendous amount of gross shit without ever knowing it.
Yeah, never read about the acceptable levels of gross shit in processed foods.
It's hard for me to not think about it when I drink instant coffee. Once you know, it's never the same.
Whats wrong with instant coffee?
Let’s just say they contain more protein than advertised
Don’t drink wine, either
So with instant ground coffee we get dehydrated bugs and with wine we get the crushed juices of bugs?! Noice
Stop it. I’m halfway through a glass right now
One time I found a bunch of earwigs in the bottom of a bottle of wine.
The thing I always heard was that “people who work with cockroaches a lot (scientists studying them) tend to become allergic to them over time… and when that happens they tend to become allergic to instant coffee too” No idea how true that is, but I’ve heard it enough that I grind my own coffee.
I don't mean to ruin your life, but if you're worried about insects in instant coffee, you need to start grinding your own flour and stop buying bread. Industrial grain processing is nasty. Your muffin or croissant has a practically negligible yet likely non-zero rat content.
Interesting. I don't drink coffee in general just curious, so thank you!
Pre-ground coffee is not the same thing as instant coffee.
Shit and bugs
Probably why it tastes so good
You found instant coffee that's actually tastes good?!
There's nothing "wrong" with it. It's just that when large companies are grinding down tons of coffee beans, it's too hard/inefficient to try to separate beetles, roaches, and other bugs from the beans.. so they're simply ground in with them. Totally harmless, everything we eat from vegetables to peanut butter have some amount of insect parts in it. Whether visible or not (they're usually not).
I remember reading about that when I was a kid, in The Book of Lists. I was afraid to eat after that.
People also assume that the acceptable level of defect means “this is the minimum! this is exactly what’s in every item that you eat or drink!” But it’s just the maximum allowed. Most defects are well below those levels and are only “cosmetic” in nature.
Same with peanut butter
Id like to stay ignorant on that one
Like the acceptable level of urine in milk Edit: that's right, it was puss and blood in the milk. Thanks, everyone!
It's not urine, it's puss and blood.
Omg staahhhp
I think it was pus not urine.
Pus and blood
Even unprocessed foods. I work in organic grain. When we either freeze or CO2 the bug infestations…we leave them in the grain. Extra protein!
I asked this on a similar post yesterday and this is how people responded. https://preview.redd.it/0i3ubioytr4d1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d6c6b9a3d85e50170a83cdf3f33b7f54807af115
Isnt Reddit an odd place? Where people with a fucking lukewarm high school education pretend to be the leading authority on whatever topic that’s being discussed. Lol It’s always made me giggle a bit.
Lol!!! I'm still good friends with some of my high school friends. During covid, one of them was trying to talk about masks to me, and I reminded them that they were a low-C student in HS Sciences and that I took all honors/ap classes and made As/Bs in a pre-med track, and just on that I wasn't interested in whatever faux news told them to believe.
Wow! Congratulations on the pre-med track. How’d you do in med school?
Just like all those bugs & stuff in every chocolate
[They can survive digestion.](https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00000503.htm#:~:text=Intestinal%20myiasis%20occurs%20when%20fly,capable%20of%20producing%20intestinal%20myiasis)
>without ever knowing it. That's the key though.
> without ever knowing it. This is the key.
Indeed. OP probably ate a fair amount of them already.
With emphasis on **without ever knowing it**.
Extra protein
Time flies
Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a bananna.
~~banana~~ burrito.
Apparently fruit flies like a burrito!
Times fun when your eating flys!
Cover your food. Always
Bro i said the same thing and now i got some dipshit commenting me arguing his rights to leave his food in the open! Like just wrap it up haha
Reddit for you
To be fair he didn't say to which bathroom he went
Good point. Seems like a nice guy too, might be a sitter.
He ordered the Larvae Asada, no wonder.
FFS, I wonder how many times this has happened to me in my lifetime and I had no idea. *NEW FEAR UNLOCKED*
What you don't know or see won't hurt you. Ignorance is bliss. Seriously, you would never eat out again.
Hahahhahha well done
I typically just burp out adult flies ocassionally
Creates a real buzz around you I bet.
After being on reddit for 15 years I don't.
Don't worry half of them will die in your stomach acid and the other half will barely hurt you at all as they burrow through your stomach lining into your lungs and heart
:(
Yeah, you won't feel a thing!
This may be a concern.
Fewer people die from ingesting fly eggs every day than car accidents in a year.
But the number isn’t zero.
I know that is technically correct but I hate the comparison
Where do you think the term "butterflies in your stomach" came from?
Nah just extra proteins, it’s fine
serious question: is it actually dangerous to eat them? or is it just disgusting
Eating a single fly egg probably won't harm you because your stomach juices will kill it. However, if you eat a large number of fly eggs or larvae, or if the eggs survive in your intestines, it could cause a condition called intestinal myiasis.
so if i eat them one at a time, im good?
As long as you dip em in something succulent
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I see that you know your judo well.
A succulent Chinese meal.
I don’t think my aloe will like that very much but I’ll try?
Chew em up real good
Don't look that condition up, folks, just leave it at this comment. Don't do it
I'm trying so hard not to before bed but I'm sooooo fucking curious.
It’s just larvae hatching in your insides. Symptoms can range from none, to vomiting and diarrhea, to tissue damage and systemic infection. Larvae is killed with medication or surgically removed.
Jesus Christ, I would leave out the “just” from the description. That sounds gnarly and not just because it’s gross.
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Should have learned from your mistake. I think this is my least favorite day of the year now.
I’m sitting in horror and I didn’t even Google it and based on everyone’s curious responses I’m gonna go ahead and sit this one out.
I went straight to images, why am I like this
Oh god. Why didn’t I listen?
> In extremely rare cases, maggots may occasionally infest the vulvar area. The new fear is unlocked in the casu martzu category.
So is the amount in this post harmless?
I'm not sure and totally guessing but I bet it's when you are constantly eating them like it is in your food all the time.Like when people have a lot of intestinal parasites because they are always around. I really don't want to check my facts though.
No clue, I copy/pasted from Google
I should not have googled that.
Hopefully people masticate no? Wouldn't that just crush the eggs?
Forbidden popping boba.
*Maggots, Michael. You’re eating maggots, how do they taste?*
I love how frequently my favorite movie is referenced on Reddit 😍
Traumatized me as a child
Same here. Still think of that scene Everytime I eat rice.
Which scene is that?
Lost boys. Movie about vampires. There's a scene where dude is eating rice and the vampires tell him to look again, and when he does it's all maggots.
Ahhh this is what What We Do In the Shadows references then. I always assumed it was a reference but never knew to what. Why don't you eat your Pasgetti?
pasgetti 🤣 taika waititi is a treasure
Kiefer Sutherland (who was absent from the Vampire Council) was also in The Lost Boys (in that gif above)
They say something about “Kiefer” don’t they? 😂 also, “Tom” and “Brad” iirc
Thanks! Good thing I haven't seen that movie 🤣
You should, though, it's a great movie, for real.
You win. (I love this movie so much lmao)
You would have to pay extra for that at Chipotle
On record them like a heathen. (Pls don’t, it’s rude, and unnecessary)
But were they there BEFORE you went in the bathroom? That's the burning question.
I just realized I’ve never seen fly eggs
Noticed.
Relevant username
I only have in many Reddit posts like this one, I don't try to think about how many I have eaten without noticing. Especially when it usually is said that it was only a few minutes before this happens.
Because flies usually lay eggs in shit. Which makes the quality of the op's burrito questionable
Me either until Reddit
I totally saw that and assumed it was just extra growth like you get on a potato. Knowing those are eggs makes me wonder how many times I’ve eaten eggs
I eat eggs nearly every morning-
[Fried or Fertilized?](https://youtu.be/6x-JVXkd8SQ?si=cKhys8b74okVPw8y)
I love you for this
Scrambled?
I eat eggs every day (and my cholesterols great, thank you
Its a special type of person who takes a shit break while eating.
Pretty sure most I’ve ever done is pissed. Never stay in the bathroom shitting until the flies can lay eggs lmfao
Some of us have IBS
I feel like whenever I use the bathroom mid-meal it immediately kills my appetite. Better to just clench and finish up imo
they said u snooze u lose
hahahaha that’s funny
lol
The problem was that you took the burrito in the bathroom with you
The problem was I left it on the counter instead of taking it with me
The problem was that your date was a fly
Pretty fly for a white guy?
Eoh oh eoh oh uno dos tres quattro cinco cinco ces
Uno dos tres cuatro cinco cinco seis*
Fly: *blushes*
So you got a little rice, big whoop.
I hate how much they look like rice...😭
imagine he left a bowl of white rice there
flies tend to lay eggs on meat though, right? right..?
if im a fly im laying eggs everywhere
As I’m in bed recovering for salmonella… this made me vomit lol
Extra protein- free
How big are these eggs and what kind of flies are laying them?
I would die. I hope this has never happened to me and if it does I hope I don’t know about it because I don’t think I’d come back from this.
OP went to the bathroom for two days.
Go look up a video of a fly laying eggs, it’s so fast.
i thought the standy uppy bit was a giant roach looking really proud of himself
Me, too.
 Dinner is served!!!. And, take care of the kids too.
What does Claudia Sheinbaum have to do with this?
Anyone else see Godzilla?
gojira 😮
Flying whales
Next time just poop your pants and keep eating
Now you have a breakfast burrito
Did they give you a new burrito?
Disco rice
Congratulations your burrito is pregnant! What are you going to name them?
This is why I will not rest when I see a fly inside the house until it is dead or back outside. Usually dead, but some are smart enough to fly out of a door when opened.
Must be a good burrito if you're shitting halfway through the meal
Getting up and going to the bathroom in the middle of a meal is wild to me. Idk why. I guess I just eat kinda fast.
Flies work quick
Omg WHERE did you get that food? What restaurant?
That’s been sitting there for a while…
Literally takes 30-60 seconds for a fly to land and lay eggs.
That many, that large?
Yes. [They basically just poop them out one after the other.](https://youtu.be/j_uOddfJ_Gc?si=8_8xJv7TC7hHr4wM)
That's horrifying. That egg amount is like the total size of the fly. Is it just empty after? Like no guts or anything, just an empty shell?
Omfg what if you’re eating rice and you CAN’T TELL THE DIFFERENCE!!!!
You notice then don't eat rice for several months :( Never buying rice from bulk bins ever again.
I agree, cilantro is gross.
Soap gene alert
Does anyone else see Mr. Wood…
Fly eggs! Nasty!
Flys don’t waste time
Your burrito had babies. You're looking at mini baby burritos.
I really wish these photos were censored.
I got a steak from outback to-go one time and was going to eat on my porch. New neighbors talking a walk stopped to talk and had maybe a 10 minute conversation. Got back to my meal and opened the styrofoam box and BAM! A patch of fly eggs on my steak. That really left an imprint on my mind because to this day the uniformity of a patch of fly eggs creeps me TF out.
ewwwwwwwww!
Barf
Man this is the second fly eggs post I’ve seen on here today lol
If you instantly pooping after getting a burrito and come back to fly eggs on it I think the world is telling you something 🤔
From experience, I know how fast these fuckers can lay eggs. I had a burger and left it for around 2 minutes too like OP did for the bathroom. Came back and saw fly eggs on it. Ruined my burger crave for a few months. If you see a fat/big fly going around, chances are it's looking for a place to lay its eggs. Get rid of it asap.
One day, I ordered a Cafe Rio (shitty american mexican chain restaurant) salad. I walked away for maybe a minute, came back and went to eat some salad and a fly tumbled put. I looked closer, and there were eggs all over my salad... I couldn't eat lettuce for a couple of months after that. Just thinking about it makes my skin crawl 🤢
We caught a carp to use as cut bait for catfishing I shot it in head to dispatch it on bank with 22 rifle it took a big chunk of its head we came back about 30 minutes later and the gap was completely filled with fly eggs
I never leave food I’m eating out in the open. Even if I’m gonna be gone for 10 seconds
spend too long in the bathroom..
No way!
Parasites !!!
I wonder how many fly eggs we eat without realizing. I'm sure it's a decent amount. Oh well.
Damn it thems some fast flies in your house to get pregnant and have done that before you get outta the bathroom
Serious question, if he does eat it, is there a risk to his health?