/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.16085200]

One of these things crawled out of a broccoli head I bought wrapped in plastic from the store. Should I throw away the broccoli? What if I eat it and the thing has laid eggs that hatch in my stomach?

[Anonymous No.16085206]

>You will eat the brocolli bugs

[Anonymous No.16085214]

>>16085200
Where do you think they grow plants and what do you think lives there anon.

[Anonymous No.16085218]

>>16085200
Is broccoli just a motel for creepy crawlies? More often than not, I see tiny worms and other bugs when I slice open broccoli crowns

[Anonymous No.16085221]

>>16085200
>muh veggies :)
You already eat like a bug, might as well eat the bug with it.

[Anonymous No.16085230]

>>16085221
>You already eat like a bug, might as well eat the bug with it.

[Anonymous No.16085232]

>>16085214
Somewhere like this?

[Anonymous No.16085234]

>>16085200
Their eggs can't survive in your tummy.
It probably did lay some in your ears while you were asleep, though.

[Anonymous No.16085235]

>>16085230
Cope harder.

[Anonymous No.16085238]

>>16085235
Get wider

[Anonymous No.16085247]

>>16085200
The sooner you realize and accept that there are bugs in almost everything we eat the better.

[Anonymous No.16085257]

>>16085200
Are you going to cook the broccoli? If you do that the eggs shouldn’t hatch because they will be burned up.

[Anonymous No.16085265]

>>16085234
This. They are called earwigs for a reason. If one got in your house you can bet there are more. They crawl in your ears at night and lay their eggs there.

[Anonymous No.16085268]

>>16085257
Yes boil them

[Anonymous No.16085287]

>>16085265
time to add another thing to the fear list

[Anonymous No.16085294]

>>16085287
>>16085265
That’s a myth

[Anonymous No.16085328]

>>16085294
no, it's true. my friend once had one in his ear

[Anonymous No.16085342]

>>16085328
>4channel
>friends
liar

[Anonymous No.16085424]

It's an earwig incase anyone was wondering

[Anonymous No.16085458]

>>16085200
In the UK these are called earwigs.
Careful they don't climb inside your ear hole.

[Anonymous No.16085469]

>>16085200
That's an earwig

[Anonymous No.16085487]

>>16085424
>>16085458
>>16085469
Common misconception. Earwigs evolved to survive and fertilize eggs exclusively inside the human ear. What OP found is its close cousin the broccoliwig

[Anonymous No.16085491]

around these parts we call them pincher bugs

[Anonymous No.16085554]

>Americans eat, on average, “two pounds of flies, maggots and other bugs each year," according to a Scientific American blog.

If you are eating a lot of veg, trust me you are eating all kinds of insect parts, there is just no way to completely eliminate them from every hidey hole. Just wash it, cook it, and eat it, and realize the average person eats tons of bugs. They are in everything, processed food included.

Kale is my favorite, If you thoroughly inspect the leaves undersides very commonly you can find slugs, snails, aphids, earwigs, beetles, spiders, and their assorted eggs, larvae and nymphs.

If that disgusts you just don't look too hard and realize you've been eating them all along. If you cook the plant, there is no risk. If you are eating stuff raw, maybe you want to wash a little more carefully. But in general you should adopt a realistic and mature attitude about it

[Anonymous No.16085581]

>>16085554
This unironically
>>16085487
But also this

[Anonymous No.16085586]

>>16085200
Satan gave me a taco
And it made me really sick
The chicken was all raw
And the grease was mighty thick
The rice was all rancid
And the beans were so hard
I was getting kinda dizzy
Eatin' all the lard
There was aphids on the lettuce
And I ate every one
And after I was done
The salsa melted off my tongue
Pieces of tortilla
Got stuck in my throat
And the stains on my clothes
Burned a hole through my coat
My stomach was a'tremblin'
And I broke out in a rash
I was so dry and thirsty
And I didn't have no cash
So I went and found a hose
Tore off all my clothes
Turned on the water
And it shot right up my nose
Some old lady came along
And she thought I was a freak
So she beat me with her handbag
'til I could hardly speak
I was lying there naked
My body badly bruised
In a pool of my own blood
Unconscious and confused

[Anonymous No.16085589]

>>16085554
i know your claim of 2lb of bugs/year is sourceless but i can believe that. i often wonder how many flies or tiny insects ive accidentally rolled into a doob

[Anonymous No.16085591]

>>16085200
It's a good source of protein.

[Anonymous No.16085593]

>>16085554
>Kale is my favorite, If you thoroughly inspect the leaves undersides very commonly you can find slugs, snails, aphids, earwigs, beetles, spiders, and their assorted eggs, larvae and nymphs.

[Anonymous No.16085660]

>>16085589
Why do you think its sourceless? Its not sourcesless. You just can't see the source.

Look, you innumerate cuck. There are 453 grams in a pound, so 2 pounds is 906g. There are 365 days in a year, so they are implying you are eating about 3g bugs/day. How much does an earwig weigh?

>Weight: .8 gram

OP eats 1 broccoli head. Which is about 600g, after cooking, about 60g. There are only 200 calories max in that, so OP needs an additional 2400-200= 2200 calories.

So OP eats a chocolate bar (240 cal)

>the average chocolate bar contains eight insect parts. Anything less than 60 insect pieces per 100 grams of chocolate (two chocolate bars' worth) is deemed safe for consumption by the Food and Drug Administration.

OP makes cornbread

>For every ¼ cup of cornmeal, the FDA allows an average of one or more whole insects, two or more rodent hairs and 50 or more insect fragments, or one or more fragments of rodent dung.

OP eats some pasta

>Tomato paste or pizza sauce: 30 or more fly eggs per 100 grams, 15 or more fly eggs and 1 or more maggots per 100 grams, 2 or more maggots per 100 grams (in a minimum of 12 subsamples)

Are you getting the picture? I am using the internet to find this stuff, amazing isn't it. Science is awesome

tl;dr YOU EAT BUGS EVERY DAY, stop thinking science is just a bunch of made-up shit

>>16085593
This is probably where vegans get the B-12... carnies BTFO'd once again... "But where do you get muh B-12... "

[Anonymous No.16085700]

>>16085554
it sucks because cavolo nero is my favourite vegetable but it has so many folds i need to check every leaf intently to satisfy my caveman brain disgust of insect eggs

[Anonymous No.16085751]

>>16085221
Completely fucking retarded

[Anonymous No.16085767]

>>16085660
If you properly maintain your garden no insects will come

[Anonymous No.16087487]

The really fucked up thing is...

Although you do eat 3 grams of bugs a day on average

You are also eating avg. 5 grams of plastic/day

Thats really fucked up

[Anonymous No.16087509]

>>16087487
It's called Kraft cheese anon

[Anonymous No.16087543]

>>16085232
no thank you, I only eat cagefree plants

[Anonymous No.16087658]

Did you know that the average gullible retard who posts here eats 2.6 grams of my dried up semen in all their food every day? Source: the internet


What the fuck is this thread, chain mail circa 1996? We've been on the internet long enough to know every butterfinger having ten spiders in it it horse shit, guys.