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Old 09-02-2012, 01:18
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Was watching my recording of Richard Hammond's Invisible Worlds series from a while back. Microscopic creepy crawlies everywhere of course but was shocked by the vinegar eels. Less than a millimetre long but when you see them magnified and wriggling about in the vinegar, you don't feel in such a rush to pour it on your chips!!

Also cheese makers add extra cheese mite things on to cheese to help give it more flavour. The powdery surface you see on cheese that develops very quickly even though the cheese is still fresh is the bugs' waste product. Yuck!!

And to top it all, fungal spores are drifting through the air in our homes and food stores waiting for scrumptious food to land on and start devouring.

At least you can't see them unlike the maggots in your apples and the weevils in the old sailor biscuits.

Oh the joy of food!!
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Old 09-02-2012, 01:45
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As long as the supermarkets dont start charging extra for them
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Old 09-02-2012, 05:12
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If you keep to normal type cheese and Sarsons vinegar then you will avoid both.

Anyway they do no harm (as far as we know)
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Old 09-02-2012, 08:32
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Not veggie afterall!
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Old 09-02-2012, 09:33
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Over the years I have had things in my food which have turned my stomach at the time but after a week or 2 I am back to eating them again.
Worms in fish, bugs in cereal, a hair all the way through a breakfast biscuit. I once bought a bag of dry dog food & when i opened it it was full of weavils, ntat really did make me jump
I try not to think about what could be in what I eat. I used to work at a food factory & I saw some things going on there that put me off the products they made but I suppose if it happened there it could happen in any food place.
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Old 09-02-2012, 14:54
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I was surprised how bactaria arises from stored, cooked rice!
Sorry I don't know how to post a link but it's on google.
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Old 09-02-2012, 15:35
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I just Googled vinegar eels!

Like Color of Night I try not to think too carefully about what could be in my food when I'm eating it - I can get too fixated.
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Old 09-02-2012, 16:12
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They add extra flavour. Yummy!
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Old 09-02-2012, 18:35
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I watched an episode of QI a couple of weeks back where they were talking about bugs in food. Apparently there is an acceptable limit.
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Old 09-02-2012, 18:58
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One of the worst culprits is the sushi raw fish dishes which can be infested with live writhing worms which are visible in a microscope and sometimes to the naked eye too.

Being a vegetarian, I don't go near the stuff anyway and you can see some horror pics here:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=wor...w=1024&bih=538 Eeewww!!
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