Fly in the Pot!

If it's one of those fat shiny green flies forget about it. I was chasing one around the place earlier only to turn around and discover it on the lip of my smoothie glass. Couldn't drink the rest. I've had the problem since I was a kid and went to the library with my mom one day: There were homeless people sleeping on the lawn outside and one guys penis was hanging through a hole in his pants with a nice big fly sitting on it. It's freaked me out ever since and I find it *very* difficult to eat anything a fly has sat on. If it's a plate of food and a regular little fly I won't throw it all away, maybe just brush off the targeted morsel.
 
saor said:
If it's one of those fat shiny green flies forget about it. I was chasing one around the place earlier only to turn around and discover it on the lip of my smoothie glass. Couldn't drink the rest. I've had the problem since I was a kid and went to the library with my mom one day: There were homeless people sleeping on the lawn outside and one guys penis was hanging through a hole in his pants with a nice big fly sitting on it. It's freaked me out ever since and I find it *very* difficult to eat anything a fly has sat on. If it's a plate of food and a regular little fly I won't throw it all away, maybe just brush off the targeted morsel.
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I can't even imagine the trauma that would happen to you if a homeless penis landed on your plate.
 
stricken said:
i always want to give people who "dont eat anything a fly has landed on" the opportunity to attend the first few weeks of lectures in a microbiology degree. there is more funk on the tip of your nose than a fly could ever carry. we are bathing in germs. in fact, YOU are made up of more bacterial / parasitic / foreign cells than your own cells - and i'm not even talking about all the DNA edits (additions / deletions / etc) due to the the numerous different viruses you have already been infected with in life.

life is a zoo, a soup, a cesspool of biochemistry. a fly landing on your food is the last of your worries.
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Yes I would still eat. Seeing food go to waste outweighs a wee bit of fly. :twisted:
 
Nope, not a feck.

GF told me the same shst that its just a fly then I puked.
The very thought, even reading through OP made me queasy.
 
They sit on dog poop and fly around then sit on the food. Hell no!!! The way they eat is disgusting.
 
Naa i wont eat it .

Once a fly has been on the food it belongs to the dogs .
 
I once bought a sealed tub of mince and left it in one of those PnP bags sealed, opened it a week later following a "smell" and the thing was covered in maggots, still unsure how they got into sealed bag as the plastic wrapping on the the mince and you could see the maggots inside through the clear plastic and there where no holes I could see.

I'm guessing flies land on the meat when processing , lay eggs and most of us cook or freeze which kills everything?
 
Hemps said:
I once bought a sealed tub of mince and left it in one of those PnP bags sealed, opened it a week later following a "smell" and the thing was covered in maggots, still unsure how they got into sealed bag as the plastic wrapping on the the mince and you could see the maggots inside through the clear plastic and there where no holes I could see.

I'm guessing flies land on the meat when processing , lay eggs and most of us cook or freeze which kills everything?
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:sick:
 
Hemps said:
I once bought a sealed tub of mince and left it in one of those PnP bags sealed, opened it a week later following a "smell" and the thing was covered in maggots, still unsure how they got into sealed bag as the plastic wrapping on the the mince and you could see the maggots inside through the clear plastic and there where no holes I could see.

I'm guessing flies land on the meat when processing , lay eggs and most of us cook or freeze which kills everything?
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wtf. you should have sent them that pic and asked for an explanation. gross.
 
Flick the fly, no real army would wanna face a real threat without some battle simulation, your immune system needs the exercise :wtf:

Anyone remember the (80/90's??) movie where the guy just flicks catpoop out of his cereal bowl and continue eating? :whistle:
 
saor said:
If it's one of those fat shiny green flies forget about it. I was chasing one around the place earlier only to turn around and discover it on the lip of my smoothie glass. Couldn't drink the rest. I've had the problem since I was a kid and went to the library with my mom one day: There were homeless people sleeping on the lawn outside and one guys penis was hanging through a hole in his pants with a nice big fly sitting on it. It's freaked me out ever since and I find it *very* difficult to eat anything a fly has sat on. If it's a plate of food and a regular little fly I won't throw it all away, maybe just brush off the targeted morsel.
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Noted, you do not eat homeless man penis after a fly has sat on it ... :D
 
Mortymoose said:
Point being, if you catch a fly on yer food , do you still eat it......?

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LazyLion said:
I'm the same. It annoys the crap out of my wife, but I won't eat anything on which a fly has landed.
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Well then my advice is never visit Egypt, Nigeria, Ghana, The Kruger Park or any other game reserve. You will starve! :D


Having said that, want to cause a panic in my home? Just release a fly! Between the wife and 2 daughters and grandma you will think World War 3 has broken out! :D
 
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akescpt said:
wtf. you should have sent them that pic and asked for an explanation. gross.
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The thing I cant understand is how the flies would of laid eggs , I checked and the thing was sealed tight, no holes for anything to crawl through, makes you think.
 
Mortymoose said:
Just wondering of anyone else out there has the same hangup!

Last night after a lekker braai, I went past the braai pot in the kitchen to "pick" on a wee piece of meat...

I see that on cleaning, the English HO , had placed the pot on the stove and it was no longer under the fly net......

As I opened the cover, out flew a fekkin fly, whizzing past me, with a swollen belly.....

I slammed the lid down on the pot, muttering a few choice words that the English HO could dump that nosh in Shadow the Ferocious's bowl or let her father munch on it, as I don't do fly food......

She was not impressed, "It's only a fly....!" , she said raising her voice......

"Feck that!" , I replied...... walking away......

I have always had a hangup with flies on food.....

Which is it ironic, considering that very same morning I was awoken with a spider crawling down my throat and in the process almost choking me to death...... I also recovered a second spider crawling through my hair.....according to Scottish tradition, Spider's may not be killed....so I flicked him out the window..... whilst apologizing for eating it's partner......

Point being, if you catch a fly on yer food , do you still eat it......?

:confused:
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LazyLion said:
I'm the same. It annoys the crap out of my wife, but I won't eat anything on which a fly has landed.
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Hemps said:
The thing I cant understand is how the flies would of laid eggs , I checked and the thing was sealed tight, no holes for anything to crawl through, makes you think.
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Easy.
Flies laid eggs on the product before it was cling wrapped. Then placing it in the display fridge /freezer and then in the home fridge/freezer delayed the process before the maggots hatched.

The above is why it should be taken up with the supplier, so that they can verify that their food preparation and packaging processes are in order. .... At least this will save some other poor sod from the experience.

You need to pay more attention next time one of the CSI type programs are on. The type and age and type of maggots present on a corpse are now routinely used to accurately predict time of death.
 
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I won't eat it but I wouldn't make a fuss about it, i'll just eat something else and say i'm not hungry when asked.
 
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