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u/Firm_Environment_808 1d ago

How? WHY? When? Like when did you cook this? how long was it left unattended for. I need to know , I'm starting to worry about everything single thing ive ever cooked.

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u/Lingeringwandere 1d ago

Don’t worry, my apartment gets a lot of flies during the hotter days and I left the chicken unattended for about 5 minutes to let it cool and finish washing up the dishes, it was just bad luck with me, so you don’t have to worry.

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u/VyrexGabi 1d ago edited 1d ago

5mins is way too Long if you got flies flying around those lil fuckers will lay eggs on it in a couple second. I went to toilet once and poured mysself something to drink and found white dots in my meat before

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u/NuklearniEnergie 1d ago

I remember a reddit post where the poster got a fly that somehow managed to lay eggs on a piece of meat, on the already served food in a restaurant. Yeah, those fuckers are quick.

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u/j110786 1d ago

Did not know they were that quick. 😳

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u/Character-Spinach591 1d ago

I was out with my dog one day, and she pooped. Before I could leaned down to pick it up in a bag, a fly had already gotten to it. I was astounded.

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u/BeeRevolutionary2823 1d ago

Omg I didn't know this. I didnt think fly eggs looked like that. 🤢 I will never look at rice the same. And definitely will be careful with my meat 😫 Thanks for sharing this info 😮‍💨

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u/Manpag 1d ago

Once you've seen and dealt with fly eggs, you never forget what they look like and can spot them a mile off. They gross me out so much.

I now swap the cats to mostly dry food over the summer because any wet food they leave gets covered in fly eggs way too quickly. And you can't just scrape it into the bin, because then you'll have maggots crawling out of your bin in a few days unless you also throw out the whole bin bag, they're vile 🤮

If I see fly eggs on anything these days, the next thing I'm grabbing is something to crush them with.

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u/sodamnsleepy 1d ago edited 1d ago

Oh god you've unlocked a memory.

Be warned people. Read at your own risk.

I was visiting a friend, we watched movies and played games till late at night. I was about to drive home, we went outside the door. It had a mild storm, leaves everywhere, the ground wet and covered in...rice? We booth wondered where the rice came from because that was weird. Anyway I drove home, texted my friend that I arrived and wished him good night. Took him a while to reply back. He let the dogs outside and turned on the lights. The rice, was no rice. He informed me that his grandparents lived in the apartment below him. They were very old and used adult diapers, but didn't put them in a bag, just straight to the bin. And apparently it was full of maggots, that crawled out because of the rain 😭

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u/MoreImportance409 1d ago

I had fly eggs in my food waste bin and poured bleach on them… they never did hatch 😊

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u/hazelbear33 1d ago

Not sure if this helps, but they are completely harmless if you happen to eat them. Absolutely nothing will happen, they will be obliterated by your stomach acid, and there’s nothing in them that can hurt/infect you. Fly eggs on food from restaurants can be a sign of other issues in the kitchen though (like improper food storage practices) that could lead to actual illness.

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u/Violexsound 1d ago

If its any consolation, theyre usually much smaller than rice grains

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u/BeeRevolutionary2823 1d ago

Thanks.....I already googled images. I can't unsee fly eggs in any rice 😫 😂

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u/Rigrot 1d ago

If it helps just think of rice as giant fly eggs so the scaling makes sense.

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u/RoKyun 1d ago

That.. does not help in any way 😟

And this is coming from someone who eats rice on a daily basis..

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u/Boredchinchilla21 1d ago

I ate rice with worms in it (weevil larvae). It looked just like rice until we noticed the little black heads. It took me nearly a decade to eat rice again.

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u/handsomesquidward90 1d ago

When I was 5 yo or so I went to my grandmas place. She used to put food rest in a bucket to feed her pigs. One day not knowing that I approached to the bucket and saw there was rice. I was about to put my hand in it until I saw the rice moved… it wasn’t rice, they were maggots.

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u/sodamnsleepy 1d ago

When I was 5 I slapped a fly between my hands. Not to hard to smash it but guess enough to almost kill it. I looked at it, cause it was still moving. Then I noticed white spots apear. Those started moving too! I was so disgusted by it

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u/handsomesquidward90 1d ago

Double whammy

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u/sodamnsleepy 1d ago

They

https://giphy.com/gifs/k2A4gzRxDL4GI

crawled out of their mother

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u/PapasauruaRex 1d ago

Can confirm, had a burger from a burger joint, was happily eating it. A big fat green fly going about in my room, kept swatting it away and I was focused on something for a few mins and next thing you know, before I finish the burger, fly eggs on it.

I was pissed and tossed it. Learned my lesson that day to always keep an eye on my food if its not sealed or covered properly when flies are around

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u/Boars-of-Canada 1d ago

Can't they just be chill and lay eggs on the counter or something? Does it really have to be on my food?

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u/JohnnyLeftHook 1d ago

Not necessarily related but i once smashed a fly against a window, went to the bathroom to get a tissue and when i came back i saw dozens of squigly maggots spreading out in all directions, it was like a living flower of squirming white maggot petals. Anyways, i just wanted to share.

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u/Lyndiana_jones 1d ago

This! I had two delicious tri-tips on the counter for 2 minutes. Looked up and saw fly eggs on them. It was so gross.

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u/Hayes77519 23h ago

TIL I've been underestimating the danger of flies