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“You don’t want to know how the sausage is made.” The old adage is true. Trust us. Some facts about food are best left moldering in the dark, humid corner behind your kitchen cabinet. So don’t read on, dear Pandas. Don’t-- oh well. It looks like we’re not going to be able to stop you curious Pandas from checking out the true-but-disgusting food facts that the Bored Panda team has collected. They’re perfect for the spookfest that is October, just not great for your stomach.
Go on, then, scroll on down. Just remember to upvote your fave yucky and icky facts and share any other ones that you know in the comment section below. But please, promise us one thing—make sure you’re not snacking on anything as you’re reading this post!
How many bugs can legally be in your food? What’s the name of the cheese that you should steer clear of if you’re not a fan of chomping on live insects? Why is my appetite suddenly gone? The answers to these and other questions are below.
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#1
Worked at Subway 2010-12. Only thing I have to say is that tuna and seafood packaged used to have a label on it that said that it didn't contain dolphin or turtles in the meat, then that label suddenly disappeared in 2012.
Little Flame 5 years ago
They changed the label up. Probably no one was buying the fish because the label needed to be changed. It was for marketing
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Elsker 5 years ago
the packet shows ingredients right? So if there is tuna and oil or something, then that's what's in there. they wouldn't have to name everything that's not in there?
Sally Appleton 5 years ago
Dolphin meat counts as tuna for all intents and purposes
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Monday 5 years ago
or just eat the dolphin. It's already been killed, no sense making the meat go to waste.
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Václav Mašat 5 years ago
In 2012 they fired the last employee who could not tell dolphin from tuna. Like cmon, do you really expect they put everything in grinder and call it tuna? :D
Ying-Hsi Chen 5 years ago
Who knows how much turtles and dolphins I have eaten for the past few years?
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#2
I used to work in a baseball park concession stand. The short answer is not to order anything, but if you absolutely have to buy something, don't buy the hotdogs.
Do not. Buy. The hot dogs.
They made it out of the package okay, and might even have been edible after we finished grilling them - and then they went into the water. We kept three pans of water at the back of the grill, that held the hot dogs. Any hot dogs left at the end of the day went back into the fridge, and came out again the next day. Me and the other cook put our feet down on throwing out the water and old hot dogs after two full days, but the management didn't want to let us.
Oh, and our freezer broke so all the meat got stored in the ice bin. And our management always told us when the surprise health inspections were gonna show up, usually a week or so in advance.
Monday 5 years ago
I mean...I'm guessing there are more than enough preservatives stuffed into those hot dogs that the long storage/standing time won't make them any less edible than they were.
fuggnuggins 5 years ago
You'd probably have guessed wrong about enough situations to have warranted food safety standards being implemented at a federal level modern countries. Those standards are there for a reason, and this violates a number of them. Roll the dice with your own body all you want, but that happening in a public food outlet is simply unacceptable. And there's no need for it. Particularly the water. How lazy do people have to be that washing and filling a pot is too much effort?
Load More Replies... Martha Meyer 5 years ago
What the hell? Quite aside from the health concerns, who grills a sausage and then puts it in water?! That will drain all the taste and make them soggy.
Mal 5 years ago
But it's not a sausage- it's an american hot dog. They are indestructible.
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Naomi Cline 5 years ago
I worked concessions at a sport’s arena and it was absolute nothing like this! Everything was tossed or employees ate it. Probably more to due with the management of each establishment then the type of establishment itself.
Katchen 5 years ago
Not knowing where the OP worked, this could be a function of different levels of regulation and food safety standards as well. To be fair, they referenced corruption regarding “surprise” health inspections not being a surprise which goes to show that regulation is only as good as its enforcement.
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Rose the Cook 5 years ago
When shops only opened Monday to Friday you never bought meat pies or fish and chips on Mondays because the pies and fish were Friday's unsold produce.
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 5 years ago
I thought that the American hot dog could survive a nuclear Holocaust because there is nothing natural in them.
Katchen 5 years ago
One can purchase uncured American hot dogs which do not contain nitrites. They *do* go bad. *Shudder.*
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Josephine Wang 5 years ago
I worked in a health food store once, they use all the leftover eggs for devil eggs, they put all the leftover cooked grains under the running water then put on new seasoning again, and many many more tricks... I wouldn't eat them, so are you!
#3
Salami isnt cooked. It is technically a raw product. In its production good bacteria is added that decreased* the ph to a point that harmful bacteria such as e. coli and listeria can't survive, which then make it safe to eat. Not to mention the cool fungus that grows on the casing to protect it from dying out too much. Very neat. (Meat Science major, we make Salami and other meat products on campus in a dinky meat lab)
Gerry Higgins 5 years ago
Salami is cured. It's a kind of "cooking". The meat is no longer in a raw state. Just as ceviche the fish is not raw but it's not hot-cooked either.
"It is economically impractical to grow, harvest, or process raw products that are totally free of non-hazardous, naturally occurring, unavoidable defects," explains the United States Food and Drug Administration (aka the FDA).
Translated from corporate-speak, this means that it’s not possible for food products to be completely free from bits of bugs, mold, animal hair, and other parts of the Great Outdoors. Sure, it might sound yucky, but we don’t even notice these ‘food defects’ the vast majority of the time and we’ve been swallowing them our entire lives.
However, nobody wants to be chomping down on chocolate bars that are entirely made up of insects. So the FDA has guidelines to keep icky bits of Mother Nature out of your snacks. For instance, CNN reports that the FDA allows an average of 10 milligrams of animal poop per pound of coffee. What’s more, 4 to 6% of the coffee beans are allowed to be moldy or infested by insects.
#4
There is always cow feces in all milk. Cows' assholes are right above the udder. Udders are cleaned before attaching the milking machines, but sh** happens all day long while cows are getting milked. Once you see a milking operation, you'll be REALLY glad to know that they literally pasteurize the shit out of that milk.
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
This depends on the farm/farmer. QWe were small and ethical, we washed up good, and *never* did a cow pee/poo into the milking machine. It's immpossible. Wash the udder, attach the mlker, and any feces/urine just hit the outside of hte machine. Its' why we hosed off the machine before removal from the udder, too. Then rubbed on udder balm, and the cows went out to graze till evening milking. I can't speak to BIG operations, but we were very focused on cleanliness.
Aileen Grist 5 years ago
Milk still isn't good for you - it has everything a calf needs to grow into a cow/bull - not for a human being. Humans are the only species that weans infants from mother's breast milk and onto breast milk from another species.
Load More Replies... Olivia Agave 5 years ago
Um...no, no they don't. Te udders are thoroughly cleaned before attachment of the milking machine, which is sealed. There is absolutely no way that faeces can get in, and if some did then it would write off the entire batch. People really need to be properly taught about farming because the sheer amount of bull about it online is astounding.
Aileen Grist 5 years ago
Like thinking that cows produce breast milk for their calves - but we get told it's good for humans - how much growth hormine is in it compared to human breast milk?
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Cigdem Kanburoğlu 5 years ago
It does not happen for cow's milk. But there is a possibility for sheep's milk. And sheep milk is expensive and hard to find.
Douglas Campbell 5 years ago
Spent a lot of time on dairy farms as a kid. This was never a problem.
Maria R 5 years ago
I've seen cows getting milked by hand and by machine and I have milked cows myself, I've been drinking fresh milk and used fresh cream and had no problem with that and still wouldn't have. We actually have a very high standard in Sweden in animal well fair and let our cows pasture and only treat them with antibiotics if needed.
#5
One of the most expensive forms of coffee is Kopi Luwak which is coffee beans that have been eaten by a Asian Palm Civet and pooped out and can run up to $700 a kilo.
Bardhi's Dad 5 years ago
I know this from the movie "The Bucket List", starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman
DE Ray 5 years ago
The horrible part about it is wild civets randomly eating coffee beans as part of a healthy diet isn't how it's mainly produced. Civets are kept in captivity and fed almost nothing but coffee beans - which they don't digest well, hence passing nearly whole out the a**e.
Tuyết Hắc 5 years ago (edited)
Vietnamese here, and we're the world's 2nd largest coffee field, they did feed the Kopi other thing, actually, their nutrition schedule even more expensive than human, and that why it so expensive. So you can stop worry about peta things because they won't be fool enough to mistreat their golden egg goose.
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Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago (edited)
See, why would someone look at those and think, I gotta make myself a cuppa.
My O My 5 years ago
Wouldn't someone see this, knows he wont make himself a cuppa but wonder how much people would pay to do just that?
Load More Replies... Todd Hunter 5 years ago
The beans are force fed to the animals, in cages. If the Civet's refuse to eat them they are stared and force fed the beans. Cruelty at it's finest.
Raine Soo 5 years ago
It should be cited as cruelty at its worst. The poor civet cats. Who needs to drink a cup of bleeding expensive coffee that badly? This food should be avoided like foie gras.
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Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 5 years ago
I wonder if it is a status symbol. Supposedly it is quit tasty, but I don't think I'll be trying it anytime soon.
Load More Replies... StrawberryParfait 5 years ago
Why is this even legal? The processing of it is nothing but animal cruelty. If someone has to drink animal s**t coffee to show how elite they are, their money would be much better spent on psychologist to get to the root of their crippling insecurity..
Sent From The Slytherin House 5 years ago
I just looked up what a civet was, and i don't really want that thing's poop in my coffee
Barry Parker 5 years ago
The real question is: Who was the first to dig out some civet s#!t and brew it up for coffee???
#6
You should not feed honey to children under one years old because it contains spores of a bacterium that will produce the possibly deadliest poison known to mankind
Wouter Berg 5 years ago
Botulism. It's called botulism. So don't give your young children honey. Also - no alcohol.
BeazleBug 5 years ago
This is also an over exaggeration. It also leaves out the antibacterial properties of honey...and the real reason it should not be given to small children has nothing to do with this...it has to do with underdeveloped immune systems and the high pollen content in honey raw or pasteurized, that can result in life threatening allergic reactions.
Gerry Higgins 5 years ago
Don't most people know not to give babies honey? I thought it was common knowledge.
Meanwhile, peanut butter and jelly sandwich lovers should look away from this paragraph. FDA standards permit an average of one or more rodent hairs and around 30 insect fragments for every 100 grams of peanut butter. Jelly and jam aren’t controlled, unfortunately. So something like apple butter can contain an average of 4+ rodent hairs for every 100 grams and around 5 whole insects. That’s in addition to the aphids and mites.
Finally, let’s ruin raisins for you, dear Readers. Do you know those iconic kid-sized boxes? They’ve got around 4 fruit fly eggs and a whole insect in each box. We hope that we haven’t ruined your appetite forever, dear Pandas!
#7
Casu marzu. There exists a cheese that contains live maggot larvae on purpose.
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
I always wonder what goes through peoples minds before they eat something like this. Do they just think, ooh I wonder if maggot cheese tastes good, or I wonder if I can make coffee from an animals excrements etc.
thepinkrobot 5 years ago
Like a lot of trendy and expensive foods, it probably started with peasants starving to death and making do with what they had.
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Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 5 years ago
I was going to say something about how foul this looked and then was reminded that the national dish of my country is sheep's entrails and guts mixed with spices, oatmeal, and suet all boiled inside the animal's stomach...mmmm.
Theodore Theodora 5 years ago
Hang on, what now?! ...ETA: Looked it up. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_marzu
#8
The roe and milt of certain fish is a common delicacy across the world, including sturgeon roe, otherwise known as caviar.
While roe is widely known to be fish eggs, it's not so well known that milt is fish sperm.
Myriam Ickx 5 years ago
I kinew it. As a child, I often had opportunities to taste it, and I enjoyed it a lot. BTW, on a trip in the Turkish Taurus Mountains, I tasted freshly harvested young billygoats' testicles, which we were advised to barbecue. Not much taste- you had to add olive oil and lemon juice. Preparing it for the guys in the group was FUN, though!
Myriam Ickx 5 years ago
I knew that. I've already eaten some. It tastes good. BTW, I've also eaten freshly harvested young billygoats' testicles - barbecued. Not very tasty, you need to add some olive oil and lemon juice, but preparing it for the guys was fun!
Sent From The Slytherin House 5 years ago
Okay so I looked up milt. Idk why, because it says right here, but I did. And one of the photos was a picture of a guy peeing in a cup (it didn't show anything, thank God)
#9
Grocery stores will sometimes mix in food colouring in with near expiration date meat to make it look fresh
BeazleBug 5 years ago
This is incorrect. most consumer level meats have dyes added to make them look more appealing. Remember that beef you are buying has been dead for over a month. It is only red within the first few days...after that, lots of Red Lake dye.
F. H. 5 years ago
Or they pump extra oxygen into the package. That actually makes it go bad faster, but it gives the meat a nice red colour.
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birdy gobyebye 5 years ago (edited)
I was a manager at a Butcher Shop / Deli for a couple of months and when any of the meat or poultry Items were going bad they became either "marinated for BBQ-ing" or the chicken was cooked and made into chicken salad.
Ziva Kravdahl 5 years ago
True. Most shops with marinated or grilled stuff doing this. But only when is near to be bad (so none will buy it), never when rotten. Once grilled going to bin.
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
Carbon monoxide in packaging to keep a "pink flush" when it's quite gray in reality...
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
Uh... this is a real thing. Carbon monoxide in the packaging will preserve a "pink flush" so that the meat won't look as old and nasty as it is. The rest of the gas is nitrogen and CO2.
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Marika Miettinen 5 years ago
Ye this definitely doesn't happen in Finland. Food laws are super strict.
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#10
Usually because no restaurant ever has cleaned out the ice machine. It also depends on what they use to scoop the ice out of the machines. If you got people with dirty hands with a scoop scooping out ice you can imagine all the nasty particles that rub off on the ice etc. Do that 4-5 times a day and you see the potential for nasty to accumulate.
andate him 5 years ago
As well as having tons of mosquito larvae if the door is left open too long Source: personal experience
Marie Fleuris 5 years ago
Also, if you ever visit a bar that uses glassware to scoop ice, walk away, no questions asked. You have no idea how easy it is for a glass chip to mix in with the ice that way and you would never, ever see it.
Emily Wooten 3 years ago
Well those need to be cleaned to, which they are often not. Still gross.
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Valerie G. 5 years ago
When hubby brings home fast food, he knows not to get ice in the soft drink. I make my own ice cubes and pop them in when they come through the door. That and you get more soft drink since the cup isn't half ice.
Vytas Navickas 5 years ago
a local schoolgirl from Tampa did a project about this very subject. She went around to a bunch of restaurants and at the same locations also took samples from the toilets at those locations. What she found that ALL the ice machines checked had higher levels of dangerous germs and feces than the toilets. Made national news.
fuggnuggins 5 years ago
When you're scooping the freshly made ice out constantly you can see the potential for little accumulation of anything. The greater problem would be ice machines that don't keep the ice frozen.
#11
They use shellac to make some different foods and candies more shiny. Shellac is an excretion from the lac beetle.
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
You can eat shellac. I wouldn't recommend it as a cocktail, but it's safe.
von Funnyname 5 years ago
I mean, if we wanna get technical, some artificial vanilla flavors are from dung beetles too. Shellac that vanilla drop up and gimme some poop candy!
#12
Canned pineapple can pack in up to 20% moldy fruit.
F. H. 5 years ago
Still, it's more sustainable to buy pineappe canned than whole fruits. If you chop the top of a pineapple off and put it on the ground, it will grow again. That takes much less fertilizer and water than growing it from seeds. That's what is done if the fruit goes directly to canning.
fuggnuggins 5 years ago
They also tend to use forced slavery in some places that provide the most canned pineapple to the global market e.g. Thailand.
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#13
In the United States companies can legally sell curry powder that contains less than 100 insect fragments per 25 grams
Hops with less than 2500 aphids per 10 grams and coffee as long as less than 10% of beans are moldy.
Even with modern technology, all defects in goods cannot be eliminated. As a result, the Food and Drug Administration has set allowable defect or "tolerance levels."
F. H. 5 years ago
What's special about that? When you grow the stuff yourself, you probably have more insects in them.
Ziva Kravdahl 5 years ago
Omg I love how people on this site are so reasonable.
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Eric Mac Fadden 5 years ago
Animals eat bugs all the time. WE have eating bugs since we're "not animals anymore". So what's the problem?
BeazleBug 5 years ago
This is yet another demonstration of people talking about concepts they do not comprehend. A standard does not indicate a reality. I'm surprised that there isn't a post on here about how 90 percent of dried, processed herbs and spices are irradiated. (Which is excellent for safety and preservation and in no way dangerous to humans.)
Hugh Crawford 5 years ago
Sadly, the amount of good food that is discared due to "defects" is shocking
fuggnuggins 5 years ago
What's with the obsession with insects? Have we not established yet that the simple fact of eating insects is not a health concern, but rather a throwback to things such as fear of flies spreading germs? Which probably applies to some practical situations but has grown into a superstition.
#14
Some raspberry flavorings come from beaver anal glands.
zims 5 years ago
Who...figured that out. Who in history smelled and tasted beaver a**s and said "tastes like raspberries."
A.E. Marlowe 5 years ago
Listen... what I do in my spare time is my business....
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Marcia Cash 5 years ago
artificial banana flavor is acetylene, cherry is cyanide, who knows what strawberry flavor really is?
Douglas Campbell 5 years ago
That explains why artificial banana tastes like nail polish remover.
Load More Replies... Douglas Campbell 5 years ago
FALSE. According to The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets, castoreum was first used as a food additive in the early 20th century, but is now rarely, if ever, used in the mass-produced flavor industry.
k1ddkanuck 5 years ago
This is also true for the Musk Deer in India. Which, fun fact, has saberteeth.
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Olivia Agave 5 years ago
Castoreum (beaver butt gland juice) can be used in this manner but artificial stuff is quicker and cheaper to mass produce. Any product containing castoreum is going to be really expensive due to how little is produced every year.
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Christophe Beunens 5 years ago
actually, this beaver-oil is so expensive that you will not find it in any cheap product. But you do spray it on you with many perfumes.
#15
Shrimps diet consists mainly of poop. If you've ever eaten shrimp, you've eaten poop from potentially thousands of different animals including humans.
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
We eat poop all the bloody time without knowing, whether it is from fruits, veg, peanut butter etc. You cannot escape it, so you just have to get used to the idea.
MiniMaus 5 years ago
Always take out the thin black 'string' that is in all shrimp. It's where the poop is
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Amber Duhs 5 years ago
this isn't necessarily true. they clean the shrimp out this doesn't happen, but ig there's no guarantee
BeazleBug 5 years ago
This is so wrong it is not even funny. This is a complete fiction. Shrimp are detritiovores- they eat anything they can get their chelicpods on...yes, feces is on the list, but it dissasociates quickly. Also most consumer shrimp are free swimmers. their diet is primarily plankton.
#16
Every time you eat fresh produce, you're taking the risk that no one who touched it also didn't poop in their hands. So, wash everything and enjoy your salad.
Prepackaged salads are an excellent source of bacteria. The salad gets washed once, then is sold to you.
F. H. 5 years ago
Every country! What do you expect? Vegetables get picked by stressed out minimum wage workes on a tight work schedule. You can expect that they don't was their hands very thourghly when they are workin in the dirt all day anyway. You have to wash the produce yourself, even "organic" stuff has pesticides on it anyway.
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Kathryn Baylis 5 years ago
I’ve gotten heads of lettuce from the produce department in a large store with a grocery department (won’t say the name, but it rhymes with schmalmart) that not only had dirt—-something you expect—-but also several really large dead flies—something you don’t expect—-in them. The wrapped lettuce is cleaner. Put me off of salads not made with the cleaner wrapped lettuce.
*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 5 years ago
Almost every man that you have shaken hands with has touched his dong that day. Probably (I would assume) around half of them hasn't washed their hands after the fact. Congratulations.
Leesa DeAndrea 5 years ago
I stopped eating romaine lettuce because of the repeated incidences of food poisoning. Which is too bad because it is the only lettuce I like.
Daniele Ribolla 5 years ago
stupid bullshits... if a lot of bacteria contaminate the vegetables closed in a plastic bag, it lasts edible not more than two days. lettuce and other vegs are washed multiple times, also with water and chlorine to avoid bacteria contaminations, and food is never touched by hands at all. the biggest issue may be some insects lying in veg plies, very hard to reach, but rarely happens, fortunately. I've worked in a company of prepackaged vegetables at quality check, and trust me: that veg is cleaner than in your house.
#17
The contents in a jar of peanut butter contains on average 2 bugs.
F. H. 5 years ago
Wrong. It may contain up to that amount according to hygiene standards. That doesn't mean it does.
NMN 5 years ago
And the amount is not counted by number of bugs, it's usually weight of insect particles (maybe invertebrate particles, don't remember)
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Drake Hansen 5 years ago
Why are there so many wrong things in peanut butter?! Why peanut butter, the one food I'm addicted to?!
Jaybird3939 5 years ago
I hate to be callous, but face reality. You're gonna have bugs, poo and whatever in your food. When I was growing up, my Grandpa had a huge garden. We'd pull carrots out of the ground, rinse them under the hose and eat 'em. I'm sure we didn't rinse off all the gross stuff!!
Janet Bird 5 years ago
I'll risk it...I luvs it nom nom nom once I get it off the roof of my mouth...
*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 5 years ago
well, yeah. Peanut farmers can't really keep any and all bugs away from their produce.
Ms LaDonna 5 years ago
LOL! so true, just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's not true. milk had pus and s**t in it and teh American Dairy board wants to be able to have more. look it up. I will still eat peanut butter even though I KNOW it has bugs in it.
#18
Uni is just sea urchin gonads.
LuckyL 5 years ago
I'm glad I literally just understood half the sentence - the "is just sea" - part
Aimee Simmons 5 years ago
and it's delicious. Seriously, how can a human being go down on their significant other and be disgusted by the genitalia of their food?
#19
FDA regulations state that ten insects and 35 fruit fly eggs per 8 oz. of raisins is OK. It doesn't stop at raisins, though.
Haunting Spirit 5 years ago
Long live European regulations that makes this nonsense impossible.
thepinkrobot 5 years ago
you gonna pretend that there are literally no insects in Europe that could possibly end up in a food processing plant?
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Barry Parker 5 years ago
Well yeah, fruit flies lay eggs on like everything. That's how they end up in your house when you have fruit: from the eggs on the produce
Johanne Trudeau 5 years ago
So that's how fruit flies appear out of nowhere!! Mystery solved... hunh...
Catherine Spencer-Mills 5 years ago
Actually, there are FDA standards similar to this for all foods.
Daniel (ShadowDrakken) 5 years ago
Every single edible fig contains a wasp. It's not that big a deal folks. There's quite a few cultures that have insects as staple foods.
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
Do they not wash the fruit Wow. Well, I don't eat raisins anyway, thank goodness.
#20
Lemons have the highest fecal content of any food found in most restaurant kitchens.
BeazleBug 5 years ago
This is incorrect. Outright lies. The actual statistic is "fecal coliform" which is a common bacteria that is in and on everything. The high count is the result of low water quality standards for irrigation. The real scandal here is the amount of caranuba wax sprayed on lemons to preserve the shelf life.
NMN 5 years ago
*Carnauba. Also, there's no harm in using it to help prevent oxidation and water loss in several fruit... so... no scandal, sorry.
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
They're worrie about the lemons? I'm worried about the salt and pepper shakers, condiment containers, etc., b/c those are NEVER WIPED OFF OR CLEANED that I know of. *shudder* I'm more likely to get sick from the pepper shaker than the lemon slice.
Daune Jaimes Diaz 5 years ago
I'm work in a restaurant and we sanitize all the condiments after every table turn. We really want our guests to be safe. Besides if you get sick you'll never return!
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Bernice Wittwer 5 years ago
I wondered the exact same thing! I picked them from our tree and made lemonade. Don’t remember dragging them through the manure on the way to the house. 😂
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Becky Samuel 5 years ago
No. It's the fact that the lemons tend to be chopped by hand at the beginning of the day and then put in a bowl all together. Then every member of staff sticks their hand into the bowl to grab a piece every time they serve a drink or plate that needs lemon. Only one of those hands needs to be dirty for the whole batch to be contaminated.
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#21
Frozen broccoli must have an average of no more than 60 aphids or thrips or mites per 100 grams.
Awesome horse lover 5 years ago
Argh for Pete’s sake! Bugs are a good source of protein anyway.
Daniele Ribolla 5 years ago
what wrong with insects? look at yr eyebrows: a lot of insects lying on that! we are full of insects on our body, normally, so what? this isn't a bullshit, take a strong lens and light and you will see
Sent From The Slytherin House 5 years ago
Why does everything either contain pieces of poop or bugs?
Johanne Trudeau 5 years ago
Why would this even be allowed!?!? Is that why there is quality control???
#22
This is the most disgusting defect in the FDA approved list! Yes, 1 kilogram of wheat may contain upto 9 rodent poop pellets. Even your favourite popcorn may contain upto 4 pellets of rodent poop. The presence of a small amount of mammalian excreta is considered to be safe for consumption.
fuggnuggins 5 years ago
Get used to it. Every day, regarding every thing. This is what people do. And when people aren't unaware of it, they are in denial of it. Generally speaking.
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#23
chocolate bars have an average of 8 insect legs in it.
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
And they use these legs to escape. I know for sure because all my chocolate bars always magically disappear.
Cora Dart 5 years ago
Oh, THAT'S why I can never find chocolate when I need it!
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Henry Tuttle 5 years ago
They HAVE or CAN HAVE? I think all these regulations are so that so idiot doesn't sue for a million dollars because they have a hair or something in their food. I'm pretty sure that all chocolate bars don't have 8 insect legs in them but occasionally, when one does have even a few, this protects them from law suits. Not to say they shouldn't avoid ANY, but they are forced to protect themselves with stupid regulations because of our stupid system of civil lawsuits.
Daniele Ribolla 5 years ago
only legs... huh? what about heads? or wings? or balls? any of these? that's another bulls**t.
#24
Oregano can legally contain up to 1,250 insect fragments per 10 grams.
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
And what is the size of those insect fragments? If you're going to microscopic level, every single piece of food is contaminated in one way or another.
Shana 5 years ago
Yeah, it's the same like that strawberry video a while back, saying you should soak your strawberries in salt water because there's bugs and stuff on it, which was smaller than the seeds... Might as well stop eating if that freaks them out that much since there's some kind of bug or bacteria or whatever on everything.
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Okay I really need to stop reading this because I will probably start only eating air and water for the rest of my life, but I want to keep reading too...
fuggnuggins 5 years ago
And yet I can't legally contain one gram of herb. But I do. I'm revolting!
#25
Tomato paste is considered bad only if more than 45 percent contains mold.
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
I am sorry but if it contains just one tid bit of mould, it is going in the bin.
Elsker 5 years ago
but i fear there's a lof of mold spores present before is becomes visible
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eezycheezes101 5 years ago
Blue cheese is basically mold as well. This can't be as bad as that.
Eric Mac Fadden 5 years ago
"Tomato paste is considered CHEESE only if more than 45 percent contains mold."
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
Wrong. If the tomato paste is moldy when you open it, then the packaging went bad. If the tomato paste goes moldy after you open it an duse part of it, that's called "Natural processes at work, store it properly.". Argh.
#26
As much as five percent of your maraschino cherries can legally contain maggots.
eezycheezes101 5 years ago
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I love those!! Why you gotta do this to me, Bored Panda?!
Daniele Ribolla 5 years ago (edited)
at least one real thing! you know that when you eat fresh cherries, almost surely you'll eat proteins, but cherries are so good, and don't worry too much! it's absolutely true.
Uriel Grey 5 years ago
My mom always says don't eat homegrown apples in the daek and that obviously holds to these, blueberries and raspberries
Romenriel 5 years ago
Blueberries and raspberries don't have any insects in them. I would know, I eat plenty.
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JustAWeirdoGirlChild 5 years ago (edited)
i dont like maraschino cherries, neither does my mom
#27
Figs have dead wasps inside them.
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago (edited)
Never encountered a wasp in any fig I have ever eaten.
Valinka 5 years ago
It's because figs (that are not fruits but inverted flowers actually) transforms the wasp body into protein...so you don't see the wasp, but it's more likely there...
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Thorsten M. Weisner 5 years ago
The fig is pollinated by the fig wasp. It can happen that the wasp dies in the female fruit and will be assimilated by the growing fig. The male fig unedible fig can contain the eggs of the fig wasp.
BG 5 years ago
They're an inside-out flower they have a hole in the bottom through which tiny fig wasps crawl to eat the nectar and thereby pollinate them. The fig digests the wasp.
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#28
Berries can harbor up to 4 larvae per 100 grams.
Uriel Grey 5 years ago
Funny thing is bugs are not bad for us. I prefer a bug i can't taste or see to some weird chemical that is found out in thw future to huet us or the environment.
#29
Cinnamon can carry up to 1 milligram of animal excrement per pound.
CATMONSTER2018 5 years ago
Ya... i mean. its not like i eat 1 pound of cinnamon a day
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I Liquored On 5 years ago
I love the mixture of measurement systems. But isnt that about 1/450,000th of a pound? No matter which system you use that is f**k all.
fuggnuggins 5 years ago
Yeah, and like we haven't all blown raspberries on our infant's bums and gotten a mouthful...
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*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 5 years ago
1. milligram. per pound. oh no. I am going to die. nooooooo.
#30
Up to 10 percent of canned asparagus can harbor asparagus beetles or egg sacs.
Kisses4Katie 5 years ago
I've been psyching myself up over eating bugs one day (most likely cricket flour). I tell myself things like shrimp and crab are seabugs, and they are pretty good.
Anne Reid 5 years ago
When I was a Park Ranger, I used to make cricket cookies. They add a nice crunch and taste a bit almond-like. Perfectly fine to eat IF you don’t have shellfish allergies!
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NMN 5 years ago
places you can't grow asparagus and are too distant to ship and still be fresh
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no_name 5 years ago
Eating small amounts of contamination in our food is good for our immune system, it makes us stronger. You just can't, like, eat completely moldy ananas, that doesn't make you any good. You never pluck an apple or peach straight from a tree and eat it without washing? I can't remember how many times I have eaten any kinds of fruit in the woods or in the garden. With livestock it's slightly different, there are higher risks but too much worry only makes you paranoid.
Steffen Beth 5 years ago
This got to one of the dumbest lists I have seen in a long time, most items are just wrong, or whatever amount is so small that it does not matter....
Jolee Koop 5 years ago
This felt like it was only about how much poop is allowed (not guaranteed) in your food. Good annoying after the first 5 talking about it.
SirPatTheCat 5 years ago
Eh extra protein you know. As long as there isn’t like a 3 inch cockroach or an entire dog turd who cares...
Sarah 5 years ago
Also, back in the olden days(I forgot when) a guy got a job at a meat factory and wrote a book about his experiences. Apparently, careless workers can get parts of their body chopped off and blended in with the meat, and mice run around it the tube that they use to make sausages, so you could potentially be eating human and mouse poop. This is why I don't eat hot dogs.
no_name 5 years ago
Eating small amounts of contamination in our food is good for our immune system, it makes us stronger. You just can't, like, eat completely moldy ananas, that doesn't make you any good. You never pluck an apple or peach straight from a tree and eat it without washing? I can't remember how many times I have eaten any kinds of fruit in the woods or in the garden. With livestock it's slightly different, there are higher risks but too much worry only makes you paranoid.
Steffen Beth 5 years ago
This got to one of the dumbest lists I have seen in a long time, most items are just wrong, or whatever amount is so small that it does not matter....
Jolee Koop 5 years ago
This felt like it was only about how much poop is allowed (not guaranteed) in your food. Good annoying after the first 5 talking about it.
SirPatTheCat 5 years ago
Eh extra protein you know. As long as there isn’t like a 3 inch cockroach or an entire dog turd who cares...
Sarah 5 years ago
Also, back in the olden days(I forgot when) a guy got a job at a meat factory and wrote a book about his experiences. Apparently, careless workers can get parts of their body chopped off and blended in with the meat, and mice run around it the tube that they use to make sausages, so you could potentially be eating human and mouse poop. This is why I don't eat hot dogs.
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