**WARNING** eeewww factor = 10

That is pretty yuk but I have to admit I think I'd rather eat the maggots than the mushroom. ?

Glad you spotted them before you'd eaten any!

Mushrooms ?

maggots in mushrooms ????

If I found that, I'd never be able to eat it again.

WSS.

I have made my mushroom pate with fresh mushrooms. I am changing brands for porcini.

Oh dear, this has made my stomach literally turn!

When I was 15 i worked as a potwash in a pub/restaurant. On my first day there I went to get a scourer down from on top of the washer and there was "rice" in the container. Then I noticed the rice moving and the scourer container was riddled with maggots. ? It looked like someone had left remnants of raw bacon on the scourer and put it back in the container in the hot kitchen in the middle of summer. I screamed and chucked it on the floor and then got more or less threatened by the manager not to breathe a word to anyone!

Another time, when I was about 8, I found a woodlice in the pasta bolognese that my mum had cooked me! ?

I was going to use some flour the other day but thought since I'd not used any in a while I should check for flour bugs. It was riddled. ? H was shocked and had never heard of getting bugs in flour.

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*rushes home to check all bags of flour*

Ewwww minging!!

A what? Bug in flour? How??? ?

I once found half a worm in a box of rice crispies. I don't want to think about where the other half of the worm may have gone.

This is why I now go through all ingredients to a level bordering on OCD before cooking with anything!

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I once found weevils in a box of cereal - it was a really old box of cornflakes and I didn't realise until I had added milk, sat at the dining table and picked up a spoon - there were bugs swimming in my bowl.

How do they get in there?!!

Are they called Weevils? I didn't know that.

Yeah I could see the little blighters crawling round. They are really tiny though so if your eyesight is not the best you might need a magnifying glass. I'd never heard of them till i was about 20, I was going to bake something and my mum said to check the flour for bugs first and there they were! yak.

Eugh I bet I've had them before and never noticed them. I only really use flour for cheese sauce and I just chuck it in.

OMG that's just gross! How do they get there?

They are still really tiny though aren't they? I don't want people thinking I've got roaches clambering through my cupboards.

@ that picture - this was my actual face for real - ? ? then ?

Yuk! So glad you spotted them! Last night whilst preparing dinner, I found this little fella:

It's like a snake!!!

This thread is great for my diet, I have suddenly lost my appetite.

OMG! I really cant cope with bugs like that...

Had Weevils loads of times - best not to keep flour near the oven cupboard - just throw it out if discoverd and yes they are tiny. Best to keep inside the plastic containers

I would guess that they are egg stage when you get them but hatch out over time in warm conditions etc but are normally cooked in egg stage when you get it

Flow.. You dont keep flour standing long enough to get any in the first place!

The mushrooms themselves would make me vom but the addition of maggots is so vile. Urgh,so lucky you spotted them in time. Am off to check the flour when I get home.

Me too! I need to make some pastry but I shant without thoroughly checking first!

I have been avoiding this thread all day and only just clicked to view as I felt sufficient time had passed from eating lunch. Glad I took the precaution. Blergh! Maggots in mushrooms! ?

Thank goodness you found them! *shudders*

I bought some raspberries from Asda once, gave them a good rinse under the tap and put them on a plate (lack of bowls at work) and then noticed all little bugs crawling all over the plate. The raspberries went in the bin.

Ugh, I HATE weevils! They go through a life cycle so start as eggs then go to the crawling stage and then flying. Mainly as flour gets old and is unsealed. best way to keep them away is to keep the flour in an airtight container. I use those large cereal type tupperwares for mine.

I don't like any creepy crawlies full stop. A few years ago I did a shop at the local supermarket, got home and was unloading the shopping when I felt something on my hand, it was enormous tropical spider?? which had come from my bananas!! I was horrified and legged it around the kitchen screaming! OH managed to catch it into a container, we rang the supermarket and they advised us to take it back to them. We later found out that it got whisked off to the local Zoo/insect centre for examination and got put into their own spider collection.

We got a £5 voucher for all the trauma!

**Makes me shudder even thinking about it now, scarred for life!!***

I remember being shown the flour bugs when at school and have never forgotten it so always check my flour for movement.

I remember the days when we used to go Blackberry picking and when we washed them the little wriggly things would crawl out ?

We go through a lot of flour in college and at home but we are always told to check for weevils. They're easy to spot as tiny little brown dots in the white flour.

The thought of the maggots in mushrooms has just made me go ? though, I use dried mushroom loads.

I was in the supermarket a few years ago buying loads of salad stuff, I was using a basket instead of a trolley. I felt something cold on my neck and reached up to find a huge caterpillar crawling up my neck, obviously straight out of the basket and up my arm. It took all my willpower not to scream the place down!

I'm so glad I saw it haha! It's the biggest caterpillar I've ever seen! Better than getting a load of maggots though!

Well I checked my flour and couldn't see anything, but this thread freaked me out so I bought some fresh flour anyway.