wtf, fruitfly?

[ratcreature]

I was making myself some banana-oatmeal pancakes for breakfast when a tiny fruitfly decided to commit suicide by flinging itself into the hot butter. So I had to fish a tiny fried insect out of my pan. I guess it was lucky it didn't try to land on the then still soft topside of my pancakes.

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[king_touchy]

Extra protein? *heh heh*

[ratcreature]

Being vegetarian I'm opposed to eating insects, and tiny as it was it wouldn't have made much difference anyway. Occurances like this illustrate though why for premade food there are afaik just thresholds of insects parts they must stay under to pass hygiene rules, rather than zero tolerance of insects bits.

[brownbetty]

Did you use the leftover porridge version, or did you make them from scratch?

I ask, because it sounds delicious. (minus fruitfly)

[ratcreature]

I made them from scratch with some instant porridge oatmeal mix for the better part of the flour, because that way I didn't have to crush the oats finer like with the regular rolled oats.

I used egg, oatmeal, some regular flour, buttermilk, mashed banana and also added some choped walnuts in the batter. The result was quite tasty.

[jimandblair.livejournal.com]

i found a dead spider in my packed lunch the other day. I didn't eat it. *


The the spider or packed lunch.
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[ratcreature]

Did you pack it or was it prepackaged? Stuff like this shows why there are afaik just thresholds of insects parts for premade food that they must stay under to pass hygiene rules, rather than zero tolerance of insects bits.

I still remember blanching a broccoli or green cauliflower once (it was in the cabbage family and green) and I ended up killing a whole bunch of camouflaged green caterpillars by shock boiling. That brought home why my mother taught me to let stuff like this lie in water to have hidden insects float out first before use, but after a while of never coming across any I got lax... At least I hadn't used it directly in a sauce, so I could just fish the dead caterpillars out, but I felt really bad about killing them like lobsters.

[jimandblair.livejournal.com]

I made the lunch. My bento box had been on top of my fridge over the weekend, and figure the spider was a casualty of exploration.

It died of osmotic stress in the pineapple fruit chunks or the bromelain got it.