vraiblonde said:
I found a maggot once in a pack of Twizzlers. And I found a worm in a can of creamed corn.
Here's the thing: food is gross. One fly gets into the processing plant or the preparation area and bang - you got yourself maggots. Larry freaks out all the time if I don't disinfect the lettuce before I make a salad (even the pre-packaged stuff) because he thinks it's got migrant worker sweat all over it.
Your choices are don't eat or get over it. :shrug:
When I was a kid, travelling cross country with the 'rents and my little bros, we stopped at this out of the way gas station in AZ, and my mom gave me just enough money for Junior mints (mmmm....my favorite). I had been blinding eating them out of the box, feet hanging out of the side door, waiting for my parents to get out of the bathrooms, when I realized they (the mints- not my parents) were all sticking together (they do that sometimes when they get hot)...I couldn't really reach them, so I started to tear open the box (my fingers were too short) to get to them, noticed that it looked like there was dirt in the box and after digging more, found the entire lower half had been consumed by the maggots now crawling to the top of the dirt-maggot-junior-mint-feces that I had dug up...I spit out what was in my mouth and although afraid to go back into the store, I did, dumped the maggot mess from the box onto the counter and asked if I could please have my money back- he asked if I would rather have another box of J Mints...

Are you kidding me?! I said, no, I would rather not eat anything else from the store. He gave me my money back and even to this day...more than 20 YEARS later, my brother, who witnessed this whole event, still finds fun in teasing me about the J M episode. I still love them, but whenever I get some (like in a theater) I pour the whole box out into my napkin, or tear it open if they are all stuck together, before I eat any. -YARGH!-