(no subject)

[dolari]

So I'm trying to make some fried chicken pieces for tomorrow...and the recipe calls for 1 cup of flour. I open up the can of flour only to find loads and loads and LOADS of dead fruitflies in it.

Fine. We have another bad. I open up the half opened bag, which was covered and tightly packed in a grocery bag. HUNDREDS of dead fruit flies.

We have a package we haven't even opened yet. I open that up. Loaded with dead fruit flies.

I fucking hate these flies. They're all mostly dead...and mostly in our food.

This is the kind of shit that gives people neuroses.

Comments

[renahyrota.livejournal.com]

My sister's room is filled with them because we have a Guinea Pig and we give her fruit, so they suddenly seem to appear.

...I'm starting to believe spotaneous generation is entirely POSSIBLE. :P

[directorsg.livejournal.com]

Are you sure you didn't pick up that new "Pillsbury Brand Flour Enriched with Fruit Flies" by accident? :-P

[nekonikoban.livejournal.com]

I thought those were raisins!?!

[takhisis.livejournal.com]

I think this is why they invented flour sifters to begin with. Because no matter how well yout store your flour, bugs will magically teleport themselves in to gorge and die. :(

¿Como debemos servir los niños? ¿En un sartén?

[elenderel.livejournal.com]

When I first moved in with Steve, there were little dead bugs in every grain product container: bags of flour, unopened boxes (!) of Bisquick and pancake mix, glass jars of macaroni products sealed with rubber stoppers (!!), a glass bottle full of homemade hot cocoa mix sealed with a cork stopper (there was a regular farm operation in there!), etc. It was damned scary.

My solution was to immediately throw out the infested contents and the compromised containers (those damned bugs had bored holes in cork, cardboard and, apparently, the rubber seal around various Mason-style jars with the flip-latch. The glass containers I emptied and ran through the dishwasher, sanitized and filled a-fresh. No non-glass containers of grain products were permitted to be stored anywhere in the house. I scrubbed down the pantry. And we haven't had a grain-bug problem in years.

I would humbly suggest (if you haven't already done so) throwing out all your grain products immediately and starting fresh with clean, sanitized, securely sealed glass containers. Just buy a one-pound bag of flour, for example. Good luck.