"Roy" > wrote in message
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On Sunday, March 1, 2015 at 9:22:46 AM UTC-7, jmcquown wrote:
> (snippage)
>
> Yeah, Carol, and you keep feeding into her food and health phobias.
> Anyone who buys any rice or any grain or beans understands there may be
> some some foreign substance in it *before* it was packaged. The word
> "organic" doesn't mean much. We understand and we are not necessarily
> freaked out about it because we know about such things.
>
> Julie is just starting another useless "I can't/won't eat/don't like,
> it's going bad, about to expire, no one will eat it" thread. She's the
> Queen of that.
>
You are absolutely right Jill. I have picked larvae out of beans, rice,
breakfast cereal, flour, and whatever. Not unusual at all in dry packaged
goods no matter the origin. Certainly no panic and other than the ICK
factor...totally harmless and once the product is cooked should present NO
problem whatsoever.

One never wants to examine some of these products too carefully. Julie
should remove her glasses before cooking...Ahahahahahahah.

She is definitely a "Drama Queen" when it comes to the unusual.
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Seeing as how I am near sighted, removing my glasses will only allow me to
see more when cooking. I don't really think getting upset over what appears
to be turds in my rice is being a drama queen. Over the course of my
lifetime, I can only ever recall seeing unwanted things in my food a few
times. The bugs in the paprika that my landlord brought over from his beach
cabin. The half of a cockroach in my piece of pie in a restaurant. Maggots
and moths in various pet food at work. Maggots in chocolate bars with nuts
in them, also at work. Larvae on the baking aisle of a Fred Meyer's store
back in the 1980's. A Jiffy Mix purchased online that came to me with
little dead black bugs in it. Ditto for a gluten free cornbread mix
purchased online. The weevil infestation in my baking cupboard a few years
ago. My parents told me of getting some sort of pantry moths. I didn't see
them. They also got carpenter ants and I have had ants both here and in NY
but they were very obvious and I took care of them before they got into our
food. Have had rats both here and in NY and mice in NY. Only ever had
anything like that get into the house in NY. Also had squirrels in our
building in NY but they didn't get into my apartment.