"robdeman" > wrote in message
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> hi all,
>
> todat i bought some merguez sausages at my local Islamic butchershop in
> Amsterdam. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merguez). I cooked a meal with
> it, and onions and peppers, and chopped the merguez in little chunks.
> Then I had the leftovers outside my fridge for about 4hrs. The bowl was
> covered with a plate. The temperature today is quite hot, around 27
> degrees celcius all day long (inside the house).
>
> Then I started to re-heat the left overs and noticed a really smal
> llittle white moving thing. It might me a little maggot I beleive.
> Ofcourse I trashed the food right away.
>
> My question is: Do you guys think there was a fly that put eggs in the
> sausage leftovers (hard to beleive b/c there was a plate covering the
> leftovers... there might hve been a little hole I am not sure).
> OR: is it more liekly that the maggot has been in the sausage when I
> bought it? I did notice a few flies at the butchershop, but with the
> current weather it's hard to avoid them so i wasn't worried.
>
> What do you guys think?


I would be surprised if was still alive after cooking, unless you saw a dead
one and it was just moving from the heat? and 4 hours seems a short time for
a maggot to be of a size that you would notice it.