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?

On 2006-07-24, robdeman > wrote:

> OR: is it more liekly that the maggot has been in the sausage when I
> bought it?

Yes. But, it was undoubtedly a halal maggot.

nb

"robdeman" > wrote in message
ups.com...
> 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.

> "robdeman" > wrote in message
> ups.com...
>
>>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.
>>
..................
>>What do you guys think?

This is like so totally unkosher.

rtk

160F = about 71 Celcius..
ok well I cooked the sausages quite thorougly... pretty sure it reached
at least 71C, easily. So conclusion... some fly managed to drop an egg
in the leftovers when during the 4hrs outside the fridge... I should
not blame my butcher - eventhough I did see some flies?

Steve Wertz schreef:


> Maggots are killed at 160F. If you cooked it with peppers and
> onions, I assume you probably got up to 160 especially if you cut
> it up into chunks.
>
> -sw

robdeman wrote:

> > Maggots are killed at 160F
> > -sw

the other possibility is that the bowl you covered the mergeuz with was
sitting right side up originally and may have had a fly deposit! Or
possibly the plate for that matter.
Once placed upside down over the warm sausages, nature took its course.

I agree with Steve - if they were in the sausages prior to cooking,
they would be dead for sure.
Nevertheless, I'd be finding a butcher WITHOUT flies for future
provisions!

LadyJane
--
"Never trust a skinny cook!"

This is why some cultures treasure hot spices. I'm not kidding.

Lenny


"robdeman" > wrote in message
ups.com...
> 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?
>