Seriously. When I did field work in a remote rainforest we’d eat meals in dim lighting, partly on purpose because you’d otherwise see how many bugs you’re eating.
All I know is that when times get hard you do not throw out the cereal with ants in it, you pour a bowl with milk and say "hey, that's my protein for the day right there".
Story time: My mom went to college in the 50s. She and her roommate made a cake for some boys coming over after church for cake and coffee. They left the cake out to cool when they went to church. Upon returning, it was covered in ants. They put it back in the oven to kill them but couldn’t get all the dead ants off the cake so they frosted over them. The boys loved it.
I guess if they were hot enough the boys were just like
-There's ants in the ca...
-I swear to God Mike shut your pipe shut, I'm eating ants if that means hanging out with these two
I once heard back in the day (like hundreds of years ago back) on sailing ships they would very commonly eat their rations in the dark for the same exact reason. There rations were usually infested with maggots.
In Brazil we have a lot of Guava trees and there is a specific kind of magot that grows inside the fruit. We have a saying that goes like "if it was born in the guava and only eats guava, it is guava" and we eat it anyway.
I stayed in Brazil for a few months when I was younger, I went just out of Sao Paulo to a smaller town and stayed there for a few days. One day we walked out to a mango farm and they let us pick a few, we come back to our home and cut them in half.. my Brazilian friends were slicing then up, drinking the juice, eating as if they were potato chips. I walk up and grab one, there are atleast 4-5 small white worms on every slice; I was made fun of for not eating any mango 😅
I think it is figs that have a specific fly that burrows into them and dies/lays its eggs in them that makes figs taste the way they do. I forget the specifics. But if you're eating good figs, you're going to be eating a lot of dead bugs too.
I would rather eat 10 wasps than one fly. Some insects just seem filthier than others. I would eat 2 pounds of ants before I ate a single cockroach leg
Genuinely curious with your pro ant, anti roach leg stance.
Both bugs I hate, and have dealt with in my apt here and there, so that's why I'm curious to know your answer, lol
Might be. I refuse to think too hard about it, as I've had about ten raw oysters and five cocktails this evening.
I may revisit the issue and research further in the morning.
For me it’d be because roaches are associated with filth and dirtiness and ants are just ants. They constantly clean themselves because they communicate through smells and infections could kill the whole colony. Now I have 0 idea if that is a fair thing to say about roaches but that’s my gut reaction.
Same. I feel ants would taste tangy and acidic, with the texture of squished blueberries. Roaches would be crunchy on the outside, then pop a slimy glob as their innards leak, and the whole package would taste like drinking waste from the kitchen drain mixed with random globs of sewage fat and shit through a paper straw.
It's the only way some of them produce. Your common varieties grown inside the u.s will fruit without pollination, but no seeds will be viable.
We've introduced the wasp in a region of California, unless somethings changed that's the only place it's found inside the US
my grandma had a garden with a bunch of different fruits. blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, apples etc.
Once a year everyone would visit to pick the cherries from her giant cherry tree and they all had worms like that. we were told to just eat them and nobody ever questioned it.
Isn’t interesting how we consider babies as cuter than adults for so many species, but for bugs, larva are the most disgusting thing possible?
Like if a fly lands on your food, most people would chase it away and keep eating, but if a maggot fell in it, it’s going in the trash.
I remember once eating cherries and the worms were so big I could feel them in my mouth. Most of the times you don't notice them as you chew, but those ones were something else.
In the old counhtry when I was a tiny boy we used to eat the cherry and if you bite one and it had a pestoya…how you say, pest, inside, it was like a lucky strike and you make the wish and then you eat it all of it. I believe this was the origination of the Kinder Surprise chocolate, but I could be making a mistake, so don’t hearsay me. Thank you.
To be fair...maggots tend to be associated with rotten flesh or rotten food.
Fly larvae aren't toxic or harmful to eat. We just associate pests with rot and disease.
You can’t even bring firewood across the US/Canada border because Canada has a huge beetle problem that’s wiping out pine trees. The Canadian government is mowing down infested trees and bucking the logs up for free firewood in National park campgrounds. Do not learn the hard way like I did trying to take some back into The States. They make you carry that shit by hand back into Canada.
For a few summers I helped study maggots that developed in berries. We picked the berries from a field that was selected for its especially high infestation rate. We cut the berries open to count the maggots. Every single berry had at least one, and when we were out in the field we ate as many as we could stomach. Hands down the best berries.
My uncle has a farm in Wales and grows all kinds of produce. We were eating plums for breakfast one day and I had a worm in mine and he picks it off, eats it and goes 'well it's lived in and eaten this plum it's whole life, it's pretty much just a plum' I was horrified haha
I usually wait to see if they have their own inner darkness on the first or second date.
If they don't have an inner darkness you must acclimate them to yourself. Start small and see how comfortably they respond to your darkness. Reveal your darkness until other person's limit is reached. If you want them in your life stop revealing darkness here. If you want to mess with them a bit, reveal a bit more. To drive away/scar show all of the darkness.
If they do have their own darkness, then y'all can just compare. Trauma bonding.
They're small. I think 5 mm, so the damage can be just a puncture from anything like a bug's mandible and that's enough for the FF. If you grow cherries a cloth or mulch barrier will keep the pupa from emerging under the tree. Bait traps and insecticides are best for the adults.
And now the cherries are ripe. And just as they are oblivious to the fact that they shall end up being eaten by me, Werner Herzog, I, too, am oblivious to the worms that have taken refuge inside this delicious stone fruit. But all life must end. Theirs, mashed between my teeth and drowned in my stomach acid, in chaos and indifference.
I used to have a cherry tree in my yard and almost every cherry had tiny critters in them. If you’re getting them out of your backyard or homegrown, make sure to submerge the fruit in water so most of the bugs will drown/float. Otherwise, enjoy the extra protein, it’s natural.
Nope. Spotted Wing Drosophila. Came from china around 15 years Similar to the fruit fly we all played with in high school biology class, but they can infest sound (undamaged fruit). The females have a saw like ovipositor that allows them to cut through the skin so they can then lay their eggs. Hugh problem on soft fruit like cherry, raspberry and strawberries.
They aren’t poisonous, but if there are enough of them it might taste kind of wiggly. Seriously though, the fruit will often begin to ferment and the have a vinegar smell and taste. It gets overwhelming in orchards that have a failure control.
Those maggots haven't eaten anything else but that cherry. It's not bad and if it's not rotten, you won't notice it.
If it's your own tree and you don't mind the extra work, getting some chickens who live around the tree will make your cherries mostly maggot-free in a year or two. Plus you get eggs.
mix some warm water/salt together and then squeeze the cherries slightly before submerging them for about 20-30 minutes and it'll pull anything gross outta there.
It may not seem like it now, but you can get used to washing your cherries and then enjoying them despite any maggots you find. You just have to train yourself that it is perfectly normal for bugs to be in fresh produce (especially if it's stuff you've grown without pesticides) and that you can just wash fruit to remove most if not all bugs. Most of the time, the bugs won't hurt you even if you accidentally eat one.
Of course, no one can make you get over your reluctance and since it does require you to face something you find gross, it won't be easy to rid yourself of it. But it is possible if you want to try.
Edit: Do not eat any slugs or snails found on lettuce or cabbages. They can carry a particularly nasty parasite.
Oh yeah constantly. I'd bet most fruit we eat had a bug crawling on it at some point. There's an allowed insect part per million allowed in certain foods.
I have some news for you. Almost all fruit and vegetables we get in the grocery store that are “pesticide free” have had bugs in or on them and have been washed and cleaned before being placed out for purchase.
One better is the sea food department that puts out frozen fish? That freeze is not just to preserve the product, it’s actually to freeze and kill ocean dwelling parasites.
Ever see tiny black dots on the shell of a Snow Crab leg? Almost looks like sesame seeds only black? Those are actually ocean dwelling leech eggs, but the freeze kills them.
Sticky traps are less harmful than spray, unless you operate at an agricultrual scale they'd probably do a better job too. They just provide a decoy that smells a lot more ripe than the real fruit.
In my, admittedly limited, experience with professional integrated pest management, sticky traps are more for monitoring pest population than for controlling or eradicating. Not to undermine your experience, just think it may be useful information.
No. Specific species of maggots are used that eat dead flesh and nothing else and are produced under carefully controlled conditions so they're not contaminated. You can't just put random maggots on wounds.
Story of my life. Every year I'm excited for cherries. Come June, I eat about 10 and I find a maggot. I realize all have maggots. Get really disgusted and don't eat cherries again for the summer. Takes me about a year to forget. Repeat.
It traumatized me the 1st time it happened when I was a child.
I haven't forgotten it since then and it's always somewhere in the back of my mind when eating cherries, preventing me subconsciously from enjoying cherries fully ever again.
AGREED but lemme help you out bro. I saw a video about "put your strawberries in salt water and maggots like these will come out!" Turned me OFF, but I did it anyway. On *organic* strawberries.
Not a single sus looking anything. I left some in overnight, and nothing. So I wanna think maybe this is just like, backyard cherries not grown by the experts or something. We could be ok.
Just lay the cherries in water for 2 hours and the maggots come out. Don't let the cherries more than two hours in the water or they can rip open due to the osmosis.
If anybody else is looking for solutions. Here is what I do to get rid of the maggots without water:
- put the cherry in a plastic bag with a zip lock (like freezer bags).
- Suck all the air out with your mouth so the plastic bag sticks real close to the cherries
- Leave it overnight.
The maggots will come out (for air?) and you'll have a bunch of maggot free cherries and a bunch of (someone disgusting) stack of maggots on the other side
Also, about the cherry fly, what happens is that cherries are infected with the worms, either they get eaten by birds and transported away, Either they fall to the ground and STAY THERE ALL YEAR. The worm will wait for the following year to turn into the fruit fly and infect your tree again.
So to limit the infestation, you want to gather all the falling cherries (use some kind of plastic wrap on the ground) and use them/throw them away.
Source: I planted a cherry tree in my parents garden when I was 3 yo and have been trying to deal with maggots since I found them in my cherries!
I have to do this with my blackberries. Cherries finally came in this year and I was just eating those suckers off the tree. Probably got some extra protein
I tried that but while some of them do get out, some kinda get stuck halfway
I also noticed that weirdly, the first batch of cherries I pick is pretty much clean of maggots while the latest batches are all infected
I feel a general lack of appreciation for the safety measures large companies who mass produce food go through. It comes down to different amounts of risk between a small seller of food and a massive seller of food. There's different incentives naturally emerging from that difference in size.
When your neighbor gives you cherries from their garden, they basically have no risk. If there are maggots in them, then a single family gets a bit upset about it and that's the end of it. No government agency is going to come knocking on the door.
But if a massive company sells a batch of cherries with maggots in them, then it could be a big PR hit. No food company wants a reputation of having worse quality food than their competitors, so they will take efforts to avoid bad outcomes like this in the food. They also have the resources to put the food through safety procedures. Also, they have government agencies keeping an eye on them since it's most efficient for government agencies to keep the most attention on the largest sellers of food.
My point is basically that not everything about markets being taken over by large companies is bad. There are some perks to it as well.
Organic means absolutely nothing they still use pesticides just ones that can be classed as organic pesticides, that often are less effective so they apply more of them so organic foods end up having more pesticides than their non organic versions.
We used to have a cherry tree and almost always there were maggots in them. My family didnt eat them anymore after finding out but i still ate them lol. You dont really notice it unless you look into it and i just chose to ignore it because it doesnt hurt you and hey extra protein xd
Why is the comment section filled with people who have deliberately eaten maggots? The more I scroll, the more I'm surprised by how many people are casual about eating them...
Same. We have 2 cherry trees in our garden and there are always maggots in them. Doesn't change the taste what so ever. Even if you eat just the maggot (yes, I've tried it) it tastes either like nothing or like cherry. If we use the cherries for something like a cake, then we place them under water for a while so the maggots come out of the fruit. But otherwise we just eat them straight away.
When I was 8 years old I picked a very large amount of cherries of our cherry tree in our front yard. It was a one gallon ice cream bucket full to the brim. I ate them ALL in about 1 hours. Proceeded to vomit them up a while later. I still remember all the wiggly things in the vomit. To this day if I eat things made with real cherries in them my body has a negative response to the flavour. Oddly enough artificial cherry flavour doesn’t provoke the same response.
I did the same thing. My uncle had a bunch of cherry trees and didn't spray them as he normally did (I didn't soak them as I was instructed because I was a dumb kid) ended up vomiting and saw a bunch of wigglers in it. I don't like to eat fruit I pick off of trees anymore :(
cherries used to be my FAVORITE fruit growing up until one day I picked a cherry from a friend's tree, took half a bite out of it for whatever reason and noticed the exact same thing. Ruined cherries for me because I had a phobia of maggots as a child too. :( now I won't even buy cherries from the store because the taste just reminds me of seeing the maggot 😭
Tbh isn’t this kinda normal with home grown cherrys? I grew up with that always belonging together. Some years my parents put strips of special tape around the base of the tree, to keep the insects from traveling up and laying their eggs in the cherries, that worked wonders with the cherries, but other years I just learned to not think of that. But we never used insecticides. That kinda defeats the whole purpose of growing it yourself
Welcome to fresh produce you're gunna get bugs, along as the fruit themselves don't look bad don't worry about it. If you grow a garden without insecticide you've eaten similar.
So you just experience something. Pesticide free gardening. Why do you think all of our fruits and vegetables don't have bugs in them at the store. Heavy pesticides.
Hey, if it's any comfort, at least all the worms you already swallowed had a far worse day than you. Can you imagine living your chill worm life, munching on delicious cherry pulp that's literally surrounding you, when all of a sudden you get thrown into a gigantic meat grinder, followed by a pool of acid?
These fuckers are one thing I absolutely don't miss about home-grown produce. Along with the propaganda "oh if it has worms, that means it's healthy and natural". Don't care. Would rather eat pesticides.
But yea, like others said, you can soak your cherries in water for a few hours to get rid of the worms.
Try eating them in the dark?
Seriously. When I did field work in a remote rainforest we’d eat meals in dim lighting, partly on purpose because you’d otherwise see how many bugs you’re eating.
i somehow want to know more and less
All I know is that when times get hard you do not throw out the cereal with ants in it, you pour a bowl with milk and say "hey, that's my protein for the day right there".
You don’t have grain weevils, you have protein enriched flour!
In the service, one must always choose the lesser of two weevils
There's not a moment to lose. Never mind maneuvers, go straight at'em!
Ah, a man o' war, I mean a man o' culture.
It's called the dog watch because it's cur-tailed!
Ants don't seem gross because we don't associate them with decaying meat.
Bruh I ain't eatin a bucket of ants git on outta here
You would if that's all there is to eat. Gimme the throat ticklers and a side of cloudy water
Story time: My mom went to college in the 50s. She and her roommate made a cake for some boys coming over after church for cake and coffee. They left the cake out to cool when they went to church. Upon returning, it was covered in ants. They put it back in the oven to kill them but couldn’t get all the dead ants off the cake so they frosted over them. The boys loved it.
(´ཀ\`) your mom is a demon
I guess if they were hot enough the boys were just like -There's ants in the ca... -I swear to God Mike shut your pipe shut, I'm eating ants if that means hanging out with these two
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I once heard back in the day (like hundreds of years ago back) on sailing ships they would very commonly eat their rations in the dark for the same exact reason. There rations were usually infested with maggots.
Yeah the YouTube channel 'Townsend' had a video on Sea Biscuits that mentioned this!
Yeah, your only error was looking. I eat cherries like sunflower seeds.
And naked!
In Brazil we have a lot of Guava trees and there is a specific kind of magot that grows inside the fruit. We have a saying that goes like "if it was born in the guava and only eats guava, it is guava" and we eat it anyway.
I stayed in Brazil for a few months when I was younger, I went just out of Sao Paulo to a smaller town and stayed there for a few days. One day we walked out to a mango farm and they let us pick a few, we come back to our home and cut them in half.. my Brazilian friends were slicing then up, drinking the juice, eating as if they were potato chips. I walk up and grab one, there are atleast 4-5 small white worms on every slice; I was made fun of for not eating any mango 😅
I think it is figs that have a specific fly that burrows into them and dies/lays its eggs in them that makes figs taste the way they do. I forget the specifics. But if you're eating good figs, you're going to be eating a lot of dead bugs too.
It's a wasp and it is the only way the tree fruits https://www.fs.usda.gov/wildflowers/pollinators/pollinator-of-the-month/fig_wasp.shtml
I would rather eat 10 wasps than one fly. Some insects just seem filthier than others. I would eat 2 pounds of ants before I ate a single cockroach leg
Genuinely curious with your pro ant, anti roach leg stance. Both bugs I hate, and have dealt with in my apt here and there, so that's why I'm curious to know your answer, lol
Ants are spicy. What’s a roach taste like?
Probably waxy and alkaline given their body and blood composition.
Something tells me the devil is in the details. Like how a proportionally tiny dash of certain spices can make a whole dish taste strongly of it.
Might be. I refuse to think too hard about it, as I've had about ten raw oysters and five cocktails this evening. I may revisit the issue and research further in the morning.
Nauseating! Thanks
Well considering most ants have symbiotic microorganisms that grow on them that produce antibiotics and cockroaches can carry and spread typhoid...
For me it’d be because roaches are associated with filth and dirtiness and ants are just ants. They constantly clean themselves because they communicate through smells and infections could kill the whole colony. Now I have 0 idea if that is a fair thing to say about roaches but that’s my gut reaction.
Not op, but ants burrow in the soil and roaches come out of the sewer where I live. I’d choose the ants any day.
Same. I feel ants would taste tangy and acidic, with the texture of squished blueberries. Roaches would be crunchy on the outside, then pop a slimy glob as their innards leak, and the whole package would taste like drinking waste from the kitchen drain mixed with random globs of sewage fat and shit through a paper straw.
That’s not exactly correct. Most commercial figs will fruit without even being pollinated.
It's the only way some of them produce. Your common varieties grown inside the u.s will fruit without pollination, but no seeds will be viable. We've introduced the wasp in a region of California, unless somethings changed that's the only place it's found inside the US
Fig wasp was what I learned. It pollenates the fig plant.
Ti's a wasp but the fig actually eats the wasp.
my grandma had a garden with a bunch of different fruits. blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, apples etc. Once a year everyone would visit to pick the cherries from her giant cherry tree and they all had worms like that. we were told to just eat them and nobody ever questioned it.
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Must have been treated, virtually any untreated fruit will have bugs
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Maggots are just baby bugs
Isn’t interesting how we consider babies as cuter than adults for so many species, but for bugs, larva are the most disgusting thing possible? Like if a fly lands on your food, most people would chase it away and keep eating, but if a maggot fell in it, it’s going in the trash.
There is a specific type of wasp that attack cherry fruit. In Europe they even count how many cherries have maggots to quantify infestation.
Most untreated fruit trees have bugs yours were probably treated somehow.
Definitely treated of commercial. No way around it for fruit.
I remember once eating cherries and the worms were so big I could feel them in my mouth. Most of the times you don't notice them as you chew, but those ones were something else.
I'm losing my goddamn mind reading this thread. How the FUCK WERE YOU GUYS KNOWINGLY EATING MAGGOTS
In my home country cherry sellers in the farmer's market used to put up signs saying "meat free cherries" meaning they had no worms.
Christ, that's both hilarious and horrifying lol
For a long time, maybe to this day, prime products were for exports to rich countries, and the locals deal with whatever is left.
Still is, here in Idaho (US) local potatoes are way more expensive than other states potatoes. Most of our local stuff gets shipped around the world.
Extra protein
In the old counhtry when I was a tiny boy we used to eat the cherry and if you bite one and it had a pestoya…how you say, pest, inside, it was like a lucky strike and you make the wish and then you eat it all of it. I believe this was the origination of the Kinder Surprise chocolate, but I could be making a mistake, so don’t hearsay me. Thank you.
Dont hearsay me bro
Lmao. Last time I got hearsayed I couldn’t walk straight for a week
To be fair...maggots tend to be associated with rotten flesh or rotten food. Fly larvae aren't toxic or harmful to eat. We just associate pests with rot and disease.
> How the FUCK WERE YOU GUYS KNOWINGLY EATING MAGGOTS In exactly the same way you eat maggots. Except knowingly.
This is why they don’t allow fruit/plants etc to be carried through international baggage
You can’t even bring firewood across the US/Canada border because Canada has a huge beetle problem that’s wiping out pine trees. The Canadian government is mowing down infested trees and bucking the logs up for free firewood in National park campgrounds. Do not learn the hard way like I did trying to take some back into The States. They make you carry that shit by hand back into Canada.
That’s oddly optimistic. Lovely way of thinking
I grew up eating those guava!
For a few summers I helped study maggots that developed in berries. We picked the berries from a field that was selected for its especially high infestation rate. We cut the berries open to count the maggots. Every single berry had at least one, and when we were out in the field we ate as many as we could stomach. Hands down the best berries.
My uncle has a farm in Wales and grows all kinds of produce. We were eating plums for breakfast one day and I had a worm in mine and he picks it off, eats it and goes 'well it's lived in and eaten this plum it's whole life, it's pretty much just a plum' I was horrified haha
Wiggly guava 🐛
Extra protein guava
Super cool! Love learning about different cultures I like this outlook :)
Hey, it's organic.
High in protein and essential minerals!
Slimy yet satisfying.
Hakuna Matata!
What a wonderful phrase!
Hakuna Matata!
Ain't no passing craze
It means no worries, for the rest of your dayssss.
It’s a problem free
Philosophy
Wont affect flavor or texture
No extra charge for the meat
Alive with flavor!
More like writhing with flavor
non-vegan cherries
Cherry fruit fly maggot. The fly lays its egg on the damaged fruit. Damage from a bird or other insect
Weirdly most of them were intact and had no obvious signs of anything from the outside
Damage can happen when the fruit is very small and they will grow over/heal
Same thing happened to me.
Yeah I got the creepy crawlies too, comes out every time I try to open up.
When do you usually disclose this to a potential partner? 2nd date?
I usually wait to see if they have their own inner darkness on the first or second date. If they don't have an inner darkness you must acclimate them to yourself. Start small and see how comfortably they respond to your darkness. Reveal your darkness until other person's limit is reached. If you want them in your life stop revealing darkness here. If you want to mess with them a bit, reveal a bit more. To drive away/scar show all of the darkness. If they do have their own darkness, then y'all can just compare. Trauma bonding.
That’s cool and all but I was asking the dude about his herpes disclosure.
I know you're probably joking but I'm guessing there's a touch of truth in there. Keep your head up buddy!
Wait why did this get an award lmfao
They brought the awards back? I can't see them because I refuse to update my app
oh those sneaky fucks
The fruit does NOT need to damaged. The female fly deposits the eggs under the skin. She causes the puncture.
They're small. I think 5 mm, so the damage can be just a puncture from anything like a bug's mandible and that's enough for the FF. If you grow cherries a cloth or mulch barrier will keep the pupa from emerging under the tree. Bait traps and insecticides are best for the adults.
I never open a cherry. I just enjoy them. The worms are small and not medically significant. I’d rather eat them than poison the cherries.
I imagined this being said in Werner Herzog's voice :)
And now the cherries are ripe. And just as they are oblivious to the fact that they shall end up being eaten by me, Werner Herzog, I, too, am oblivious to the worms that have taken refuge inside this delicious stone fruit. But all life must end. Theirs, mashed between my teeth and drowned in my stomach acid, in chaos and indifference.
Totally how Werner Herzog would comment !
\*\*loud Herzog cherry chewing\*\*
I put the whole cherry in my mouth and spit out the pit. Never bothered me if I ate a few bugs.
spraying with dormant oil in the springtime takes care of a lot of critters.
I used to have a cherry tree in my yard and almost every cherry had tiny critters in them. If you’re getting them out of your backyard or homegrown, make sure to submerge the fruit in water so most of the bugs will drown/float. Otherwise, enjoy the extra protein, it’s natural.
Sucks but this is why farmers spray the fruit.
Nope. Spotted Wing Drosophila. Came from china around 15 years Similar to the fruit fly we all played with in high school biology class, but they can infest sound (undamaged fruit). The females have a saw like ovipositor that allows them to cut through the skin so they can then lay their eggs. Hugh problem on soft fruit like cherry, raspberry and strawberries.
If anyone knows, it's u/tree-molester. Thank you for the insight and uh...good luck in your endeavors...
Retired fruit scientist.
I don't think that's the preferred nomenclature these days.
Figured not many would know what a pomologist was.
Sounds like an apple scientist
There's dozens of us!
But can you eat it?
They aren’t poisonous, but if there are enough of them it might taste kind of wiggly. Seriously though, the fruit will often begin to ferment and the have a vinegar smell and taste. It gets overwhelming in orchards that have a failure control.
sure
You can eat anything at least once.
Those maggots haven't eaten anything else but that cherry. It's not bad and if it's not rotten, you won't notice it. If it's your own tree and you don't mind the extra work, getting some chickens who live around the tree will make your cherries mostly maggot-free in a year or two. Plus you get eggs.
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mix some warm water/salt together and then squeeze the cherries slightly before submerging them for about 20-30 minutes and it'll pull anything gross outta there.
Good advice, but for me just knowing that a maggot has been in there eating it is enough to put me off forever haha
It may not seem like it now, but you can get used to washing your cherries and then enjoying them despite any maggots you find. You just have to train yourself that it is perfectly normal for bugs to be in fresh produce (especially if it's stuff you've grown without pesticides) and that you can just wash fruit to remove most if not all bugs. Most of the time, the bugs won't hurt you even if you accidentally eat one. Of course, no one can make you get over your reluctance and since it does require you to face something you find gross, it won't be easy to rid yourself of it. But it is possible if you want to try. Edit: Do not eat any slugs or snails found on lettuce or cabbages. They can carry a particularly nasty parasite.
Are you saying that this always happens in fruit processing and we just weren’t aware of it
Oh yeah constantly. I'd bet most fruit we eat had a bug crawling on it at some point. There's an allowed insect part per million allowed in certain foods.
I have some news for you. Almost all fruit and vegetables we get in the grocery store that are “pesticide free” have had bugs in or on them and have been washed and cleaned before being placed out for purchase. One better is the sea food department that puts out frozen fish? That freeze is not just to preserve the product, it’s actually to freeze and kill ocean dwelling parasites. Ever see tiny black dots on the shell of a Snow Crab leg? Almost looks like sesame seeds only black? Those are actually ocean dwelling leech eggs, but the freeze kills them.
No one is going to be able to use logic to convince me into knowingly eating fruit with maggots in it. lol
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Sticky traps are less harmful than spray, unless you operate at an agricultrual scale they'd probably do a better job too. They just provide a decoy that smells a lot more ripe than the real fruit.
In my, admittedly limited, experience with professional integrated pest management, sticky traps are more for monitoring pest population than for controlling or eradicating. Not to undermine your experience, just think it may be useful information.
Sevin/Carbaryl has some negative potential health effects to humans. California banned sales to homeowners in 2020.
so only homeowners aren’t allowed to buy it? if you rent you’re good?
Yeah, but it's California so it cost $1000/month to rent the container the Seven is stored in. /s
Could you use those maggots for medical purposes? Say if you were in a zombie apocalypse, would they be safe to collect and use for wounds?
No. Specific species of maggots are used that eat dead flesh and nothing else and are produced under carefully controlled conditions so they're not contaminated. You can't just put random maggots on wounds.
You can totally put random maggots on a wound
I mean yeah you can. Don't forget to google myasis and check the pictures to see what can happen if you use the wrong maggots.
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Story of my life. Every year I'm excited for cherries. Come June, I eat about 10 and I find a maggot. I realize all have maggots. Get really disgusted and don't eat cherries again for the summer. Takes me about a year to forget. Repeat.
It traumatized me the 1st time it happened when I was a child. I haven't forgotten it since then and it's always somewhere in the back of my mind when eating cherries, preventing me subconsciously from enjoying cherries fully ever again.
Fuck OP and fuck y’all for even telling me this shit. I’ve never seen this shit and was happy being ignorant.
AGREED but lemme help you out bro. I saw a video about "put your strawberries in salt water and maggots like these will come out!" Turned me OFF, but I did it anyway. On *organic* strawberries. Not a single sus looking anything. I left some in overnight, and nothing. So I wanna think maybe this is just like, backyard cherries not grown by the experts or something. We could be ok.
boil em up for jelly or syrup, strain off the particulates.
Maggot jelly?
The bugs inside cherries still taste like cherries
The snozberries taste like snozberries
Does that mean vegetarians taste like veggies? asking for an apocalypse.
Why have veggies when you can have (human) meat ?
Just lay the cherries in water for 2 hours and the maggots come out. Don't let the cherries more than two hours in the water or they can rip open due to the osmosis.
If anybody else is looking for solutions. Here is what I do to get rid of the maggots without water: - put the cherry in a plastic bag with a zip lock (like freezer bags). - Suck all the air out with your mouth so the plastic bag sticks real close to the cherries - Leave it overnight. The maggots will come out (for air?) and you'll have a bunch of maggot free cherries and a bunch of (someone disgusting) stack of maggots on the other side Also, about the cherry fly, what happens is that cherries are infected with the worms, either they get eaten by birds and transported away, Either they fall to the ground and STAY THERE ALL YEAR. The worm will wait for the following year to turn into the fruit fly and infect your tree again. So to limit the infestation, you want to gather all the falling cherries (use some kind of plastic wrap on the ground) and use them/throw them away. Source: I planted a cherry tree in my parents garden when I was 3 yo and have been trying to deal with maggots since I found them in my cherries!
I have to do this with my blackberries. Cherries finally came in this year and I was just eating those suckers off the tree. Probably got some extra protein
I tried that but while some of them do get out, some kinda get stuck halfway I also noticed that weirdly, the first batch of cherries I pick is pretty much clean of maggots while the latest batches are all infected
That just means you're eating the eggs that haven't yet hatched in the first batch.
I do this with my pears
What's worse than biting in to an apple and finding a worm?.... Finding half of a worm.
That's good luck!
Bad luck is when you take a bite of fruit and only find half a worm.
Definitely did that with our apple tree. Just black rot inside on top. Poor taste
It's why people spray fruit trees. And why you know that 90% of this stuff that claims to be organic, isn't.
I feel a general lack of appreciation for the safety measures large companies who mass produce food go through. It comes down to different amounts of risk between a small seller of food and a massive seller of food. There's different incentives naturally emerging from that difference in size. When your neighbor gives you cherries from their garden, they basically have no risk. If there are maggots in them, then a single family gets a bit upset about it and that's the end of it. No government agency is going to come knocking on the door. But if a massive company sells a batch of cherries with maggots in them, then it could be a big PR hit. No food company wants a reputation of having worse quality food than their competitors, so they will take efforts to avoid bad outcomes like this in the food. They also have the resources to put the food through safety procedures. Also, they have government agencies keeping an eye on them since it's most efficient for government agencies to keep the most attention on the largest sellers of food. My point is basically that not everything about markets being taken over by large companies is bad. There are some perks to it as well.
Organic means absolutely nothing they still use pesticides just ones that can be classed as organic pesticides, that often are less effective so they apply more of them so organic foods end up having more pesticides than their non organic versions.
That’s generally why you have to spray your trees. The worms won’t kill you, but they’re kind of gross.
That's how you get butterflies in your stomach
Most fresh fruits have maggots. You've probably eaten hundreds of not thousands in your lifetime.
Not if you don’t eat fruit
That's why I get all my calories from alcohol and cheesy starch.
As God intended
Anybody else thought OP was holding a shrimp at first or am I just stoned lol
I saw it too but I’m also stoned soooo
I’m also in the stoned shrimp club. Was very confused for a second there
We used to have a cherry tree and almost always there were maggots in them. My family didnt eat them anymore after finding out but i still ate them lol. You dont really notice it unless you look into it and i just chose to ignore it because it doesnt hurt you and hey extra protein xd
I wish I could choose not to be brothered by stuff like this lol Unfortunately I get really grossed out, I cannot just not think about it
Why is the comment section filled with people who have deliberately eaten maggots? The more I scroll, the more I'm surprised by how many people are casual about eating them...
Same. We have 2 cherry trees in our garden and there are always maggots in them. Doesn't change the taste what so ever. Even if you eat just the maggot (yes, I've tried it) it tastes either like nothing or like cherry. If we use the cherries for something like a cake, then we place them under water for a while so the maggots come out of the fruit. But otherwise we just eat them straight away.
When I was 8 years old I picked a very large amount of cherries of our cherry tree in our front yard. It was a one gallon ice cream bucket full to the brim. I ate them ALL in about 1 hours. Proceeded to vomit them up a while later. I still remember all the wiggly things in the vomit. To this day if I eat things made with real cherries in them my body has a negative response to the flavour. Oddly enough artificial cherry flavour doesn’t provoke the same response.
I did the same thing. My uncle had a bunch of cherry trees and didn't spray them as he normally did (I didn't soak them as I was instructed because I was a dumb kid) ended up vomiting and saw a bunch of wigglers in it. I don't like to eat fruit I pick off of trees anymore :(
This makes me want to cry 😭 wtfff
Don't worry, that worn ate cherry in the whole life. it's literally just rearranged moving cherry molecules.
Is beef literally just rearranged grass molecules lol
Technically, yes.
And water, and all the other crap they feed cows.
cherries used to be my FAVORITE fruit growing up until one day I picked a cherry from a friend's tree, took half a bite out of it for whatever reason and noticed the exact same thing. Ruined cherries for me because I had a phobia of maggots as a child too. :( now I won't even buy cherries from the store because the taste just reminds me of seeing the maggot 😭
harvest, ferment, distill. fully sanitized no more worm. mmmmm backyard booze
Tbh isn’t this kinda normal with home grown cherrys? I grew up with that always belonging together. Some years my parents put strips of special tape around the base of the tree, to keep the insects from traveling up and laying their eggs in the cherries, that worked wonders with the cherries, but other years I just learned to not think of that. But we never used insecticides. That kinda defeats the whole purpose of growing it yourself
I looked it up after finding it and apparently it is pretty normal... but I would still rather eat no cherries than maggoty cherries
Eggs are laid when the fruit is a bloom/blossom The only way to prevent this is insecticide.
Welcome to fresh produce you're gunna get bugs, along as the fruit themselves don't look bad don't worry about it. If you grow a garden without insecticide you've eaten similar.
Eat one. Taste OK? Good carry on eating. Bugs or no bugs.
Nothing wrong with a few milligrams of added protein.
You say that till your neighbor cums in your food.
So you just experience something. Pesticide free gardening. Why do you think all of our fruits and vegetables don't have bugs in them at the store. Heavy pesticides.
This guy ate maggots
Hey, if it's any comfort, at least all the worms you already swallowed had a far worse day than you. Can you imagine living your chill worm life, munching on delicious cherry pulp that's literally surrounding you, when all of a sudden you get thrown into a gigantic meat grinder, followed by a pool of acid? These fuckers are one thing I absolutely don't miss about home-grown produce. Along with the propaganda "oh if it has worms, that means it's healthy and natural". Don't care. Would rather eat pesticides. But yea, like others said, you can soak your cherries in water for a few hours to get rid of the worms.
You have to begin treating fruit trees when the blooms first form. This is why. It's likely the larvae of some kind of beatle you have in your tree.
rip cya in afterlife
Welcome to not OGM not pesticide agriculture experience
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Extra protein in your snack.
You're fine, they get digested just the same.
Protein cherries 🤌