An Insect, Beginning with C
I decided to have some cauliflower with my salmon for tea — there was a nice big cauli in my veg box this week — only after cutting in to it I discovered a green caterpillar.
I am not normally the sort of person who washes vegetables unless they’re visibly dirty, but I think on this occasion I’d never scrubbed so hard in my life. Even now, the veg is cooking, and I can’t decide if I’ll actually eat it. I can’t get the image of fat green grub out of my head!
Ew ew ew!
Hanna said:
On 04 Oct at 7:20 pm
I couldn’t eat it. Ewww.
Hev said:
On 04 Oct at 7:31 pm
Aw Jem, caterpillars are just a natural part of growing things. They are actually good for your vegetables, but also bad cause they will eat them along with other things. If you are growing corn then make sure that you check for worms in the corn when you shuck it, lol. If you are going to grow things, Jem. You are going to have insects.
Stephanie said:
On 04 Oct at 7:37 pm
Mmmmm protein! :P
I wonder what kinda caterpillar it was. Will it turn into a pretty butterfly?!
Aaron said:
On 04 Oct at 7:41 pm
I wouldn’t eat that. But the cooking would get rid of the bacterias and germs, so you’re probably safe.
Jamie said:
On 04 Oct at 7:55 pm
Ehh as long as it’s washed good enough and then cooked, you should be fine but I get what you mean. I might not be able to eat it lol
Alyssa said:
On 04 Oct at 8:12 pm
I personally wouldn’t be able to eat it. Yuck. :(
Xuan said:
On 04 Oct at 8:40 pm
I wouldn’t eat it, but that’s because I’m a paranoid twat who screams bloody murder at the sight of a baby cockroach.
Erica said:
On 04 Oct at 8:58 pm
Aww! It’s just a little caterpillar. Eating the veggie won’t hurt you.
Aimée said:
On 04 Oct at 9:28 pm
Yikes! Personally, I’d probably throw it out. :( Good luck! Did you wind up eating it anyway? I’m sure it was perfectly safe… he was just snacking on it as well!
Hannah said:
On 04 Oct at 9:34 pm
Eww. D:
Mimi said:
On 04 Oct at 9:45 pm
Um, eww.
At least you found it before you cooked the veggie :/
Nyx Midnight said:
On 05 Oct at 12:24 am
Awww, but caterpillars are so cute :(
Caitlin said:
On 05 Oct at 12:32 am
Wow! I probably wouldn’t have eaten it. That’s icky.
Julie said:
On 05 Oct at 1:17 am
At least it was on a cauliflower. Cauliflowers are white.
There’s some kind of green crawling thing that looks like a leaf and likes to hang out on broccoli.
Louise said:
On 05 Oct at 1:30 am
Ack! Why are people so afraid of germs!? Your body has to come in contact with germs every now and then, otherwise your immune system won’t know how to deal with them.
Anyway, the cooking process should have eliminated anything nasty.
Mimi said:
On 05 Oct at 5:01 am
I like caterpillars. I think they are cute! I guess I would probably eat almost anything unless a cockroach was on it or something/someone had drooled all over it. Ha ha! I eat food off the floor, no problemo. My stomach is made of iron. O.o
Shannon said:
On 05 Oct at 6:02 am
Why does this not disgust me? If it was any other animal, I’d be disgusted.
Brenda said:
On 05 Oct at 6:29 am
Additional nutrients! Mmmmmm. ;)
The heat from cooking kills all the possible germs in food, so not to worry. But psychologically speaking, I wouldn’t be able to get my mind off that green caterpillar either!
Mumblies said:
On 05 Oct at 8:55 am
All this from the person that mocked me when I found a relative of said green wiggly caterpillar in my home grown Brocolli :o) Take if off and leave it to one side you said…It won’t kill you you said hehe.
Han said:
On 05 Oct at 10:21 am
It adds protein! Manfriend bought some broccoli round the other day (he has a farm) – that had a caterpillar on it. It was wrong! I scrubbed and scrubbed and scrubbed and only ate it after trying to give it to someone else!
Amanda said:
On 05 Oct at 11:53 am
You know, a key component of Australian cuisine is the witchetty grub – similar to the caterpillar. I’m sure you can do it too! ;)
Yos said:
On 05 Oct at 3:03 pm
caterpillar’s are scrumptious, don’t you know!?
green and juicy, SLURPY!
Zainab said:
On 05 Oct at 3:38 pm
Ew :(
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Chanel said:
On 05 Oct at 4:28 pm
That is disturbing. :S … And also why you should always wash and check all produce before consuming. :P I’d probably eat it, but only after reminding myself that there were no more caterpillars, haha.
Peter said:
On 05 Oct at 5:53 pm
Sounds like some delicious grub! :P
Chans said:
On 06 Oct at 9:14 am
Well, at least now you KNOW that there was a bug in your food, if you were to buy food in a store (and not wash it) there might have been so many bugs on there without your knowledge ;)
Also, if there were any germs or other bugs left on your cauliflower, they will have died during the cooking. So there is nothing to worry about. Besides, bugs are a delicacy in some parts of the world :P
Rise said:
On 06 Oct at 7:23 pm
Where did you put Mr. caterpillar? :p
Erin said:
On 06 Oct at 8:48 pm
Haha! Extra flavoring. =P
Casey said:
On 07 Oct at 9:02 am
ahh! Yucky! You think that’s bad.. my dog, who is more like a cat, just brought me a dead mouse that is still in the trap! … He was proud of it. haha
Data Entry Lady said:
On 08 Oct at 12:05 pm
Extra protein. I have a missionary friend in Pau Pau New Guineau and they eat grub worms all the time. Consider them a delicacy.
Umm, yummy!
Bonnie said:
On 08 Oct at 8:20 pm
Have I been banned? I’m not a spammer, I am a person that blogs and comments?
louise said:
On 09 Nov at 4:21 pm
Before I cook the veggies (that are prone to worms (caterpillars)) I soak them in salt water.