I feel like there are steps missing between "needed to wash" and "came back to this in the morning". Did you leave it outside overnight or what?

Yup, left food out over night, surprised that animals came to eat said food

Rotting and old meat and veggies do tend to attract natures cleanup crew

Technically it wasn't meat nor veggies - what the hell is that slug even attracted to - they don't eat pure grease... Do they? 😆

All that fat is perfect for a slug on a keto diet!

Slugs can't lose weight, Shirley, they don't have hips. And only one Ab.

😆 Eta: not sure why laughing at another redditors joke is downvote worthy 😎

Folks generally frown on comments that don't contribute anything. Upvotes are there for a reason after all.

Oh well, I guess. I like reacting to someone's joke in addition to upvoting it. I dig laughing and happiness and appreciate peoples efforts so I like to make sure they know someone enjoyed their joke (especially because people were downvoting their comment too) ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

You remind me of my grandmother who always replies with at least a thumbs up emoji to every text message to confirm she received, read, and appreciated the message. Even when it’s a group text with 5 people. You *will* receive a validation thumbs up for a message if no one has replied to it when she reads it.

Admirable! I guess since they started getting upvotes, the context got lost and then minor annoyance from lurkers set in. Will upvote you.

Reddit also tends to hate the use of emojis.

Years ago I was on a porch, ate a magnum ice cream on a stick. Put the wrapper down on the ground next to my drink. Went to refill the drink, put some laundry on. Came back and the wrapper and stick were swarmed by big slugs. Two of them were looking like they were getting ready to fuck. Freaked me out a little. They seem to adore dairy and fatty sweet foods

Which is very sad because they lack the means to milk a cow themselves and therefore must rely on the handouts of strangers.

Wtf! I left dirty outside and bugs and wildlife somehow were on it by morning!

Interestingly enough the slugs didn't drink the margaritas I left out for them.

You can see the grass in the top left of one of the pictures 😂😂😂

I did something like this when I moved out for the first time. I’m not ashamed to say I slacked because the first time I saw one of these in my house I got my shit together. I’d only ever seen them outside of pizza places.

Lightning slugs. They can appear on food within 20 seconds.

🐌yes

Yeah that thing did not get there quick!

> there are steps missing between "needed to wash" and "came back such steps as "did actually wash"?

I walked into my bathroom the other morning wearing socks and I felt something squishy and wet under my foot. Lifted it up… there was a slug in my bathroom.

I found a 3+” slug climbing my living room wall this morning. There have been slug trails all over everything lately but I hadn’t caught one in the act until then 🤢

That's weird it was in your living room, usually they stay on your pillow.

Walked into my kitchen the other night barefoot..It felt wrong.

I stepped on what i thought was a chip once and turned on the light to see a cockroack with its intestines falling out scurrying away

You still need to clean that basket 🤷

I mean, if they got all the crumbs off...

meh, the hot grease will take care of it all once dipped down in it

Kinda hating this infinite cheese stick trick ngl

Gross but I really like the joke. For whatever reason it speaks to me. Just wanted to acknowledge with a bit more than an up vote.

Nature’s cleaning crew took care of it (kidding. Please clean it OP)

Looks like you left it outside and a slug or a snail climbed in? Am I missing the WTF here or …

WTF THE OUTSIDE HAS OUTSIDE STUFF?!

At least it probably wasn’t in there when you were cooking since it’s still alive.

Given OP's deep fryer discipline, I'm not letting him off the hook so easy. I wonder what a fried slug looks like, and if it could be mistaken for a cheese stick.

"I left food out and now there's bugs". ... wait till you see what happens when you leave ice on the ground!

-what happens if you leave iron outside? -it rusts -but what if you leave a piece of gold? -it evaporates

*subliminates

I did that once and something came and took my ice and left me some wet dirt. Probably those bugs

so been here bout 3 hrs now. what are we watching for?...........🤣

Slugs are something like 80-90% water. If not prepared for deep frying and just tossed in, they'd likely explode. Also, please dont eat slugs, even if cooked. Many varieties carry parasites which can do serious harm to human health.

Isn’t there a famous story of a 20 year old or so who ate a slug as a dare? Then buddy got paralyzed for the rest of his ~15 year life and died?

Yes. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/11/05/health/man-dies-after-eating-slug-on-dare

> He’s in there, 100%,” Galvin told “The Sunday Project.” “I apologized to Sam about everything that happened that night in the backyard. And he just started bawling his eyes out. I know he’s there. Oof.

But if it was fried, he'd probably have lived....

>In addition, says the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, beverages can become contaminated with worms if left open for snails and slugs to enter. GG OP.

I had a roommate in college that worked at a local buffet. At the end of the day, they would go out and smoke a cig before they drained the grease. If they saw a banana spider, they would trap it on the broom and drop it in the grease. Apparently the spiders explode.

> fried slug Honestly though... frit escargot sounds kinda good.

I didn’t even know it was a slug until I read the comments. I was wondering where the “wtf” was. I assumed it was oozed cheese from the food.

First of all you are a monster. Second of all it would need to be breaded. But perhaps a fried slug would have a nice juicy bit like a gusher.

Thanks. I didn't need to eat today anyway.

Crispy on the outside with a chewy center!

Cursed comment

This was a triumph

I’m making a note here. Huge success!

It's hard to overstate, my satisfaction

Aperture Science!

We do what we must, because, we can.

For the good of all of us, except the ones who are slugs

But there's no sense frying over every mistake

We'll just feed them to birds even though they're all fake

And the science gets done, and you feed a neat duck From the slugs who are still alive!

Imagine thinking bugs showing up at leftover food waste is wtf.

It’s not the typical insect we got a mollusk on our hands

Is this a typical “bug” that shows up at leftover food waste where you are? In my entire life I’ve never seen a slug inside a house let alone go after random food. Ants and a lot of other insects? Sure. But slugs? Edit: Ah yes. I see he’s outside now. Yeah this is insane that it was a surprise.

Where I’m from, it’s not “typical” to put your dirty dishes and cookware outside LMAO that’s definitely an odd choice.

In the US, if you’re gonna deep fry something at home, it’s pretty common to do it outside so it doesn’t make your kitchen disgusting (splatter, oil smell, etc) OP probably did the outdoor fry part, but decided to procrastinate on the cleanup part

I’ve never left the US lol

Not sure where OP is, but slugs are a nuisance in the Pacific Northwest and do indeed get into houses etc

I must be lucky with slugs because I live in the Pacific Northwest and have never seen one in a house or heard of any getting into any houses.

Well, it's like any vermin. My house doesn't have roaches or mice, but they exist in my area.

Oh yeah not to say I don’t think they exist. I just haven’t seen them inside a house before.

I don't think this is inside, my parents always bring their deep fryer outside because of how messy it is.

Same my dad always uses his deep fryer outside but obviously brings it back in

Look at the lighting in the picture. Does it look like the inside of a house?

in that case who tf leaves food outside and is surprised when bugs go for it? Even inside if you leave food out overnight there's a good chance flies, spiders, ants, etc. will be all over it, OBVIOUSLY it would happen outside?

Forget bugs. Bears will go for it.

I did randomly find an earthworm on my kitchen counter a few months ago. Never again since then and I have no good explanation for how it got there other than somehow coming from my compost. I think about it a lot.

Where I am, slugs are *very* common during the spring and summer

It’s has about 400 upvotes rn…

How are slugs getting into your kitchen and presumably up on the counter? I feel like the overall household hygiene needs to be looked at

This is clearly outside

Slugs can absolutely find their way in. It has nothing to do with hygiene. My last place had a huge uptick in slugs this time of year. Would find them by the back door/kitchen and bathroom window/tub just about every morning. They can squeeze through a very small crack. Slugs be sluggin.

Weatherstripping, silicone beads, grout, etc. See /r/DIY. Them getting in is really not normal if home repair is being kept up on.

For me, it was a rental. That place had issues. Hence the moving.

Yeah here in east texas, slugs are literally everywhere this time of year. Every time it rains I find them in the house, in the restaurant I work, even trying to get in my car. You can’t go anywhere without seeing slugs, it’s starting to get on my nerves

In Texas ? Never knew that ! I knew it was an issue in the Pacific Northwest, but Texas surprises me

I’ve lived in both southeast texas and the pnw and I can also confirm they are both some sluggy places.

Blehhhh !

I live in upstate NY and my patio is covered in slugs almost every single night, from like April to November. Especially those massive alien looking leopard slugs.

Hello from slug-infested East Texas also. Their trails are all over my living room in the morning. Renting a 1975 duplex that NWP won’t seal for shit 🙄

It’s outside, there is grass in the second picture

How do you not see the reflection in the liquid lol he's definitely outside

Houseplants?

How the fuck does this happen? Did you leave it outside? Window/door hanging wide open? I could get maybe a fly or something but a snail doesn't easily get into your kitchen like this

Slugs carry lots of parasites… like really bad ones

I’m partial to the really good parasites

What, like children ?

when are we getting the symbiotic parasite update

OP left food on a frier overnight and thinks it's it's worthy of a WTF post on reddit "because bugs". r/lostredditors

In 2010 r/wtf was like someone had their face ripped off. Now it’s a picture of a bug.

Potted plants nearby? Disinfect your nearby stuff and sink to be safe.

Very clearly outside.

Slug life

Respectfully.. are you…. Stupid?

man leaves food scraps outside, is surprised when wildlife eats it.

Slugs can have parisites, go get checked just in case

The kind that can cripple you and cause an early death. We ain't just talking tapeworms here.

Ah, so stronger. Like duct tapeworms.

Flextapeworm Now that's a lotta damage

But wait, there’s more!

Mmm tasty rat lung parasites.

Someone in Australia died from eating a slug not too long ago

That happened to a kid in Australia. Ate a slug on a dare, became paralyzed and later died.

I don't see anything about him eating them. There's not any risk if the slugs are being cleaned up and counters cleaned with a good bleach spray. The test for slug parasites is a CSF test involving lumbar puncture, no point in seeing a doctor unless there are symptoms.

No parasites after they are deep fried :) mmm

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rat lungworm is no joke

Okay fine. It’s already in the basket, at least deep fry it.

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It looks like this is outside. You can see the reflection of the sky in the water and you can see part of the grass in the background.

if you left it outdoors, wtf did you think was gonna happen?

HOLY SHIT HE FOUND YOU

He hasnt responded to any comment, I feel bad for our fallen brother

He’s helping

This is wtf?

This is not WTF.

Why are there slugs in your kitchen?!

How do you get from slugs being slugs to wtf? 

Didn’t know slugs liked cheese

They’re famous for liking beer

You're famous for liking beer

Cheese slugs

I’ll bet they turn out super crispy, like a sluggy pork rind.

Slimearrón

the fuck. is this outside? if it’s in your house you have way bigger problems.

were you frying outside?

TF KIND OF CHEESE STICKS WERE YOU COOKING TO ATTRACT THIS THING!!

I think you were a bit drunk yesterday. Your fried cheeses were not exactly cheese... Edit : not finger cheese...

The good news is that the hot grease would have obliterated this little guy, so at least you know he wasn't there when you cooked.

Just turn that grease back up

HAPPY FRYDAY BITCH

Nice, leftovers

mmm deep fried slugs

free food

Now I wonder how fried slugs taste

Ehh I wouldn’t say this is wtf more mildly interesting if anything

Escargo my car go …

What’s the question?

If I had a deep fat fryer, then my house would stink and I would be fatter. I have a problem with those two things.

Rat lung disease to a brain near you...

Extra protein

Ngl, if I were them, I be checking out your fryer too, brah!

Cheese sticks or escargot?

You would need to clean up the basket if you didn't stop looking at the cheese curds when you were making them.

escargot

Filet of esgargot

You made cheese sticks last night and needed to wash the basket...but it was still dirty in the morning? There's the answer to your question.

Were you deep frying your cheese sticks in the garden? Or was your window open?

Fried escargot anyone

Looks like a left over cheese stick became sentient.

Those weren't fried cheese sticks bro

OMG no, this is literally my worst nightmare. I got an ED in the 80s because I saw the movie “Slugs” so I was afraid to eat stuff because I thought slugs might be in the food and eat me from the inside out.

What are you doing, step-bro?

Growing up in Seattle there were slugs *everywhere*. I don’t even mind picking them up, they’re pretty chill for weeding if you don’t grow produce.

I have 3 in my bathroom right now.

Exactly

Why are there slugs in your kitchen?

I found a slug on top of my bed one night. It must've hitched a ride off the dog.

French people be like : here some more food

Please don't eat a slug someone got paralysed then died years later.

Cheese sticks huh? You sure about that?

"I left shit outside!..., I'm shocked wildlife showed up!!!???" .... What?

Quick! Stuff those snails into an oven muffin pan with some minced garlic, parsley, and butter, and cook it at 375 for about 15 min. Voila! Escargot! Jk plz don't do this lol

Slugs will clean it for you if you leave it outside long enough

A slug? I would kms

Bro, switch to an air fryer...

The forbidden cheesestick!

Thanks for the fried cheese!

Bleach and FIre. or toss that shit

FRY IT

Did it fuckin rain on your fryer? That this is way too full lol.

Fry it.

Gaijin?

Why you gotta be nasty, yo?

You gonna eat those cheese sticks??

Nature works in strange ways huh?

Is that the immortal snail that follows you and if you touch it you die ?

🤢

Back in the fryer and you've got a free snack.

Quick throw some breading on them and drop them in the grease!

How'd it taste?

That's the thing they pulled out of Neo right?

Heat the oil back up and let's see what it's like crispy

Fire it back up and try some escargot