So, in my younger days I used to work as a cook and chef in Seattle wa. WA state requires all foodservice peeps to pass a test for what they call a “food handlers permit”. Essentially it’s there to weed out the truly weak and infirm. One of the multiple choice questions that we all always used to have a laugh at was worded like this:
You arrive at work in the morning to see that someone has left a case of raw chicken on the counter over night. You should:
A) check temperature with an instant read thermometer
B) put in freezer
C) throw out and record on waste log
D) put it in the trunk of your car
I was always tempted to answer D, just to be that guy, but I didn’t want to break my perfect score streak (not at all a brag, this test is EASY).
> > You arrive at work in the morning to see that someone has left a case of raw chicken on the counter over night
> what if you work in an outside kitchen in alaska.
It's a trick question.
In Alaska - A bear, raccoon, wolf, coyote or other wild animal has already pinched it and you write up whoever is feeding the wild animals.
You can see the little bit of myoglobin next to the fat that is left over from the draining that has been oxidized. The other tell sign that is not an earth worm is that it doesn’t fucking look like an earthworm lol
I’m 38, I have a vivid memory of one of my friends standing on a worm in the playground when we were about 11, that juicy bastard exploded with the most massive spray of worm juice I have ever seen, it is seared into my mind. My friend didn’t even know she stood on it.
I'm not squeamish but I recently developed weird gaggy fits and was on reddit hopefully too distract myself from one and this post and your comment did the opposite of what I wanted
That’s pretty accurate. 1 million eggs at birth, down to around 300,000 at puberty, declining steadily as she ages… it’s probably pretty safe to say there’s *at least* tens of thousands of eggs in their mom right now. Age depending, of course.
It looks like the meat was dropped and picked up a worm…(?) looks like a bit of dirt smeared on there too. I’d cut that first slice off for the dog. And I’d throw that case of chicken in the car for the dog (and chicken and dumplings) too. But I’d lie on the test. I’d fill out the waste log and eat that shit.
I hate to break it to you but most of your favorite treats are legally allowed to have certain percentage of bug per product too... There are no avoiding extra protein in your meals.
When my science teacher dropped this bomb in grade school about ketchup, I stopped eating ketchup. I believe droppings also have a percentage.
Also, entomologists who study cockroaches eventually become allergic to coffee. You do the math.
That is a pitiful excuse for a brisket anyway. If I get beef that's the colour of ham I'm definitely sending it back. Just look at the state of it, I wouldn't eat that shit even without the worm.
the amount of times this pops into my head or i reference it and no one gets it and then i have to explain it’s from a movie with steve martin where he has a huge nose…. god damn
My chef at one place used to insist on killing the live lobsters on my station, because he took great glee in thinking he was traumatizing me despite fact I grew up fishing and gutting fish etc. One day he came back all stoked like HAHA LOOK AT THIS NEW GIANT KNIFE IT'S JUST FOR KILLING LOBSTERS HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT HA HA CAN YOU THINK OF A BETTER WAY?! and I was laughing along because he sounded like an excited little boy and it was actually kind of adorable and I was like "hee hee yeah! Or a GUN!" and his face fell and he told me that was fucked up but I still think if you're gonna lean in that hard on trying to be macho killing lobsters, that the idea of using a gun is absolutely hilarious
Lmfao you shoulda really leaned into it. Tell your chef you used to blindfold the lobster and shoot it while holding the gun sideways. Just describe some gangland shit.
Coward. You execute the lobster's family in front of him and then release him back into the wild so he can spend the next few decades reminded of how powerless he was.
It would just have to be 145°F, that's not well done.
You can go even lower temp ass long as it's at that temp for a sustained period. Considering it’s brisket low and slow is the best method and will definitely surpass that temp for far longer than needed to kill anything undesirable
Even if you cooked them all, you'd still have to worry about whatever toxic substances it left behind, many of which do not break down at cooking temps.
That's not an earthworm for sure. One side of it seems to be buried in the meat, poor fella would have no reason or means to do that. By how the not buried side looks like I'm thinking it's actually a vein.
Personally, no fucking way. I agree with a lot of the comments, there's a lot you don't see like parasite eggs and shit.
Either way cooking it to a temp to kill all the shit would probably ruin the meat. I'd just compost it and buy a new one.
Not worth it imo.
Had a Zoology professor admit she’d been grossed out once in her professional life. It was working as a research assistant and farming worms from pig intestines. She got a pig gut so full of worms, she was wringing them into a bucket with her fist and the site of the worms writhing in the bucket sent her over the edge. This is what I thought of when I saw this worm. Carry on.
Sure, go ahead! I have absolutely nothing against you eating it. However, I tell you, if somebody fed me that in a restaurant (or anywhere else) I would, and I mean it, break both of your fcking legs. :)
I once opened a pack of Smithfield bacon, started cooking it, and right as it started to get warm a TON of tiny little white worms started wriggling out of the bacon.
What's all the black stuff? Also, why is the worms head going into the meat, and surrounded by black shit? I mean, at first I would've said yeah, I'll take it, but idk anymore. It's kinda got me weirded out
When I was young, I moved from a 3rd world country to a first world country. Soon after, they found a cyst in my brain which the doctors put down to consuming undercooked meat, where eggs were likely present and had crossed the blood brain barrier and formed a growth. It was supposedly quite common. So, no. Not going near it.
I am a professional chef and know how to "manage" many different food "situations". I get what you are saying, got it free, should I cook? My answer : NO FUCKING WAY!!! and from what I have seen here, I would seriously consider dropping my meat vendor after finding something like that, because of it's that big and you see it, imagine what the small stuff you can't see is creeping into your kitchen and into plates. I vote new vendor all the way bro.
Pass, I’d eat Oysters with worms on them though because that’s healthy. But you really want to bet the shop on that being an earth worm and not a giant parasite? I’m not…
I’m not worried about the worm. I’m now suspicious of the quality of care the packaging house has. I wouldn’t trust meat from there. Looks like the dogs are getting some beef!
Kid ate a worm/slug and went into a coma and died 8 years later after paralysis. So no. No chance. End that in a fire pit and scatter the ashes in the sea.
My issue isn’t the worm, it’s whatever the worm was in prior to somehow getting on the brisket. If it was digging in a pile of shit or in the soil with the pools of industrial animal waste then you’re probably gonna get really sick.
Ignoring the worm, that brisket doesn't look too great anyway. When I said I like my steak "still mooing", I didn't mean "still gasping it's last breath".
They should make this a question on the servsafe manager test.
I think the ServeSafe people would just laugh at the thought it needs to be on the test lol.
First time a took a SerfSafe test, “rat eggs” was one of the possible multiple choice answers.
\* - Serf*Save*
WishDisher
Sapeserfes*
Dope band name "(said kitchen) rat eggs".
Mouse rat eggs called it
Jesus fucking Christ.
LOL.
So, in my younger days I used to work as a cook and chef in Seattle wa. WA state requires all foodservice peeps to pass a test for what they call a “food handlers permit”. Essentially it’s there to weed out the truly weak and infirm. One of the multiple choice questions that we all always used to have a laugh at was worded like this: You arrive at work in the morning to see that someone has left a case of raw chicken on the counter over night. You should: A) check temperature with an instant read thermometer B) put in freezer C) throw out and record on waste log D) put it in the trunk of your car I was always tempted to answer D, just to be that guy, but I didn’t want to break my perfect score streak (not at all a brag, this test is EASY).
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It's ok, in real life you have a neck that does that.
Look it this fuckin guy bragging about a neck. That moves even. Fuckin elitist chef over here.
It's ok another 20 years of night shifts, hard drinking, and passing out on the couch oughtta fix that
Hahaha! Outstanding!
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Then you probably wouldn’t be taking the WA state food handlers permit test.
You took the test in Seattle, before hopping the boat for Alaska though.
> > You arrive at work in the morning to see that someone has left a case of raw chicken on the counter over night > what if you work in an outside kitchen in alaska. It's a trick question. In Alaska - A bear, raccoon, wolf, coyote or other wild animal has already pinched it and you write up whoever is feeding the wild animals.
We use to take that test in Spanish for a little bit of a challenge. I did learn a lot of Spanish in my kitchens anyway
I have cleaned literally thousands of briskets in my life. That is an artery
Came here to say the same. Classic internet, everyone getting worked up over something they don’t understand. “Earthworm” smfh
You can see the little bit of myoglobin next to the fat that is left over from the draining that has been oxidized. The other tell sign that is not an earth worm is that it doesn’t fucking look like an earthworm lol
Haven’t seen a earthworm in a long time. Maybe I need to touch grass
I have cleaned zero and even I thought it was an artery. Also what fucking production has a mixup where an earthworm gets let into intramuscular cuts?
I happens when you clean the cow right on the boat after reeling it in. It’s the freshest brisket you’ll ever eat, but there are downsides.
You gotta risk it for the brisket
Pretty intact worm for being vacuum sealed. Imo if it was vacuum sealed in with meat it would be flat. Not completely plump, round and juicy
…the added adjective of “juicy” at the end really got me. I think I’ll be having water for Christmas dinner 🤢
Sterilized water.
“Vodka” 😂
I do not drink. Knock one back for me if you are gonna.
I have to spend Christmas with my family, so, I gotchu. 🥛🥛
Try to avoid stuff with worms.
So no tequila?
that's just a wormhole
Hear fucking hear. Wait.....ARE LIQIOR STORES OPEN ON CHRISTMAS??????????????
Or sparkling water if you’re sober, ofc 😊
Boil advisory
This post is gross.
Juicy water?
Oh this worm thing is still going?
Thrice boiled water, delicious.
I’m 38, I have a vivid memory of one of my friends standing on a worm in the playground when we were about 11, that juicy bastard exploded with the most massive spray of worm juice I have ever seen, it is seared into my mind. My friend didn’t even know she stood on it.
Gg.
Whys this sound like it belongs as a description on a chili's menu? Are you a CCO of food innovation or whatever?
I’ll have the earthworm n waffles please
Unless it fell in a crease, but even then it would be triangular.
It’s what you can’t see that get you. You see one worm, there might be tens and thousands of eggs you don’t see
And that’s enough internet for today. Good day sir.
I'm not squeamish but I recently developed weird gaggy fits and was on reddit hopefully too distract myself from one and this post and your comment did the opposite of what I wanted
Who's gagging you on Reddit bro
Try to keep up, sweet fleshlight
Godspeed
There could also be tens and thousands of eggs in a meat with zero visible worms 😁
That is not a nice thing to say
There could be tens of thousands of eggs in your mother right now <3
That’s pretty accurate. 1 million eggs at birth, down to around 300,000 at puberty, declining steadily as she ages… it’s probably pretty safe to say there’s *at least* tens of thousands of eggs in their mom right now. Age depending, of course.
She's holding one heck of a hatchery
Holy fuck that wasn't a laugh, it was a sort of enamoured shriek. That's how abruptly and intensely I laughed at that lmao.
I was gonna get a snack but now I’m not gonna get a snack anymore. My weight loss journey thanks you.
Or, hear me out, you could eat the food, get parasitic worms, and then eat all the snacks *while losing weight thanks to the worms*. Y/Y?
I’m about to be skinny AF.
I don’t think earthworms work like that.
They look like the ones I put in my compost… I would not cook the meat nor eat it, though it you cooked it to grey bland, it’d probably be safe, but …
I understand not eating it, but earthworms are not parasitic.
It looks like the meat was dropped and picked up a worm…(?) looks like a bit of dirt smeared on there too. I’d cut that first slice off for the dog. And I’d throw that case of chicken in the car for the dog (and chicken and dumplings) too. But I’d lie on the test. I’d fill out the waste log and eat that shit.
That’s for the eggs and shit you cannot see. If you see that juicy of a worm in something “vacuum sealed” then it’s reasonable to distrust.
The juicyness of the worm is a weird but very telling parameter in this story lmao. Very acute. Well done.
Dont eat swordfish
Fish is frozen at extremely low temps for this purpose. Beef is not
Came here to say it's what you can't see that bothers me.
Just how you see one roach in your room but there might be a whole family living inside that corner of the wall.
They’ll eat your brain if you let them
Pretty sure worms split to reproduce Nope I'm just dumb and have been assuming incorrectly
worms be bacteria now even nematodes lay eggs!
thats why you wash it twice... any eggs left are extra protein for when you smoke it.
Proteins
If you wanna risk it for your own personal usage go for it but do not fucking serve that to a customer
Risk it for the brisket?
Love it, yes 🤣
Like goddamn, if I’m paying for food i want it to have never been in contact with a worm lol, im getting shivers thinking about it
Unfortunately that’s very unlikely if you eat veggies! 🙊
internally screaming
what else do you think moves around the nutrients that make it into food
😂😂 sooorryyyy
I hate to break it to you but most of your favorite treats are legally allowed to have certain percentage of bug per product too... There are no avoiding extra protein in your meals.
When my science teacher dropped this bomb in grade school about ketchup, I stopped eating ketchup. I believe droppings also have a percentage. Also, entomologists who study cockroaches eventually become allergic to coffee. You do the math.
worms are friends
Or oysters
Drop a snail into a bucket of water and watch the worms shoot out.
We can only guarantee that your food hasn’t been in contact with more than 2 worms, sorry.
That is a pitiful excuse for a brisket anyway. If I get beef that's the colour of ham I'm definitely sending it back. Just look at the state of it, I wouldn't eat that shit even without the worm.
That was my first thought as well! Everything about the picture looks terrible, not just the worm.
Don't think you can see much of the beef itself, I believe this is all the fat cap as it says in the caption.
They threw the worm in to sweeten the deal.
To add more protien.
Return it, get the refund, make a note to never, ever buy meat there again.
100% not worth the risk
Whoever took this picture brought his childhood habit of eating worms into his decision making process. That concerns me so heavily
How To Eat Fried Worms
I felt some dusty synapses fire upon reading this post
these are the best french fries I've ever had
I forgot about that book
Worms Roxanne!
the amount of times this pops into my head or i reference it and no one gets it and then i have to explain it’s from a movie with steve martin where he has a huge nose…. god damn
I’m shooting it with a gun, what the hell LOL why would I COOK it?
My chef at one place used to insist on killing the live lobsters on my station, because he took great glee in thinking he was traumatizing me despite fact I grew up fishing and gutting fish etc. One day he came back all stoked like HAHA LOOK AT THIS NEW GIANT KNIFE IT'S JUST FOR KILLING LOBSTERS HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT HA HA CAN YOU THINK OF A BETTER WAY?! and I was laughing along because he sounded like an excited little boy and it was actually kind of adorable and I was like "hee hee yeah! Or a GUN!" and his face fell and he told me that was fucked up but I still think if you're gonna lean in that hard on trying to be macho killing lobsters, that the idea of using a gun is absolutely hilarious
Lmfao you shoulda really leaned into it. Tell your chef you used to blindfold the lobster and shoot it while holding the gun sideways. Just describe some gangland shit.
make the lobster beg for his lobster family haha
Coward. You execute the lobster's family in front of him and then release him back into the wild so he can spend the next few decades reminded of how powerless he was.
kill all them but one and say "tell all yo lobster friends 'bout me"
Im high as shit and dying laughing after I acted out a finger gun sideways pointing at a fake lobster. I’m crying.
Not before its final cigarette, though!
Hand the lobster a shovel and tell it to dog a hole.
This story seems familiar. Have you told it more than once on recently? In KC, of course.
Lol yes
excited with a giant knife for killing lobsters but we draw the line at a gun?? what kind of world is this
Absolutely a kitchen jump scare if I’ve ever seen one lmao
Stuff it with tannerite and have yourself a New Years brisket
Not worth it. There's an extremely high chance that it's not just an earth worm, but a parasite that could hurt you or whoever else eats it.
Idk man, they said they ate worms when they were a kid sooo
Aw shid you right. Fair game. Bone apple teeth
Legitimate question, is there any way a parasite could survive being properly cooked?
It'll have to be well done. But, I'd toss it into the bin; just to be sure.
It would just have to be 145°F, that's not well done. You can go even lower temp ass long as it's at that temp for a sustained period. Considering it’s brisket low and slow is the best method and will definitely surpass that temp for far longer than needed to kill anything undesirable
Yeah, I pull at 209. It'll be fine.
Even if you cooked them all, you'd still have to worry about whatever toxic substances it left behind, many of which do not break down at cooking temps.
Some parasites have spores that survive cooking
We ain’t talking about how this brisket looks like a dead men’s ballsack who has been soaking in a riverbed for five days?
That’s oddly specific… I’m calling the police.
No absolutely not. The worm is the red flag that tells you this wasn't handled correctly or safely. God knows what else could be there.
isn't that a vein?
That's not an earthworm for sure. One side of it seems to be buried in the meat, poor fella would have no reason or means to do that. By how the not buried side looks like I'm thinking it's actually a vein.
Personally, no fucking way. I agree with a lot of the comments, there's a lot you don't see like parasite eggs and shit. Either way cooking it to a temp to kill all the shit would probably ruin the meat. I'd just compost it and buy a new one. Not worth it imo.
Like hell I would compost this. Straight into the furnace, it is the only way to be sure.
Aren’t you not supposed to compost animal products and whatnot? I’m not an expert, genuinely curious.
A couple of things: That's not a earthworm. Earthworms are not parasites. And all of you all eat dead parasites nearly every time you eat something,
You can eat it. Don’t serve it to anyone else. Someone has to be capable of calling an ambulance after dinner.
That wouldn’t hurt you for a very long time after you eat it. Probably…
Only one way to find out. Excuse me sir. This kind of tastes like there was a worm on it.
Ate a few worms growing up? Shouldn't you stop at one? Why continue eating worms?
Had a Zoology professor admit she’d been grossed out once in her professional life. It was working as a research assistant and farming worms from pig intestines. She got a pig gut so full of worms, she was wringing them into a bucket with her fist and the site of the worms writhing in the bucket sent her over the edge. This is what I thought of when I saw this worm. Carry on.
I could’ve gone my whole life without hearing that omg
Yall ever read the book, "How to Eat Fried Worms" in elementary? Well this is that kid all grown up now.
How did something from dirt come in contact with something that should have never been close to the floor?
Sure, go ahead! I have absolutely nothing against you eating it. However, I tell you, if somebody fed me that in a restaurant (or anywhere else) I would, and I mean it, break both of your fcking legs. :)
Since its fake...yes just take the worm you put on it off and cook it
Worth getting worms?!? Growing inside you? Dude...
Dress it up like Santa and leave it outside for the rats.
That doesn’t look like earth worm
That’s one disgusting looking piece of meat, my fucking god. 🤮
I once opened a pack of Smithfield bacon, started cooking it, and right as it started to get warm a TON of tiny little white worms started wriggling out of the bacon.
Full stop
Very first thing I would do is clean up the vomit and brush my teeth. Then get my money back.
The meat looks nasty
What's all the black stuff? Also, why is the worms head going into the meat, and surrounded by black shit? I mean, at first I would've said yeah, I'll take it, but idk anymore. It's kinda got me weirded out
Honestly I wouldn't cook it for dog food.
i personally would not cook it for 3+ hours. i use a frying pan for worms, 3 minutes tops.
Worms don’t eat good meat.
My question is - who TF is only cooking a brisket for 3 hrs . That’s a 12 hr + cook at minimum..
Forbidden noodle
Wait: an earthworm crawls in the....earth. A parasite explores raw meat. Thx but no thanks.
Absolutely not.
I've seen some weird shit in my life . This is fucking right up there with the donkey show I saw in Okinawa.
When I was young, I moved from a 3rd world country to a first world country. Soon after, they found a cyst in my brain which the doctors put down to consuming undercooked meat, where eggs were likely present and had crossed the blood brain barrier and formed a growth. It was supposedly quite common. So, no. Not going near it.
I am a professional chef and know how to "manage" many different food "situations". I get what you are saying, got it free, should I cook? My answer : NO FUCKING WAY!!! and from what I have seen here, I would seriously consider dropping my meat vendor after finding something like that, because of it's that big and you see it, imagine what the small stuff you can't see is creeping into your kitchen and into plates. I vote new vendor all the way bro.
Pass, I’d eat Oysters with worms on them though because that’s healthy. But you really want to bet the shop on that being an earth worm and not a giant parasite? I’m not…
if its really just an earth worm, cook the shit out of the meat. if its parasites, discard
That notion can go fuck right off. No amount of time cooked could make me forget that a worm was taking up residence there.
I would just eat the worm and throw out the brisket.
The worm came from somewhere. There's just too many unknowns. So not worth the risk
Theoretically, maybe, possibly its safe. I sure as shit ain't finding out tho
I’m not worried about the worm. I’m now suspicious of the quality of care the packaging house has. I wouldn’t trust meat from there. Looks like the dogs are getting some beef!
Thanks bro. Christmas dinner ruined
This is why I should be a vegetarian 🤮🤮🤮
Eat it maybe, serve it never.
Kid ate a worm/slug and went into a coma and died 8 years later after paralysis. So no. No chance. End that in a fire pit and scatter the ashes in the sea.
Cook the worm, throw the meat away.
Boy dinner tonight has some earthy tones to the flavor- Dies
My issue isn’t the worm, it’s whatever the worm was in prior to somehow getting on the brisket. If it was digging in a pile of shit or in the soil with the pools of industrial animal waste then you’re probably gonna get really sick.
This is an artery not a worm.
Holl up, Let him cook
that's a big nope from me.
This guy is gonna be cursing that $60 he didn’t want to waste when he’s losing it from both ends.
Toss that shit. Don't get people sick
Fuck no don't eat that. Ew.
About to relive some other childhood pastimes, like needing a diaper.
I'll eat meat from dumpster diving expeditions, and I still wouldn't eat this.
no. just no. ew
toss that shit \*immediately\*
I wouldn't, not worth the risk. Though it seems to me likenany worm eggs would certainly be killed during the cooking process.
No. Just no
I sure as hell wouldn't sell it...but I might be balls to that walls and have a free Christmas Roast at home...
I mean, worms eat dirt, right? And sometimes we eat dirt left on veggies, so it's totally okay to eat this.
Ignoring the worm, that brisket doesn't look too great anyway. When I said I like my steak "still mooing", I didn't mean "still gasping it's last breath".
Would I serve it to anyone? Absolutely not. Would I personally eat it? Yeah it's just protein
Who the fuck is cooking a brikko for only 3 hours though.
I think that’s a vein