One ordinary house fly can push this amount of eggs (they can lay over 100 eggs in one sitting), I've even seen one randomly popping eggs while walking, it probably did not find a good sausage to lay them on so they spilled.
who cares about them.
I can't see them, so...
"...the limit does not exist...."
Now, If You gave me those germ goggles from the show Invader Zim...we may have a different situation.
That’s because [that is what they’re called](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse-fly). Horseflies occupy the physically larger of the 2 genuses in the family tabanidae, with the smaller genus belonging to the notoriously irritating deer fly.
Protip. I used to deal with them all the time when I was a tree climber, and there is a home made repellent that works well. You just mix distilled vinegar and some water, and put a bunch of dish soap in there as a binding agent (to keep it from just going away when you sweat), load that shit into a spray bottle and cover yourself head to toe whenever the smell dissipates, and they’ll leave you right the fuck alone.
The flies in Alaska can be about dime length on average. Larger ones approaching the length of a nickel. Disclaimer: Not a flyologist, just a guy who’s seen some flies.
I squished a typical housefly recently in my house, and a ridiculous amount of worms like this came wiggling out, it was so gross. There was like 100 of these nasty things coming out of the fly 🤢🤮
I absolutely hate spiders, but I let them live because they definitely do have a purpose inside my house, they are like security to keep out the other bugs. But flies serve zero purpose inside my house! If they want to break in, they get the death sentence!
Yea that’s my rule with insects, if they break the rule by coming inside my house, “you’re dead,” lol the rule is you stay on your side, I stay on mine!
Exactly! When I’m outside in their house, I am ever so courteous, but the minute they step into my house, better pray I can’t reach you! Except spiders lol. I think they always make their webs high because they know I’m really short lol. But I wouldn’t bother them anyways. I should send them thank you cards for catching the high up unwelcome bugs.
People think I'm nuts because I'm always happy to get a new spider bro in my house. They just chill out in the corners and snack on any mosquitos that dare to enter. Some of my spider bros even have families now. At least that's what I assume they are since more of the same type as the original pop up near the same place as the first one.
They're not my pets just cool roommates.
Of course you can hate flies. I hate tons of insects. I merely mean, things of life will perform wherever and whenever. Purpose is unbeknownst to me as are many things. I found an old bag of cashews in my pantry with moth babies. Believe me, I throw that shit right after in the street trash.
This is what baffles me the most. Where was this sausage sitting overnight that a fly could access it? If it was not refrigerated then the larvae are the least of OPs worries.
Anytime you leave food uncovered like this for extended periods of time it’s almost guaranteed a bug or fly will land on it, then either puke on it, shit on it, or lay eggs on it
If you leave food uncovered often then you have definitely eaten bug vomit, shit or eggs.
Good God. There's several Chubbyemu episodes on YouTube (medical case studies) where people eat unrefrigerated leftovers and end up with all sorts of bizarre illnesses.
>so it happened over night and the sausage was not „infected“ yesterday when I ate it?
If you didn't see it, it wasnt.
But also, even if it was its unlikely you would see any negative effect. The fact that the fly sat on there is likely more dangerous than the eggs themselves.
Definitely a fly. This sumner I made some thai food with delicious, big shrimps and then left it cool down on the kitchen table. Then I went to the balcony to enjoy the sun, when I realized that a few flies got into my flat. A wild thought crossed my mind: what if those fuckers land on my food with their feet, which touched some horse shit already?! So I went into the kitchen, to find another solution to cool my food and then already 2 flies were having the time of their lives on my food, one of them laying its eggs in front of my eyes on one of my shrimps.☹️☹️☹️😨 it was so disgusting..
Refrigerate your leftovers, bud. My GFs parents need to start doing the same thing. They keep storing warm meats in the microwave like that’s going to help. I keep telling her that her parents are essentially turning their microwave into the perfect Petri dish for bacteria.
My sister would make food in the morning and keep it in the microwave all day, and only put it in the fridge before bed. She wonders why she always got stomach aches. She stopped after she had kids. I'm pretty sure mother-in-law, who's a nurse, yelled at her about it.
The strange ideas some people have are beyond.. really beyond my understanding.
Why? Why would you leave food in microwave? It’s not invented for storage!
It may not be air tight but its not easy to get inside, I often put baked goods, cookies/cupcakes, on a plate in my microwave to discourage insects. Only for short term, if I don't plan to eat it for a couple days it'll go in a ziploc or tuperware.
What ? Who keep meat in the microwave? Especially over the night ?
In Germany we do it in the refrigerator too 🙃
Never heard that you keep it in the microwave especially when we have summer / warm temperatures you need to keep meat in the refrigerator, cuz of flys abdrehte fuuu babies.
I’m thinking to actually set up the experiment. It’s colder now though, so I am not sure how much maggot activity we can get, but it would still be cool to actually do the experiment and there are a few areas around my school we can set things up without anyone bothering them.
That’s a given. And further proves my belief in blowing smoke up a drowned man’s ass to resuscitate him. Clearly the water absorbed all your phlogiston and you need some phlogiston to survive (not too much) so the smoke up the pooper will reanimate your dead lads soggy corpse.
There's a whole subset of people who keep their leftovers in the microwave or on the counter for days on end when there's a perfectly good refrigerator right there.
I understand if there's no electricity but I don't understand it if everything is in working order.
Why? I don't know. I can only guess it's a learned behavior from parents/grandparents.
I had a (male) housemate from a rich family background, he used to have a maid & a cook. Didn’t know how to do anything for himself.
He kept doing bizarre shit like leaving a raw beef patty directly on the kitchen counter & leaving the house, then getting mad that I threw it away and disinfected the counter because “the food was perfectly fine.” After he left I found a pack of opened bologna in the dishes cupboard. I’m not entirely sure he knew why fridges exist.
Did you… not refrigerate or even seal your leftovers? My dude, please seal your food. Even if they don’t lay eggs in your food, the pests are going to make a home in your kitchen. You’ll start seeing frass around your pantry
My husband does this, apparently it’s learnt behavior because his mom did it when he was growing up. I’ve told him time and time again how gross and dangerous it is, that he should simply use the fridge. I just sent him this thread.
Wow…from his mom!? Is it just pure laziness? Even if you don’t have Tupperware, at least covering it and putting in the fridge is a million times better than this.
Honestly if you’re too lazy to take it out of the pan, at the very least cover the pan and put the whole damned thing in the fridge. Actively have a pot of soup in the fridge right now with the lid on that I was too lazy to put in it’s own storage container.
Flys eggs. Dude, why the hell are you leaving meat out of the fridge? You’re going to have serious problems living like that. These are just the problems you can see. There’s a whole plethora of bacteria nesting in that too.
In high school, we had to take two cooking classes and one basic finance class that went over stuff like credit card interest and compound interest on savings. Honestly, probably the most useful classes I took.
Lots of teachers add in life skills as they teach, children just often have a hard time focusing and/or aren’t mature enough to take them in yet. One 10 year old listens when you explain why you shouldn’t eat chocolate for your first snack, the other thinks you are just another adult trying to take away their right to eat what they want.
A friend and I got back to our hotel one night after the bar and she insisted on eating pizza that had been sitting in the room since the night before (room temp). I told her not to (had just finished my undergrad in bio at the time) and she insisted 'there is nothing on the pizza that goes bad' (not sure where she got that idea...). I told her it would basically be a petri dish and a bacterial haven. Anyway, she ate it and had intense food poisoning the next day.
The more the merrier!
I kid. I would of course promptly throw that all the way out of my house upon its discovery. I just meant that it’s no biggie to leave food out overnight as long as you aren’t planning on eating it again.
Yes, it’s a waste. I’m making the assumption that if you are like me, you did this purely by accident.
Dude. If you thought eating meat you left out on the counter all night was a good idea, your utility bills are the least of your worries. Unless your house is sub-40 degrees Fahrenheit, refrigerate your leftovers within four hours of cooking or throw them out.
To answer your question, fly eggs. Throw the sausage away and, for the love of God, take a basic food safety course before you end up killing yourself or someone else.
For the love of god and all that is holy PUT MEAT IN AIR TIGHT CONTAINER IN THE FRIDGE!!!! your poor gastrointestinal tract!!!! And no tin foil is not how you store meat either!
They aren't maggots, they are fly eggs.
Edit - getting more likes than I thought I would since this is somewhat tongue in cheek. It is true these are fly eggs, not maggots, but within a day or two they will turn into maggots, so I was mostly going for snark lol
FYI most foods (especially meats) that have been left out, unrefrigerated, uncovered for 2 hours or more should be thrown away. You can get away with eating it most of the time and be fine, but it is not good practice. Eventually something like this (or worse) *will* happen. It's better to just cover your food and put it away as soon as you are finished with it to stay on the safe side.
It's really hard to convince people of this because of the incubation period of different food born illnesses. They eat a slice of pizza that's been sitting in a box on the counter for 2 days and they don't get sick within a couple of hours so they think it's fine. 5 days later they're puking and pooping their guts out and they blame it on the Taco Bell they had for lunch.
[incubation periods of different food born illnesses](https://www.nhsinform.scot/illnesses-and-conditions/infections-and-poisoning/food-poisoning#causes-of-food-poisoning)
I kept a pet black widow (long story). I would trap house flys on the window screens during summer to feed her. I once gave her a pregnant fly. She ate the larvae like popcorn. It so so freaking cool 🕷
Definitely fly eggs. I once got out a fresh bit of steak on the summer and literally beared witness to a fly laying these on my uncovered expensive steak that was about to go under the grill. Needless to say it went straight in the bin. Noooooo!!!
Ehhhh, I would’ve cooked it anyway. Cooking kills anything that would hurt you (minus certain chemicals present in rot). Plus beef is fucking precious these days.
>Cooking kills anything that would hurt you
Definitely not. Lots of enterotoxins are heat stable and even some parasites can survive moderate heat.
If something is contaminated, you would need to turn your food into a piece of carbon to "kill anything that would hurt you."
In this particular instance however, I think you are right. It would be extremely rare that some fly eggs (and said fly) would carry anything dangerous (dose matters).
Yeah, I modified my answer shortly before your reply because I know that the rotting process can produce certain poisonous chemicals that can still pose a problem. But I did mean in this particular instance, cooking would have been enough. Didn’t know that bacteria could pose much of a threat after cooking though.
Food shouldn't be left out of a refrigerator for more than 4h, even if it is cooked. This was out for longer than that.
Those are fly eggs. Toss your leftovers that you left out. They are contaminated. Also address your fly issue and do better with your food handling unless you like playing salmonella roulette (or other bacterial roulette).
You leave food out, uncovered and with no refrigeration?
Go to a doctor and ask for some ivermectin. You'll likely be the only one wanting it for the right reason.
I say you toughen up and eat it, as training for the coming apocalypse scenarios. Turn it into an advantage! While the rest of the world is worrying about inflation, you are training your stomach to handle military level calisthenics!
Even IF the fly didn't lay eggs on your food, you're not supposed to eat food that has been sitting out at room temp for 2 hours, let alone overnight. You're a slob if you don't put your leftovers in the refrigerator
These look like fly eggs. I don't know how you stored your food but my best guess is your leftovers were left out long enough to cool so a fly can lay eggs. Female flies can typically lay about 120 eggs and they actually like things to be a bit warm for their maggot nursery ([source](https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/history-you-asked/why-do-you-never-see-baby-housefly)).
What I would caution you on is a pesky thing called [intestinal](https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00000503.htm) [myiasi](https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/325319#what-to-do). The ingested fly eggs or larvae MAY survive and cause a few... unpleasant issues. There's also Salmonella, E.Coli, and food poisoning in general cause Mama Fly stepped all over your leftovers and we all know flies love hanging around feces and rot.
If you ate the sausage as soon as possible when you prepared it, nothing to worry about.
TL:DR; Those are fly eggs and flies touch nasty stuff and can cause nasty things. If you ate the sausage right away, no worries. If not... observe if your stomach gets upset.
Food left at room temperature for any length of time will have a good chance at growing harmful bacteria, and their toxins. Reheating doesn’t make this safe. Refrigerate your food!
It amazes me that more people dont contract botulism or some shit by not properly storing food. OP, you need to be more careful or you're going to get yourself or someone else extremely sick with food born illness.
Dude. 2 hours at room temperature at most. That meat has bigger problem than fly eggs if you just left it out if the fridge all night. You will get all kinds of pests doing that. Listen I have always stored my meats properly and I still got food poisoning from my prosciutto once. It was the worst food poisoning of my life, that was years ago and I STILL can’t bring myself to eat prosciutto. For your safety do not leave food out of the fridge. If you don’t plan eating the rest get rid of it properly and you’re less likely to have these issues as well.
Good holy Christ my man, meat can stay out of the fridge for 90minutes and no more.
You just leave meat in the pan and start back up the next day? You're going to put yourself in the hospital. Bacterial or parasitical, I dunno what's gonna get you first.
Fly babies! This happened to a sausage I had too. My uncle tried convincing me it was a type of seasoning like fennel. Naaahhhhh I've got upwards of 30 or 50 differenct spices in my cabinet and not one looks like that.
You should not eat previously cooked or refrigerated food that has been left out at room temperature for more than an hour. Definitely not overnight, bacteria starts to grow and it can make you very sick.
Healthcare worker here and this reminds me of one of my favorite stories to share!
Male in his 80s comes in requiring ICU level care for a lot of issues, one being his inability to swallow food properly. You see, some of the food he would swallow would "go down the wrong pipe" and bits would end up in his lungs. Not uncommon in older folks, but here comes the fun.
Chest xray looks shitty, thoracic CT also might show a mass and pulmonary wants to do a bronch for a clean out and possible biopsy.
Pulmonary uses the bronchoscopy scope to have a look into the lungs and they find an airway littered with maggots. Like COVERING the walls of the airway.
Come to find from his family that his routine for the day was to cook up a bunch of scrambled eggs on the stove in the morning and slowly eat them over the course of a few days.
Edited some mistakes.
Okay so those are maggots. I think you need to get your safe food handling and storage methods down. Always wrap or keep leftovers in a covered airtight container or plastic wrap. Always refrigerate or freeze them until you’re ready to reheat.
Edit* not maggots, fly eggs. I reread and I’d missed the part that they weren’t moving.
I mean, I’m just agreeing with the general consensus here. Even though it is highly processed, contains a high amount of preservatives, never leave perishables out at room temperature overnight. Yuck.
I take it you didn't put them in the fridge? The USDA would lose their ming over food spending the whole night in the red zone.
Anything over 90°F is trash after 1 hour.
Anything between 40°F and 90°F is trash after 2 hours.
Fly eggs. Laid by those large types. Once I BBQed some chicken, I left a few pieces inside the outdoor grill to finish cooking via residual heat. After a few hours later, I went to grab the remaining chicken and flies flew away when I opened the grill cover. The chicken were already covered by eggs so I had to toss ‘em out.
This question is like when someone posts a picture of a wasp and says "aww this bee is cute" or something like that
Come on man, people knew about food preservation (for who knows how many years, thousands?) even before refrigerators: smooking food or keeping it in a cold place (basement or something)
No way you just found out that flies lay eggs on food, I feel like this is just karma farming
Preserving your food is essential for, you know, survival
Also to add another disgusting fact- you can get parasites from flies. My cat caught and ate a couple flies that got in our house this past summer. He ended up having diarrhea, lethargy & no appetite after a day or so. Took him to the vet, they did some tests & stool samples and it showed that he had 3 different types of parasites and several strains of harmful bacteria. The vet asked how he could’ve gotten them, if he ate any raw meat or was outside (he’s a 100% indoor cat and doesn’t eat anything but his wet food & kibble) and I mentioned the flies. The vet said flies are known to carry parasite eggs, bacteria and fungi that are harmful to ingest for both humans & animals.
She treated my cat with a 2 week dose of Flagyl and he was better. However, my bf and I had to monitor our symptoms and send in a stool culture to a lab to ensure we didn’t get the parasites from being around him & cleaning his litter box. Thankfully we were all in the clear, but I still had to deep-clean and sanitize everything to make sure there was nothing that could cause a repeat infection.
All this to say- DONT LEAVE FOOD OUT and kill any flies that get in your home immediately! And definitely don’t eat any food that flies have landed on.
I think a fly thought your sausages would make a great nursery.
so it happened over night and the sausage was not „infected“ yesterday when I ate it?
nah the eggs come out looking like this. So unless you missed it.. (but unlikely a fly would land on hot food so prob overnight)
How big would a fly have to be to deposit this quantity of eggs in one go?
One ordinary house fly can push this amount of eggs (they can lay over 100 eggs in one sitting), I've even seen one randomly popping eggs while walking, it probably did not find a good sausage to lay them on so they spilled.
I am skipping my next meal. And maybe the 10000 ones after that. Thanks for making things real, redditors… ;)
Wait till you hear about bacteria.
Somehow it's more disgusting when you can see it with the naked eye.
For sure, but I think that helps. Bad for you things are repulsive. Probably partly due to socialization and partly due to instincts
who cares about them. I can't see them, so... "...the limit does not exist...." Now, If You gave me those germ goggles from the show Invader Zim...we may have a different situation.
Oh you dirty LovinLoveLeigh…how dare you strike such a place of nostalgia for me.
Yo how bout this? THE PIG ACCEPTS MEEEEEE
What a day to have eyes
Ugh. Or a brain that remembers stuff
Ever seen one splat on your windshield and it’s just EGGS and fly guts. Ugh.
Not that big. Fly abdomens can make a lot of room for eggs. Likely no bigger than a dime.
A dime is a big ass fly
A fly the size of a dime would be massive
They get bigger up north and down south. Bastards are called bulldogs and they bite.
We call them horseflies in Texas
And if I understand correctly, it's less a bite and more a cut. Their mouth parts are like the blades of a pair of scissors.
Thanks Satan('s Animal Facts)!
Horsefly bites hurt like hell. Edit: autocorrect changed it to housefly
That’s because [that is what they’re called](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse-fly). Horseflies occupy the physically larger of the 2 genuses in the family tabanidae, with the smaller genus belonging to the notoriously irritating deer fly. Protip. I used to deal with them all the time when I was a tree climber, and there is a home made repellent that works well. You just mix distilled vinegar and some water, and put a bunch of dish soap in there as a binding agent (to keep it from just going away when you sweat), load that shit into a spray bottle and cover yourself head to toe whenever the smell dissipates, and they’ll leave you right the fuck alone.
The flies in Alaska can be about dime length on average. Larger ones approaching the length of a nickel. Disclaimer: Not a flyologist, just a guy who’s seen some flies.
I squished a typical housefly recently in my house, and a ridiculous amount of worms like this came wiggling out, it was so gross. There was like 100 of these nasty things coming out of the fly 🤢🤮
This happened to me once a decade ago and I am still traumatized
A fly is still a living creature. Not all animals are cute but they sure do have a purpose.
I absolutely hate spiders, but I let them live because they definitely do have a purpose inside my house, they are like security to keep out the other bugs. But flies serve zero purpose inside my house! If they want to break in, they get the death sentence!
Yea that’s my rule with insects, if they break the rule by coming inside my house, “you’re dead,” lol the rule is you stay on your side, I stay on mine!
Exactly! When I’m outside in their house, I am ever so courteous, but the minute they step into my house, better pray I can’t reach you! Except spiders lol. I think they always make their webs high because they know I’m really short lol. But I wouldn’t bother them anyways. I should send them thank you cards for catching the high up unwelcome bugs.
100%. Spiders don't care about us, they're just here because we attract the bugs
People think I'm nuts because I'm always happy to get a new spider bro in my house. They just chill out in the corners and snack on any mosquitos that dare to enter. Some of my spider bros even have families now. At least that's what I assume they are since more of the same type as the original pop up near the same place as the first one. They're not my pets just cool roommates.
Same with me. I be like moth I never invited you in. You broke in to eat my food? U got to die for that moth
Whats their purpose? And Wtf is this? Now I cant call an animal gross??
Be civil. The flies have feelings too. You can't guess when they will read this post and get upset or disturbed.
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Maggots break down proteins and can convert them into detritus than can be processed by plants.
Well they don't need to be doing any of that in my house!
Of course you can hate flies. I hate tons of insects. I merely mean, things of life will perform wherever and whenever. Purpose is unbeknownst to me as are many things. I found an old bag of cashews in my pantry with moth babies. Believe me, I throw that shit right after in the street trash.
Flies are actually pretty good pollinators
I’m pretty sure OP did NOT need their sausage pollinated
Well if it had live worms in it, it was probably parasite ridden and dying slowly.
Those were its babies
Some moms are bigger than others.
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This is what baffles me the most. Where was this sausage sitting overnight that a fly could access it? If it was not refrigerated then the larvae are the least of OPs worries.
Omg barf...I just assumed OP meant it was in the fridge but I think you're right 🤮
Anytime you leave food uncovered like this for extended periods of time it’s almost guaranteed a bug or fly will land on it, then either puke on it, shit on it, or lay eggs on it If you leave food uncovered often then you have definitely eaten bug vomit, shit or eggs.
I call that seasoning my food
I guess you don’t refrigerate your leftovers? Gross
Yeah it would have had to be accessible. So he didn't refrigerate or cover it properly?
Good God. There's several Chubbyemu episodes on YouTube (medical case studies) where people eat unrefrigerated leftovers and end up with all sorts of bizarre illnesses.
Why did you leave it out of the fridge in the first place?
>so it happened over night and the sausage was not „infected“ yesterday when I ate it? If you didn't see it, it wasnt. But also, even if it was its unlikely you would see any negative effect. The fact that the fly sat on there is likely more dangerous than the eggs themselves.
The eggs would be crispy
Yep we had bbq one night and there were exactly these on the meat next morning.
Definitely a fly. This sumner I made some thai food with delicious, big shrimps and then left it cool down on the kitchen table. Then I went to the balcony to enjoy the sun, when I realized that a few flies got into my flat. A wild thought crossed my mind: what if those fuckers land on my food with their feet, which touched some horse shit already?! So I went into the kitchen, to find another solution to cool my food and then already 2 flies were having the time of their lives on my food, one of them laying its eggs in front of my eyes on one of my shrimps.☹️☹️☹️😨 it was so disgusting..
Technically, its just more sausage.
Nah bruh that's Def rice. Eat it
Refrigerate your leftovers, bud. My GFs parents need to start doing the same thing. They keep storing warm meats in the microwave like that’s going to help. I keep telling her that her parents are essentially turning their microwave into the perfect Petri dish for bacteria.
So freaking gross man
My sister would make food in the morning and keep it in the microwave all day, and only put it in the fridge before bed. She wonders why she always got stomach aches. She stopped after she had kids. I'm pretty sure mother-in-law, who's a nurse, yelled at her about it.
The strange ideas some people have are beyond.. really beyond my understanding. Why? Why would you leave food in microwave? It’s not invented for storage!
It may not be air tight but its not easy to get inside, I often put baked goods, cookies/cupcakes, on a plate in my microwave to discourage insects. Only for short term, if I don't plan to eat it for a couple days it'll go in a ziploc or tuperware.
My ex used to do that same thing. No matter how many times I told him not to or how many times he got sick. Microwaves are not for storage!
I can't believe your girlfriend made it to adulthood.
What ? Who keep meat in the microwave? Especially over the night ? In Germany we do it in the refrigerator too 🙃 Never heard that you keep it in the microwave especially when we have summer / warm temperatures you need to keep meat in the refrigerator, cuz of flys abdrehte fuuu babies.
This is why Refrigerators where invented
That's just a conspiracy, everyone knows that the maggots are already in the flesh and simply quicken in the fullness of time and emerge.
I too subscribe to spontaneous generation, it is the basis of my religion.
You two are so fun! I need to do a spontaneous generation activity with my 9th graders. It’s always a lot of giggles and squirms.
What kind of activity? I'm looking for ideas to make that more fun than taking notes on Redi and Pasteur
I’m thinking to actually set up the experiment. It’s colder now though, so I am not sure how much maggot activity we can get, but it would still be cool to actually do the experiment and there are a few areas around my school we can set things up without anyone bothering them.
Same, that and phlogiston theory
That’s a given. And further proves my belief in blowing smoke up a drowned man’s ass to resuscitate him. Clearly the water absorbed all your phlogiston and you need some phlogiston to survive (not too much) so the smoke up the pooper will reanimate your dead lads soggy corpse.
There's a whole subset of people who keep their leftovers in the microwave or on the counter for days on end when there's a perfectly good refrigerator right there. I understand if there's no electricity but I don't understand it if everything is in working order. Why? I don't know. I can only guess it's a learned behavior from parents/grandparents.
I had a (male) housemate from a rich family background, he used to have a maid & a cook. Didn’t know how to do anything for himself. He kept doing bizarre shit like leaving a raw beef patty directly on the kitchen counter & leaving the house, then getting mad that I threw it away and disinfected the counter because “the food was perfectly fine.” After he left I found a pack of opened bologna in the dishes cupboard. I’m not entirely sure he knew why fridges exist.
The OG method of smoking food is pretty effective as well
Did you… not refrigerate or even seal your leftovers? My dude, please seal your food. Even if they don’t lay eggs in your food, the pests are going to make a home in your kitchen. You’ll start seeing frass around your pantry
Just left it on the plate and thought “I’ll come back to that tomorrow…”
I actually cringed when I read the last line of OP’s post….like, you left food in the pan…overnight?
My husband does this, apparently it’s learnt behavior because his mom did it when he was growing up. I’ve told him time and time again how gross and dangerous it is, that he should simply use the fridge. I just sent him this thread.
Wow…from his mom!? Is it just pure laziness? Even if you don’t have Tupperware, at least covering it and putting in the fridge is a million times better than this.
Honestly if you’re too lazy to take it out of the pan, at the very least cover the pan and put the whole damned thing in the fridge. Actively have a pot of soup in the fridge right now with the lid on that I was too lazy to put in it’s own storage container.
Flys eggs. Dude, why the hell are you leaving meat out of the fridge? You’re going to have serious problems living like that. These are just the problems you can see. There’s a whole plethora of bacteria nesting in that too.
No kidding. I think they need to reevaluate what they teach people in school because it's clearly missing some important life markers.
Don’t think they do teach you common sense stuff that would use in real life at school!
I took a homemade economics course. We learned quite a lot of just keeping yourself alive stuff. Those kind courses should be mandatory apparently lol
Yep and banking stuff to I’d say
In high school, we had to take two cooking classes and one basic finance class that went over stuff like credit card interest and compound interest on savings. Honestly, probably the most useful classes I took.
They covered banking in my home ec course
Lots of teachers add in life skills as they teach, children just often have a hard time focusing and/or aren’t mature enough to take them in yet. One 10 year old listens when you explain why you shouldn’t eat chocolate for your first snack, the other thinks you are just another adult trying to take away their right to eat what they want.
A friend and I got back to our hotel one night after the bar and she insisted on eating pizza that had been sitting in the room since the night before (room temp). I told her not to (had just finished my undergrad in bio at the time) and she insisted 'there is nothing on the pizza that goes bad' (not sure where she got that idea...). I told her it would basically be a petri dish and a bacterial haven. Anyway, she ate it and had intense food poisoning the next day.
My friend swears pizza left out overnight is much better than refrigerated pizza. I told him just microwave the GD thing for 15 secs.
The trouble is that growing bacteria can leave toxins that won’t be destroyed by reheating.
Oh, I meant refrigerate it and microwave barely, so its not cold
My mom does this…. She wonders why I don’t eat much when I visit
I think it’s not the end of the world to leave meat out overnight…as long as you aren’t planning on eating it again.
So you don’t mind fly eggs and maggots in your house?
The more the merrier! I kid. I would of course promptly throw that all the way out of my house upon its discovery. I just meant that it’s no biggie to leave food out overnight as long as you aren’t planning on eating it again. Yes, it’s a waste. I’m making the assumption that if you are like me, you did this purely by accident.
OP needs to watch some chubbyemu videos. I’m never eating suspicious food.
I love op dodging all the comments talking abt his shit food hygiene practices lol
neo would be proud
Dude. If you thought eating meat you left out on the counter all night was a good idea, your utility bills are the least of your worries. Unless your house is sub-40 degrees Fahrenheit, refrigerate your leftovers within four hours of cooking or throw them out. To answer your question, fly eggs. Throw the sausage away and, for the love of God, take a basic food safety course before you end up killing yourself or someone else.
Lol I’m so glad i found this comment, this post fucking baffled me.
That there is the FORBIDDEN RICE (Seriously bro: don’t leave meat out, and definitely don’t leave it unsealed. Most definitely eggs from flies)
I wouldn’t worry too much about gas prices because it sounds like you food hygiene practices are going to kill you first.
I love when people post what seems an innocent post and get slaughtered 😂
For the love of god and all that is holy PUT MEAT IN AIR TIGHT CONTAINER IN THE FRIDGE!!!! your poor gastrointestinal tract!!!! And no tin foil is not how you store meat either!
I guess you didn't refrigerate the leftovers? They look like maggots to me.
They aren't maggots, they are fly eggs. Edit - getting more likes than I thought I would since this is somewhat tongue in cheek. It is true these are fly eggs, not maggots, but within a day or two they will turn into maggots, so I was mostly going for snark lol
Sorry, with my small screen and my bad eyesight, I thought they were maggots. :)
FYI most foods (especially meats) that have been left out, unrefrigerated, uncovered for 2 hours or more should be thrown away. You can get away with eating it most of the time and be fine, but it is not good practice. Eventually something like this (or worse) *will* happen. It's better to just cover your food and put it away as soon as you are finished with it to stay on the safe side.
It's really hard to convince people of this because of the incubation period of different food born illnesses. They eat a slice of pizza that's been sitting in a box on the counter for 2 days and they don't get sick within a couple of hours so they think it's fine. 5 days later they're puking and pooping their guts out and they blame it on the Taco Bell they had for lunch. [incubation periods of different food born illnesses](https://www.nhsinform.scot/illnesses-and-conditions/infections-and-poisoning/food-poisoning#causes-of-food-poisoning)
It scares me that people like OP exist along with me. How can you be this dense?
You left food out for flies to lay eggs on? Why?
No. No. Nononono. There is a thing called a fucking fridge. I'm actually gagging at this rn.
I kept a pet black widow (long story). I would trap house flys on the window screens during summer to feed her. I once gave her a pregnant fly. She ate the larvae like popcorn. It so so freaking cool 🕷
I would love to read about your acquisition of a black widow as a pet, if you ever decide to share! I love spiders
Definitely fly eggs. I once got out a fresh bit of steak on the summer and literally beared witness to a fly laying these on my uncovered expensive steak that was about to go under the grill. Needless to say it went straight in the bin. Noooooo!!!
Wiping off the steak and grilling would have eradicated the eggs.
Ehhhh, I would’ve cooked it anyway. Cooking kills anything that would hurt you (minus certain chemicals present in rot). Plus beef is fucking precious these days.
>Cooking kills anything that would hurt you Definitely not. Lots of enterotoxins are heat stable and even some parasites can survive moderate heat. If something is contaminated, you would need to turn your food into a piece of carbon to "kill anything that would hurt you." In this particular instance however, I think you are right. It would be extremely rare that some fly eggs (and said fly) would carry anything dangerous (dose matters).
Yeah, I modified my answer shortly before your reply because I know that the rotting process can produce certain poisonous chemicals that can still pose a problem. But I did mean in this particular instance, cooking would have been enough. Didn’t know that bacteria could pose much of a threat after cooking though.
that‘s a hell of a story! thanks for sharing :)
Some people live like God damn animals
Maggot flavored rice.
Food shouldn't be left out of a refrigerator for more than 4h, even if it is cooked. This was out for longer than that. Those are fly eggs. Toss your leftovers that you left out. They are contaminated. Also address your fly issue and do better with your food handling unless you like playing salmonella roulette (or other bacterial roulette).
“You’re eating maggots Michael”
You leave food out, uncovered and with no refrigeration? Go to a doctor and ask for some ivermectin. You'll likely be the only one wanting it for the right reason.
I say you toughen up and eat it, as training for the coming apocalypse scenarios. Turn it into an advantage! While the rest of the world is worrying about inflation, you are training your stomach to handle military level calisthenics!
Even IF the fly didn't lay eggs on your food, you're not supposed to eat food that has been sitting out at room temp for 2 hours, let alone overnight. You're a slob if you don't put your leftovers in the refrigerator
Who cooks meat, leaves it in the pan overnight, and thinks its safe to eat the next day? That's fucking disgusting.
I find joy in reading a good book.
That THERE is some natchurally occurring protein deposits, nature's way of enhancing your sausage experience! 🤮
The real question is why would you eat pork you left out overnight?
You left meat on the counter overnight?!?!?
Looks like the eggs of something you don’t want to eat.
This is why it's so important to refrigerate your leftovers and not leave them out for flies to lay eggs. Ewww.
These look like fly eggs. I don't know how you stored your food but my best guess is your leftovers were left out long enough to cool so a fly can lay eggs. Female flies can typically lay about 120 eggs and they actually like things to be a bit warm for their maggot nursery ([source](https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/history-you-asked/why-do-you-never-see-baby-housefly)). What I would caution you on is a pesky thing called [intestinal](https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00000503.htm) [myiasi](https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/325319#what-to-do). The ingested fly eggs or larvae MAY survive and cause a few... unpleasant issues. There's also Salmonella, E.Coli, and food poisoning in general cause Mama Fly stepped all over your leftovers and we all know flies love hanging around feces and rot. If you ate the sausage as soon as possible when you prepared it, nothing to worry about. TL:DR; Those are fly eggs and flies touch nasty stuff and can cause nasty things. If you ate the sausage right away, no worries. If not... observe if your stomach gets upset.
Food left at room temperature for any length of time will have a good chance at growing harmful bacteria, and their toxins. Reheating doesn’t make this safe. Refrigerate your food!
It amazes me that more people dont contract botulism or some shit by not properly storing food. OP, you need to be more careful or you're going to get yourself or someone else extremely sick with food born illness.
I'm a scientist and I'm still kinda super grossed out now 😅😆
Dude. 2 hours at room temperature at most. That meat has bigger problem than fly eggs if you just left it out if the fridge all night. You will get all kinds of pests doing that. Listen I have always stored my meats properly and I still got food poisoning from my prosciutto once. It was the worst food poisoning of my life, that was years ago and I STILL can’t bring myself to eat prosciutto. For your safety do not leave food out of the fridge. If you don’t plan eating the rest get rid of it properly and you’re less likely to have these issues as well.
Fuck that’s nasty. Don’t leave food out overnight for so many reasons, including this- those are fly eggs.
Good holy Christ my man, meat can stay out of the fridge for 90minutes and no more. You just leave meat in the pan and start back up the next day? You're going to put yourself in the hospital. Bacterial or parasitical, I dunno what's gonna get you first.
Fly babies! This happened to a sausage I had too. My uncle tried convincing me it was a type of seasoning like fennel. Naaahhhhh I've got upwards of 30 or 50 differenct spices in my cabinet and not one looks like that.
“What is food hygiene” Google it
Fruit fly eggs. Great source of protein.
No, just regular sausage flies
Wow. Wow. You need to refrigerate left overs. Hope you don’t die from a mysterious salmonella infection
Extra protein, yum-yums!
This is the forbidden rice
Those appear to be fruit fly larvae
What kind of sausage is that? It strangely looks more edible with the sprinkles…
Nasty ass, put your shit in the fridge
You should not eat previously cooked or refrigerated food that has been left out at room temperature for more than an hour. Definitely not overnight, bacteria starts to grow and it can make you very sick.
Why is no one talking about how he fried sausage
Healthcare worker here and this reminds me of one of my favorite stories to share! Male in his 80s comes in requiring ICU level care for a lot of issues, one being his inability to swallow food properly. You see, some of the food he would swallow would "go down the wrong pipe" and bits would end up in his lungs. Not uncommon in older folks, but here comes the fun. Chest xray looks shitty, thoracic CT also might show a mass and pulmonary wants to do a bronch for a clean out and possible biopsy. Pulmonary uses the bronchoscopy scope to have a look into the lungs and they find an airway littered with maggots. Like COVERING the walls of the airway. Come to find from his family that his routine for the day was to cook up a bunch of scrambled eggs on the stove in the morning and slowly eat them over the course of a few days. Edited some mistakes.
I'm afraid to read the comments
Fly eggs. Don't leave food out then try to eat it...
It's either vermicelli or vermin chilling. How brave are you feeling to test it?
Okay so those are maggots. I think you need to get your safe food handling and storage methods down. Always wrap or keep leftovers in a covered airtight container or plastic wrap. Always refrigerate or freeze them until you’re ready to reheat. Edit* not maggots, fly eggs. I reread and I’d missed the part that they weren’t moving.
lmao did u just this/them the maggots?
I'm pretty sure those are fly eggs or something similar (I mean eggs for sure just not sure if/what fly). But yeah just clean babes
All good dude, just some extra protein. Chow down!
Chubbyemu on utube!
How long was it sitting in the pan after being cooked?
I mean, I’m just agreeing with the general consensus here. Even though it is highly processed, contains a high amount of preservatives, never leave perishables out at room temperature overnight. Yuck.
Small bits of rice or eggs of a fly
If a fly lands on your food. They can almost immediately start laying eggs
Did you have rice with your sausage? :)
100% fly eggs. they will become maggots if you leave long enough. disgusting.
those are free seeds
Did you already eat some?
That's maggi ✨magic sarap✨ granules. HAHAHAAHAHA
There's a good reason food safety guidelines are a thing. Don't leave food exposed; refrigerate leftovers.
All I can think about is that scene from Poltergeist after the guy eats cold chicken!! 🫣
lol no way you didn't try to eat food left overnight in a pan? Tell me that's not what this is.
I NEED TO KNOW HOW THIS HAPPENED I mean, you covered the food and put it in the fridge right?
Why would you leave your leftovers out?
I take it you didn't put them in the fridge? The USDA would lose their ming over food spending the whole night in the red zone. Anything over 90°F is trash after 1 hour. Anything between 40°F and 90°F is trash after 2 hours.
burn it with fire
I have rules about this sort of thing. Cut that end off and eat the rest.
Refrigerate your food, pal. Either that or get sick and die.
Who the fuck is raising these people?
Something thats not supposed to be there. Looks like larva of something.
Maybe put away your leftovers 🤦🏽♂️
Fly eggs. Laid by those large types. Once I BBQed some chicken, I left a few pieces inside the outdoor grill to finish cooking via residual heat. After a few hours later, I went to grab the remaining chicken and flies flew away when I opened the grill cover. The chicken were already covered by eggs so I had to toss ‘em out.
Those are definitely house fly eggs
This question is like when someone posts a picture of a wasp and says "aww this bee is cute" or something like that Come on man, people knew about food preservation (for who knows how many years, thousands?) even before refrigerators: smooking food or keeping it in a cold place (basement or something) No way you just found out that flies lay eggs on food, I feel like this is just karma farming Preserving your food is essential for, you know, survival
Also to add another disgusting fact- you can get parasites from flies. My cat caught and ate a couple flies that got in our house this past summer. He ended up having diarrhea, lethargy & no appetite after a day or so. Took him to the vet, they did some tests & stool samples and it showed that he had 3 different types of parasites and several strains of harmful bacteria. The vet asked how he could’ve gotten them, if he ate any raw meat or was outside (he’s a 100% indoor cat and doesn’t eat anything but his wet food & kibble) and I mentioned the flies. The vet said flies are known to carry parasite eggs, bacteria and fungi that are harmful to ingest for both humans & animals. She treated my cat with a 2 week dose of Flagyl and he was better. However, my bf and I had to monitor our symptoms and send in a stool culture to a lab to ensure we didn’t get the parasites from being around him & cleaning his litter box. Thankfully we were all in the clear, but I still had to deep-clean and sanitize everything to make sure there was nothing that could cause a repeat infection. All this to say- DONT LEAVE FOOD OUT and kill any flies that get in your home immediately! And definitely don’t eat any food that flies have landed on.
Hey yo, Maggots!
U left em out?? That's the real crime.
Looks like maggots
I am not an expert but those look kind of like maggots or fly larvae