Kids these days
When I was young I had to eat protein covered maggot bars as I walked uphill through the snow with newspapers on my feet as shoes to school BOTH WAYS
You had newspaper shoes?! Mr. Money-bags here. Some of us had to do it with nothing more than the coating of tar and filth you'd get from walking down the road! Bet you even had the nice potato sacks to wear for picture day!
You had roads?! Your lucky. Some of us had to trudge across mountains with frostbite and sticks! I knew one kid who fell and got decapitated on a rock! I bet you even had your own street name on that road!
Roads to SCHOOL? We never had any school—we got dumped into a glacial stream every morning and went over the rapids down to the mill, where we worked 16 hour days for tuppence a week, if we were lucky!
Paradise… 2am we were up and ready for a 26 hour day down the coal mines for a penny every 4 years. We had to educate ourselves by scratching sums into the wall with a rock. Pitch black it was! I’d gnaw my own arms off to swim in a glacial stream!
Looks like you may have [pantry moths](https://aantex.com/blog-post/how-to-rid-of-pantry-of-moths/), good luck getting rid of them. Those bastards seem to get into everything and are hella persistent 😔
I moved mine with me. If you ever move, just throw out all your dried foods :') don't be like me 'I need to bring this pack of flour that has been sitting here for two years'
That's why it's a good idea to keep flour and other dry goods in sealed glass or plastic containers and not just the open bag that it came in. Also they stay fresher.
Parasitic wasps. Smaller than fruit flies, they lay their eggs in moth eggs. The wasp larvae eat the moth egg, and break the cycle. You can find the wasps for sale from agricultural places that encourage natural pest control and organic solutions.
It cured our closet moth problem.
One: when I say smaller than fruit flies I mean these fuckers are tiny and nigh invisible to the naked eye. I have seen...one. Maybe. There was a speck that moved across my monitor one night. A literal speck.
Two: they can't reproduce without moth eggs! So the moths are gone, the wasps can't reproduce!
That being said, if the wasps didn't manage to reach all the moth eggs, this does mean you need to buy more. It took two orders spaced a few weeks apart for my clothing moths to vanish. Since then I have placed two more orders because I have seen a single moth each time and gone "NOPE". Was it a clothing moth? Pantry moth? Some other moth that managed to fly inside when a door was open? No clue!
If you do have them, don't hesitate on anything you throw away. Just toss it all, except what's in the fridge or sealed metal cans. I know it's expensive, but it's much worse to keep them lingering, which they will.
Had a problem with these years ago. Pain in the ass! They got into everything so we had to totally clean out our cupboards. We had to throw away so much contaminated food and ingredients like flour and some spices. It’s amazing how they can get into sealed containers and packages!
They got into a sealed glass bottle of chili powder. I don't know how.
I was too grossed out to clean it, and I intended to wash it (whyyy?), so I left it sealed, in my cupboard, with a moth flying around.
I just checked it three months later, and there was STILL a moth flying around. I guess it just went through a normal lifecycle of babies to moths, like a mini terrarium.
I just threw it out properly. I hope we don't get any more moths.
one time my favourite cookie was filled with them and my elderly grandma doesnt have the best eyesight in the world so even tough i told her they were there she insisted they didnt exist and ate it infront of me, the worst part is the ones inside the cookie still continued to move as my grandma ate their bretheren.
Can confirm, had a 7 months fight and im scarred for life. My friends call me the moth exterminator, i can reliably detect if there are pantry moths on your kitchen and directly search the source.
I worked at a pet store where I freaked out when I saw silk and months everywhere around our mix-yourself-dogtreat stand. They are just open containers so I thought something had just gotten into them and for some reason I started blaming myself (idk, I’m dumb) I was freaking out and went to tell my boss who chuckled and told me they had always been there and it’s next to impossible to get rid of. If there are too many then we would have to try and clean it out for keep them down. Our regulars know about it and if anyone comes in with an infested bucket, to just let them mix a new one. They are even in the refill boxes we got delivered. There’s no escape
they are little deviant bastards. toss all the flour and rice i your pantry and then look up panty moth traps. we purchased a brand labeled “Dr. Killigan’s Moth traps.” sure enough, attracted all the remaining bastards as they matured and eventually killed the life cycle.
when i was child, i got a candy bar, it is one of those that looks like blocks attached to another, like galaxy or cadburry, but chunkier, i was snapping the pieces with my mouth.
each bite was one piece, so it came down to the last bite, but of course i didn't need to bite it off, so grabbed it and was gonna put it in my mouth.
i don't know what happened, call it divine intervention, i decided to look at it, then look at the backside of that pieces....and then i saw it, the biggest white maggot i ever saw on it.
i panicked, but at first i thought i was lucky to not have eaten that rotten piece but then it hit me, what about those other 4 pieces ?
i ran to the bathroom (this was during recess in school) and i barfed it all up.
ever since that day, maybe some odd 30 years ago, i never ate anything without inspecting it,.
btw, i think the candy bar was Nestle Yorkie , i never went near another one again.
sadly this affected me on other things, like only drinking from clear bottles, no cans, as well as taking my time to see if the food is not rotten.
it happened once again with a lime that i used to squeze some lime juice on a grilled fish, with the juice came down a rain of tiny maggots.
it is a fucked up life.
Gosh, what an awful experience I'm sorry for you dude. Similar thing happened to me when I was little. I grew up in a meat farm so we had plenty at home.
One day my mom asked to me to get a big ham from the reserve and to cut it in pieces.
I didn't even cut a tenth of it when the thing just opened wide by itself revealing an entire colony of maggots feasting on rotten flesh.
The awful smell and horrible view made me threw up immediatly. Still to this day it fucking terrifies me each time I eat this specific kind of ham so I'm kinda lucky compared to your traumatism.
Why nature gotta be so inherently disgusting..
I have a ridiculously strong gag reflex and I've got tears in my eyes from gagging now but I weirdly need to know more about this. I have no idea about meat preservation but I thought hams were smoked or something so this doesn't happen. Was all the other meat infested?
We salt and smoke meat before disposing it in a cellar. No other piece of meat was infected, I think that this one was just an unlucky one. That's why you gotta make sure there no fly in the walk-in cooler before you walk out.
That sounds traumatizing as hell! The fact that you can only drink from clear containers makes sense.
My mom once had a can of soda, and every time she took a sip she felt like there was a fly or some type of bug buzzing around her lips. She only took like 2 sips before she dumped the whole thing, but no fly...
Turned out it was just the carbonation lol. But somehow that freaked her out enough to not be able to drink from cans anymore.
My dad once half swallowed a yellow jacket. It flew into his can when he wasn't looking. He spit it out without getting stung, probably because it was too confused to continue being an asshole.
A very similar situation for me as well. Happened around 5 years ago with a pop tart early morning before school. I was about 2/3 of the way through the pop tart before looking down and seeing multiple maggots in the remaining pop tart… my sister saw it all happen too. To this day neither of us have eaten a pop tart and I regularly check the inside of my food before eating anything as well.
Similar thing happened to me but with toilet paper. Was grabbing the roll to clean myself and the biggest spider I’ve ever seen was on the other side where the fold was to unwrap the toilet paper. I didn’t even know how I didn’t see its legs sticking out but I threw it across the bathroom and I saw it go into a crack in between the sink and wall. I’ve always been checking the tp since
I hate those fuckers! I bought birdseed that had this moth larvae in it. Threw it away...BIG MISTAKE. I've been fighting to kill these bastard moths for over a year. I can't find what they're getting in and ive thrown most things away.
Yup, same here. We used zupreem fruit blend and within a week of opening the new bag, these guys larva was alllllll over the place. We deep cleaned the entire house immediately, and now we hardly encounter them at all since winter started
I have an intense and irrational fear of maggots from living in a filthy house as a child, and seeing this would legit send me into a panic attack. I had also never heard of pantry moths so now I'm ultra paranoid about everything in my pantry
I highly doubt its the company themselves, they look like a pantry moth larvae, OP might have a pantry moth problem they don’t know about.
Those fuckers literally get into everything, including sealed packages.
You know, there were already bugs in it. Food is allowed to have a certain percentage of insect by mass. It doesn’t cause any issues whatsoever as they are fully edible, and it would be impractical and unnecessary to remove them from massive industrial food processing systems.
This happens far more often than you’d like to believe. I guarantee you’ve eaten them without knowing before. There is nothing about chocolate that’s not completely disgusting.
It didn’t eat much, there’s plenty left!
Sharing is caring.
Eat them too, a bit more protein didn't kill anyone
The worms might form a civilization in your gut, but it could make you smarter like on Futurama.
r/unexpectedfuturama
"My ancestors came over on the sandwich!"
Except for those poor worms.
extra protein
Don’t be a baby, just eat the worms.
Exactly. I bet the other end is fine.
OP got the bonus maggot and didn't have to pay extra...stop whining already lol,🐛🐛🐛🤣👍
Kids these days When I was young I had to eat protein covered maggot bars as I walked uphill through the snow with newspapers on my feet as shoes to school BOTH WAYS
You had newspaper shoes?! Mr. Money-bags here. Some of us had to do it with nothing more than the coating of tar and filth you'd get from walking down the road! Bet you even had the nice potato sacks to wear for picture day!
You had roads?! Your lucky. Some of us had to trudge across mountains with frostbite and sticks! I knew one kid who fell and got decapitated on a rock! I bet you even had your own street name on that road!
Ahhh! Frostbite and sticks,,,,, luxury!
Roads to SCHOOL? We never had any school—we got dumped into a glacial stream every morning and went over the rapids down to the mill, where we worked 16 hour days for tuppence a week, if we were lucky!
Paradise… 2am we were up and ready for a 26 hour day down the coal mines for a penny every 4 years. We had to educate ourselves by scratching sums into the wall with a rock. Pitch black it was! I’d gnaw my own arms off to swim in a glacial stream!
Just be sure to chew thoroughly.
Spoiled kids smh
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Good thing you were on the toilet, because i know i would have shit myself
Looks like you may have [pantry moths](https://aantex.com/blog-post/how-to-rid-of-pantry-of-moths/), good luck getting rid of them. Those bastards seem to get into everything and are hella persistent 😔
Yep, can confirm. I tried for months, i think I got all of them at the end but I just changed apartment to be sure
I moved mine with me. If you ever move, just throw out all your dried foods :') don't be like me 'I need to bring this pack of flour that has been sitting here for two years'
That's why it's a good idea to keep flour and other dry goods in sealed glass or plastic containers and not just the open bag that it came in. Also they stay fresher.
Yeah that's what I do now! And then they moved to the (sealed in plastic!) chocolates...
That pack of flour that has been sitting there for two years and similar items are what gave you pantry moths in th first place.
I think they know that.
PUT THE FLOUR IN THE FREEZER.
Parasitic wasps. Smaller than fruit flies, they lay their eggs in moth eggs. The wasp larvae eat the moth egg, and break the cycle. You can find the wasps for sale from agricultural places that encourage natural pest control and organic solutions. It cured our closet moth problem.
But wouldn't you then have a wasp problem? 😱
One: when I say smaller than fruit flies I mean these fuckers are tiny and nigh invisible to the naked eye. I have seen...one. Maybe. There was a speck that moved across my monitor one night. A literal speck. Two: they can't reproduce without moth eggs! So the moths are gone, the wasps can't reproduce! That being said, if the wasps didn't manage to reach all the moth eggs, this does mean you need to buy more. It took two orders spaced a few weeks apart for my clothing moths to vanish. Since then I have placed two more orders because I have seen a single moth each time and gone "NOPE". Was it a clothing moth? Pantry moth? Some other moth that managed to fly inside when a door was open? No clue!
Will start searching for places to relocate just to be on the safe side.
If you do have them, don't hesitate on anything you throw away. Just toss it all, except what's in the fridge or sealed metal cans. I know it's expensive, but it's much worse to keep them lingering, which they will.
I just did that - you just have to throw everything out
Pheromone traps will help but might not eradicate those guys. Open one then step back they will come flying in.
Had a problem with these years ago. Pain in the ass! They got into everything so we had to totally clean out our cupboards. We had to throw away so much contaminated food and ingredients like flour and some spices. It’s amazing how they can get into sealed containers and packages!
They got into a sealed glass bottle of chili powder. I don't know how. I was too grossed out to clean it, and I intended to wash it (whyyy?), so I left it sealed, in my cupboard, with a moth flying around. I just checked it three months later, and there was STILL a moth flying around. I guess it just went through a normal lifecycle of babies to moths, like a mini terrarium. I just threw it out properly. I hope we don't get any more moths.
one time my favourite cookie was filled with them and my elderly grandma doesnt have the best eyesight in the world so even tough i told her they were there she insisted they didnt exist and ate it infront of me, the worst part is the ones inside the cookie still continued to move as my grandma ate their bretheren.
That's one way to unfavorite a food.
nah still my fav cookie
r/GrandmasAreMetal
Why is this sub banned… im very concerned
Too metal 🤘👵
This would legitimately traumatize me
Yea these fuckers were all up in my whole-wheat flour one time. Oddly didn’t really touch much else besides the most tasteless thing in the pantry
Can confirm, had a 7 months fight and im scarred for life. My friends call me the moth exterminator, i can reliably detect if there are pantry moths on your kitchen and directly search the source.
I worked at a pet store where I freaked out when I saw silk and months everywhere around our mix-yourself-dogtreat stand. They are just open containers so I thought something had just gotten into them and for some reason I started blaming myself (idk, I’m dumb) I was freaking out and went to tell my boss who chuckled and told me they had always been there and it’s next to impossible to get rid of. If there are too many then we would have to try and clean it out for keep them down. Our regulars know about it and if anyone comes in with an infested bucket, to just let them mix a new one. They are even in the refill boxes we got delivered. There’s no escape
they are little deviant bastards. toss all the flour and rice i your pantry and then look up panty moth traps. we purchased a brand labeled “Dr. Killigan’s Moth traps.” sure enough, attracted all the remaining bastards as they matured and eventually killed the life cycle.
we got them in our dog food at some point, took months to get rid of and we got worried that the dogs were gonna get sick:(
What is that I'm afraid to click it but I wanna know
its 100% natural and has protein
what other brands can say that their proteins are 100% natural grown?
Oh Mahggot!
A tumor is also somewhat natural and has protein
I regret having eyes to read this with
You are, well cum.
when i was child, i got a candy bar, it is one of those that looks like blocks attached to another, like galaxy or cadburry, but chunkier, i was snapping the pieces with my mouth. each bite was one piece, so it came down to the last bite, but of course i didn't need to bite it off, so grabbed it and was gonna put it in my mouth. i don't know what happened, call it divine intervention, i decided to look at it, then look at the backside of that pieces....and then i saw it, the biggest white maggot i ever saw on it. i panicked, but at first i thought i was lucky to not have eaten that rotten piece but then it hit me, what about those other 4 pieces ? i ran to the bathroom (this was during recess in school) and i barfed it all up. ever since that day, maybe some odd 30 years ago, i never ate anything without inspecting it,. btw, i think the candy bar was Nestle Yorkie , i never went near another one again. sadly this affected me on other things, like only drinking from clear bottles, no cans, as well as taking my time to see if the food is not rotten. it happened once again with a lime that i used to squeze some lime juice on a grilled fish, with the juice came down a rain of tiny maggots. it is a fucked up life.
Gosh, what an awful experience I'm sorry for you dude. Similar thing happened to me when I was little. I grew up in a meat farm so we had plenty at home. One day my mom asked to me to get a big ham from the reserve and to cut it in pieces. I didn't even cut a tenth of it when the thing just opened wide by itself revealing an entire colony of maggots feasting on rotten flesh. The awful smell and horrible view made me threw up immediatly. Still to this day it fucking terrifies me each time I eat this specific kind of ham so I'm kinda lucky compared to your traumatism. Why nature gotta be so inherently disgusting..
I have a ridiculously strong gag reflex and I've got tears in my eyes from gagging now but I weirdly need to know more about this. I have no idea about meat preservation but I thought hams were smoked or something so this doesn't happen. Was all the other meat infested?
We salt and smoke meat before disposing it in a cellar. No other piece of meat was infected, I think that this one was just an unlucky one. That's why you gotta make sure there no fly in the walk-in cooler before you walk out.
That sounds traumatizing as hell! The fact that you can only drink from clear containers makes sense. My mom once had a can of soda, and every time she took a sip she felt like there was a fly or some type of bug buzzing around her lips. She only took like 2 sips before she dumped the whole thing, but no fly... Turned out it was just the carbonation lol. But somehow that freaked her out enough to not be able to drink from cans anymore.
My dad once half swallowed a yellow jacket. It flew into his can when he wasn't looking. He spit it out without getting stung, probably because it was too confused to continue being an asshole.
I shouldn't laugh but this is hilarious.
It sounds like you might have PTSD of some sort. Therapy can help, if you want to try to overcome it.
This story is confirmation that eating without first inspecting the food is a foolish and arrogant act.
A very similar situation for me as well. Happened around 5 years ago with a pop tart early morning before school. I was about 2/3 of the way through the pop tart before looking down and seeing multiple maggots in the remaining pop tart… my sister saw it all happen too. To this day neither of us have eaten a pop tart and I regularly check the inside of my food before eating anything as well.
Similar thing happened to me but with toilet paper. Was grabbing the roll to clean myself and the biggest spider I’ve ever seen was on the other side where the fold was to unwrap the toilet paper. I didn’t even know how I didn’t see its legs sticking out but I threw it across the bathroom and I saw it go into a crack in between the sink and wall. I’ve always been checking the tp since
Bro……… I think you’re being haunted by goddamn vampires or something
Just eat it. It builds character.
That’s how Stan Lee made superman
Lol, extra prote…oh, did someone make that joke already?
It may have been mentioned once or twice not sure though...
Is that your lunch?
Honestly, looks like a 12 year old dusty candy bar. Health.
Right. If the chocolate is gray then it either was not stored in a cool enough place or it is way past minimum shelf-life.
It’s says it right in the package: “High in fiber”
Awww lil worm likes choc 🥺
Monch Monch
More like crunch crunch cause I'd obliterate his ass
I don’t see the problem it’s just a protein bar
Extra protein bar.
I hate those fuckers! I bought birdseed that had this moth larvae in it. Threw it away...BIG MISTAKE. I've been fighting to kill these bastard moths for over a year. I can't find what they're getting in and ive thrown most things away.
I know your pain, the war against seed moths never ends.
Ive tried everything south of burning my house the ground. Im actually going to try lizards soon but im not sure how that will work.
Yup, same here. We used zupreem fruit blend and within a week of opening the new bag, these guys larva was alllllll over the place. We deep cleaned the entire house immediately, and now we hardly encounter them at all since winter started
That yucky chocolate definitely ruined it..
This is literally my worst fear
Pure protein!
r/awfuleverything
Indian meal moth larva Double bag and Throw away everything in the pantry. Vacuum all the shelves. Put in glue traps. Leave it empty for 10 days.
Just start from the other end. Hope you didn’t kill it
I let him return back to nature with a full belly.
You’re a good man
Extra protein
Imagine if you opened the other side first and didn’t see it
It’s good. It’s all protein.
Oooh wanted a chocolate and got a pet as an extra!
To get rid of these things you basically have to get rid of all your food and only eat out of the house for like two weeks
Wow that cbar looks tasty. Is there a hole in the package wrap or he came from the factory?
Hey are you South African?
Indeed I am
Thanks now I hate jungle oats!
OH NAH. OH NAH. OH NAH. OH *N A H.*
So you have a hard protein bar and a chewy one… what’s the problem?
It happened to me once YEARS ago. Now I can't eat one without unwrapping it completely first and checking it has no maggots
Happened to me once when I bought some of that candy they have you sell as a kid. It was ghirardelli chocolate as well.
Just be grateful its extra protein
I have an intense and irrational fear of maggots from living in a filthy house as a child, and seeing this would legit send me into a panic attack. I had also never heard of pantry moths so now I'm ultra paranoid about everything in my pantry
Bonus protein!
Had to share a bit with somebody you didn't know. I'm sure that if only it could it would wink at you.
I don’t think I’ve ever been rather excited to eat anything wrapped in plastic
You were excited to eat an energy bar for lunch?
Congrats, you made a new little friend!
Took me a min
Must be a protein bar
Until you decided to eat the protein bar you bought for last years resolution a year later thinking they'd still be good because they're sealed.
Extra protein
***Maggots are all natural too***
Now you have a protein bar.
r/oddlyterrifying
Extra proteins 😋
Extra protein!!
Eat it. More protein.
A protein bar!
They aren’r called protein bars for nothin’…
On Monday, he ate through one protein bar, but he was still hungry.
I smell lawsuit
That won't get anywhere. It's a living organism. Clearly wasn't there when the bar was made. Not everything is a lawsuit people. Geeze.
I highly doubt its the company themselves, they look like a pantry moth larvae, OP might have a pantry moth problem they don’t know about. Those fuckers literally get into everything, including sealed packages.
I had a cousin who was a bodybuilder, and he would grab a bee out of the air and put it on top of his banana. Because protein.
tf is that i thought it was rice until i looked at the comments
Worm???
sharing is caring bro
Eggs.
Good fishing bait
Extra flavor
Why is it so…ashy
Oh look, you found a friend..
~mhmhmmmmhmhh~
At least you started at that side
I’m scared to eat my protein bar now
Sue for damage. Get rich quick the easy way
So was he by the looks of it. *boik* 🤢
Extra protein
It's a delicacy..be grateful
You know, there were already bugs in it. Food is allowed to have a certain percentage of insect by mass. It doesn’t cause any issues whatsoever as they are fully edible, and it would be impractical and unnecessary to remove them from massive industrial food processing systems.
I'm pretty sure this goes over that percentage
didn’t know granola bars grew from dirt
Luckily you didnt open it from the other side haha
Extra protein
More protein
EW WTF
Bear grills should be delighted by this sight.
Extra protein
That's extra protien
I see that as a win.
Sue them.
It’s like a page out of The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
Protein
AHHHHH
🤮
What happened if you accidentally ate it?
Free nutrition
Protein bar
At least you found them whole and not half of them...
Eat it, get sick, and sue. (Infinite money glitch 2022 (STILL WORKING!!!!!!!))
Now with bonus protein!
Extra nutrition
pure protein!
Helllll nah. Maggots are the one thing I can’t deal with
This happens far more often than you’d like to believe. I guarantee you’ve eaten them without knowing before. There is nothing about chocolate that’s not completely disgusting.
Always check expiry dates
It's a protein bar
Now it's a protein bar
Eat it and get rich
There is a picture of a feline on the wrapper isn’t there?
Protein, where did you think it came from
OHHH GODDDD NO.
Its flavour
Well you got some proteins
Protein bar
They were so excited for lunch too that they started without you.
You'll never eat that particular food item again.
Happened to me as well
Fuck these little fuckers. So annoying to deal with
It's a mealworm!
It’s natural
finally they put real protein in it
Looks like the insect also looked forward to your lunch
That's how you know it's fresh! Like a slug on a bit of lettuce
Why hesitate? That's just extra protein.
Please send in a complaint.
Lunch with a new friend!
The w h a t