Vegetables out of a bag unhealthy?

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  • zyxst
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    I found a slug in my frozen raspberries once. Found it with my mouth.

    Ughh. (Don't know why, exactly, since I've eaten escargot, but still, ughh.)

    As a kid, one time I was pulling grapes off the stems by the bagful for my mom so she could make jelly, and eventually you get to the point where you don't really need to look at the grapes or your hands to do it. Don't know what it was that made look down to see I was just about to "pluck" a snail and toss it in the jelly pot. Uggh.

    I'm less bothered by slugs and snails because I remember as a child we grew fruit in our garden and they'd often have slugs etc on then. Not sure I'd want to see them in pre-packaged food though- yuk.
    I also remember,years ago,my mum finding a chicken embryo in an egg. Was a long time before I could touch eggs after that.
    This thread is starting to give me persistent nausea :s

    Whoa. Someone must have missed an egg for a while for that to have happened. It takes two days of incubation before an embryo even starts to form and it's just blood vessels for another week or so.

    Worse egg I found had a half-formed chick in it (enough to recognize it's a chicken and be grossed out). The eggs were from a local farm and, iirc, candled. It's why I will only buy eggs from the supermarket.
    That really shouldn't happen. I have a state egg handlers permit and if I find a stash of eggs of an unknown age hidden in my yard they get thrown out. I'm expected to keep to the same standards as a corporate farm for safety except salmonella testing- lower risk and easier to trace.

    I wouldn't label all farms bad because of one.

    If the farm follows state regs, then no. This was all under the table stuff. Local cafe buys local eggs to cut costs.
    I'd wonder where else the local cafe is cutting corners.

    The permit costs $50 a year in my state.

    Just with the eggs. IIRC the cost was $5 for 6 dozen eggs every week or so.
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