dead slug in a cauliflower

Lemoncurd

I did the same as Jay Jay last week it would be such a waste to throw everything that had something living on it (and that would be practically everything now we get an organic vegbox and also get a lot of veg from my parents allotment).
OH hates broccoli and cauli and is always telling me the story of when he went to a friends for tea and found a creepy crawly in his cauliflower cheese and the friends mum made him eat the meal.
Got a cauli in our veg box and it had been in our fridge for over a week so I had to use it and found this giant caterpillar type thing in there which had left a huge trail of sludgy dropping behind it. It actually made me wretch but I just chopped all the leaves off and was extra thorough with washing it. I'm still biting my tongue as if I say anything he'll def never eat it again.

Iguana

Better that you found it when it was uncooked rather than cooking it and finding it on your plate!

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Jay-Jay wrote:

Yeah apart from the tiny bugs... they hold on for dear life and can hold their breath for a reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaallly long time :rolleyes:

soak them in salt then boil the b*****s. To fussy by half. where do spuds come from but in the earth.the odd bug won't kill you.
As long as it's not skipping across your dinner

MrsMondragon

Dont make a fuss...always remember theres plenty of hydrochloric acid (I think!), in your stomach to neutralise any sort of creepy crawly.

Spendless

JackieO wrote:

soak them in salt then boil the b*****s. To fussy by half. where do spuds come from but in the earth.the odd bug won't kill you.
As long as it's not skipping across your dinner

LOL jackie -that's also what I said, where did he think veg grew and what did he think lived in the soil with them.
Unfortunately he was between me and the sink and I opened my mouth,next time :silenced:

thriftlady_2

Am I missing something? Surely you just take the slug off, wash the cauli and cook it.Celebrate the fact that you've got hold of a real,grown naturally in the earth vegetable. :j

Btw if you soak veg in salty water before cooking any wildlife should part company with veg.

It really isn't a problem.

Spendless

thriftlady wrote:

Am I missing something? Surely you just take the slug off, wash the cauli and cook it.Celebrate the fact that you've got hold of a real,grown naturally in the earth vegetable. :j

Btw if you soak veg in salty water before cooking any wildlife should part company with veg.

It really isn't a problem.

Nope you're not missing anything. I was sat at table peeling off outer leaves, hubby was by sink. I spotted dead slug and cos I couldn't get to sink without him seeing, stupidly opened my mouth and said something about it. That's when he refused to eat it and wanted to give it to the rabbits.
If I'd be able to wash it without him noticing. I'd have kept shtum. I just wondered if other people would take my view or hubbys.

BTW-A lot of people have mentioned salt, but I don't use it either in washing veg or cooking. Is it worth putting a little in or not since we are all told to reduce our salt intake?

vizcacha

Sorry everyone but this has made me relive a past trauma...

I was temping once in an office and had lunch in the staff canteen where I had cauliflower cheese and actually ATE a slug, well to be more accurate I ate half of one before I identified the hard and chewy remains of the other half ..

I can't tell you how carefully I wash veges and salad nowadays...!

thriftlady_2

Sorry Spendless,I didn't mean to be sarcastic after all my OH would rather die of starvation than eat a cauliflower he might be O.K with the slug though

GreenFingers_2

“….I found a dead slug as I peeled back the green leaves from the cauli….. What would you have done?…”


Carefully lift the deceased slug from the leaves, place on a suitable surface Proceed to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation – return to the garden when fully conscious. Hee hee.