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Little worm things in cod!
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I think somewhere in the world you can get extreme chocolate.Kazonline wrote:Yuck - now can someone please tell me a similar story about chocolate?
Chocolate covered locusts, worms and crickets:D
TastyAn average day in my life:hello: :eek::mad: :coffee::coffee::coffee::T
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I am no expert in property but have lived in many types of homes, in many locations and can only talk from experience.0 -
I always knew my BSc in Fishery Science would come in handy! Someone has already posted a link to the Torry Research Centre which explains the types of common worms, and the problems.
Basically, cooking will deal with the (common) problem. On the plus side, cod worms are usually very visible.
More worrying are the herring worms. They operate in a fish (herring) and then mammal (seal) cycle. However, in theory, they are not fussy about which mammal they find. I would not eat a raw herring, and will spare you the actual details on what happens......0 -
Now to all totally gross you out. How about people worms? We lived in Africa for a time and had maggots growing under the skin ona few occasions. This fly would lay eggs on your damp clothes and then the egg would get under your skin and a maggot would mature. You thought you had a big zit and then popped it and out would come a maggot. It was gross. Thankfully only happened a few times.
Worse than that was the Guinea worm... never had one but... read on...
People get infected when they drink standing water containing a tiny water flea that is infected with the even tinier larvae of the Guinea worm. Over the course of a year in the human body, the immature worms pierce the intestinal wall, grow to adulthood, and mate. The males die, and the females make their way through the body, maturing to a length of as much as 3 feet, and ending up near the surface of the skin, usually in the lower limbs. The worms cause swelling and painful, burning blisters. To soothe the burning, sufferers tend to go into the water, where the blisters burst, allowing the worm to emerge and release a new generation of millions of larvae. In the water, the larvae are swallowed by small water fleas, and the cycle begins again.
Merry ChristmasNO to pasty tax We won!!!! Just shows that people power works! Don't be apathetic to your cause!0 -
_pale_ _pale_ thats so gross! next it will be the story of worms in turkeys :xmassign:proper prior planning prevents !!!!!! poor performance!
Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat moneyquote from an american indian.0
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:rudolf: Sheep, pigs, hens and bees on our Teesdale smallholding :rudolf:0
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Thanks a bunch N9eav I wish this thread could be deleted_pale_ _pale_ I can't stop reading it:eek: :eek: 0
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RoCas wrote:Yup, until you discover a caterpillar crawling over your lettuce
Better than finding half a caterpillar...........:rotfl:"One day I realised that when you are lying in your grave, it's no good saying, "I was too shy, too frightened."
Because by then you've blown your chances. That's it."0 -
sajmumma: don't be put off - this site is normally 99% good info.
However I have to say that this thread is like picking a scab: disgusting but compulsive. Fish is off the menu for now. Even though logically the worms are just meat too....
Ugh, I haven't had breakfast, and I'm not in the mood now.0 -
Yeeuww. I bought a load of cod the other day and it's in my freezer. Boy, am I going to look VERY closely at it when I prepare it!
A little fact I found when I googled about chocolate...
The average chocolate bar has 1 part insect to 100 parts chocolate.
If that really is the case, then I've probably demolished several grams of insects this week alone. :eek:0
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