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So I found a jar of piroulines on the kitchen table,
![[image loading]](http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRRVdZ2qWxed7T1eEvZ-ec19AKmPAxntJvTEcLD1ApztgIFHSz9) Yes, these delicious things
and being suspicious of everything in my house like I always am (our pantry has never been emptied in the 8 years we've been living here), I checked the expiration date. It said February. Yay!
2008.
From there, I went to the office to ask my dad about them.
"Did you open the can of piroulines?"
A nod.
"Did you eat any?"
Affirmative.
"Did you see the expiration date? It expires. 2008."
"Oh, really? That's okay. Food is like medicine. It doesn't matter if it expires."
"..."
"It's food! Just taste it, if it tastes funny, don't keep eating."
I returned to the kitchen table. I wasn't going to eat one, I swear. But the advice sounded so practical, and it looked too delicious. So I did.  And it was delicious.
A few hours later, I saw my dad wandering in and out of the kitchen. He asked me whether I wanted any more piroulines, and I said maybe later--but then I noticed he was holding a giant deep fryer pan with all the piroulines inside.
"Did something happen to your stomach?"
"No, I'm just throwing these away."
Only later, during dinner, does he tell me that he threw them away because there were tiny white worms in the piroulines. My mother assures me that they were not worms, but fungi. I don't know which answer I prefer. Apparently my dad was contemplating deep frying the fungus away, but decided against it.
I honestly wish I had a camera, because then I could take pictures of all the half-baked ideas and expired might-have-beens around the house. For example, he put a half rotten turnip and a sprig of green onion in a bucket of oil (to "rejuvenate" it, he said), left it there for a month and a half, and now the turnip is indeed green again. He frequently makes banana-black-sesame-cabbage-chicken-noodles ("the black sesame is the secret ingredient!"). When I complained about making a spinach & garlic dish too salty, my dad grabbed it all and put it in his tea ("so it wouldn't be as salty").
I need some delicious food pictures to wash this new pirouline memory out of my mind.
![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/x6rfn.jpg) Oh, Korea.
Feel free to share your food horror stories! <3 Although to be honest, instead of feeling better by sharing this experience, I'm actually feeling a little queasy after writing this blog.
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If you were already suspicious of the edibility of those things... did you not look to see if there was anything growing on/in it? Though I guess in retrospect it was probably better that you didn't look and find white worms / fungi halfway into one of those things...
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those things are pretty tasty... when they dont have worms.
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On December 27 2010 15:06 synapse wrote:
If you were already suspicious of the edibility of those things... did you not look to see if there was anything growing on/in it? Though I guess in retrospect it was probably better that you didn't look and find white worms / fungi halfway into one of those things...
T_T yeah, I looked but didn't see anything, and I nibbled on one end and didn't feel weird immediately. I figured since it was mostly chocolate and sealed it might be okay, but that was a bad assumption on my part.
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YUMMM
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Smix
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T_________T I'm so sorry T________T I've had a sort of similar experience...
I remember one time my family and I were eating a type of instant noodle called Chapagetti and as we ate, I noticed there were tiny little white squiggly things everywhere. So I asked, "Um, dad. Are these worms?" And at first he brushed it off but then as we kept eating he started poking at them and noticed that they were, indeed, small little newborns, probably some type of fly or something T_____T. He later checked the wrapper and noticed there were some more that were clinging to the wrapper too. I have NO idea how he failed to notice any of this in the cooking process but a;lskdfjl;akejwfio;ajsd;lfjekl;. So grosssssssssssss a;ldfjs;klfd
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On December 27 2010 15:46 Smix wrote:
T_________T I'm so sorry T________T I've had a sort of similar experience...
I remember one time my family and I were eating a type of instant noodle called Chapagetti and as we ate, I noticed there were tiny little white squiggly things everywhere. So I asked, "Um, dad. Are these worms?" And at first he brushed it off but then as we kept eating he started poking at them and noticed that they were, indeed, small little newborns, probably some type of fly or something T_____T. He later checked the wrapper and noticed there were some more that were clinging to the wrapper too. I have NO idea how he failed to notice any of this in the cooking process but a;lskdfjl;akejwfio;ajsd;lfjekl;. So grosssssssssssss a;ldfjs;klfd
i am so sorry T___T oh my god this reminds me of more terrible memories.
i was washing the rice when some pieces of rice floated to the top of the water. i was suspicious since it seemed to have a different density than rice, but then IT MOVED AND HAD SEGMENTS.
then we found mommy moths and baby larva (so hard to spot, please wash your rice properly, folks) in the rice bag.
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Once I was eating steamed broccoli and noticed a small white grub attached on the inside, now I always check before I eat this vegetable
Once I hastily drank chocolate milk (gone bad) without paying attention to its discoloration and that was pretty unpleasant
Nothing too memorable besides that, guess it's better than seeing live worms
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Smix
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On December 27 2010 15:56 hazelynut wrote:Show nested quote +On December 27 2010 15:46 Smix wrote:
T_________T I'm so sorry T________T I've had a sort of similar experience...
I remember one time my family and I were eating a type of instant noodle called Chapagetti and as we ate, I noticed there were tiny little white squiggly things everywhere. So I asked, "Um, dad. Are these worms?" And at first he brushed it off but then as we kept eating he started poking at them and noticed that they were, indeed, small little newborns, probably some type of fly or something T_____T. He later checked the wrapper and noticed there were some more that were clinging to the wrapper too. I have NO idea how he failed to notice any of this in the cooking process but a;lskdfjl;akejwfio;ajsd;lfjekl;. So grosssssssssssss a;ldfjs;klfd i am so sorry T___T oh my god this reminds me of more terrible memories. i was washing the rice when some pieces of rice floated to the top of the water. i was suspicious since it seemed to have a different density than rice, but then IT MOVED AND HAD SEGMENTS. then we found mommy moths and baby larva (so hard to spot, please wash your rice properly, folks) in the rice bag.
Oh my god. That has happened to me too, except we noticed it before the wash-the-rice step.
T___________________________________T
Let's hope it never happens again T_T_T_T_T
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I can honestly say I'm OCD when it comes to expiration dates and checking food. I will literally hunt down the gallon of milk with the furthest expiration date even if I have to crawl into the cooler, I check everything before I cook it and throw canned and boxed food out weeks before it expires. That said, I have never had a problem with accidentally eating strange bugs or weird fungi.
Moral of the story: Check things before devouring them, saves you the creep out factor later.
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AAAGH WAI SO MUCH TALK ABOUT WORMS IN MAH FOOD
I'm gonna double triple check all my food now ;;.
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Oh god I wish I could unread this thread, maybe I will forget about it before I hit the korean buffet tomorrow
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this is inside you now Mona, gg.
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wasn't going to return to this blog ever again, but i have a new story
i was about to pour some berry kix for a midnight (5 am) snack
when suddenly, i notice something--
wait, what is in my cereal? smaller pieces of cereal?
only then do i realize that my dad poured leftover candy into my cereal box.
at least they aren't eggs
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1) why do you go to bed when I wake up
2) you should mention that he burned some food yesterday morning as well
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Oh my god. Your dad is so awesome! I wish he was my brother =). Much <3 to zhang house from india
and seriously, just throw EVERYTHING out (especially all the really old meat!) and clean thoroughly with chemicals and then go to the grocery store again (shopping is fun!)...oh and start using that dishwasher! dishwasher = autoclave =O
i bought you the detergent 
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Somehow, I'm still hungry after reading this thread. ┐(￣ー￣)┌
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