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[Archaix]

Yeah.

I grabbed a box of my roomate's cereal, I figured it to be about a month old. The expiration date was a good ways off, and all seemed good.

I grabbed a bit and put it in my mouth, it was all soft and decidedly un-cereal like. So I spat it out into the garbage, and upon further inspection of the box there were a great many tiny black insects crawling all over it. I threw out the cereal, took out the trash, and I've never been more paranoid about bugs than I am right now.

WHAT THE FUCK DID I JUST EAT?!

Seriously, this is disturbing shit.

And I thought my roomate generally kept things cleaner than I do.

 

[shoplifter]

owned.

 

[talking head]

pics

 

[arter_2]

[points and laughs at you HA.......... HA]

 

[Escape Goat]

Lots of protein, whats the big deal?

 

[Chrono]

 

[GDGF]

I've eaten cereal like that before. Best to do what the pornstars do. Chalk it up as extra protein and forget about it.

 

[Socreges]

You know, the bugs in your body right now won't even suffocate. In fact, they're probably feeding off the shit in your body; living the happy life. They may even mate and produce offspring, if they aren't pregnant and laying eggs in your testicles already.

 

[Archaix]

Good stuff.

I swigged probably a half gallon of it after I got back from taking the garbage down.

I can feel them crawling all over my body!

 

[Dyne]

After cleaning out a garbage can full of MAGGOTS one fine morning a couple of years ago, I treated myself to some Rice Krispies. Unfortunately, they reminded me so much of the maggots I cleaned up (complete with disgusting pop sounds) I could not eat them.

 

[Kuramu]

just because some bugs carry germs that people's immune systems aren't prepared to fight off is no reason to worry

 

[Belfast]

 

[yoshifumi]

i've had that happen before, except i found out there were bugs in my food while it was in my mouth.

 

[Ripclawe]

Yeah.

I grabbed a box of my roomate's cereal, I figured it to be about a month old. The expiration date was a good ways off, and all seemed good.

I grabbed a bit and put it in my mouth, it was all soft and decidedly un-cereal like. So I spat it out into the garbage, and upon further inspection of the box there were a great many tiny black insects crawling all over it. I threw out the cereal, took out the trash, and I've never been more paranoid about bugs than I am right now.

WHAT THE FUCK DID I JUST EAT?!

Seriously, this is disturbing shit.

And I thought my roomate generally kept things cleaner than I do.

could be weevils, you find them in rice or flour.

http://www.ento.psu.edu/extension/factsheets/cereal_pantry_pests.htm

 

[Kuramu]

say, while we're om the subject, my cupboard has been infested with these little bugs ever since we bought rice from the corner store. not weevils. they look like fuzzy little pill bugs, and I can get rid of them. any ideas what they might be?

 

[Ripclawe]

check out the above page, they have pics of the different types of bugs in the kitchen.

 

[Archaix]

could be weevils, you find them in rice or flour.

http://www.ento.psu.edu/extension/factsheets/cereal_pantry_pests.htm

Okay, seriously, the penn state link wouldn't be nearly as creepy if I weren't actually in State College.

And second, they seem too big. These things were...I don't know, lice sized I guess. Too small to notice before I actually took a good look in the box. Just little crawling black lines.

 

[Kuramu]

doesn't look like any of those. they're orange/brown and fuzzy like a fuzzy catapillar, but have the bodies of a pill bug. maybe it's the larval form of something on that site

 

[Ripclawe]

Okay, seriously, the penn state link wouldn't be nearly as creepy if I weren't actually in State College.

And second, they seem too big. These things were...I don't know, lice sized I guess. Too small to notice before I actually took a good look in the box. Just little crawling black lines.

You better hope its one of those things above, because none of them are harmful to humans, if you ate an unknown creature....well... probably one of those bugs in an early stage of development. BTW, have you checked out any other food items in the kitchen? if its in one, there could be other sources of bugs around.

 

[ScientificNinja]

I'm finding it difficult to stomach this story, honestly.

So what did you do? You stuck your hand in the box, grabbed a handful and didn't feel the bugs crawling around in your hand?

You poured some into a bowl and didn't see them crawling around?

You poured some milk into the bowl and didn't see them float to the surface?

You didn't notice the smell?

 

[Archaix]

I'm finding it difficult to stomach this story, honestly.

So what did you do? You stuck your hand in the box, grabbed a handful and didn't feel the bugs crawling around in your hand?

You poured some into a bowl and didn't see them crawling around?

You poured some milk into the bowl and didn't see them float to the surface?

You didn't notice the smell?

There was no smell. I stuck my hand in and grabbed some(not a handful, just a small bit about the size of a quarter around) and threw it right in my mouth. Like I said, the consistancy was just off while chewing it, I'd had a non-infested box of my own before, and I spat it out. I didn't pour a bowl at all, I just looked in the box and saw them.

They were so small that I doubt I could have felt them crawling even if I had known they were there.

I wish I were lying, I'm going paranoid about this.

I imagine it was probably something like what was posted above, I didn't inspect them or anything, I was too busy freaking out. It was a box of Post "Great Grains" cereal, which has grain products and dried fruit which are both mentioned as sources of some of those things.

Guh. I need a shower.

 

[Kuramu]

this reminds me of the time my idiot roommate was walking through the room with a bowl of cereal, he tripped over his own feet like the idiot he was, and got his cereal all over the bugs i was eating. I was pissed, as you can well imagine

 

[AntoneM]

I once bit into a Snickers bar, I knew something was wrong cause after I bit into it the top of the bar it collapsed as if it was hollow inside. Yes there were live ants in my Snickers bar and I ate some of them.

 

[Desperado]

We've had those in our cereal before. dunno what they are...but those little bastards are why I keep all opened cereal in the fridge now...

 

[Kuroyume]

This happened to me too about 4 months ago, except that the cereal was new and I opened it just before eating. I began eating some Kellog's Raisin Bran and noticed that one of the raisins had some weird stripes on it. I looked closely and it was a dead roach. I spit out what was in my mouth and threw the cereal away. I will never eat Raisin Bran ever again.

 

[cubanb]

they were marshmellows!

 

[Travado]

This thread is useless without pics!

 

[way more]

I swigged probably a half gallon of it after I got back from taking the garbage down.

I can feel them crawling all over my body!

You are nuts. Take a qualuude.

 

[bobafett]

The saw-toothed grain beetle belongs to the family of beetles known as Silvanidae. The adult saw-toothed beetle is 2.5 to 3 mm long and can be readily identified from other beetle pests of stored products by the distinctive shape of its thorax - the section between the head and the body. It has six jagged, saw-toothed projections along the outer edges of the thorax. The beetle is relatively cold hardy and will over-winter in unheated buildings and grain stores in temperate climates. The merchant grain beetle O. mercator, a less cold hardy species, is very similar in appearance to O. surinamensis. The merchant grain beetle does infest stored commodities in Australia, but it is not considered a major pest. The saw-toothed grain beetle is a common pest of cereals, cereal products, oilseeds and dried fruits. The merchant grain beetle is principally a pest of oilseeds and dried fruits.

Description
Adults:Very flattened, dark brown to gray, six tooth-like projections on each side of thorax. The beetle is a major pest of grain and milled grain products, and many other stored foods. They are very active and their habit of infesting cracks and crevices makes them difficult to detect when inspecting buildings for their presence.

Life cycle (O. surinamensis)
Optimum: 20 days at 33°C, 80% r.h.
Range: 18 - 38°C, 10 - 90% r.h., survives very cold conditions
Maximum population growth rate per month: 50 times

Biology
Eggs: Laid at loosely in crevices in the commodity. An average 375 eggs are laid during the life of an adult female.
Larvae: The larvae pass through four instars during their development. They are tolerant of dry conditions and development has been recorded at relative humidity as low as 10%. Larvae are mobile and not concealed.
Pupa: The pupal stage is formed within a cocoon spun by the mature larvae, and broken grains or other food particles may be used in its construction.
Adult: Long lived, feeds, flies, and will rapidly walk long distances. Can easily enter packaged food, and prefer to live in cracks and crevices.