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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib
I won't tell you what I REALLY think it looks like, but I will say this: As a young man I was employed as a security guard at a place in California that manufactured Mexican TV dinners. The vats were round and HUGE and had a winding staircase that one climbed to get to the unsecured, open top. The smell was disgusting. Rats could climb into it and drown, although in all honesty I don't recall every seeing a drowned rat in one of them.
Give me Chicken Soup any day. (See how I cleverly moved my post back to the topic?)  |
See how boldly I took it back off topic
Insects, Mold, and Other Legal Food Contaminants
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Eating fly eggs, rodent hair, mold, and fecal matter may sound a lot like a challenge on Fear Factor, but it’s just an episode of our daily lives.
Unintended additives—indiscernible to the naked eye and unlisted on ingredient labels— squirm, crawl, fly, and plop into much of what we eventually put in our mouths. In fact, these unsavory morsels are so common that the Federal Drug Administration permits certain levels of these “natural contaminants” in our food. The FDA’s Food Defect Action Level Handbook establishes the amounts of contaminants permitted in about a hundred plant-derived foods. At or below these levels, the FDA has determined that the defects— however icky—are harmless.
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