# Beautiful berry salad, ugly many-legged surprise **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 29, 2005, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-berry-salad-ugly-many-legged-surprise/310387 "2005-06-29T17:01:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-berry-salad-ugly-many-legged-surprise/310387/1 "2005-06-29T17:01:25Z")
So, obviously not for the squeamish. I had some gorgeous berry salad - blackberries, raspberries, blueberries - from the Fresh Market in the fridge that I got yesterday, and I’m trying to be sooo good and eat lunch at work and save money, right? 'Cause of all that making offers on houses. So I says, I says let’s take these beauiful berries for dessert! Along with the chicken salad, the Coke, and the trail mix for break, because I was in a real hurry and I leave early on Wednesdays anyway. So far so good. So I get down to the staff room, and I tuck into my chicken salad, which was good, and I eat my berry salad, which was also good. And I get down to the last little raspberry, and I spear it with my fork, and pick it up, and what should be clinging to the bottom of it? An intruder. A nasty, nasty intruder. With a _lot_ of legs. A **lot**. It’s dead, of course, but somehow I’d almost prefer it to be alive than to be presented with a _corpse_. So I give it a shudder, but say, hey, at least I’m done so it won’t put me off the rest of my food. And I pack my lunch back up and spend the rest of my lunch break working on this mortgage question. And when I’ve got an appointment I call my mom, to see if she’ll come with me, for emotional support. And of course I tell her about the foreign invader in my lunch. And she says, “Well, at least there weren’t any on the rest of it.” And I said… pause… :eek: Because, of course, there most certainly could have been. May have been. Dare I say, quite possibly were? Oooh, I feel ill. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-berry-salad-ugly-many-legged-surprise/310387/2 "2005-06-29T17:45:37Z")
On the plus side, think of all the extra protein you may have gotten along with all the berry goodness. That should make you feel better. ---
**Author:** ![Anaptyxis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anaptyxis/32/3171_2.png) [@Anaptyxis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaptyxis)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-berry-salad-ugly-many-legged-surprise/310387/3 "2005-06-29T19:29:21Z")
What the many-legged surprise beasties’ friends _really_ hate is when you use one of the corpse’s legs as floss, when you’re done eating. That’s just RUDE! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-berry-salad-ugly-many-legged-surprise/310387/4 "2005-06-30T18:21:50Z")
Just for my revolting need-to-know brain, this morning I looked around in the rest of the berry salad I had in the fridge before throwing it away - there were two more. So you _know_ I ate one. ---
**Author:** ![Susie\_Derkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Susie\_Derkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susie_Derkins)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-berry-salad-ugly-many-legged-surprise/310387/5 "2005-06-30T19:21:23Z")
☹ I once ate a bowl of raisin bran, then went to close the box and saw cobwebby things in the bag. I shook some out onto the table and saw lots of dead bugs. I just figured hey, if I’m woman enough to eat _raisins_… Are you going to bring the salad to Fresh Market and complain? I got $15 worth of coupons from Kellogs for my pain. ---
**Author:** ![Susie\_Derkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Susie\_Derkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susie_Derkins)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-berry-salad-ugly-many-legged-surprise/310387/6 "2005-06-30T19:24:01Z")
I meant _Kellogg_, dammit. ---
**Author:** ![Wintermute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@Wintermute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wintermute)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-berry-salad-ugly-many-legged-surprise/310387/7 "2005-06-30T19:35:30Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > Just for my revolting need-to-know brain, this morning I looked around in the rest of the berry salad I had in the fridge before throwing it away - there were two more. > > So you _know_ I ate one. _knew_ I shouldn’t have come in here. I’m going to have nightmares for weeks. ::Runs screaming from thread:: ---
**Author:** ![TwoOnSunday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/22d042/32.png) [@TwoOnSunday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoOnSunday)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-berry-salad-ugly-many-legged-surprise/310387/8 "2005-06-30T19:39:51Z")
A co-worker just walked over and asked what I was reading. Rather than trying to come up with some elaborate lie concerning how this is related to work, I summarized the OP. He then told me about the peach he was eating yesterday. A straight from the orchard peach. It had straight from the orchard tiny ants inside it. He said it was so good, he kept eating it anyway… Where’s the puke smiley? ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-berry-salad-ugly-many-legged-surprise/310387/9 "2005-06-30T19:47:25Z")
You see? This is why I don’t like organic food. Sometimes, it’s a little _too_ organic. Give me my pesticide laden berries full of preservatives. I might get cancer from them, but hey…at least I didn’t eat a bug. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-berry-salad-ugly-many-legged-surprise/310387/10 "2005-07-01T01:30:36Z")
Nah, I guess I ought to take it to them and throw a fit, but I already threw it away and plus, I love them so much I guess I can eat a few bugs for them. As long as their bourbon salmon is insect free, and also their cajun crab dip, I can overlook a few extra legs. A _lot_ of a few extra legs, though. ---
**Author:** ![BrattiAtti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@BrattiAtti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrattiAtti)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-berry-salad-ugly-many-legged-surprise/310387/11 "2005-07-01T01:40:34Z")
[Obligatory Link](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=188778&highlight=spider+strawberry) Yeah, I’ve been thinking about bugs on fruit a lot lately. Perhaps because it’s the season and I’m buying boxes of fruit a lot more often than usual. I did chop up the strawberries I bought today, so I know damn well there were no insects. (Click the link and you’ll eat them my way, too!) ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-berry-salad-ugly-many-legged-surprise/310387/12 "2005-07-01T03:26:08Z")
Once, in the middle of a bag of salad, I found a big, fat, minty-green beetle. Whole, intact. All of its legs attached. It was about the size of a nickel. AAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-berry-salad-ugly-many-legged-surprise/310387/13 "2005-07-01T03:50:24Z")
Well, at least it was the _whole_ beetle you found…