I just found a little gnat-bug floating in my coffee (homebrewed, fresh pot.) And I know the gnat wasn’t in there when I poured it a minute ago. It probably landed while I was sitting here working on the computer. So I scooped it out. And am continuing to drink it.
It’s good coffee, dammit; I’m not going to toss the whole cup because of a little bitty gnat.
I would have done the same exact thing. But that led me to start thinking about it. What size bug would have been big enough to warrant tossing the whole cup? Would he type of bug matter? Would you be more likely to drink after a gnat but not a cock roach. What about a spider or a moth?
I can handle a gnat or a small spider but I think I’d have to draw the line at any type or size of roach. Mostly for the ick factor but partly because they’re dirty (not that gnats are all that clean and not that I’d know)
Makes me want to go back and reexamine that cup I just had. 
I would have removed the gnat, then continued to drink. (I’m assuming you did that, but one never knows. ) That’s usually what I do when I find myself confronted with any manner of things in my morning coffee–cat hair, my own hair, carpet fuzz, a bit of cigarette ash, etc.
Velvet brought up a good point, though … I think a spider might call for a new cup. I hate spiders. Roaches definitely call for a new cup of coffee, and possibly a new kitchen. Ants I could live with. Flies might gross me out.
Oh, and I should probably point out that I’m comfortable with this in my own home, but if somebody at a diner served me a cup of coffee with an ant swimming in it, I’d probably ask for a new cup.
Every time you eat canned tomatoes, you’re consuming fly eggs and maggots.
Actionable levels for Drosophila fly in 500 grams of canned tomatoes are an average of 10 or more fly eggs per 500 grams, or 5 or more fly eggs and 1 or more maggots per 500 grams, or 2 or more maggots per 500 grams.
Think about this the next time you’re having spaghetti.
And drinking bug coffee is the greatest contributor to the lamentable affliction of forgetting what you read in the OP by the time you get to the “reply” part.
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pfffft - just a little extra protein…
Why remove the gnat first? Geezus, next thing you know, you’ll be drinking tea out of paper-thin porcelain with your pinkie finger sticking out, your lordship . . .
sighs People are weird . . .
About 16 years ago I was visiting my parents and had procured some beer which I took to my bedroom to drink. I had also found a Time magazine which had a review of a movie called “The Fly.” As I read the movie review I shoved my can of beer into the space between the bed and the wall so that if my mother came into the room she wouldn’t see it.
I read about the movie, then reached for my beer.
It had a fly in it.
And, alki that I was, I simply removed the fly and continued drinking.
A little gnat would not ruin my coffee. I would scoop it out and finish it. Bugs a lttile larger give me a quesey feeling and I would throw it out. Don’t look to closely at peanut butter if eating bugs bothers you.
A lot of people find this website gross:
A couple of years ago, gnat-coffee would have given me the willies. It’s surprising how motherhood can utterly change your mind about what’s gross and what isn’t. After enduring all the bodily-waste-oriented indignities that my son’s put me through, a little gnat in the coffee won’t squick me.
A fly, on the other hand? Especially one of those big-ass black buggers or those green-or-bluebottle ones? Eee-yeah, that would turn my stomach pretty fast. I can handle being told about buggy bits in my canned food – that stuff gets super-heated and processed and whatnot, so it’s at least not-so-germy. But in my coffee, which is more than likely just lukewarm? I’m getting a new cup, thankee.
Puts down her knittin’ and raises her happily-bug-free cuppa in toast to ya
Happened to me the other day. I spooned him out, pinned his wings behind his back, perched him on the edge of my cup, and shouted, “SPIT IT OUT!”
Hee! Fairy Chat Mom, my dad said that about extra protein, too. He would also say it’d put hair on my chest, which being a girl-type person was not quite an endorsement. And thankfully untrue!
Gnats don’t bother me, though they are quite nasty little things. I wouldn’t drink if a spider had been in my coffee, mainly because it would be too sad. Poor little par-boiled spidey.
A lot of things wouldn’t bother me, but a fat mosquito bloated with the blood of someone else…well I’d have to give that coffee a miss.
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Hmm.
I guess my reactions to different suggested creepies would be:
Gnat in cup = scoop out, finish coffee
Mosquito in cup = dump coffee, pour another cup
Housefly in cup = curse, dump coffee, pour another cup
Roach in cup = gag, dump coffee, douse cup with detergent, get fresh cup from cupboard
Spider in cup = shriek, dash cup against wall, lament loss of favorite cup, clean up mess and search for errant spider to squish, no more need for coffee due to adrenaline rush
My threshold for this type of thing went up dramatically as I got older.
Once I went to get a cookie from he cupboard (in the dark), and took a big bite on my way back to the chair. It tasted funny. Then I felt the bugs crawling on my hand and wrist.
I turned on the light, and saw it was COVERED with tiny ants.
A few years earlier, I would screamed like 6 year old and spit until my mouth was dry.
But, I just swallowed and tossed the rest of the cookies. Darn, no more cookies.
The gnat wouldn’t have bothered me, I would have done the same thing.
Mr. Moto , you have officially grossed me out. I could have done without knowing that. :eek:
Heh.
Shouldn’t’a swallowed. Woulda saved ya a few ounces of regurge.