# Poll: Bugs in your rice **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 13, 2010, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-bugs-in-your-rice/560584 "2010-11-13T19:42:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2010, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-bugs-in-your-rice/560584/41 "2010-11-14T16:08:35Z")
I would throw it out, but anything I toss that looks still edible my SO will take to the guys he knows who live in a tent under the bridge nearby. They will eat anything, including any stray dog that might happen upon them, so they probably wouldn’t mind a few bugs in their rice. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2010, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-bugs-in-your-rice/560584/42 "2010-11-14T17:25:15Z")
I’d throw it out, both because of the ick and to avoid further infestation. But I keep all grains and flours in airtight containers to avoid this issue. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2010, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-bugs-in-your-rice/560584/43 "2010-11-14T18:37:07Z")
Do you think the robins and other birds who are out hunting for bugs around churches and see rice say “Oh my GOD, there’s rice in my bugs!!!” ---
**Author:** ![wheresmymind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/91b2a8/32.png) [@wheresmymind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wheresmymind)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2010, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-bugs-in-your-rice/560584/44 "2010-11-14T18:39:16Z")
It wouldn’t bother me per se, I got used to having bugs in my food when I volunteered in Belize after college. But if it was an “active” infestation I’d probably through it out just to keep it from spreading throughout my pantry. Dead bugs probably wouldn’t bother me enough to pick up a new bag of rice however. ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2010, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-bugs-in-your-rice/560584/45 "2010-11-15T18:51:32Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > The “no” option in the poll is a little too emphatic (I wouldn’t report you to anyone), but I still chose it, anyway. Rice is cheap; it’s no great loss to throw some out. I might, though, use it for some non-food-purpose, like making one of those neck-warmer bags you throw in the microwave. That’s how I see it. I wouldn’t eat the bugs… eww. Even if I have to toss 12 lbs of a Costco bag of rice, with how cheap it is a Costco, it’s only like throwing away 8 lbs. ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2010, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-bugs-in-your-rice/560584/46 "2010-11-16T06:53:36Z")
> [@Unintentionally\_Blank](#): > > After a long time eating non-rice meals, See, this is the confusing part. So I have a different husband? One who doesn’t cook up a batch of white rice to go with, say, pizza or fried chicken or such? 😕 I vaguely remember meals without rice, back when I was single and my family consisted only of white people… Now, though, the rice cooker is by _far_ the most used appliance in our kitchen, and in the top 5 in the house. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2010, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-bugs-in-your-rice/560584/47 "2010-11-16T11:53:27Z")
It happens, we’ll slide over to refritos, augratin potatoes, a lot of the rice will come in Hamburger helper (yeah yeah, it’s easy. 😛 ), and then we’ll go through a Pasta stage. I’m a sticky sushi rice kinda guy myself, but costco doesn’t SELL that. ☹ The long grain rice gets eaten once a month or so, and the Basmati rice (another 25 lb bag. sigh), will probably last the rest of my life. I’m not much of a basmati rice person. ---
**Author:** ![GilaB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@GilaB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GilaB)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2010, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-bugs-in-your-rice/560584/48 "2010-11-16T21:25:52Z")
Shortly after reading this, I chucked most of an almost-new bag of bread flour after finding a mealworm. No question that it was going out immediately. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-bugs-in-your-rice/560584.md?page=2)