# Should I finish my lunch?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-finish-my-lunch/301182
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [April 26, 2005, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-finish-my-lunch/301182 "2005-04-26T16:35:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2005, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-finish-my-lunch/301182/1 "2005-04-26T16:35:21Z")
Yesterday I got a chicken ceasar salad for lunch. It was HUGE and very, very tasty. I saved about half of it for lunch today. Yum yum, I’m eating my lunch. Say, what’s that little black thing? A bit of charred chicken breast? No, THAT’S A DEAD FLY.
IN MY SALAD.
Dammit. Now I’m grossed out. But it’s a really tasty salad, and I’m still really hungry. Besides, I threw the fly out, so it’s not like there’s a dead fly in my salad anymore. I hope. And it didn’t bother me last week when I almost drank the dead spider floating in the glass of water on my bedside table. I just threw the water out, refilled the glass, and kept drinking. Still . . . .
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2005, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-finish-my-lunch/301182/2 "2005-04-26T16:42:59Z")
I just threw up a little bit in the back of my throat.
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### Author:  [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2005, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-finish-my-lunch/301182/3 "2005-04-26T16:57:18Z")
I had no problem with the fly, but the spider grossed me out. 🙂
I say you perform an autopsy to discover what killed the fly, and if it’s something you can live with, go for it.
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### Author:  [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2005, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-finish-my-lunch/301182/4 "2005-04-26T17:01:03Z")
I’d also appreciate it if anyone can tell me exactly what power keeps putting dead bugs into my food and drink. Two in a week? I’ll watch out for the tarantula in my desert tonight. Sheesh.
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### Author:  [@Cerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerri)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2005, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-finish-my-lunch/301182/5 "2005-04-26T19:10:56Z")
Eh…if there’s any fly bits left, it’s just some extra protein. I’d eat it. (the salad, not the fly, that is.)
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### Author:  [@Cerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerri)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2005, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-finish-my-lunch/301182/6 "2005-04-26T19:19:26Z")
Heh…after I hit submit, I thought of a funny little anecdote you’d probably appreciate.
My stepkids-to-be are 12 and 7. Both of em can eat like nobody’s business. (They’re overweight, but we’ve been working on it). On weekends we have them, the youngest (my sweetie’s son who will eat anything not tied down if allowed to) almost always gets up before anyone else.
Apparently this particular morning he decided to not wake sweetie or I up to fix him some breakfast, and made himself a bowl of cereal.
His sister got up about an hour later, and when she went to fix herself a bowl of cereal discovered the box of cereal was _full_ of sugar ants, and woke both of us up.
We questioned his son about the bowl of cereal he’d eaten, and asked if he noticed it had had ants in it.
His reply?
“Yeah, but they were dead after I put the milk in, so I just ate em. I couldn’t even taste them.”
_chuckles_
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### Author:  [@Corii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corii)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2005, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-finish-my-lunch/301182/7 "2005-04-26T19:59:21Z")
> [@Cerri](#):
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> His reply?
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> “Yeah, but they were dead after I put the milk in, so I just ate em. I couldn’t even taste them.”
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> _chuckles_
Hah I bet he’d do well on Fear Factor.
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### Author:  [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2005, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-finish-my-lunch/301182/8 "2005-04-26T20:22:35Z")
> [@Cerri](#):
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> We questioned his son about the bowl of cereal he’d eaten, and asked if he noticed it had had ants in it.
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> His reply?
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> “Yeah, but they were dead after I put the milk in, so I just ate em. I couldn’t even taste them.”
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> _chuckles_
Kids! That’s very cute.
To the OP: One fly isn’t going to kill you, considering the billions of germs/bacteria you swallow every day just breathing. Care to stop that? 😉
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### Author:  [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2005, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-finish-my-lunch/301182/9 "2005-04-27T00:03:59Z")
[This guy](http://irc.evtek.fi/urllog/urllog/2005/04/18/pirtelo.jpg) thinks spiders taste good. Those that are squeemish may not want to click on the link. And flies are loaded with protein. I had a motorcycle as my only mode of transportation for a while when I was in high school. I also had an open face helmet so I ate quite a few bugs. Ever have a moth fluttering in the back of your throat? I had to stop and get a drink of water to wash it down.
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### Author:  [@Sarah\_Woodruff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarah_Woodruff)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2005, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-finish-my-lunch/301182/10 "2005-04-27T00:50:06Z")
> [@lieu](#):
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> I just threw up a little bit in the back of my throat.
Funnily enough, that’s what flies tend to do when they land on food - throw up a bit on it.