# There was...something...in my beer. **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 18, 2019, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-something-in-my-beer/834137 "2019-05-18T02:26:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2019, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-something-in-my-beer/834137/41 "2019-05-20T15:11:20Z")
Less filling, tastes great! ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2019, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-something-in-my-beer/834137/42 "2019-05-20T17:06:25Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Needs [official thread song](https://youtu.be/p_6f3Ik7Suw). This is what came to me: [\*There was something in my beer that night… \*](https://youtu.be/dQsjAbZDx-4?t=86) ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2019, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-something-in-my-beer/834137/43 "2019-05-20T17:14:23Z")
> [@dba\_Fred](#): > > So **snfaulkner** , did it drink much? > If it’d been a fly and you were Irish and in a joke, you’d have grabbed the fly by the wings and yelled _Spit it out, ya little bastard, spit it out!_ [hijack]Goddammit, I hate it when people screw up this joke. The Irishman picks the fly out of his beer, and continues to drink from the glass- because the Irish are notorious drunks. The Scotsman is the one who yells “Spit it out, ye thievin’ bastard!”, because the Scottish are notorious drunks, but also notoriously cheap, so he wants that bit of beer back.[/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2019, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-something-in-my-beer/834137/44 "2019-05-20T17:24:43Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > This is what came to me: [\*There was something in my beer that night… > \*](https://youtu.be/dQsjAbZDx-4?t=86) Fernando the slug. He wasn’t just a bug He offered a bit of protein He was silent & unseen He took a little swim And you nearly swallowed him… ---
**Author:** ![ZurBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/71e660/32.png) [@ZurBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZurBob)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2019, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-something-in-my-beer/834137/45 "2019-05-21T00:21:38Z")
All these histrionics over a slug-bug in a beer? Some folks just don’t get outdoors often enough. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2019, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-something-in-my-beer/834137/46 "2019-05-21T01:14:12Z")
> [@ZurBob](#): > > All these histrionics over a slug-bug in a beer? Some folks just don’t get outdoors often enough. Technically, it was histrionics over a slug in my mouth when I expected just crip, refreshing, ice-cold smooth beer. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2019, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-something-in-my-beer/834137/47 "2019-05-21T01:27:45Z")
> **[He ate a slug on a dare, became paralyzed and died | CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/05/health/man-dies-after-eating-slug-on-dare/index.html)** > > An Australian teen rugby player who ate a slug on a dare and became paralyzed eight years ago from rat lungworm disease has died. Sorry to be a downer but it can be quite serious. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2019, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-something-in-my-beer/834137/48 "2019-05-21T02:59:54Z")
I have eaten freeze-dried caterpillars, canned grasshoppers, baby bees in honey and chocolate-covered ants. Nothing bothers me. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2019, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-something-in-my-beer/834137/49 "2019-05-21T03:08:57Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > I have eaten freeze-dried caterpillars, canned grasshoppers, baby bees in honey and chocolate-covered ants. Nothing bothers me. The difference being that you did so by choice. I’m assuming none of those were in your beer surprise. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2019, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-something-in-my-beer/834137/50 "2019-05-21T03:17:20Z")
> [@drad\_dog](#): > > [https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/05/health/man-dies-after-eating-slug-on-dare/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/05/health/man-dies-after-eating-slug-on-dare/index.html) > > Sorry to be a downer but it can be quite serious. Takeaway lesson: Even the slugs in Australia can be deadly. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2019, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-something-in-my-beer/834137/51 "2019-05-21T05:52:27Z")
You wouldn’t do well on survivor. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2019, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-something-in-my-beer/834137/52 "2019-05-21T18:01:11Z")
> [@Folly](#): > > Hopefully, **snfaulkner** doesn’t object to me relocating the image to imgur. > > [Imgur: The magic of the Internet](https://imgur.com/esLOQXl) Ooooh, is it not cute? Much smaller than I imagined by the preceding posts and rather dull in colour, but nice and glossy. If it ever moves again could you make a GIF? ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2019, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-something-in-my-beer/834137/53 "2019-05-21T19:04:41Z")
I had a similar incident with a roach in my coffee. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2019, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-something-in-my-beer/834137/54 "2019-05-21T19:55:23Z")
“Hold my beer …” “Um, no thanks.” ---
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2019, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-something-in-my-beer/834137/55 "2019-05-21T20:01:33Z")
There’s no scale on your picture. How many millimeters (or inches) do you estimate as its length? Also was it more of a flat or rounded shape? Also where do you live, as a general geographic region? My guess is that you found a _deroceras laeve_, or marsh slug. _Deroceras laeve_ can be grey to yellow to brown and is found in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and New Zealand (widely prevalent in N. America and Europe). At rest they can be extremely short, around 1cm length, although they might extend twice that length or more. The mantle is unusually large, about half of body length (that bulge in the picture). _Deroceras laeve_ also has the distinction of being the only known terrestrial slug that deliberately goes under water and can survive under water for days. It is most active during late spring and early summer. For more information, see the _deroceras laeve_’s entries on the websites of the [University of Florida](https://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/Creatures/misc/gastro/slugs_of_florida.htm#spec) and the [University of Göttingen](http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/species?id=417). ~Max ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2019, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-something-in-my-beer/834137/56 "2019-05-21T20:44:58Z")
It was about an inch, inch and a half maybe? And I’m in NW Arkansas. Thanks for info! ---
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2019, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-something-in-my-beer/834137/57 "2019-05-21T20:51:44Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > It was about an inch, inch and a half maybe? And I’m in NW Arkansas. Thanks for info! Sounds like _Deroceras laeve_ to me. I couldn’t find any harmful effects unless you actually ingested the thing (_very_ rarely the Canadian variety carry a parasite which is not known to affect humans), so you should be fine. ~Max ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2019, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-something-in-my-beer/834137/58 "2019-05-21T21:14:42Z")
I just thought he coulda squirted something in your mouth. Gah! (Excuse me while I go barf) ---
**Author:** ![GuyTanzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/48db29/32.png) [@GuyTanzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuyTanzer)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2019, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-something-in-my-beer/834137/59 "2019-05-21T21:32:40Z")
Maybe it was Robin Leech, and I don’t know WHY. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-something-in-my-beer/834137.md?page=2)