When I was a little kid, my mom decided to make something, containing oatmeal. I was standing right next to her, when she took the tub of Quaker oatmeal out of the cabinet and placed it on the counter. When she pulled on the top, the lid flew off with popping noise, not unlike that of a champagne cork. Then…
You know that scene in The Mummy, when the flesh eating scarabs burst up out of the ground in a swelling mass…
Well, that’s exactly what the tub of oatmeal looked like. JUST like that! Millions of tiny little beetle bugs spilling out over the rim!! EEEEK! :eek: Obviously, the oatmeal had been in the cupboard waaaayyyyy too long and became a haven for MEALBUGS! (or whatever they are called) We both screamed and totally freaked out. Although it was gross, we laugh about it now.
I can’t help but think of that everytime I open up a tub of Quaker oats. We keep the oats in the fridge all the time now.
Making breakfast for 8 people one morning, I broke an egg into the large bowl that already had a dozen eggs in it, the 13th egg was a half formed cick, threw the whole mess out and hhad cereal instead of scrambled eggs. ugh
We’ve had the little worm problem in our pantry too. Not very long ago, I made some macaroni and cheese for the kids and we were actually EATING it when one of them noticed it was actually macaroni’n’worms’n’cheese.
Hm. The only thing I can think of that’s even close is more icky than gross.
When I was 3, I got up in the middle of the night and took my Little Red Wagon into the kitchen and poured everything I could open into my wagon. Ketchup, flour, milk, syrup, spaghetti. Mom had just gone to the grocery store that day
Mom said the only thing that saved me was that I didn’t know how to use the can opener.
One day Mom was making toast. Put bread in toaster and pushed down. About 10 seconds later a mouse jumped from the slot squealing and on fire. Mom screamed, “stop it before it goes under the cabinet or it could burn the house down” Several of us ran around trying to catch the flaming mouse until someone finally hit it with a broom.
Funny in retrospect but have you ever smelled a burning rodent? Not the faint of heart. Oh and Mom threw that toaster away.
When Mom was taking some groceries out of the sack, she left a plastic bag with 5 pounds of ground beef on the counter. The bag was opaque, the place was a counter where people dump stuff. Mom forgot about it.
2 weeks pass by. :eek:
We start to notice an unpleasant smell, but can’t locate the source.
Another week goes by.
It REEKS!
After 2 days of diligent searching, we find it.
We’re still kidding Mom about her “carrion collection”.
This was waaaaaaay back. My mother had bought a package of Chipy Ahoy cookies and we kids confiscated it immediately upon discovering it in the groceries and were eating it in the living room. After about half the package was gone, my sister pulled out a cookie that had a green wormish thing on it (sorta inchworm-like). We looked in the package and saw a couple more. There was quite a bit of screaming and screeching for some time after that.
