SOMETIMES GOOGLE DOESN’T HAVE WHAT I NEED
Posted by Karen on Apr 26 2007
Ick.
I was making dinner last night when I noticed something disturbing. The menu was pepper steak and rice. It’s one of those dinners where prep-work is everything. All of the ingredients must be sliced, diced, chopped, and measured and ready to throw together. Once cooking starts, it progresses very quickly.
During this preparation I went to scoop out one cup of rice. I looked into my Tupperware container and the rice was not alone. Along with it were hundreds of little brown specks. And they were moving. They were digging themselves down into the rice and clinging to the sides of the container. I quickly slammed the lid back on.
What’s a person to do when they find bugs in their rice? If you guessed “Google it,” then you’re right! Unfortunately, you cannot put a picture in the Google search bar. The term “rice bugs” revealed lots of possibilities, but I don’t think there was a direct match. The bugs I was dealing with were tiny–probably 1/8 of an inch long or smaller. I have no idea what types of bodies or legs they had because they were far too small to identify any parts of them. The “rice weevil” was a common result of my search, but it looked far too big and menacing to be what I had. Google didn’t help me on this one. I still am at a loss for what they were.
The worst part of it is that we had rice with dinner about 5 days ago. Apparently it was rice with a little extra protein.
on 26 Apr 2007 at 8:40 am 1 reba said …
pantry moth larvae probably, dry goods tend to get them. i believe they come home from the store with them. what you should do when you buy rice or flour or whatever is put it in the freezer and all the larvae will die so you will still eat them but you wont know……gross i know. i think you can buy traps for them too……still gross
try this for info
http://www.ehow.com/how_18818_rid-home-pantry.html
on 26 Apr 2007 at 10:48 am 2 Awesome Mom said …
Yick I hate bugs! I tried saving some baby cereal from Evan’s baby days and use it for Harry but these tiny little bugs got in (eating holes in the box) and ruined the whole box. After that I kept cereal in plastic. At least you don’t have mice or cockroaches.
on 26 Apr 2007 at 3:02 pm 3 Fat Writer said …
ew. at least you had the smarts to slam the lid back on. i think i would have just screamed and dumped the whole works on the floor in my flurry to leave the kitchen!
on 27 Apr 2007 at 5:39 am 4 kailani said …
I’m not sure what they’re called but I usually find them in the dry goods. You’ll know they’re there because you’ll see them on the walls and ceiling of the pantry. Then you have to go and figure out which food they’re hiding in. Yuck!
kailani
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