I would have put this in the post below, but it's not related, so it will get it's own title and tags and all that jazz. Anywho, I recently made a trip to my local farmer's market to stock up on some delicious organic food. I bought some oranges, cherry tomatoes, and strawberries. Once I got home, I made sure to wash all the produce and then stored it in the fridge.
Later that night, I went for some of the bright red strawberries for a healthy movie snack. I ate a few, they were DELICIOUS, but, when I bit into my 4th (5th?) one, I saw something crawl out of it that MORTIFIED me - a teeny tiny spider. Eeeek! I immediately spit the remaining mush of a strawberry out and dropped the half eaten one back in the basket. Yuck. Yuck. YUCK. I'm officially too paranoid to eat the rest of my strawberries...is this what I get for eating organic? Well, luckily (unfortunately?), I'm not alone. I found a blog post by a fellow strawberry lover who had the same problem:
The other day I was cutting the tops off strawberries as I grabbed one I happened to look inside it and saw a spider... I thought euuw gross and chucked it in the sink.Ever since then I have been a little freaked out.... Every time I have strawberries I have to cut them up, I was thinking to me self (I am so mental... what are the chances I would ever see another spider in the middle of a strawberry???) just then I cut one open and "There was a spider right in the middle and it was alive!!!"Well, I have decided I am not a mental case.... In all three spiders were found!!! I was taking to my sister and she also had found a spider in the middle of her strawberry!!! I decided to take a picture..... So you could all see what I am taking about!!!!
This is exactly what MY spider looked like! Again. YUCK. I threw out the basket of strawberries I found the spider in, and still have one basket left. Do I dare eat them?
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Update: I decided to take my chances and cut up the remaining basket of strawberries. I cut each one directly in half, carefully checked the inside, and then dropped it into a sterile container. I'm happy to report not ONE was infested, and I even ate one of the strawberry halves, but unfortunately (and really pathetically) I didn't enjoy it! I was too caught in the the thought of spiders living in my fruit that I couldn't enjoy the taste! Boo. Hopefully I'll get over it.
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Update: I decided to take my chances and cut up the remaining basket of strawberries. I cut each one directly in half, carefully checked the inside, and then dropped it into a sterile container. I'm happy to report not ONE was infested, and I even ate one of the strawberry halves, but unfortunately (and really pathetically) I didn't enjoy it! I was too caught in the the thought of spiders living in my fruit that I couldn't enjoy the taste! Boo. Hopefully I'll get over it.
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