You guys..I'm totally traumatized over here. On Wednesday, we were sitting down to eat dinner. I had made a salad using all sorts of healthy ingredients...kale, romaine lettuce, real salt, Parmesan cheese, dried oregano,extra virgin olive oil and lemon juice. When I went to take a bite, I saw a dead, dried up one of these..
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The lettuce was just from a plain, sealed bag of Publix brand Italian Blend (romaine and radicchio) and the roach was just folded up in a piece of lettuce. And, you know what Ben had the nerve to say.
That's the last time we buy organic.
And, all I could do was cry.
So, finally, Heidi threw it away for me, and I called Publix to complain, and they said they'd call me back. When they do, they better be offering me a nice Publix Gift Card. Either that, or offering to pay my therapy bills.
It's not organic!!!! It's pesticide-ridden lettuce from a sealed bag and it STILL had a HUGE bug in it. I can't bear to throw it away and I can't bear to eat it. Waaaaah
I'm no stranger to bugs in my lettuce. I grew up with crunchy parents who grew organic before it was cool. I've seen bugs in my lettuce before. Let me tell you, there is a WORLD of difference between seeing a bug on fresh, from the garden, organic lettuce and seeing a dead, cockroach in your bagged, pesticide ridden lettuce from the store.
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Lemme just tell you though, this was way worse than the time I found a tailless lizard running around in the bottom of one of my pots. The lizard was inside a strainer, trapped underneath a lid, running around like crazy...with it's tail just lying there separate. And, I didn't even find that traumatic..and we still use that strainer and lid..after sanitizing the heck out of those things.
Lemme just tell you though, this was way worse than the time I found a tailless lizard running around in the bottom of one of my pots. The lizard was inside a strainer, trapped underneath a lid, running around like crazy...with it's tail just lying there separate. And, I didn't even find that traumatic..and we still use that strainer and lid..after sanitizing the heck out of those things.
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And, I think I've stretched this traumatizing story for enough quick takes..but speaking of traumatizing things...have you seen that Catholic Meme with the cat staring at a bunch of mice crawling around on his head and the caption reads:
And, I think I've stretched this traumatizing story for enough quick takes..but speaking of traumatizing things...have you seen that Catholic Meme with the cat staring at a bunch of mice crawling around on his head and the caption reads:
Is Lent Over Yet?Every time I see it, I want to run screaming from my computer and bleach my eyes out. I'd post it here, but I can't bear to look at it. Mice are worse than cockroaches. .
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That. Is. Disgusting. Our FL apartment was infested with roaches - I had roach eggs in my toaster - and your story is way more disgusting. That's unbelievably disgusting. Oh my goodness. Eww.
ReplyDeleteHere's a gross story though, when we moved to Chicago, I found a mouse nest in one of my boxes with 5 dead baby mice scattered throughout the box. And I would WAY rather have that experience than a roach in my lettuce.
Eww.
Oh that mouse story is disgusting. I hate mice. I have an irrational, phobic fear of mice, so I would much rather deal with roaches than mice. Ewwww..I'm shuddering now.
ReplyDeleteI find bugs in our lettuce all the time. Store bought lettuce. But I separate the leaves and wash them out. It's gross, but can you imagine what else happens to the lettuce when it's growing in the ground? Eeeww! I just hope some water is strong enough to do the trick!
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