Ever notice your spices moving?

Spaightlabs

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/paprika-bugs_us_5a568385e4b08a1f624b0ef1 

Bon appetit!

Legume

Keeps the spices from clumping.

JohnInCarolina

Meh.  It’s more friggin protein.

Botch

Somewhere in the mid-eighties I was home alone, and decided to order a pizza with anchovies only; I've always heard people freak out about anchovies on a pizza but, personally, I had no idea what they tasted like.  The girl taking my order even asked, "Are you sure??"  
Pizza arrived, I opened the box, it looked and smelled okay.  I grabbed the "green can" out of the cupboard (this was before my "food snob" step) and sprinkled it on.  The cheese must've had one of the above insects, I could see the parmesan wiggling, and I freaked out.  Left the house and had a taco or something.
30+ years later, I still haven't had an anchovy pizza.  

WeberWho

Botch said:

Somewhere in the mid-eighties I was home alone, and decided to order a pizza with anchovies only; I've always heard people freak out about anchovies on a pizza but, personally, I had no idea what they tasted like.  The girl taking my order even asked, "Are you sure??"  
Pizza arrived, I opened the box, it looked and smelled okay.  I grabbed the "green can" out of the cupboard (this was before my "food snob" step) and sprinkled it on.  The cheese must've had one of the above insects, I could see the parmesan wiggling, and I freaked out.  Left the house and had a taco or something.
30+ years later, I still haven't had an anchovy pizza.  

You're missing out. Nothing like a wood fired pizza with a little anchovies on it. 

caliking

I'm in the "its more protein" camp. We find weevils in the flour, beans, lentils, rice every few years or so, especially in stuff brought back from India. Just rinse them out. 

What's odd is that I've never seen, nor heard of, bugs in cayenne, pepper, paprika,  etc. We usually stick a couple of bay leaves and dried cayenne peppers in the dry goods in the pantry, and it does a good job of keeping the little critters away. 

RRP

WeberWho said:

You're missing out. Nothing like a wood fired pizza with a little anchovies on it. 

Nor one of my meat loafs! 

JohnInCarolina

Just think about it: the bugs have had a steady diet of paprika.  They probably taste like... paprika.  

Most of us cook with pretty high temps.   We’re not sprinkling these spices on top of ice cream or Greek yogurt.

So the bugs die a fiery death on their way to becoming part of the char on your ribs.  Nobody’s gonna die from eating these little burned up beetle carcasses.

caliking

JohnInCarolina said:

Just think about it: the bugs have had a steady diet of paprika.  They probably taste like... paprika.  

Most of us cook with pretty high temps.   We’re not sprinkling these spices on top of ice cream or Greek yogurt.

So the bugs die a fiery death on their way to becoming part of the char on your ribs.  Nobody’s gonna die from eating these little burned up beetle carcasses.

Eggzactly.

And if you’re too lazy to rinse them out, throw some cumin seeds in there. Hard to tell bugs from cumin

fishlessman

if you want to see bugs go to a grape juice factory, or better yet, the jello plant. cockroaches running around the rim before the cap goes on. gelatin must be 50 percent bugs, the other 50 percent is disgusting

OhioEgger

A friend lived in rural Minnesota and during his school years worked summers at a Green Giant plant sorting beans. Part of his job was to pick out any bugs as the beans passed by on the conveyor. He was paid a bounty of a couple of cents for every bug he found and removed.

So every morning on the way to work he would walk through a field and fill his pockets with bugs. Then he would "find" them during the day at work. He said it was common practice -- all the kids did that.

lkapigian

https://youtu.be/EMtE6vuAMa4

Gulfcoastguy

fishlessman said:

if you want to see bugs go to a grape juice factory, or better yet, the jello plant. cockroaches running around the rim before the cap goes on. gelatin must be 50 percent bugs, the other 50 percent is disgusting

Makes me glad that I made my own strawberry tequila jam this year.

gmac

I put a bunch of cayenne peppers on the cupboard to dry, dried them and put them in a zip loc. Couldn’t believe it a few weeks later when I went to get some to find Indian meal moth larvae. 

I used be an exterminator. Bugs don’t bother me much, I’ve seen some pretty bad places but I still pitched them. Had lots more peppers. Dried them in the oven and vac packed. All good.