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"Things I wish I didn't find in my milk"

pooky said:
To answer the other half of the original post, no, a silverfish wouldn't make you sick. If you ever use flour, cereal, or any other kind of milled or whole grains, you eat tons of the little guys. They're everywhere, and usually we don't even notice them. They're even taken into account when the manufacturers put how much protein is in your cereal on the label.
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Okay, Pooky, I need more information. Is this like the extras in canned tuna? How do you know the manufacturers add it into the protein count? Do you have insider iformation?
 
I HATE HATE HATE silverfish
They creep me out so much. I got shivers when I opened that picture bigger :( :( :(
I cant even stand hearing its name, ahhhhhhh they are SO gross!
 
...or canned tunafish

...or hot dogs. (Did you catch that special on 20/20 a few years back when they went to the warehouse where the NYC pushcart owners would get all their hot dogs? That was scary.)
 
Dr.Gargoyle said:
In that case I suggest you never look at a chocolate bar through a microscope... :D
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Hey, as long as there are no visible organisms - I dont' care at all what's in them. Visible organisms make me hurl. :eek:
 
Dr.Gargoyle said:
In that case... stay away from the microscope.
Same story with bed sheets. If people only knew... :D
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Yeah, see, bedbugs, dust mites and other stuff that I can't see with my eyes, but know is there?

Fine.

See it with my eyes/have to look really carefully to see?

Forget it.
 
iGary said:
See it with my eyes/have to look really carefully to see?

Forget it.
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So I take it you're not a fan of the scorpion lollipops?
 
iGary said:
That's dead. Dead I can deal with.
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So it has to be dead when you first see it? The OP's silverfish was alive at first, but then died...that's not okay?

Just trying to get a handle on things so that I can develop my plan for tormenting you...
 
Black&Tan said:
Okay, Pooky, I need more information. Is this like the extras in canned tuna? How do you know the manufacturers add it into the protein count? Do you have insider iformation?
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Not exactly like tuna. When you harvest grains, there is a certain amount of insect (and sometimes other animal) material that gets caught up in the machienery. Then, if the grains are stored (which for most of us they generally are), there will be insects that get into the silo. Finally, unless you are militant about keeping your grains airtight, they'll get in at your home. They generally die in there and don't get noticed.

As far as the manufacturers adding it in, it's simple. The amount of protein (and calories, etc.) isn't determined until after the product is ready for packaging, meaning it's been through the harvesting and storage part. So anything that's in there gets ground up and is part of the chemistry.

As for how much is actually in there, it's variable, but not a whole lot. Perhaps as much as 5% of the total weight is material other than what you would expect (insect bodies, skins, poop, etc.). Hungry yet?
 
And I hate silverfish. There were some living in my bathroom for a while.
Once I found one dead in my toilet. Gross! :eek:

And I never hate bugs normally.
 
margotspop said:
What put me off milk, was something I read about the amount of pus cells that are in milk and how unnatural it is to be drinking other animals milk after infancy. Now that's the sort of thing I don't want in my milk!
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Yeah, drinking another animal's milk is weird, and so is drinking milk after infancy. In fact, humans are one of the only animals to do both of these things. It's just weird.

And I drink soy milk. I was drinking it since I was younger, BEFORE it was popular. Chinese people always have.

And there are bugs on my bedsheets? Could I see them if I tried?
 
Abstract said:
Yeah, drinking another animal's milk is weird, and so is drinking milk after infancy. In fact, humans are one of the only animals to do both of these things. It's just weird.
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Hm. Compelling position. To the best of my knowledge we are also the only animals to cook and use complex tools. Man, can we get anymore weird or unnatural? I mean, we don't run around naked. We don't crap outdoors. We don't roll around in s**t to mask our scent or even bury the remaining carcass of our kill for later consumption.

What horrific, abominations have we become?:p


Lethal
 
LethalWolfe said:
To the best of my knowledge we are also the only animals to cook and use complex tools. Man, can we get anymore weird or unnatural? I mean, we don't run around naked. We don't crap outdoors. We don't roll around in s**t to mask our scent or even bury the remaining carcass of our kill for later consumption.
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Yeah, I agree 100%. :p

I don't think humans are really fit for eating meat, either (although I do eat meat.....just not nearly as much as I used to), but that's another story.
 
Abstract said:
Yeah, I agree 100%. :p

I don't think humans are really fit for eating meat, either (although I do eat meat.....just not nearly as much as I used to), but that's another story.
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I think humans are more than fit to consumer meat. As well as things like sugar, fat, and salt. But not necessarily in the abundance that we do. This things are no longer scarce but our bodies still crave them like they are.


Lethal
 
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