BEWARE! not all is sweet in this photo!

[Von]

My son got a candy bar at the store on Monday, for the ride home from the cottage. He ate half and then was about to eat the rest when he asked "what's this web stuff on my candy bar"? My wife took a look at it and pulled the bar out of the wrapper and this little guy had beat my son to the punch so to speak! I e-mailed the maker and it seems this is something that is happening quite abit! so watch what you and your family eat. I guess nothing is safe anymore!

 

[Buck]

Von,

What is it and do you know how they got in?

Buck

 

[ChuckinVA]

I remember when I was a kid my dad bought a box of ginger snap cookies. The box had a string baked into the cookies and six or seven cookies were all attached together. My dad took the top off of the box and mailed it and the cookies to the manufacturer. I less than a week there was a knock at the door and it was a company representative with a case of ginger snaps and a letter of apology. I STILL love ginger snaps with longhorn cheese !

 

[Von]

The candy bar is a SNICKERS CRUNCHER. I don't know what kind of worm it is or how it got in the wrapper. I can't find any holes other than the rip my son made to get the bars out.

 

[MossRoad]

Buck,
It appears to be a SNICKERS!

But seriously, when I was a kid the lady across the street was always eating some puff ball looking things with coconut. I asked her why they always had these. She replied that she got a free lifetime supply of them(a case delivered to her house every so often) because when she was a little girl she bought one at a train station and bit into a mouse! Her dad wrote the company and she got them free for life. I don't know how she managed to eat them, but I would never take one from her after that /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

 

[chim]

Buck, the worms are factory-installed. On occasion we have found forgotten candy that had wildlife present inside sealed wrappers. Same with some other snack items. A guy I work with was telling me that he had done control wiring in a number of places like slaughter houses, flour mills, etc. You probably don't want to hear some of the stories. Anyway, I don't recall all the details, but he explained that stored flour is run through a device at certain intervals which breaks insect eggs (and/or destroys larvae) to prevent hatching and major infestation. They never get all of them. Bon apetite........................chim

 

[Turfman]

Yuck!!!

It is true that we eat numerous bugs each year. The bug doctor from the local Ag college came to a class I was in a few years ago and laid out about 3 1/2 quarts of various bugs in bottles and told us that is what we eat in a year. They come in as eggs and hatch in on the store shelf. Generally, they are stored in cooler temperatures to keep the eggs from hatching. He recommended that we put stuff in the deep freezer for two or three days which will kill the eggs.

 

[cstocks]

I guess it is better to eat dead eggs than live bugs./w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif What the heck. It's all protein./w3tcompact/icons/tongue.gif/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

 

[DUMBDOG]

That little thing could not of eaten that much of the candy bar.

 

[dmccarty]

Von,

I don't know what kinda worm that is but I do know where
they come from and what happens to them with time. A few
years ago I would by some granola type stuff from bins at a
local market. I was making food bars or some such. Forgot
about a bag of the stuff that was left in the kitchen. Well,
one winter we started having those worms DROPPING from
the ceiling! /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif Dozens of worms all over the ceiling
falling down with little silk threads. Looked like the 82nd Bug
Battalian was invading our house! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif As we back tracked
them we found The Bag. The bag of "food" was full of the
worms. Well we went bonkers and cleaned up the cabinet.
It took HOURS since the bugs where all over the place.
Whew but at least there are no more bugs dropping from the
ceiling into our dinner plates.....

But that was not the end of the story.....

[Insert Jaws Movie Theme]

Then the moths showed up. Flittering around the house. Not
one or two but dozens. Constantly killing moths...... Well
after another cleaning session we found the little cocoons.
/w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif

At first I wrote this up to just bad luck. Then one day I was
at the market again. Noticed something fly by my face. What
the heck was that! You guessed it. A certain small moth.
An obvious cousin to the horde in my house. Hmmmmm.....

I also buy Almonds from this market. Well Almonds ain't
cheap. They keep the nuts in big bins and I would get a
pound or so and put it in a thick zip lock bag the store
provided. I would toss the bag into The Cabinet. Well, one
night I need to make some toasted Almonds. So I get out a
skillet, turn on the burner, and pour some nuts in the pan.
I started moving the pan and notice something moving. But
moving in a way most unlike the nuts. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif You have a
picture that is a pretty good resemblence of what was inching
its way aournd the pan. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Took the Bag O Nuts back to the store. The mangler did not
even bat an eye when I SHOWED him the bag crawling with
worms. I talked to one of the workers and she said they had
a bad bug infestation. They would freeze the bulk items but
it was not helping.... /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif

Believe it or not I still buy Almonds in bulk and even from this
store. But they go right into the freezer......

I think we ALL eat ALOT of bugs and bug eggs.... I KNOW I
have! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

I wish I had gotten a lifetime supply of Almonds out of this
experience in BugDom. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Later,
Dan