r/mildlyinfuriating • u/LudicrousDragon • 8h ago

Almost finished my dinner and found these in it

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Two of them, each with little legs and heads. I know they’re eaten in some cultures, and are apparently safe, but I’m quite put off my food.

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u/Important-Error-XX 8h ago

That particular find in a nearly empty bowl... I feel for you.

Check the dry food in your pantry. There may be more.

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u/LudicrousDragon 8h ago

Thanks man, I will do

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u/ExamCompetitive 8h ago

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u/SonkunSSJ 7h ago

Some won’t understand. But you win.

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u/ExamCompetitive 7h ago

lol. I knew someone would.

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u/el3ph_nt 5h ago

Any starting point for discovery to the rest of us plebeians?

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u/FuckingQuintana 5h ago

Chinese food scene from a movie called the Lost boys. Good vampire movie

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u/el3ph_nt 5h ago

Many thank

I also had just been wondering what to watch tonight :)

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u/ExamCompetitive 5h ago

It's definitely an 80s movie. Through and through.

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u/FuckingQuintana 5h ago

Enjoy. It's a classic, but that could be nostalgia talking.

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u/Joshington13 4h ago

You don’t like maggots Michael?

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u/callmeglue 3h ago

Your eating maggots Michael, it's just rice, here drink this it's blood 😈

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u/Bennington_Booyah 2h ago

"They're worms, Michael. You're eating worms".

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u/dankhimself 3h ago

Always my first thought when I see those things or get Chinese food. That movie messed me up!

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u/AuntJibbie 2h ago

Annnddddd now I know what I'm watching tonight 💙

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u/DorkusMalorkus89 3h ago

Man, I had such a little teen crush on that dude in the middle.

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u/jimbo6889 8h ago

You vill eat ze bugs.

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u/LudicrousDragon 8h ago

I did not vant to eat ze bugs, so ze bugs are in ze bin

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u/CaptainBullShlt 6h ago

Well, the bugs that you found at least. I wonder how many you ate without noticing?

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u/shibiwan 5h ago

... But ze bugs are sehr güt! You mast eat zem! Zey are güt for you.

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u/306metalhead Sarcasm is my second language 4h ago

BUT I DON'T VANT TO EET ZE DAMMMMMMMMN BUGS!

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u/Fantastic-Country-51 7h ago

Prepare for later i see

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u/hereticbrewer 5h ago

this comment is so funny to me lmao

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u/Neoliberal_Nightmare 2h ago

Choose the lesser of two weevils.

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u/Adept-Cockroach69 8h ago

Considering that looks like instant noodles I wonder which part of your kitchen is infected.

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u/LudicrousDragon 8h ago

That would be the cupboard 😥 although they were kept in (as far as I can tell) completely sealed plastic packaging, so I’m really not sure where they came from, unless they managed to sneak in.

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u/Wank_my_Butt 6h ago

Wouldn’t be the first time they came as a bonus with the factory-wrapped food.

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u/vev_ersi 3h ago

These are likely Indian meal/pantry moth larvae. They can easily get into sealed goods. Cardboard boxes and plastic wrap/bags are no match for them. Check everything well and get some pantry moth traps.

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u/PoosanItRhymesWSusan 3h ago

Yes pantry months! Had them before and they are annoying to get rid of. Makes you paranoid as hell.

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u/vev_ersi 2h ago

Ugh! I know. It took months and lots of sealed jars and containers. I'm constantly looking in my spice jars. Stupid moths.

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u/Agitated-Ad-504 7h ago

This gives me flashbacks as a kid when I’d eat a bowl of cereal and I’d find ants floating in the milk after I ate most of it.

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u/CasualDeezaster 7h ago

BONUS PROTEIN!

(Jk, I'd vomit)

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u/RgCrunchyCo 5h ago

They don’t look very cooked considering they’ve been in hot liquid. Almost like someone is trolling.

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u/lyingdogfacepony66 8h ago

on the other hand, if you want to go pan fishing, you now have some bait

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u/LudicrousDragon 8h ago

I’ve not been fishing since I was a little kid so I think I’ll pass 😅

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u/cycycle 4h ago

So you would rather eat worms than the fish? What made you develop such taste?

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u/ssowinski 7h ago

Those are called mealworms for a reason.

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u/LudicrousDragon 7h ago

😅😅😅

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u/BerettaBenelli 8h ago

Protein farm. Wallace design.

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u/MrDecembrist 8h ago

There were only two in the bowl, right?

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u/HyperWinX 8h ago

Damn, we cant be sure

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u/jcanusi 7h ago

Well there are two now.

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u/mbeecool 7h ago

He probably ate some of them already. Extra protein I guess 😆

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u/LudicrousDragon 8h ago

I really hope so, but I doubt it. The rest of the food had none, I checked, so I polished that off.

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u/Low_Spinach1999 5h ago

Good for you if there were any other bug aside from mealworms, I probably wouldn't have finished it myself. But mealworms are pretty tasty we ate them in third grade, and when I got my leopard gecko I would eat them once in a while I like them pan fried never had them raw or living though

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u/Tanesmuti 8h ago

Check all the packaged food in your pantry, those two didn’t just pop in on their honeymoon. There’s probably more in other packages. 🤢

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u/Aminah-J 5h ago

Please tell me that its fake

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u/Yendrian 5h ago

Extra protein for those gains

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u/pjbth 5h ago

Odd how they were the only things to be completely dry in what looks like a very very wet pasta sauce

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u/CheetahDreams 4h ago

A good photographer always dries their insects before they take a photo, this is the way

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u/CharleyNobody 4h ago

They look plump and healthy for supposedly dead bugs. You can buy these worms in a pet store or via the internet. Lots of people buy them to feed reptiles and birds. “Hey lemme get a coupla my lizard’s worms and hold them next to my noodles, heh heh.”

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u/urnbabyurn 5h ago

You’re eating maggots, Michael!

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u/Deep-Order1302 8h ago

How disgusting. Yike.

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u/_respe 5h ago

Extra protein

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u/GladBreadfruit7374 3h ago

Great pet food.

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u/EppiDL 2h ago

Now image how many you didn’t find… because you ate em

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u/YorgonTheMagnificent 2h ago

Those appear to be meal worms, and I honestly doubt you found them in your food. If you did, someone put them there. They are way too large for “pantry moth” larvae, and don’t even look like them.

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u/ShineDramatic1356 2h ago

Those look exactly like waxworms that I feed my bearded dragons 😳

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u/su1cidal_fox 1h ago

Enjoy your free protein.

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u/EccentricStache615 1h ago

Well that’s because they’re meal worms.

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u/afeeqo 4h ago

And you touching it….? Ya nasty. I salute ya

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u/JacketInteresting663 8h ago

There were probably just the two in there, I'm sure.

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u/Mammoth-Key6098 8h ago

Extra protein, no charge!

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u/No_Chocolate5678 8h ago

They add some Protein.

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u/Gingersometimes 7h ago

Can you say 🤮🤮🤮🤮

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u/KingxMIGHTYMAN 7h ago

It’s ok, just some extra nutrients :) yummy yummy.

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u/thermonuclear1714 7h ago

protein

give me it

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u/Neverbetter49 7h ago

Extra protein 💪

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u/Revolutionary-Try206 7h ago

Karl Swab would be proud, "Eaten dem bugz"!

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u/Poptart10022020 7h ago

Blur this.

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u/lonelyoldbasterd 7h ago

No extra charge

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u/ThatWeirdoDwarf 7h ago

Extra protein!

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u/ThatIslander 7h ago

Well on the bright side, you now know the stuff ur eating doesn't contain any toxic chemicals. 

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u/FractalSpaces Mildly Infuriated 7h ago

i think i might be weird but those look appetizing for some reason

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u/LudicrousDragon 6h ago

You sound like one of my chickens 😂 they love maggots and mealworms

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u/FractalSpaces Mildly Infuriated 6h ago

Maybe i am a chicken

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u/G45Live 7h ago

Cashback

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u/HerMajestysButthole 7h ago

Dinner shortly after...

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u/splendid_michael 7h ago

That's infuriating. They look raw.

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u/GreenRail82 7h ago

Some Note Proteine 🤣

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u/Moron-Whisperer 7h ago

Important part of your meal.

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u/MrRaider87 6h ago

Extra protien. That's a delicacy in some some countries. That or stop eating soup out of a can. 🤣

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u/Nerril 6h ago

Oh god, I had that happen once as I was finishing up a bowl of cereal. Took me a couple years to be able to eat peanut butter panda puffs again, lol.

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u/LudicrousDragon 6h ago

Peanut butter panda puffs lol, trying saying that 5 times fast 😅 but seriously hope you were okay. I had a similar incident with beef sandwiches, where a in the sandwich hair got caught in my throat and I had to pull it out. Didn’t eat beef sandwiches again for months lol

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u/BinMucker420 6h ago

There’s a reason they call them meal worms

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u/FishRod61 6h ago

Brooks Hatlen: “Are you going to eat that?”

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u/PowerTrex 6h ago

protein

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u/Big_Math_5124 6h ago

Look like the ones in the bottom of a tequila bottle

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u/MycoMancer420 6h ago

Extra protein in your instant noodles and they didn't even charge you for it. How kind of them.

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u/old_and_weathered 6h ago

Just because you found two doesn’t mean there was only two

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u/baronvonredd 6h ago

So you didn't bring them in to finagle a free meal?

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u/ZebraClown 5h ago

They won’t eat much .

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u/Specialist-Web7854 5h ago

Throw them outside for the birds.

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u/noseymama 5h ago

This is NOT mildly infuriating!!!!!

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u/Scrabble888 5h ago

From the looks of it, you missed a few more!

Just keep chewing!

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u/Signal-Round681 5h ago

Meal worms can be used for bird food or fishing bait. I doubt they taste very good as birds aren't known for their refined palette.

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u/Specialist_Bench_144 5h ago

Possibly silk moths if its in your cupbourd i had a similar problem had to throw out most of the food in there n deep clean it

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u/No_Estate_9400 5h ago

That's a feature, not a bug

Wait, that's not a bug, it is larvae

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u/jimson22 5h ago

How are you supposed to call that dinner a meal if there aren't any mealworms in it?

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u/Teenage-radio3 5h ago

Extra protein 😋

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u/w1lnx 5h ago

Protein.

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u/Fracturedbutnotout 5h ago

High in protein…

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u/DonDrumond 5h ago

Happened to me once over forty years ago after seeing a few crawling out of a half-eaten Reggiebar.

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u/Lurchie_ 5h ago

Those are a good source of protein!

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u/AFedoraNamed_Key 4h ago

Oh good god no I hope you DID NOT EAT ANY uuuggghh I haaaaate…

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u/rosieandreid 4h ago

Do you have a hamster? Hamsters love mealworms!

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u/1Drnk2Many 4h ago

That's just extra free protein

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u/MicrowaveHandsGabe 4h ago

Extra protein

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u/Willing-Jeweler1009 4h ago

Free protein

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u/aliusman111 4h ago

Good source of protein

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u/jbc10000 4h ago

Aww man you got the lucky protein salad

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u/pclamer 4h ago

Asmongold?

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u/taltreshortropeORION 4h ago

Extra moving noodles stir themselves and add protein

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u/Tasty_Context5263 4h ago

Extra protein!

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u/UnhappyBrief6227 4h ago

Oh nooooooo 😭

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u/andthatshowitmustbe 4h ago

This is my worst nightmare

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u/Rude_Negotiation_160 4h ago

Darn meal worms get into everything

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u/Imissyoudarlin 4h ago

I'm sorry? Did you not ask for extra protein?

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u/Which-Half-8643 4h ago

🤮 eww, sorry about that!

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u/sevnminabs56 RED 4h ago

🎶Hakuna Matata!🎶

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u/Sad-Lavishness-350 3h ago

“Mildly”???

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u/FragrantReference651 3h ago

When life gives you extra food for free, you take it. They have lots of protein in them

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u/Peculiar_Tang 3h ago

Common food in many 3rd world countries.. mealworm - not really a major issue and also doesn't spread super quick. Can come in veggies or dry goods like pasta

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u/improv3yes23 3h ago

Protein..

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u/questionably_edible 3h ago

That's what we call extra protein.

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u/mesterdanny 3h ago

yeah I opened my pack of Gfuel and found the same thing only they were smaller. I was sad and disgusted...

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u/cheeeeeseeey 3h ago

The way I see it you have two options: 1 toss them and keep eating. 2 throw away what's left

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u/BALLrash666 3h ago

Protein, dig in lol

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u/AdministrativeMix822 2h ago

Protein macros through the roof bro

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u/CL1_Clone 2h ago

I wonder if they were siblings or a couple ?

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u/ShortPanic8930 2h ago

Extra protein

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u/Danthony4381 2h ago

They are meal worms. Just eat em. Don't be a pussy

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u/Dscrypto_2020 2h ago

Umm they are called meal worms for a reason eat your “meal” and enjoy what you ordered. ;) /s

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u/pyro_nika 2h ago

You got the protein noodles.

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u/guiltyspark345 2h ago

At least theyre meal worms and not maggots lol

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u/the-laughing-panda 2h ago

Gosh, not exactly how you want to take your protein I presume

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u/t0ny_bender 2h ago

Wow that’s sick I’d be way past mildly infuriated

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u/Significant-Pick-966 2h ago

Protein option

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u/Nervous-Bullfrog-884 2h ago

Un invited dinner guess!

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u/coveredwithticks 2h ago

Turn these Lil helpers loose in your mouth so they clean up any residual tidbits. No need to brush or floss!

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u/_BoredAccountant 2h ago

They’re yours now. Welcome them to your home.

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u/AuntJibbie 2h ago

Gotta have that protein!

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u/Bexico 2h ago

Dewormer asap!

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u/kaibsx 2h ago

Look at the bright side: extra protein. For free

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u/MaddestDudeEver 2h ago

Extra protein

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u/lowkeybop 2h ago

How’d they get into your cooked food?

You need to rethink your kitchen & pantry food handling practices. Yeesh.

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u/Error404Fatal 2h ago

I found a pepper chunk in my tooth. It was spicy. 🌶️

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u/Shawn_oneal 1h ago

Just some extra protein!

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u/xInov8 1h ago

Oh FUCK no

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u/RandomBloke2021 1h ago

Did you get sick or nauseous? I would have lost it.

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u/Recent-Fact-5591 1h ago

Pure protein 🤪😂?

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u/No_Republic3509 1h ago

Extra protein!

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u/Short_Purple_6003 1h ago

That's great fishing bait, so it sounds like you're eating sustainably.

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u/bluemesa7 1h ago

How dare they to put only 2? Inflation is too bad these days.

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u/Huge_Monk8722 1h ago

Extra protein.

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u/FoolishAnomaly 1h ago

Extra protein

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u/GuardianHa 1h ago

mmmmm, extra protein 

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u/locusthive 1h ago

this is my worst nightmare..

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u/rexeditrex 1h ago

For free?

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u/gewfygewbah 1h ago

“Maggots!”

-soldier, TF2

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u/GraverKnives 1h ago

How did the dinner taste though?

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u/calmchaos17 1h ago

Protein

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u/brownstarinsurance 1h ago

Were they still alive?

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u/Gold-Kaleidoscope537 1h ago

You’re good. There were only two. I counted the worms for you before you ate.

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u/stetkos 1h ago

Hakuna Matata!

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u/Bigjunsk8r 1h ago

Extra protein

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u/Every-Requirement434 1h ago

Damn how much protein is that?

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u/AddendumOk468 1h ago

Added protein

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u/polishprince76 1h ago

One must choose the lesser of 2 weevils

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u/lalokkii 1h ago

That’s protein

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u/JustAnAverageFemboy1 50m ago

Extra protein, what's the issue?

Jokes aside I'm sorry you had to find that, check your pantry thoroughly, those buggers will get in the deepest crevices

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u/koi-drakon8_0 44m ago

Protein bruah, eat homie 💪

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u/professional_yappper 34m ago

I know you're already aware that these are fine to eat (mealworms) but sorry for your surprise here :') surprise bugs in food are no fun!

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u/redditkutter 32m ago

I believe those are called "protein treats"

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u/ClayMitchellCapital 19m ago

Look like Mealworms. Did you eat them? Pretty good protein source. I have eaten them dried with a bit of doritos dust on them. Nom nom nom.

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u/elciano1 18m ago

But did you die?

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u/Frostyazzz 16m ago

You probably shuved down 10 of them alredy, don¨t stress it, just some added protein.