EEEWW.... MAGGOTS

Well deserved box, imp.

I've only a few things to add:

No thanks, Doc, I'm full. 

As delicious as they look, I've already eaten waay more than I should already.

Hmmm, then... perhaps Karen has the munchies...

 MAGGOTS....they're not just for breakfast anymore.

 MAGGOTS....the other white meat.

 MAGGOTS....betcha can't eat just one.

 MAGGOTS....it's what's for dinner.

MAGGOTS...Not as bad as you originally thought they were!

I've learned way too much about maggots due to this creation.  For example, they only feed on dead tissue, so they're really good (medically speaking) for cleaning up necrotic tissue in places traditional antibiotics can't clean up.  I watched a video of a morbidly obese, diabetic woman with an open wound that refused to heal, and the tiny little maggots they put in the wound did the job.  They were barely visible when they were placed in her wound, and fat and juicy afterward.  Then there was the video of the poor guy who had the misfortune of having a pregnant fly crawl into his ear, lay her eggs and then die there, the eggs hatched and the maggots ate part of the fly and were cleaning up the mess in the ear when the doctors finally did what they needed to do to remove then "family."

Maggots are good for the environment...they clean up a stinkin' mess and help keep nature hygienic.  I have a new appreciation for them. (they're still very ugly, though)

And mostly protein....

You sound hungry, Wiz.

Here ya go...

Actually, they're the best surgeons around for skin wounds. Medical maggots are sterile (aseptically and reproductively). In other areas of the world they are eaten for their flavor and high protein content.

YUCK!!!!!!!!

I've eaten worse, Uvah...in desert survival school. Raw insects, raw snake... distilling water from urine... without a fire. Yep...lotsa fun.

YUCK #2.

Having never been in the service I cannot imagine what it was like. All I know is.......it turns my stomach just thinking about it.

But then again people in those countries that dine on such may think peanut butter and jelly is......yuck. Lol.

You'd be surprised at what you'd eat when you get hungry enough....

This is true. I once ate an Oreo after it fell in my tomato soup. I wonder if anyone here remembers that.

Was I there? Nope, I don't remember you doing that. 

Just about everyone was here. I posted that soon after I joined WC. I was told I'm a sick bastard. I don't remember who said it though. It happened when I was about nine or ten years old home from elementary school for lunch. Tomato soup and bologna sandwiches with Oreos for a snack. One of them fell into my soup and as I do like my Oreos I ......um.....ate it. It was good.

well its better than wasting it

YUCK maggots ewwww, I know I couldn't eat them 

I've heard some stories on that subject... some more disgusting than others.  Like the Pizza Hut employee who went to work hungover and the smell of food caused him to add some regurgitant to the vat of sauce.  Apparently nobody noticed because nobody complained. Then there was the cook who felt insulted by a female patron who complained and made derogatory comments about the mayonnaise on her chicken breast fillet, so he replaced her meal and added an au naturale 'mayonnaise' of his own.

As for an appreciation of maggots, well yes, they are great cleaners, particularly with infected wounds and the like (I had them packed into my right leg after it became infected after bone graft surgery), but that's about as far as it goes.  We had to move these real dirty people once (the gov't resumed the land for a new road), and believe me, it wasn't at all pleasant. 

On the first day we noticed scores of maggots all over the floors all throughout the house, but persisted and got half their stuff out.  On the second day (it was a mammoth job with all the junk they accumulated and wanted to keep) we were greeted by thousands upon thousands of flies.  Neither my partner or I wanted to go inside the house, but the removal had already been paid for by gov't and we didn't have a lot of choice.  Let's just say that we tried fumigating the place before starting work, but 6 cans of fly spray later we didn't get rid of them all and had them flying in and out of various facial/cranial orifices while we were trying to work.

YUK wasn't the word.  It was absolutely the absolute worst removal I had ever done. The filth in that house was unimaginable and it should have been condemned years earlier.  Fortunately for everyone within a 20km radius, the gov't bulldozed it and put a new road on top.... but I'll bet pounds to a pinch of sh!t that the brand spanking new house we moved those people into was just as filthy within a few months.  They had absolutely NO sense of cleanliness or hygiene whatsoever.

Actually, the chocolate coated ones are quite nice... and much healthier than a Mars Bar.

lolololol karen did a wicked job on the animations for them didnt she? she rocks....

Yeah, the whole WB is up there and out there.  As most would know, I'm rather partial to dark skins, but I've had Zombie Outbreak up for a couple of days now... and there's no sign it's coming down any time soon.  Yup, Karen did a splendid job on this project... and WOW, don't the walls just set it off to perfection.

YAAAAAYYYY

Everybody stand up and give Karen the ovation. Seems she pulled off the skin of the century. Not saying what or which zombie she mugged to get it. Thanksgiving is next. Sleepy Hollow comes to mind. (hint hint...hehehe).

  You guys are the best!  You make me feel so loved.

For Karen:

And you are... loved.... for your contributions to the forums and galleries... for the person you are.

i saw on this show titled Taboo, there is a village in Italy that eats a cheese with live maggots in it. They say, the maggots eat the cheese, then the maggots defecate in the cheese, this, is what, gives it it's distinctive flavor. Lovely, ain't it?