Last sunday, I brought home two of these.

A chicken one, and this one,

Cuban-inspired pork bowl.



Now, I didn't put them in the freezer. I put them in the fridge because I intended to eat them very soon.

Well, things got busy. I didn't eat them until friday.

The best by date was sometime in january of 2019.


To prepare these, it says right on the box. Just stick it in chef mike, whole.

Don't take off the top. No need to even vent it. So, I never looked at the food in the bowls, before eating.

I mike'd em for 6 minutes each, Longer than they require.



I was VERY hungry. And very busy.

I ate the chicken first.

No problem. Pretty good.

Never even looked at it after I opened it and started eating. Except glances just barely long enough to see where to slide the fork to get the next bite.



Did the same with the pork.

Only halfway through the pork, I slowed down.

Now, I took the time to kind of stir it up, and actually LOOK at what I was eating.


It was CHOCK FULL of little curly worms!!!


I'm not one to just freak out about this sort of thing.

First thing I noticed was that none of them were moving. So, yeah. They got nuked. Nothing living can live through 6 minutes of microwaves, right?

Ok, so, free, extra protein, right?

I tossed the rest of it, of course.


I thought I was going to be fine.

Yeah, right!

Spent a few hours in agony last night.

Threw up several times.


Finally got to bed and got some sleep.

Still feeling it lower in the guts, today.

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So, here's the thing.

Just like the 'salmonella in the dry cereal' questioners, I usually try to figure out how these sorts of things happen.


As I said, I left it in the fridge for 5 days. Not frozen.

But those worms didn't just find their way into that sealed bowl, from some kind of worm fairy in my fridge.

There was either eggs in the pork, that hatched out. Or there were already worms in there, that thawed.


These were obviously the little curly worms that you find in pork. And they had crawled out of the meat in exactly the same way they always do when the meat is cooked. So they were alive when the unopened bowl was put in the microwave.


I know several other people who have eaten the same pork bowls, from the very same batch, even. They didn't see anything. And they weren't bothered by it.

So I am leaning toward, they left the bowl in the freezer and went straight to the mike with it.

With mine, the worms were allowed 5 days to grow.

So when each of us ate the meal, we each got differing amounts of the worms.


But.....

There are worms or worm eggs in the pork, in the cuban inspired pork "Power Bowls"!

Right from the 'factory'. Whether you notice them or not, or are affected or not, you ARE eating them.

Beware.

Power bowels

Yup, aftermath.

No pics?

#WormPower!

Take away word for today is "tossed"

Fack that pork WAS cooked before being frozen, no?

What you mean about normal worms in pork???

Pics is not usually my first thought when I am hugging a bucket, saying goodbye to bits of pork and worms.

That's what I am wondering.

Was it even cooked at all? Way undercooked?

Then I think... Who cares if it was cooked or not? IT HAD WORMS IN IT!!!!! If it HAD been cooked, I'd still have been eating wormy pork.


If you have a strong stomach google it. The most common worms that I saw coming from pork that has started cooking, are little curly things.

frack. I'm going to start keeping kosher

It's a "Cuban inspired" dish. They eat worms in Cuba. Stop being such a snob Jeff. Sheesh!

Sorry, but stuff you cook fresh at home has a max fridge-life of 3-4 days.

You kept something that says on the front of the box "keep frozen" unfrozen, for 5 days

Don't know if worm larvae are inherent in pork, or not, but you didn't help yourself much here.

You created a Petrie dish for whatever was there.

Sorry you got sick, and hope you're feeling better, but I'm not all that surprised. You broke food rules that a restaurant could be found in violation of.

I would also encourage you to monitor your digestion for a few days, and eat kimchi, sauerkraut, etc., or drink kefir, or something, to help rebalance your gut bacteria.

This wan't "stuff you cook fresh at home'. It was a pre-packaged processed microwave meal. FULL of those healthy preservatives, and other chemicals.

Even if it had been fresh, cooked at home stuff, that stuff lasts 2 weeks, easy. Ok, maybe a week and a half. LOL Never less than a week.

But at your house, maybe you throw out perfectly good, costly food, after just a couple days, just because someone from the government has convinced you that you'll grow green hair on your toes and die of dysentery, if you don't.

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Dude.. I LED the post with that.

I wasn't asking for sympathy.

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So it's my fault.

Seriously? You're blaming me.

I can't expect food to 'keep' in my fridge for 5 days, and not grow worms???

My leaving the food in the fridge for 5 days is NOT leaving food for too long.

Whether it says to keep frozen or not. You shouldn't have to worry that if you leave something in the fridge for 5 frikken days, it is going to be crawling with worms! Especially if left in a sealed, never opened, package.

Is this what it comes to? It's ok that there were worms in the pork, and that they were not dead, just frozen?

Instead of the producer of the product being on the hook because there were live worms in the pork, I am on the hook because I didn't follow directions. (Which would have hidden the fact that there were worms in the pork. I STILL would have eaten wormy pork, I probably just wouldn't have known it because they wouldn't have grown big enough to make a difference.)

Blaming the victim just doesn't make any sense. Here or in any other context.

Wow.

Okay.

Nevermind.

You keep cooked leftovers for two weeks in the fridge?

Okay.

Sorry I responded.

Bwahahaha!

Don't worry about it dude.


BTW have you ever heard the rhyme,

Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in a pot, three weeks old....

That's not just some baseless cutesy rhyme.

Wasn't that long ago, food would sit longer than 2 weeks, even without a fridge.

Are you are they were worms and not rice?

I’ve had those bowls before and the rice was pretty small.

If those were in fact worms, though, you should let the company know about it so they can deal with it. Hopefully you still have the packaging with the lot number or other info.


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