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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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.

~~~

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.

Worst thing about these experiences is that you are afraid to fart for two days

Got to do something about that weak stomach of yours.

I've eaten stuff in my lifetime that would make a goat barf. I figure as long as it's cooked to death and doesn't try to crawl off the plate it's OK.

My wife and I used to joke "Just pretend you're camping".


FWIW, I've bought "bowls" like that and a lot do have some strange rice or funny grain that makes little curly bits that could look like worms. As long as they're cooked well and don't move, same as above.


Pork could contain Trichinella Spiralis which can cause Trichinosis if it's not fully cooked. Ditto for Bear, Horses, Rodents and even Humans.
Not common at all in modern pork that's commercially produced. Used to be a big deal when hogs were fed garbage or allowed to range free. (this is why I won't eat any feral hog meat).

This is what Trichinella looks like:


And for the record it takes a microscope to see it.

If you ended up with your head in the "Chuck Bucket" it's more likely you let your head take over your stomach.

Aren't they supposed to irradiate pork to eliminate this type of thing?

Makes me wonder what other corners this company cut to put out a 'more profitable' product...

I'm sure the trace amounts of lead in the bowl are there to kill off any remaining worms...

Got to admit...

The bowls look like they are made from some kind of recycled paper/cardboard.

I got to looking at that, even before cooking it, and wondering what kind of noxious chemicals I was going to be cooking into my food from these.

Where did I see it reported (here on WaGuns?) that garden hoses (from China) are made with plastics recovered from computer parts and bear warning to NOT drink from them as use of said hoses constitutes lead exposure.