wolfens_wife

Today I found a deep fried cockroach(dead) in my crisps. It was extremely hard and difficult to crunch! After spitting it out, running around the room screaming and cleaning my teeth 16 times and very nearly going into labour...... Ive started to think ..... would that be quite a common thing in OZ?

Knowing there are quite a variety of insects in OZ and the fly population thriving, is it part of everyday life to find
"foreign bodies" in your food????? Is it something you have to get used to rather than thinking "It can only happen to me!"


PB. I'm sure you can help me out here!!!

:scared: :scared: :scared:

Don

PB's usually good for the cockroach angle...

Dudley

Lace adorned hats were all the rage in Aus up to the '60s - kept the flies out of the mouth - otherwise only possible to mumble.

Some readers are warned they might find the following disturbing:

It was all down to the wrong type of poo - vast tracts of cattle and sheep poo. Nothing Aussie flies like more than nice fresh smelly poo. Unfortunately, they also hang around on people waiting for the right stuff.

Well, after years of scientific research, quarantine and public involvement, the first dung beetles specializing in cow poo were released, followed by sheep poo specialists. The research continues today.

The result is that these beetles beat flies to the poo, roll it up into nice neat little parcels, lay an egg in it, dig a hole and bury it then fly off testing the breeze for another choice bit of poo.

Poor flies have been dropping ever since.

The overall effect is that tourists can now order their meals and coffee etc to be eaten outside without a side dressing of flies.

Of course, there's always a bit of "mook" that misses the attention of the beetles.

Shikse

Were the crisps Walkers?? I do hope not.............

Return cockroach with a complaint letter - get a box or so as free compensation...also, contact 'Watchdog'. Bloody disgusting if you ask me:scared:

r.bartlett

corr cockroach flavored crisps...did they taste like chicken??

cheers

richard

Mandy Bale

Haven't come across any 'foreign bodies' in anything yet although I do know someone who bought a box of cereal and it was full of weavels. Our house was full of cockroaches when we first moved in here, aparantly the chinese family that lived here before us didn't clean for 3 years or take out the rubbish so we have spent the last 3 months eradicating dirt and cockroaches! They are all gone now but since then I haven't been able to eat bread or cereal even though I keep it all in tupperware boxes now. I hate the thought of the little so and so's climbing all over the cereal and helping themselves in the night and it didn't help seeing little nibble marks on the bread!! As for flies, we don't have much of a problem here. You get the odd one or two that persistantly bug you by flying around your face. I think if you are living more out in the country then they would be a problem.

Things go 'off' very quickly here, the bread goes mouldy within a couple of days and the potatoes tend to go rotten very quickly which would explain the lack of big sacks of potatoes in the shops! I keep all our fruit in the fridge now as well.

Mandy

Dudley

You'll find that bread with rye in it takes more than a week to go off (moldy). eg German schinkenbrot and roggenbrot - stoggy but tasty. Also the "lite" Aussie ryes last better than white bread and kids seem to find it OK.

mashiraz

Are home breadmakers as popular in Oz as in the UK?

Mash...

Mandy Bale

yep home bread makers are in the shops as well as all the flour and stuff to go with it. I'm seriously considering getting one for myself!

Mandy

r.bartlett

bread makers like hovis you mean??

cheers

richard

springflower

Are home breadmakers as popular in Oz as in the UK?

Mash...

Hi Mash

My mum and sis have one and use them regularly over there, even have some great tasting mixes for them too. My sis had a pina colada flavoured one the other week!...mmmm

Jan

Dudley

There was a fad for them a few years ago. Best part is the smell - the bread generally is not as good as "boughten" bread. Most sit on the kitchen bench taking up room and not being used. Can be used as dough mixers for oven baked bread.

Shiralee

I once boiled a Huntsman Spider (pretty bloody huge creature) in my kettle and poured it into a cup of tea while deep in conversation so didn't notice it until I began to drink and it hit me in the face......ugh!!!

pommie bastard

Biggest problem is sharing your barie with the flies they love greasy food try the national parks they are teaming with bugs the worst being Ticks , these take some removing and can give toxic poisioning have been known to kill dogs.
You will spot the Cockies here a lot easier they are bloody big must eat fair size meals , the spyders here are to be killed on sight the buggers bite.
Do not even go there with the snakes we have lost one cat to a snake bite and the bloody dogs keep hunting them out most are dozy but the Tiger will go for you we get them around the lake here.
Mozzies where we live are a real problem they spray the lake a few times a year because the mayor lives at the back of us a conman called Bombak pockets $200k a year in fees, still they run riot keep inside after sun set.

Britannia

Any sign of Brisbane's third world disease (Ross River Virus) making its way over to Perth yet?