Am I still vegan, too?

[RawTruth]

So ...

I bought a bag of gorgeous baby greens that included beautiful edible flowers from the farmers' market the other day. It was so delicious, I had just a little bit left and was looking forward to finishing it up today.

So, I emptied the last of the bag onto my generously-sized white concave-shaped plate that's perfect for huge salads. I then added chopped cucumbers, chunked half of a perfectly ripe avocado, tore up some fresh cilantro, sprinkled on some pepitas, and cut some raw nori over the top. Everything was green and fresh and yummy looking. I'm avoiding dressings, so I just tossed it a bit so the avocado would lightly coat everything, and then sat down to the computer to happily munch as I caught up on the forum.

Well, I'm 3/4 of the way through this gorgeous creation when, out of the corner of my eye, I glimpsed some movement ... on the plate!! A very thin slug, about 1 inch long, was crawling toward the edge of the plate. Appalled, I ran back quickly in my mind the preceding 15 minutes of bites, trying to recall any odd tastes. Aaargh!! There had been one. It wasn't cucumber, it wasn't avocado, it wasn't seaweed, it wasn't crunchy .... it was ... the mate to the slug currently making a quick (!) escape from the battleground?

What's a living food vegan to do? I don't know about you, but I flicked the slug outdoors and settled back in front of the computer to finish the rest of the salad. At least I'm still raw. Gulp!

Am I still vegan?

[flutterfly]

Makes me want a salad lol. Like you said you are still raw hahaha

[Bretta]

Ewww...truth be told, I'm sure we all eat lots of "non-plant" matter in our food.

Your salad had me drooling on the keyboard, until I got to the slug part...

:) ,
Bretta

[sweetgoddess]

ewwww ewwwwww ewwwwwwwwwww ! :eek:
Of all the things in the world, you had to say slug. I am gagging.
I met a man at the library once who makes slug jerky. Think of it as a rare delicacy! blech!

[sport]

You have my sympathy. The same thing happened to me a few months ago with plums. I put them on the window to ripen and as I was about to go downstairs to bed I went for one and in the darkness chose the softest one and ate in in darkness. The following day I chose another one and after a few bites I found lots of small wrigly white things. They were all like that and I had eaten one. I felt sick for days.

[sport]

You should not have reminded me of that. Now I feel ill again

[RawTruth]

Ew eew eeeeeewww!!!

Well, looking at the positive here, Sport, we have strong immune systems, so I doubt those critters'll cause us any problems!!

- - -

Your story reminds me of when I was teaching a 10th grade Humanities class about 7 years ago. Since it was a 2-hr. class, I permitted snacking in the classroom, so I was munching on an apple while I was sitting next to a student with whom I was discussing an essay he was writing. As I was chewing and reading, he glanced at my apple and yelled "a worm!!!" And, yes, it was only part of the worm. I jumped up, spit out what'd been in my mouth into the trashcan, and began jumping around holding the apple saying "eeew eewww ewww" which, of course, they found hilarious ... and gross, too. The next day, I found a very talented drawing on the chalkboard of a curly-haired woman with her mouth wide open to take a bite of an apple that had a giant worm sprouting out of it with a smile on its face. (It was almost as memorable as the year I slipped and fell flat on my back in class and just laid on the floor between the tables laughing my butt off while the teenage girls were horribly embarassed for me and the guys all rushed over to point at me. Sigh. Love that age!)

Sorry for the digression about me. I just was chuckling here and wanted to share! :D

[Rawkinlocs]

Well, RawTruth and Sport, at least now you have another answer for people who want to know where you get your proten from! :p

[pizda]

Ahhhh, not a big deal. So you ate a little bit of protein and B-12. Good for you. That is how our ancestors were eating. Actually if you think about our close cousin gorilla who is pure vegetarian and eat ton of green staff. Gorillas get their B-12 from the bunch of little worms and critters they eat while consuming leafy vegetations. Good for you and gorillas. :D :D :) ;) ;)
Are you still a vegan???
Well, may be not today.

[kiwilime]

YUUUUCCCKKKKK!!!! I was thinking yum to your salad until I jumped out of my seat! I haven't had that happened to me, but I've had lots of dead buggers between my celery stems ever since I started buying organics. And even that grossed me out. But after I finished reading....I had a good laugh imagining how you may have reacted :) .

[Revvell]

I give you an "A" for creative writing. *giggles and runs out before the flaming starts* :p

:cool:

[Sweet lips]

Now folks, let's not get grossed - many of us came from meat eater backgrounds and do you really know what you were eating :p

[rawgrrl]

Did it taste good?

[sport]

I hear what is said about us coming from meat eating backgrounds but I have not eaten meat for over 30 years. I am a paranoid vegan. I went many years not eating greens because things may have crawled over it. It is only in the past 2 or 3 years that I have eaten greens and I still inspect inside in the brocolli floret (and every inch of other greens) in case something is hiding. If I find something then it will be many weeks before I can eat brocolli again. I am definatly not a normal person. This should have happened to someone else. I will never eat in the dark again. I think that the number of people who will understant this are very few.
I do not want anyone pointing out to me that there may be things lurking elsewhere in my food. Sometimes a closed mind is a wonderfull thing.

[sweetgoddess]

lol sport -i feel for you, truly. Just reading this thread makes me gag!

[RawTruth]

Sometimes a closed mind is a wonderfull thing.LMAO -- one of the few times I agree with this! :D :D :D


Did it taste good?Eeeeww. :eek:

[blessed]

Hi there,
I know how everyone feels. My husband and I are 85% raw vegan and sometimes when we are out we may purchase carob chips with shredded coconuts mixed in. We were happily driving and munching away on them and I happened to look down at them because they were so good and what did I see!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, small maggots inside several of the chips. Oh my, we could not wait to get home and eat garlic, we were so upset but to this day we have never purchased carob chips w/ coconuts and never plan to again. We took the rest back to the health food store and got our money back and showed them what we had purchased. That helped to eliminate that snack food off of our list.
Thanks again for letting us know that we were not alone, we will look first at what we are eating more carefully.

Shirley and James

[sweetgoddess]

I think I am scarred for life by this thread. Today, halfway through a peach, I remembered the accounts I had read here and became extremely paranoid. I suddenly felt very suspicious of my peach pit. I though "is it supposed to look like that?" Then I poked it. Then I thought, no dont poke it, you dont want to know. I was unable to eat down to the pit like I normally do.

I think I now need therapy.

[RawTruth]

LOL. Of all people, it would be most horrible for raw foodists to be fruit-phobic!

[sport]

Sweetgoddess. I agree with you on that. Once upon a time if I was chopping fruit to make a fruit salad and residue was clinging to the pit, I would pop it in my mouth and suck it as I finished the job but that is a habit I got out of very fast.
Yah I need therapy too

[deedub]

Sweetgoddess I am LMAO that was too funny!! RT I'm with you eew :eek: !!

[Sharon in Colorado]

Just remember that there are tons of little buggly things in our organics due to the lack of pesticides. We've all eaten something in our salads at one time or another.

I think this makes us conscious vegans.

Hey, it's much better than eating heaven-knows-what at the restaurants. I'm sure you've heard the stories (waitstaff/cooks dropping things on the floor and putting them back on the plate, staff spitting in the customers' food, etc.).

I've seen little worms on my celery as well. I have to quickly change the channel in my head or I'd never touch a plant food again!

[Revvell]

Hey, it's much better than eating heaven-knows-what at the restaurants. I'm sure you've heard the stories (waitstaff/cooks dropping things on the floor and putting them back on the plate, staff spitting in the customers' food, etc.).


Some of the stories are actually true. You DON'T want to know where the crumbs on a crumb donut come from. :rolleyes:


:cool:

[Sharon in Colorado]

Some of the stories are actually true. You DON'T want to know where the crumbs on a crumb donut come from. :rolleyes:


:cool:

I do! Humor me? :confused:

[sweetgoddess]

ha Revvell, I worked at 5 different donut shops making donuts when I was a teen. Also worked at Kentucky fried Chicken-now theres an eek for you.

So making salad today, checking every teensy piece for
slugs, singing , " Looking for slugs in all the wrong places......"

:rolleyes:

[VeganVixen]

HA HA this is SO funny , I think veganism is a state of mind - of course weve eaten many unknown critters in our food , but not intentionally ( gulp- atleast I hope not ;) ) ,weve also stepped and squished many bugs on accident - and then there is the occasional scorpian in the bathtub that like it or not I MUST eliminate ,ya know so I can sleep at night and shower .......

[sweetgoddess]

Fairy~are you serious about scorpions in your bathtub? :eek: Move out of that state.

This thread needs to be renamed aracnaphobia.
And I have never, ever eaten a critter in my food. Unkown or known. And dont convince me otherwise. ;)

[VeganVixen]

hee hee , yup there certainly are - now Im in Austin and I havent found any yet , but give me time.......


anyways the place Im living at is newer and doesnt seem to have the critter problems like the old "homestead" in coldsprings

[Autumn]

For more on VV and her scorpion adventures:

http://www.rawfoodtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4505&highlight=scorpions

[Revvell]

ha Revvell, I worked at 5 different donut shops making donuts when I was a teen.

O.K. So YOU can tell Sharon where the crumbs on a crumb donut come from. :eek:


Also worked at Kentucky fried Chicken-now theres an eek for you. *shivers*

:cool:

[Sharon in Colorado]

O.K. So YOU can tell Sharon where the crumbs on a crumb donut come from. :eek:

*shivers*

:cool:

Ya, I'm still waiting.

I heard about the fried KFC rat.

[SamuelWilson]

No more talk of slugs. Now I am thinking of escargot in a butter sauce. This site make me think of bad things :(

[sport]

I would call that thought a nightmare

[sweetgoddess]

Ok...ready for the big secret?

The crumbs on a crumb donut come from............crumbed donuts!!!

I have to say, the donut shops I worked at did not do anything horrific.
Whats the scoop Revvell?

[blessed]

Revell, Please tell us where the crumbs come from on a crumb donut. It's like when people say don't think about elephants and all you can do is think about them. Put our minds at ease and tell us. Then we can be glad that we don't eat them.
Shirley

[kel]

I found a maggot in my cauliflower once, many years ago, and I still have a chill run down my back thinking about it. I almost missed it as it was the same colour as the cauliflower. AGGGGGGGGGGGGGH :eek:

You the old saying, it is better to find a worm in your apple than to find 1/2 a worm. :p