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1D10@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 day ago

No one ever looks in pepper grinders until they are empty, you could put a decent amount of dead beetles in one and the owner never even know.

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No one ever looks in pepper grinders until they are empty, you could put a decent amount of dead beetles in one and the owner never even know.

1D10@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 day ago
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  • Tomtits@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I’ve got one of those smell designer rabbits (don’t worry, she’s a rescue) and her turds are about the size of peppercorns

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    I don’t use pepper but I use Himalayan crystal salt so your point stands, there could be decent amount of dead Buddhist monks there.

    (I guess I’ll have to be checking from now on.)

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    mine are acrilic, I’d see i am wise to your wiley ways op!

  • irelephant [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Also: Fly eggs look very similar to rice

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    Congrats

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    • potoooooooo ✅️@lemmy.world
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      More of a beetle feeder, no?

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        I feel like in order to think of doing this, they must have gone through the logistics and tested the plan

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    You must not use good pepper corns then if you can’t tell the difference between pepper and dead beetles.

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      These are very good dead beetles. Please don’t compare them to peppercorns.

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        At 50% percentage, the peppercorn grinder becomes a beetle grinder full of peppercorns.

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      There’s a very exact ratio where the average person wouldn’t notice. I imagine it’s higher than you’d think

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        How much sawdust can you put in a rice crispy treat before someone notices?

        https://youtu.be/AKDal51f5LU

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          It wasn’t very much, if I remember that video well. Even the lowest amount they tested had them say they could tell a difference. Now, if they had not eaten a treat in a while, maybe you could get away with that lowest amount, but…

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        You didn’t have to write this you know.

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        When you cross that threshold, you’ve just got Grape Nuts.

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          Even more, the off brand Nutty Nuggets.

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      These are spicy 🔥 beetles!

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    clear pepper mill :: width=50%

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      is your point to have the grinder so small that you can basically observe every individual seed in it to check if it’s not a beetle?

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    My pepper grinder is clear (except for the actual grinding mechanism, of course)

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      my pepper grinder is clear as well, but point stands, i don’t ever look there.

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      If you’d like we could grind up the beatles and reconstitute them into peppercorn sized balls for you

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        please do, i hate that band

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        Are your beetles reconstituted?

        Would you like us to assign someone to reconstitute your beetles?

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          Excuse me

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            What?

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      Mine is glass on the bottom.

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    Yes officer, this one right here

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    I briefly worked ina health food bar factory that focused on raw or at least fresh ingredients. You are 100% eating bug parts.

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      Scientists who work with cockroaches often develop an allergy to them, which leads to them being allergic to ground coffee. Whole bean coffee is still okay. The difference is how likely you are to grind up a cockroach vs. a commercial coffee grinder. One of many sources.

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        Welp, that’s a thing I didn’t want to learn

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        Ick. I’ve only had a few cups of pre-ground coffee in my life, because they were uniformly awful. I’d believe dead cockroaches are why, for sure.

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    I think I’d notice, because I look at the food I’m eating. I suppose ground beetles look different enough from ground pepper.

    But I also have a bit of a biology background, so YMMV.

    (Also taste, but I don’t know as much about that. Maybe there are pepper beetles, I don’t know about. But there are definitely some poisonous ones I’d rather avoid. )

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    Congratulations, you’re the inaugural entry in my “people not to have over for dinner” list.

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    Satan thoughts

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    Delete this post

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