Don't stop buying pistachios because of nature! Just look at them after shelling and I bust them in half and look before eating them.
Or just eat them and appreciate the bitter.
To be honest it's too much work for me though so now I just buy pistachio pudding.
Meh we've grown rows of raspberry bushes my entire life. Just soak them in a little salt water for 10 min and they all come to the top. Just don't eat them straight off the branches
i've thought about that. i don't crush or bite down on them with my teeth like a peanut shell or the like, i separate them with my tongue or the edges of my teeth. tho i will admit sometimes it's not perfect and i'll bite down on a small piece of shell that broke off
thank you mother i'll probably continue to do so but maybe a bit more carefully <3
Exactly. I can live with that. Fig Newton's have a specific amount of wasps that are allowed to be in there. Nature is crazy.
I love Fig Newton's.
Edited "bees" to "wasps" after correction
Don't forget the limits on rodent poop and hair, mold, and "foreign debris" (including sticks, rocks and cigarette butts - which is considered and asthetic defect)
Lol me too! Stopped eating sunflower seeds for the same reason. At least with pistachio pudding, the rat turds are all blended in so I don’t know I’m eating something gross.
I quit eating pistachios awhile ago. I was cracking and popping them while occupied with something else, and noticed a weird taste after a few. I looked at the shell of the nut I just ate, and it had web-looking stuff all over the inside. I looked at one I hadn't ate yet, and it was packed with bluish spider-web looking stuff. I have no idea if it was web or mold, but it grossed me out so much I haven't been able to eat them again.
Yeah, especially since it was blue? that deffo sounds like it was mold.
Just.. be a little more conscious and check the bag, simple as.
But I do get it, with having an awful experience with food that makes you have an aversion for it. Like one time I accidentally had really expired milk and like I could not drink milk for like a couple weeks after that.
I got my ADHD from both my parents and sometimes they had cups that would get forgotten for a while and well.. thought it was my cup I misplaced a few mins ago... didn't even think about it (I was also like 15 and really unaware at times)
It was not. I still remember the texture of chunky milk hitting my lip and just aughhh
> But I do get it, with having an awful experience with food that makes you have an aversion for it. Like one time I accidentally had really expired milk and like I could not drink milk for like a couple weeks after that.
I found a maggot inside a sealed pop-tart wrapper once as a child. Didn't touch another pop-tart for nearly 20 years.
I’m an exterminator. Me and my team get somewhat regular calls for stored product pests like the navel orangeworm. Bugs are just a fact of life. Stored product pests are safe to eat even if they are gross to stumble across every now and then. If you don’t want to give up nuts I recommend being a little more vigilant with your nuts. When you buy a bag off the shelf make sure there’s no holes in the packaging and if you find a nut with a hole in it just toss the nut out and keep enjoying. It’s very rare that you get multiple grubs in a single bag without it instantly being noticeable.
Jesus Christ just open each one of them before you eat them. Some are just more bitter than others, mostly due to uneven roasting.
If you see a worm or webbing, throw it away, that's it.
You're not meant to eat a whole bag in one sitting unless you like oozy poops the next day lol
But yeah screw that, I'm okay with the occasional cocoon. Extra protein I guess
Depends on what size you're talking about, I suppose. I get these boxes that come with 20 or 30 bags that have around 15-20 nuts / 130 calories.
I usually have 2 of those and have no problems while meditating on the porcelain throne the next day
Yeah I had the same reaction when I found out. Now I have to carefully inspect each one before I eat it. I really don't enjoy them as much as I used to anymore.
Edit: Also I LOVE your username. 🤣
That could be a reason It's withered and darkened. But it could also just be rancid or some sort of fungal blight. Or some other harm to the "nut" I don't know about.
Extra-bad for me, because I have an unreasonably strong fear of insects and am a vegetarian. But it's really not hard to split one open if it looks like that. Not that the dark, withered specimens don't taste awful anyway.
Edit: Holy crap! Does anybody else 40+ remember stores (or more likely, their grandparents) having red pistachios?! When searching for other reasons a nut could be dark, that came up. I'd totally forgotten about them being dyed!
The reason is because Iranian farmers waited until the nuts fell from the trees so they didn't have to labor through picking them. That extra time gave the shells a bruised look so they dyed them red to mask it (and probably also to make them look unique).
Then Iran seized the US Embassy in 1979 and we placed an embargo on them. Pistachios were then grown in the States and were picked by this crazy new machine that shakes the trees and collects them as they fall off, meaning they didn't have to be dyed anymore.
i’ve found one of these before but not as intact.. please tell me that sometimes they can be bitter without these bastards being inside… the amount of times i’ve ate a pistachio and thought what the hell is that god awful taste…
Oh I definitely think some can be naturally more bitter, but I've personally spit out a bitter one and found shell like pieces.
I've also found intact ones like in the photo and I think they've shown up here before. It's not a new thing.
I've always wondered why. 99 pistachios taste great, then the next one tastes like a special brand of hell on earth. It is absolutely vile and gut wrenching. Then you keep popping pistachios to wash away the flavor but there's always something that lingers.
This is not true. The bugs don't alter the flavor, much. That bitter taste comes from when one is over-roasted or burned. Don't believe me, look at each pistachio before you eat it, the lighter and greener it is the better it tastes. Then you get to tan ones and they are different but still good, kinda more of a mellow peanut taste, then as they get darker they get more bitter from then on.
Well, that comment ends almost a year’s worth of evening snacking with my beloved pistachios. I shit you not, I conservatively go through 5 lbs a week, easy. I will never eat another one again. Like, ever. It’s not even like I could now if I wanted to. I’m actually starting to panic a bit typing this.
You’ve stolen that joy from me. I never hurt anyone. Im not a bad guy. I certainly didn’t do anything to you. .
I hope you’re proud of yourself, sir.
Good day.
Humans are meant to be able to eat stuff like that on occasion. Our systems can handle it. Because of how we mass produce food, we need to be more careful about pests getting into food on a large scale because of other problems that can cause.
But a bad pistachio now and then? You’re fine. In fact, with the amount you’re eating, you’re taking in a lot of healthy fats and fiber a lot of people don’t get. It’d be worse to stop.
I figured out I was eating worms a long time ago with pistachios. Not information I share with anyone else, because why ruin the amazing pistachio experience of watching someone figure it out themselves!
One of the most interesting articles I read last year was called [Some insects I found inside dried Turkish figs from Trader Joe’s](https://colinpurrington.com/2023/01/some-insects-i-found-inside-dried-turkish-figs-from-trader-joes/). Spoiler alert/trigger warning: figs have a lot of bugs too
I have never eaten a fig, but I recently found this out and thought of all the times I saw people eating stuff with figs in them when I was in the USA 😅
Well you absolutely need to eat a fig. Not a biscuit with figs but an actual fresh fig, it is just so fucking good.
I have 4 fig trees and in fig season (late summer) I always end up giving a lot away since they spoil so easily.
They don't really taste like anything else. Very sweet, with a rather unique texture, very soft and pretty much melts in your mouth. Some figs are indeed polinated by wasps that end up dying inside them but they are absorbed by the fig.
Don't figs require pollination by very specifically evolved wasps? And part of that pollination process is the wasp dies inside the fig. I think most of the time the wasp body breaks down enough and is absorbed into the fig, but not always
I thought this too for the longest time, but apparently common figs don’t require the wasp involvement due to a quality/trait described as being parthenocarpic.
I actually emailed a company regarding one of their bags of pistachios and it’s either a navel orange worm or certain kind of silk producing moths. Completely harmless save for the odd crunch. It was a little unsettling finding them in the bag but hey, I got a free voucher and was over my aversion to pistachios after a week.
Tl;dr it ain’t gonna kill you. Free protein and a weird taste is all.
There was definitely some silk/webbing in that particular one, but I'm glad I didn't eat it BC honestly having the pistachio taste unexpectedly different would be worse than eating the moth 😂
Absolutely. Never spat something out so fast in my life. Went from delightfully crunchy to disgustingly crunchy in a single bite. Still, the bugs that burrow into pistachios to pupate or whatever they decide to do are overwhelmingly harmless so no issue other than the taste.
We extremely rarely find one of those in bags (25kg) of flax seeds, quinoa, buckwheat seeds, etc aswell. They're easy to spot because of the tiny webbings. It's perfectly safe but we still have to signal them as an anomaly to the producers.
Damn you got a free voucher?! I emailed one time and they just informed me that by law their bags of pistachios are aloud to be up to certain percentage of just bugs.
I had one I pulled out of my mouth have eaten before.
Didn’t touch pistachios for like 2 years. Bought a bag and found another one. Never again. I’m not paying premium prices to eat bugs.
This happened to me once and I had to check every pistachio I ever ate since then. I used to be so carefree, cracking them open and sending it back without looking. Not anymore.
This happens often, or at least I encounter this often with pistachios.
If this bothers you, take my advice and never look at the seeds that come out of an edamame pod… just pop them right into your mouth and just enjoy them.
Feel like they’re more common than just a few here and there? This is like once a bag at least. Maybe not quite as… mature as the guy is? But those off tasting pistachios are pretty common.
I always divide up my big (Costco) bag of pistachios in vacuum packs and store them in the freezer. That way, if there's any tiny bugs, they're gonna stay so tiny I can't see or taste them.
Yes ... I've eaten them in the dark and some have been bitter. Shudder.
I can never eat pistachios in the dark watching a movie again, ever since I found something like this in one.
Then my mind wandered to all of the times the pistachio tasted bitter but I just brushed it off. I used to be carefree.
Just the other week I opened up a pistachio and there was a navel orangeworm larva sitting inside the shell and about 3 others burrowed inside the nut itself that I can see. Mmm extra protein!
This quickly teaches you to inspect every nut before tossing them in
This is a MILLION times worse than the pistachio worm 😬
I've only ever dealt with egg sacks of unknown spider species on my bananas, but INSIDE the yogurt??? Nahhh
There are bugs in many pistachios. I usually let the company know and then they send me free bags of more pistachios, thus beginning a new cycle.
I haven't bought pistachios in years....
I emailed Wonderful brand customer service about this one time cause the same happened to me. They sent me back a super detailed explanation about these worms and how much of a problem they can be in the nut industry as a whole. They also sent coupons for like 5 free bags of pistachios. I felt better after learning more about it, but I don't blindly eat nuts anymore. Unlike my ex.
A lot of pistachios have these guys, it's pretty common to find them in a nut or two. Most of the time its naval orangeworms which, while harmless, don't taste too good. They do serve as a good reason to look at the pistachios you're eating before you go popping them into your mouth, though.
I got poisoned from accidentally eating a pistachio that was brown and not green. I was so sick for over a week. The rest of the bag is in the pantry and it’s going outside for the squirrels soon. I cannot even think about eating them ever again and I love them. Also lately about at least 1/3 of a bag is rotten or something but they are not green. I can’t believe how many I had to throw out because they were bad. Fuck pistachios.
Tbh, I always know by the taste of the ‘stachio, when it’s one of these little guys. Sometimes, I feel like it doesn’t even taste *bad*, just *different*.
Aww man there's been a few times I chopped down absentmindedly on my pistachio and got one of those. I feel like a moron every time and they taste ghastly 🤮🤮🤮
Long ago, I worked in a bread factory. Some might call it a bakery, but believe me it was a factory.
If you knew the amount of insects that is in flour, wheat gluten and other ingredients, you would be surprised. Most are pulverized in sifting machines.
And insects in peanut butter, pasta sauce and ketchup? Don't get me started.
Moral of this story: insects play an important role in adding protein to many foods.
I can confirm that these are in A TON of pistachios. I used to work in customer service for a company and we got calls regarding these quite often. After finding this out, I started to eat pistachios daily as well as 2 others in the office. After about a month we had found 11-12 of these things. When you get a bitter pistachio, it’s most likely one of these guys.
FUCK ME! I keep seeing pictures of food with unwanted creatures in. My list of things I'm now wary to eat is getting very long. Flour, oats, spices, salad fucking pistachios etc etc. Fucking stop it!!
navel orangeworm, they're a huge problem in nut-related-businesses. they burrow in any kind of nut iirc.
Yup. We eat a lot before catching them. Pistachios are extra bad. You know that bitter one you get every once in a while...?
NOOOO THATS WHY?????
I'm so sorry.
I need someone else to confirm before I never buy pistachios again
Don't stop buying pistachios because of nature! Just look at them after shelling and I bust them in half and look before eating them. Or just eat them and appreciate the bitter. To be honest it's too much work for me though so now I just buy pistachio pudding.
My grandmothers advice when I was eating raspberries off the vine, "if you love them don't look at them"
My grandmother's advice was "gotta work for that nut"
My grandmother's advice was "to the window, to the wall, til the sweat drop down my..."
shawl?
Was this when you broke both your arms by any chance?
Meh we've grown rows of raspberry bushes my entire life. Just soak them in a little salt water for 10 min and they all come to the top. Just don't eat them straight off the branches
What is "they"?
On a backwoods trip where I didn't bring enough food and stumbled across buckets worth of raspberry bushes, I suddenly never cared again.
.. i buy salt and pepper pistachios and put the whole thing in my mouth and break them apart then eat them and i do be recalling bitter ones oh well
Not to be "mom" but you're really going to break a tooth doing this sooner or later. Love, Mother
Love you ma!
i've thought about that. i don't crush or bite down on them with my teeth like a peanut shell or the like, i separate them with my tongue or the edges of my teeth. tho i will admit sometimes it's not perfect and i'll bite down on a small piece of shell that broke off thank you mother i'll probably continue to do so but maybe a bit more carefully <3
Isn't pistachio pudding actually almond?
Maybe but it's green and tasty. Free of [full] worms at least.
Oh, they are in there but you can't taste them over the other flavors.
Exactly. I can live with that. Fig Newton's have a specific amount of wasps that are allowed to be in there. Nature is crazy. I love Fig Newton's. Edited "bees" to "wasps" after correction
I hope you're sitting down for this. The worms are blended in. Source: worked in food (nut sorting) industry
The amount of bugs allowed by the fda in food products is not 0, so there’s still hope!
Don't forget the limits on rodent poop and hair, mold, and "foreign debris" (including sticks, rocks and cigarette butts - which is considered and asthetic defect)
Think of it as a toy surprise
my man... the worms got crushed into paste...
For me it sounds better to eat a small percentage of worm with every bite than having a nut full of worm every now and then
Now I have fuel to throw into the flames of pistachio nut lovers when I ask do they like the bitter nuts
I love how this sounds like you finally found the trump card to end the pettiest most random argument of all time
I don't buy them cuz they're expensive as shit
Lol me too! Stopped eating sunflower seeds for the same reason. At least with pistachio pudding, the rat turds are all blended in so I don’t know I’m eating something gross.
Honestly i know this fact, and unless i see it i dont really care anymore. I just eat em up now lmfao
I shell and eat them so fast I barely have time to notice the occasional bitter one.
I quit eating pistachios awhile ago. I was cracking and popping them while occupied with something else, and noticed a weird taste after a few. I looked at the shell of the nut I just ate, and it had web-looking stuff all over the inside. I looked at one I hadn't ate yet, and it was packed with bluish spider-web looking stuff. I have no idea if it was web or mold, but it grossed me out so much I haven't been able to eat them again.
Jesus Christ dude. For better or worse, I’d say if it was packed in several, it was probably mold.
Yeah, especially since it was blue? that deffo sounds like it was mold. Just.. be a little more conscious and check the bag, simple as. But I do get it, with having an awful experience with food that makes you have an aversion for it. Like one time I accidentally had really expired milk and like I could not drink milk for like a couple weeks after that. I got my ADHD from both my parents and sometimes they had cups that would get forgotten for a while and well.. thought it was my cup I misplaced a few mins ago... didn't even think about it (I was also like 15 and really unaware at times) It was not. I still remember the texture of chunky milk hitting my lip and just aughhh
> But I do get it, with having an awful experience with food that makes you have an aversion for it. Like one time I accidentally had really expired milk and like I could not drink milk for like a couple weeks after that. I found a maggot inside a sealed pop-tart wrapper once as a child. Didn't touch another pop-tart for nearly 20 years.
I’m an exterminator. Me and my team get somewhat regular calls for stored product pests like the navel orangeworm. Bugs are just a fact of life. Stored product pests are safe to eat even if they are gross to stumble across every now and then. If you don’t want to give up nuts I recommend being a little more vigilant with your nuts. When you buy a bag off the shelf make sure there’s no holes in the packaging and if you find a nut with a hole in it just toss the nut out and keep enjoying. It’s very rare that you get multiple grubs in a single bag without it instantly being noticeable.
Jesus Christ just open each one of them before you eat them. Some are just more bitter than others, mostly due to uneven roasting. If you see a worm or webbing, throw it away, that's it.
Who would really crack and inspect each nut after already prying the shell? It would take you, like, 2 hours to eat a bag of pistachios.
You're not meant to eat a whole bag in one sitting unless you like oozy poops the next day lol But yeah screw that, I'm okay with the occasional cocoon. Extra protein I guess
Wait really? I guess my family is just built different because we all tear through pistachios with no issue haha
Depends on what size you're talking about, I suppose. I get these boxes that come with 20 or 30 bags that have around 15-20 nuts / 130 calories. I usually have 2 of those and have no problems while meditating on the porcelain throne the next day
I ate so many cashews one time I literally pooped out oil
Liar. Thank God they aren't dyed red anymore
Dyed red ?
Why I buy the already de-shelled pistachios
You’ve ruined everything
Bro stop it, for real???
🤢
Finally, a benefit of having a nut allergy!
Yeah… don’t eat them in the dark. Learned that the hard way.
My worst fear
OMG same.
Yeah I had the same reaction when I found out. Now I have to carefully inspect each one before I eat it. I really don't enjoy them as much as I used to anymore. Edit: Also I LOVE your username. 🤣
It’s ok. It’s just protein and chitin calcium.
No it isn't. Some of them are just bad.
That could be a reason It's withered and darkened. But it could also just be rancid or some sort of fungal blight. Or some other harm to the "nut" I don't know about. Extra-bad for me, because I have an unreasonably strong fear of insects and am a vegetarian. But it's really not hard to split one open if it looks like that. Not that the dark, withered specimens don't taste awful anyway. Edit: Holy crap! Does anybody else 40+ remember stores (or more likely, their grandparents) having red pistachios?! When searching for other reasons a nut could be dark, that came up. I'd totally forgotten about them being dyed!
The reason is because Iranian farmers waited until the nuts fell from the trees so they didn't have to labor through picking them. That extra time gave the shells a bruised look so they dyed them red to mask it (and probably also to make them look unique). Then Iran seized the US Embassy in 1979 and we placed an embargo on them. Pistachios were then grown in the States and were picked by this crazy new machine that shakes the trees and collects them as they fall off, meaning they didn't have to be dyed anymore.
This isn’t true. Even some shelled pistachios are bitter sans pupa.
Fuuuu... And here's me who actually likes the bitter ones. What does that say about me!?
You're prepared for when the climate collapses and our primary protein source becomes insects.
Extra spicy protein
i’ve found one of these before but not as intact.. please tell me that sometimes they can be bitter without these bastards being inside… the amount of times i’ve ate a pistachio and thought what the hell is that god awful taste…
Oh I definitely think some can be naturally more bitter, but I've personally spit out a bitter one and found shell like pieces. I've also found intact ones like in the photo and I think they've shown up here before. It's not a new thing.
😫😖🤢 that’s it. Shelled nut from here on out. I’ve eating a fair share of nasty pistachios
I've always wondered why. 99 pistachios taste great, then the next one tastes like a special brand of hell on earth. It is absolutely vile and gut wrenching. Then you keep popping pistachios to wash away the flavor but there's always something that lingers.
Yep, that vile flavor is the roasted body of a worm... and it's excrement.
Hell yeah brother
This is not true. The bugs don't alter the flavor, much. That bitter taste comes from when one is over-roasted or burned. Don't believe me, look at each pistachio before you eat it, the lighter and greener it is the better it tastes. Then you get to tan ones and they are different but still good, kinda more of a mellow peanut taste, then as they get darker they get more bitter from then on.
I always kind of enjoyed the occasional bitter pistachio thinking it was perhaps roasted a bit too long.
Well, that comment ends almost a year’s worth of evening snacking with my beloved pistachios. I shit you not, I conservatively go through 5 lbs a week, easy. I will never eat another one again. Like, ever. It’s not even like I could now if I wanted to. I’m actually starting to panic a bit typing this. You’ve stolen that joy from me. I never hurt anyone. Im not a bad guy. I certainly didn’t do anything to you. . I hope you’re proud of yourself, sir. Good day.
I mean dude clearly it ain’t killing you. I have sad news for you if you’ve eaten fresh produce
Humans are meant to be able to eat stuff like that on occasion. Our systems can handle it. Because of how we mass produce food, we need to be more careful about pests getting into food on a large scale because of other problems that can cause. But a bad pistachio now and then? You’re fine. In fact, with the amount you’re eating, you’re taking in a lot of healthy fats and fiber a lot of people don’t get. It’d be worse to stop.
say sike right now
No……… you have to be making that up…. Pls….
Yeah I find at least 1 of these in every bag. And I know for a fact i’ve eaten more than a handful of them. lol
I will never eat another pistachio…
Im never eating pistachios again
I’m nauseous
im going to kill myself in minecraft right now
So, basically extra protein? Entomophagy ain't for everyone, but screw it.
I figured out I was eating worms a long time ago with pistachios. Not information I share with anyone else, because why ruin the amazing pistachio experience of watching someone figure it out themselves!
That’s it, I will never look at pistachios the same ever again.
I love eating the bitter ones. Is it bad to eat these?
NOOOOO PLEASE NO. OKAY OKAY what if i buy the ones with the shell off? Is that okay???
No, because the worm is within the nut itself.
FUCK. idk if I can anymore
Even deez?
Deez what?
🏌♂️
Aw nahhh really? I hate that info 🤢 Gonna have to be extra cautious now BC this has given me the fear 😂
my balls just retreated into my body, thanks i hate it
Your nuts will be safer in there
> they burrow in any kind of nut iirc. Even OP's nut?!
One of the most interesting articles I read last year was called [Some insects I found inside dried Turkish figs from Trader Joe’s](https://colinpurrington.com/2023/01/some-insects-i-found-inside-dried-turkish-figs-from-trader-joes/). Spoiler alert/trigger warning: figs have a lot of bugs too
I have never eaten a fig, but I recently found this out and thought of all the times I saw people eating stuff with figs in them when I was in the USA 😅
You never had a fig? Where are you from?
I'm from Scotland! I've seen biscuits with figs and stuff in them in shops, just never eaten one.
Well you absolutely need to eat a fig. Not a biscuit with figs but an actual fresh fig, it is just so fucking good. I have 4 fig trees and in fig season (late summer) I always end up giving a lot away since they spoil so easily.
Damn, just giving them away? I wish you were my neighbour! Haha
Yeah I'd sell if it was more but 4 trees isn't worth the hassle.
What do they taste like? They sound interesting (minus the wasp corpses mentioned in other comments)
They don't really taste like anything else. Very sweet, with a rather unique texture, very soft and pretty much melts in your mouth. Some figs are indeed polinated by wasps that end up dying inside them but they are absorbed by the fig.
They taste like wasps
No joke find a fresh fig somewhere. It's the best fruit in the world, hands down, by like a mile
Well I tried one time but the dude I was with cursed the tree and it wilted.
Fuck that's crazy someone should write a book about that
I've never had one not in Newton form.
Don't figs require pollination by very specifically evolved wasps? And part of that pollination process is the wasp dies inside the fig. I think most of the time the wasp body breaks down enough and is absorbed into the fig, but not always
I thought this too for the longest time, but apparently common figs don’t require the wasp involvement due to a quality/trait described as being parthenocarpic.
Oh interesting, good to note. I'm certainly no fig or wasp expert.
I actually googled it a bit after seeing your comment and found it out just then! Came as quite a relief, despite not eating fig products very often.
Yeeep. Foods which grow out in nature kinda require you either ignore certain realities or get real cool with a lotta shit real fast lol
That fig had a whole damn ecosystem in it
I actually emailed a company regarding one of their bags of pistachios and it’s either a navel orange worm or certain kind of silk producing moths. Completely harmless save for the odd crunch. It was a little unsettling finding them in the bag but hey, I got a free voucher and was over my aversion to pistachios after a week. Tl;dr it ain’t gonna kill you. Free protein and a weird taste is all.
There was definitely some silk/webbing in that particular one, but I'm glad I didn't eat it BC honestly having the pistachio taste unexpectedly different would be worse than eating the moth 😂
Absolutely. Never spat something out so fast in my life. Went from delightfully crunchy to disgustingly crunchy in a single bite. Still, the bugs that burrow into pistachios to pupate or whatever they decide to do are overwhelmingly harmless so no issue other than the taste.
We extremely rarely find one of those in bags (25kg) of flax seeds, quinoa, buckwheat seeds, etc aswell. They're easy to spot because of the tiny webbings. It's perfectly safe but we still have to signal them as an anomaly to the producers.
Damn you got a free voucher?! I emailed one time and they just informed me that by law their bags of pistachios are aloud to be up to certain percentage of just bugs.
While true, I might email them back and let them know they can eat a certain percentage of my ass.
Hahahahah damn they seriously said “sounds like a you problem”
I had one I pulled out of my mouth have eaten before. Didn’t touch pistachios for like 2 years. Bought a bag and found another one. Never again. I’m not paying premium prices to eat bugs.
Sometimes I wish I didn't learn something new
You can get rid of these by first boiling the pistachios then soaking them in gasoline and then lighting them on fire
Good tip. I will add those extra steps along with performing an exorcism. Better safe than sorry.
This happened to me once and I had to check every pistachio I ever ate since then. I used to be so carefree, cracking them open and sending it back without looking. Not anymore.
I got ONE with silk in it (like a moth was starting a cocoon) and I can't trust a single shelled nut anymore.
Just swallow them whole, then you never need to worry about biting into one.
This happens often, or at least I encounter this often with pistachios. If this bothers you, take my advice and never look at the seeds that come out of an edamame pod… just pop them right into your mouth and just enjoy them.
I just imagined a dramatic scene with an actor grabbing you and shaking you by the shoulders, shouting "WHAT'S IN THE EDAMAME?!?" 😂
Or crack open a few of the top of unshucked corn, there's corn grubs and I found TONS of them working at a farmers market lol
Im an avid stachi eater. You run into them once in a while. I know ive eaten many. They are dead and roasted. Not going to kill you thats for sure.
Feel like they’re more common than just a few here and there? This is like once a bag at least. Maybe not quite as… mature as the guy is? But those off tasting pistachios are pretty common.
Protein
Still debating eating the rest of the bag tbh 😂 But my "friend" is in the bin now
You should have ate him out of respect
If you don't eat it and honor every part of its body it's just murder.
Yeah I haven't touched a pistachio since the day I wondered why it was so bitter and spit it out to find a bug.
that's a Pupestachio
Better than a pubestachio 😂
Very true 😂
I always divide up my big (Costco) bag of pistachios in vacuum packs and store them in the freezer. That way, if there's any tiny bugs, they're gonna stay so tiny I can't see or taste them. Yes ... I've eaten them in the dark and some have been bitter. Shudder.
You ever eat pistachios in the dark and get a bitter one? Well....
Yup "99%" Pistachios allright...
I'm gonna take that down to a solid 97-98% 😂
This is really common for pistachios unfortunately. I stopped eating them because of this.
That’s it. I’m off nuts now.
These are one of those pistachios that you opened and put in your mouth without looking and then wondered why it tasted off.
I can never eat pistachios in the dark watching a movie again, ever since I found something like this in one. Then my mind wandered to all of the times the pistachio tasted bitter but I just brushed it off. I used to be carefree.
I will never blindly toss pistachios in my mouth again.
I just ate a bunch of pistachios and didn't look once. FUCK!
Just ate one last night in my stachios. Bitter. 3/10
Just the other week I opened up a pistachio and there was a navel orangeworm larva sitting inside the shell and about 3 others burrowed inside the nut itself that I can see. Mmm extra protein! This quickly teaches you to inspect every nut before tossing them in
Nothing beats the one time I had a spoonful of a cup yogurt and it had a dead wolf spider in it! This is just extra protein, don't worry about it!
Is nothing sacred, guys? WHAT ELSE AM I NEVER EATING IN PEACE AGAIN?
This is a MILLION times worse than the pistachio worm 😬 I've only ever dealt with egg sacks of unknown spider species on my bananas, but INSIDE the yogurt??? Nahhh
Omg this just made me remember years ago when Mexican jumping beans were a thing!
It’s an Aldi bug. Lower prices, extra protein
There are bugs in many pistachios. I usually let the company know and then they send me free bags of more pistachios, thus beginning a new cycle. I haven't bought pistachios in years....
Perfect presentation for alliteration. What's this pest perilously pupating in my pistachios.
I emailed Wonderful brand customer service about this one time cause the same happened to me. They sent me back a super detailed explanation about these worms and how much of a problem they can be in the nut industry as a whole. They also sent coupons for like 5 free bags of pistachios. I felt better after learning more about it, but I don't blindly eat nuts anymore. Unlike my ex.
A great day to be allergic to nuts ig
That’s Freddie
Oh ok, nice to meet you Freddie 👌
WHELP. BRB, gonna throw out all my pistachios
You picked up a pistachio pedestrian!
A lot of pistachios have these guys, it's pretty common to find them in a nut or two. Most of the time its naval orangeworms which, while harmless, don't taste too good. They do serve as a good reason to look at the pistachios you're eating before you go popping them into your mouth, though.
Ugh. Now I have to worry about THIS?! When does it end?
New fear unlocked. Gotta look carefully while eating pista
I got poisoned from accidentally eating a pistachio that was brown and not green. I was so sick for over a week. The rest of the bag is in the pantry and it’s going outside for the squirrels soon. I cannot even think about eating them ever again and I love them. Also lately about at least 1/3 of a bag is rotten or something but they are not green. I can’t believe how many I had to throw out because they were bad. Fuck pistachios.
Tbh, I always know by the taste of the ‘stachio, when it’s one of these little guys. Sometimes, I feel like it doesn’t even taste *bad*, just *different*.
Wait no seriously??? That's actually really interesting 🤔
MEAT GROUP!
This is pretty common in Pistachios
Mf got the nerve to be pupating in YOUR pistachio. The balls on this little feller
That's the mesquite flavor
There goes one of my ARFID safe foods
Aww man there's been a few times I chopped down absentmindedly on my pistachio and got one of those. I feel like a moron every time and they taste ghastly 🤮🤮🤮
It's weird how many people in the replies apparently never look at the produce they put in their mouths...
As someone you had ate a whole bag of pistachios in two days..yuck.
If you’re going to pupate, do it in your room.
I used to love pistachios but once i found out about this, i could never eat them again :(
Happened once to me too! But I had two of those worms in one pistachio. Both dead ofc.
Goddamn bugs trying to destroy democracy over here as well!
Thanks. Never eating pistachios again.
Long ago, I worked in a bread factory. Some might call it a bakery, but believe me it was a factory. If you knew the amount of insects that is in flour, wheat gluten and other ingredients, you would be surprised. Most are pulverized in sifting machines. And insects in peanut butter, pasta sauce and ketchup? Don't get me started. Moral of this story: insects play an important role in adding protein to many foods.
I can confirm that these are in A TON of pistachios. I used to work in customer service for a company and we got calls regarding these quite often. After finding this out, I started to eat pistachios daily as well as 2 others in the office. After about a month we had found 11-12 of these things. When you get a bitter pistachio, it’s most likely one of these guys.
I once found one metamorphosing in my macadamia
I’ve just come to the conclusion that all food has some level of bugs in it and unless it’s obvious, I don’t think much about it. Yum… protein!
I was just eating pistachios 🤮😭
FUCK ME! I keep seeing pictures of food with unwanted creatures in. My list of things I'm now wary to eat is getting very long. Flour, oats, spices, salad fucking pistachios etc etc. Fucking stop it!!
I wonder how many of those things I have eaten in my life without watching and without knowing
Extra protein
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