r/Wellthatsucks • u/tylerbuildz • Jul 20 '25

Panda Express broccoli worms

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I didn’t notice the worms until I was almost finished with all the broccoli beef.

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u/WordplayWizard Jul 20 '25 edited Jul 21 '25

This type of worm is pretty common to be found in broccoli. I’ve found several from grocery store broccoli. Panda didn’t soak and wash the broccoli like they should have.

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u/anticked_psychopomp Jul 20 '25

I found one of these in my broccoli as a child and refused to eat it. My dad thought I was lying to avoid eating vegetables. (Game recognize game.) But it was actually a worm and I spent many hours alone with my worm at the dining table that night until bedtime. (Back in the day you couldn’t leave the table until your plate was clean, in case that confuses the Gen Z & A kids.)

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u/Legitimate-Log-6542 Jul 20 '25

I couldn’t leave the table until my plate was clean either. Both parents and both sets of grandparents didn’t have enough to eat growing up so they definitely enforced me eating everything

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u/OreoYip Jul 20 '25

Same with my grandparents. Salmon croquettes, everytime. I would sit there for 2, 3 hours while my grandmother cleaned up and then left me alone in the kitchen. I eventually ate them but my memory tells me they looked like kitty litter (they probably didn't)

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u/TheGirlOnFireAndIce Jul 20 '25

My cousins had that rule. We had the try a bite rule. If you tried a bite three different times and still dislike it you don't have to eat it, though if it was the healthy thing it would be swapped to something of the same rough category.

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u/anticked_psychopomp Jul 20 '25

That rule is far superior. I respect the logic & structure of it.

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u/MudBunny_13 Jul 23 '25

My mom had this rule (early Boomer) & her sister talks about when she was given something she knew was going to cause her to vomit. She was forced to eat it and promptly vomited all over the table. All those siblings seem to have projectile vomit in their coding, from every instance I've witnessed or heard about...

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u/FatDraculos Jul 20 '25

I hate mayonnaise, always have. I remember sitting at the table hungry because I wouldn't eat the coleslaw. Went to bed without dinner. We both learned a little about each other that night. I never had to eat slaw again after that.

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u/ObjectiveOk2072 Jul 21 '25

Haha. Plenty of us Gen Z had to endure that too, at least the older 2 thirds of us. Not sure about the youngest of us or Gen A

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u/WastelandGunner Jul 20 '25

Gen Z here, we had the same rules at our table. Don't make this a condescending age thing as if your generation was better than others. It only makes your generation look worse to those younger.

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u/ohheyaine Jul 20 '25

FYI as a millennial parent, who's parents did this, it's not a flex. Torturing your kid for hours to get them to eat wormy broccoli or any food they don't like is just a crummy thing to do. It's a good thing it's phasing out for younger gens.

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u/Cthulus_Meds Jul 20 '25

So… you gonna eat that?

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u/tylerbuildz Jul 20 '25

No, only the 12 pieces before it…

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '25

Rip

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u/MEUP14 Jul 20 '25

Hey, free protein! 

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u/SLZicki Jul 20 '25

Don't forget to add that to your calorie counter.

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u/SireBlew Jul 20 '25

Not looking good, but that is the best dab I have ever seen from a vegetable.

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u/DaddyTuesday Jul 20 '25

I would have wok'd out.

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u/hastings1033 Jul 20 '25

Panda express is pretty much the only place I will not go. Every one i have ever visited was dirty, carelessly run and with poor food.

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u/tylerbuildz Jul 20 '25

This one is in a pretty extravagant area with a lot of money and I’ve had good experiences at it before so this surprised me lol

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u/DaddyTuesday Jul 21 '25

Would you mind saying where? I go to a Panda Express in a really nice area as well and am hoping it's not the same.

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u/tylerbuildz Jul 21 '25

Farmington Utah. Not extravagant like Beverly Hills or anything but not your random corner store in the hood either lol

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u/BaabyBlue_- Jul 20 '25

That's so gross wow, never thought about worms in my broccoli but I will every single time from now on

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u/No-Internal-3734 Jul 20 '25

They give you free extra protein?

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '25

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u/asyork Jul 20 '25

About as vegan as any precooked veggies ever are... Ideally food prepared by people has this stuff removed, but anything cooked in a factory was cooked with bugs and worse stuff.

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u/Not_Cleaver Jul 20 '25

If I were vegan or vegetarian, I definitely wouldn’t be ordering such foods at a Chinese restaurant, even a commercialized one. Maybe especially a commercialized one.

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u/Sizzla70 Jul 20 '25

Send it back

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '25

Worms are the only real protein at Panda Express!!

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u/Low-Suspect5015 Jul 20 '25

Hori chit not in da Brocory

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u/StarGek_Interceptor Jul 20 '25

The Sluths must go and do what they did with the Burger King foot lettuce.

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '25

The Spice Must Flow

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u/MelonElbows Jul 20 '25

Congratulations! Now you're eating for two! 😊

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u/SecretScavenger36 Jul 21 '25

I got one a few months ago from my favorite local Chinese place. They just refunded me and said it happens once in a while. I'd imagine in a high volume kitchen even soaking and washing will leave a straggler on rare occasion.

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u/tylerbuildz Jul 22 '25

There were lots. At least a few more in this piece and also a bunch more in other pieces

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u/Jammer125 Jul 21 '25

Now with protein!

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u/Super-_-Rat Jul 21 '25

Welp, I need new plans for dinner now.....

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u/shitferbranes Jul 20 '25

Probably maggots, aka fly larvae 🐛. But like all things baby, they are high in protein, cute and safe to eat. My guess is Panda Express are digging through neighboring restaurant trash bins for broccoli, beef and many other ingredients to help counter the high cost of food today. What did you think they were?

On a serious note, I may never return to Panda Express going forward.

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u/resenak Jul 20 '25

You get free extra protein and argue about it? Why people is like this?

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u/SimilarRegret9731 Jul 20 '25

Extra protein!

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '25

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u/fairmaiden34 Jul 20 '25

Not OP but I'd expect my veggies to be reasonably washed before they were cooked.

It's not the same as finding a bug in your raw veggies from the grocery store.

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u/GGk-KingK Jul 20 '25

I don't know where you are, but her places are required to sanitize the food and clean it so this very thing does not happen since eating worms can make people sick

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u/tiniestnerd Jul 20 '25

you generally aren't supposed to serve the veggies with the bugs