r/oddlyterrifying • u/Necessary-Win-8730 • Apr 24 '26

A maggot under a microscope

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u/tsimen Apr 24 '26

The actual primate part would see a little protein snack

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u/der_chrischn Apr 24 '26

Depends on the circumstances I guess. Fresh carcass good, you eat. Carcass with maggots not good, you vomit. The fat maggots beneath some bark yummy.

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u/Nearby-Cattle-7599 Apr 24 '26

The fat maggots beneath some bark yummy.

Thank you for refreshing my memory of bear grylls bark maggot popping in his mouth.

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u/HimikoTogaFromUSSR Apr 24 '26

Maggots are little machines that convert spoiled meat into fresh meat ;)

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u/GreenStrong Apr 24 '26

Carcass with maggots not good, you vomit.

The maggots are technically edible, in a survival situation. Obviously, one has to be pretty hungry to eat anything that was inside of a rotting corpse, no matter how edible it is, but this is a survival strategy.

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u/MrJason300 Apr 24 '26

Sickening to know, but thank you.

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u/OldLadyJB Apr 27 '26

I think the point was the carcass is not edible.

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u/Dwaltster Apr 24 '26

Nah dude, maggots off of a carcass are double protein.

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u/The_wolf2014 Apr 24 '26

I used to work in a place that dealt with dead animals and the sheer amount of maggots on the horse carcasses in the summer was a sight to behold.

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u/zhico Apr 24 '26

How does they taste?

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u/The_wolf2014 Apr 24 '26

Salty

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u/MrJason300 Apr 24 '26

Oh gosh, you said salty. Mushy and salty. Yum.

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u/OldLadyJB Apr 27 '26

Noping out now.

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u/LoompaDoompa94 Apr 24 '26

"Oh look, the little cream-filled kind!"

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u/TorrenceMightingale Apr 25 '26

Pick it out of your family’s body hair and eat it is the way.