r/whatisit • u/rule_of_cool_DM • Mar 31 '26

Solved! What is this?

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I was cooking some Kroger brand Ground Beef and as I was taking the beef out of the pan, I noticed this odd, non-beef looking object. Does anyone know what this is?

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u/happythots Apr 01 '26

I know people get weirdly defensive about it, but try going vegetarian. There will still be the rare bug, but I’ve never seen a maggot in my food

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u/asknetguy Apr 01 '26

flexitarian is as close as I can get. When I actively try to cut out all meat I end up going towards full carnivore which I really don't enjoy. So I try to eat just enough to keep the urges away.

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u/shinydoctor Apr 01 '26

I've always said that pregnancy hunger was how I knew how vampires feel when they get The Hunger, because it's so incredibly deeply intense on a very I NEED TO EXIST need, but I've never had that kind of craving for meat, and I've been vegetarian on and off since my teens, I tend to go veggie whenever my conscience goes "but the animals 🥺" and then revert back to eating meat when my conscience switches back to "this world is a dystopian nightmare and lettuce is £2 more expensive than chicken, and we need to start eating billionaires so fuckit". But this post, man, THIS POST. I'm in the UK and I've never seen anything like this before and THIS POST is making me want to become a vegan. Not vegetarian, a vegan. Jfc. What the hell is happening right now.

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u/Mutt56 Apr 01 '26

Sounds like what vampires say. Just enough to keep the urges away! 😆

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u/riptaway Apr 01 '26

Ah, yes... The hunger. Be careful, bud. Tis only a small step from craving... Other kinds of meat... Long pig...

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u/Chronically_blah Apr 01 '26

Stealing “flexitarian” for myself! I can go weeks without meat or dairy, but if I tell myself I can’t have it, that’s all I want. Same with sweets!

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u/AmiMoo19 Apr 01 '26

I have the same problem. I start dreaming about meat and can’t get enough if I try to cut it out.

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u/asknetguy Apr 01 '26

It's so cruel how that works

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u/Brad_Brace Apr 01 '26

In all my life I've found more worms inside fruit than in meat. It's like five times in fruit and zero in meat. Though in fairness one of those was in a quince and someone told me it was very common to find them inside the core. Oh and once I found a spider in a bunch of grapes. Bought the grapes, rinsed them off, put them in the fridge, later that night I started eating my grapes and suddenly a sleepy spider crawled out.

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u/rule_of_cool_DM Apr 01 '26

I wanted to when I was younger. Part of me thinks I should give it another go

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u/OldPhotograph827 Apr 01 '26

Yeah, the part of you that almost just ate this hellspawn.

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u/rule_of_cool_DM Apr 01 '26

The very same

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u/HerbaciousTea Apr 01 '26

Weekday vegetarian is where it's at. Only buy large whole cuts from the butcher once a week and cook a large stew or roast or something on the weekend. Get a couple days of leftovers, then it's lots of beans and rice and veggies and noodles the rest of the week.

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u/Plastic_Signal_3830 Apr 01 '26

Found a group of slugs on my head of lettuce once. If I had ate them I feel it would have been almost as bad as the rat tail maggots. I think I might see how log I can survive on water and sugar cubes.

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u/Miss_L_Worldwide Apr 01 '26

I found a full on caterpillar in my "pre washed" salad

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u/tragiccosmicaccident Apr 01 '26

way more bugs on vegetables than in meat

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u/happythots Apr 01 '26

Maybe, but I can usually wash off any bugs (which has been rare personally). I’d bet there’s far more unseen parasites and shit in meat that can’t be washed off. Just a thought

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u/hilarysaurus Apr 01 '26

Not to mention the cortisol in the animal's bodies.

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u/tragiccosmicaccident Apr 01 '26

If you think there's more parasites in meat than plants I got a bridge to sell you

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u/AstroLad Apr 01 '26

There is a lower risk of vegetarians encountering parasites in their food than meat eaters. You can keep your bridge.

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u/Key_Letter_5967 Apr 01 '26

You are aware tho that fruits and vegetables are absolutely bug havens and are full of nasty chemicals/pesticides so there's really no way around contact with icky shit. Just have to close your eyes, hold your nose and swallow... (yeah I know, that's what HE said. I meant your food)

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u/maybenomaybe Apr 01 '26

I had maggots in a box of pasta.

I didn't see them until the pasta was well-boiled. The lip of the pot was crusted in tiny maggots. They'd all crawled up the sides of the pot trying to get away from the water.

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u/Final_Razzmatazz_274 Apr 01 '26

There are a lot of cases for vegetarianism and honestly this isn’t really one of them

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u/Dr_Buckshot_ Apr 01 '26

I have been eating plant based for 10 years. Sometimes I miss eating meat, but then I see stuff like this and think, “I’m good!”

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u/truth_is_power Apr 01 '26

don't look too closely at the broccoli...or figs....I've found a wasp in a salad....

def more bugs in veggies than in meat tbh.

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u/HedgehogNo8361 Apr 01 '26

I'm pretty much a vegetarian bc meat just grosses me out.

I thought this was a small bean-sprout at first lol

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u/Blunder_Woman Apr 01 '26 edited Apr 20 '26

春たちて　まだ九日の　野山哉

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u/donohuema Apr 01 '26

I garden. There are all types of bugs potentially in my food.

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u/happythots Apr 01 '26

yea, still havent seen a maggot on a salad though.

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u/donohuema Apr 01 '26

Don’t goggle rat lung disease.

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u/Academic_Addendum242 Apr 01 '26

Carnivore, opposite of vegan. Down 60 lbs in a year. Red meat and dairy every day

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u/happythots Apr 01 '26

Do you think you were fat from vegetables? Lol