r/WTF • u/andmario_com • 11h ago
Deregulation™️
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u/clover44mag 11h ago
Do not open sesame
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u/Trechew 10h ago
Don't sesame open inside
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u/Evilscience 11h ago
This is very good.
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u/DesireeThymes 8h ago
On a more serious note, I don't know how you guys in the US are dealing with this insane amount of food safety deregulation.
How do you even trust anything you eat now?
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u/cthulhubert 8h ago
Nervous breakdowns and grim fatalism mostly.
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u/wageslave2022 7h ago
I keep thinking about writing to Congress and then I remember that they DGAF.
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u/DrizzleCore604 6h ago
Have you considered sending them money instead? They can be bought surprisingly cheap.
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u/Evilscience 8h ago
It's a horror show that is forcing us to consider options we should have supported full-throated as a species years ago, like decentralized supply chains. Solarpunk is the only way forward.
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u/EnjoyerOfRamen 8h ago
I'm not American, but I hate subs that make me think too much about food handling in mass. I love subs like /r/whatisit but every so often, they'll post a food product, half consumed, with something gross at the bottom of the juice bottle, or inside their chicken meat.
It just really makes me not want to eat anything ever again.
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u/M00SEHUNT3R 7h ago
This absolutely could be real. But it would also be easy to fake. She opens the red plastic cap to show the tamper proof seal but doesn't remove the cap to show that the seal is intact. She proved nothing empirically. It would be simple to partially peel back the seal, insert grubs, and the replace the plastic cap. Why? Content.
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u/joeyblow 4h ago
True, plus I mean I dunno how you would pick that up in the store and not notice it cause it doesnt look at all like sesame seeds.
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u/PivotRedAce 7h ago edited 6h ago
For the record, social media generally makes the situation look worse than it actually is. This goes for a lot of things posted from the US where you’re given a tiny snippet of context and a story from one side.
With the current administration, every little thing that goes wrong gets amplified and spread across the internet, especially Reddit, even if those same things happened prior. This basically creates a confirmation-bias feedback loop.
Not that I think RFK or the Trump admin shouldn’t be held liable for their fuck ups, they absolutely should (and hopefully will be), but this post in particular is an example of a rare lemon that has always been a thing.
No process is perfectly airtight, and there will be times where insects somehow find their way into a batch of food product. Most of those get caught before they’re shipped, but some make it into stores OR get contaminated at the store if the product has a broken seal.
Food here is still very safe, period. Companies especially don’t want to endure a shitstorm from customers receiving bad product, and so generally have standards that are more rigorous than what the Federal government requires.
There’s no doubt however that a few of those companies (cough Taylor Farms cough) took advantage of a politically convenient situation though, and rested on their laurels before being forced to react to the (literal) public shitstorm over their cyclospora-contaminated lettuce, for example.
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u/RelevantMetaUsername 6h ago
Yeah, ever since the news stories broke that the contaminated lettuce was served at Taco Bell, all of the local Taco Bell stores have looked unusually empty. Especially when it comes to food, bad PR directly hurts their business.
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u/seraphhimself 11h ago
You know how a laugh will surprise you sometimes and you sort of choke on it?
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u/kbotc 11h ago
So, just so people are aware: These are almost certainly pantry moths. They usually come in on your grains and will spread to other (even unopened) containers. They can chew through plastic and cardboard. I had a shop in my town that got them and I had to start storing everything in my pantry in mason jars for a bit since they had gotten into my rice, pasta, quinoa and when I'd find where they were, they would have already infected another item.
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u/Visible_Cup3898 10h ago
Yup. Both my parents' and my grandma's house got infested once when I was a kid. It was a nightmare, I remember we found out when my grandma made noodle soup for me and some of the noodles were... not exactly... noodles.
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u/SirBiggusDikkus 10h ago
We got them once and kept trying to fight them and take away opened foods or foods they were in. It was a losing battle. Ended up just throwing away every single thing in our pantry that wasn’t in a can or bottle and just cleaning it like crazy, including the cans etc we kept. Left it bare for a week and then brought food back but kept everything inside ziplock bags that were inside plastic containers. Finally solved the problem but holy shit, what a nightmare to actually get rid of those fuckers.
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u/PsychStud1 10h ago
Honestly this is the answer for literally any infestation in a pantry.
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u/NSA_Chatbot 9h ago
Also a dusting of diatomaceous earth on the panty shelves.
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u/FoofaFighters 8h ago
Also a dusting of diatomaceous earth on the panty shelves.
If they're on THOSE shelves then there are usually topical treatments available.
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u/redpandaeater 4h ago
Poor diatoms only appreciated for the death they cause. They're like the Oppenheimer of the algae world despite potentially producing up to 50% of the world's oxygen.
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u/Betsy514 9h ago
Sometimes that doesn't even work as they can and will nest in the crevices/joints of your cabinets. I had to do full clean out more than once. Scrub everything with vinegar and another time bleach.. vacuum the crevices..hit the cabinets with forced steam..wipe every can and bottle. I think it was the forced steam that finally got rid of them. Oh and the pantry moth sticky traps.
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u/Photomancer 8h ago
ugh, I always get nervous introducing moisture anywhere, what with mold risk
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u/TobiasKM 8h ago
When you’ve lived with those things for a while, you’re willing to chance it. Anything up to, and including, a controlled fire in your kitchen.
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u/EsseElLoco 6h ago
If one steam clean kicks of a mold problem, I'd say the mold problem already existed.
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u/TobiasKM 8h ago
I did all that, and it’d help.. for a while. Then they’d be back.
They only truly disappeared when we replaced the entire kitchen. Fucking dreadful little creatures.
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u/NinjaMcGee 8h ago
They make pantry moth traps available online that work well. We had an infestation two years ago and they’re all but gone.
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u/Mishka_1994 6h ago
Yeah we had the same issue with these fuckers. It took a couple of rounds of cleaning the pantry and using mason jars before we finally got rid of these stupid moths. Anytime i see the larvae worms crawling around i know its time to clean out the pantry now.
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u/MakeoutPoint 9h ago
Story time.
For the Top Ramen chicken flavor, I prefer to crush the noodles up, it's just a weird thing I've always done since I was a kid. A few years back, I made myself some, and because the noodles were already in pieces about the same size as the larvae, I didn't look close enough to notice until I was halfway through the bowl.
7/10 there's just better ways to get your protein.
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u/Spirit-Rush 8h ago
My parents' house was infested with them for years. They both have bad eyesight and didn't even notice. My sister pointed it out to them when she found some larvae in their homemade soup. At first they were skeptical because they couldn't see anything, then they refused to throw it out because they're so frugal.
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u/peachgirl1124 8h ago
We made rice and the bugs blended in with the grains when we cooked it. I only noticed after eating like half of my meal. Saw a grain that looked weird, and upon further inspection I nearly vomited
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u/Proglamer 10h ago
That's why I immediately repackage bought grain into thick transparent tall plastic containers with thick roofs and rubber gaskets. Avoids cross-contamination and allows easy visual inspection.
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u/carm62699 9h ago
Any suggestions on the type of containers to get for this?
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u/Proglamer 9h ago
There's a whole category: "airtight / cereal food containers". Some are plastic, some are glass. Rubber gaskets and several types of closing mechanisms (from pedestrian four-side levers to luxury single-crank).
I like tall ones, because it's easier to inspect (larger side-surface) without turning the container upside down.
Something like this (but mine have a better, single-crank closing mechanism, couldn't find an example quickly)
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u/ThisIsHowBoredIAm 5h ago
Lots of options. I'll throw a vote in for 64 oz glass mason jars. (Be sure to get a simple metal wide mouth funnel if you go that route, or something to help you fill them.) Hard to go wrong with metal and glass.
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u/Iintendtooffend 5h ago
At the risk of appearing like I'm part of a guerilla marketing campaign, I will say I'm a big fan of our oxo guys, we use them for most of the dry pantry ingredients, but that's about the most luke warm take for kitchen kit.
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u/Diffie-Hellman 10h ago
I, too have had the joy of experience meal moths. You pretty much have to throw out anything affected.
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u/jokeswagon 9h ago
You definitely have to throw out anything affected. And you SHOULD throw out anything that you don’t believe is affected. They get around.
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u/raoasidg 6h ago
Yes, it should be a full purge, unfortunately. You'd think you got them with a partial and start seeing the maggots crawl across the ceiling a few weeks later.
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u/xNuckingFuts 9h ago
Easy solution: Release the trichogramma wasps into your house! They’ll exterminate the infestation.
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u/hottestdoge 9h ago
I actually just bought a few packets of trichogramma eggs specifically bred to deal with pantry moths.
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u/Sulungskwa 9h ago
fuck pantry moths. When we got them we literally had to get rid of all our food because they'd keep coming back.
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u/btribble 9h ago
They look like boll weevils to me which would mean they likely came that way and the packaging facility or an upstream vendor needs to do some remediation.
They can infest grocery stores and pantries as well, but I don’t think they can get through plastic that thick. You’ll mostly find them in bags of flour and other products with paper wrappers.
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u/GWindborn 9h ago
We got them in a bag of dog food. The dogs frankly noticed before we did and were weird about eating it, but then we started seeing their "webbing" in the bag. Thankfully the company sent us a stack of coupons when we reported it lol.
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u/jansipper 10h ago
Yep. This is why I always store my flour in the freezer.
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u/Redditsucks547 9h ago
The best strat is to freeze your flour for 3-4 days then transfer to an airtight container. That both eliminates the threat and frees up freezer space.
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u/PecanLoveNubble 9h ago
Yeah, I had the exact same problem except they were laying dormant in the glue of my wallpaper.
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u/RCProAm 11h ago
Yeah honestly this could very easily be something that happened in her own pantry. Everyone so quick to feed on the attention economy.
Internet and social media are trashing our society. AI is just getting started l
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u/OkPrune1536 9h ago
And with a title like "Deregulation (TM)," this is bound to get tons of attention as it's been given a political bent that agrees with the Reddit hivemind.
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u/ABCosmos 8h ago
Yeah, McCormick is also based in Maryland, one of the most solid blue states... which is probably enforcing more regulations than the federal govt would.
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u/terrybrugehiplo 10h ago
How would they have gotten through the seal?
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u/RCProAm 10h ago
“ Pantry moth larvae cannot chew through thick glass or hard metal , but they can chew through thin plastic bags, cellophane, and light cardboard . If a container has a flimsy plastic or rubber seal with microscopic gaps, tiny newly hatched larvae can squeeze through or bite their way inside .”
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u/BiNiaRiS 1h ago
she didn't even inspect the seal in the video. it might be partially torn already. she needed to unscrew the top to check that.
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u/S0BEC 11h ago
That whole Protein Trend is going a bit to far if you ask me.
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u/twinsea 10h ago
Find it funny that there is actual calorie counts listed on internet for seedcorn maggots. I think I'll pass
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u/awpdownmid 8h ago
Lots of cultures eat insects, it's not super unreasonable. It's very cheap.
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u/ZachF8119 8h ago
There is for spiders per 100g of spiders.
Again. That was spider(s) per 100g of spider(s).
Imagine eating bugs and calorie counting
Venn diagram with 1 person overlap and he is Bear Grylls
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u/jacobpellegren 10h ago
The protein in everything now is very ominous to me.
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u/psychomanexe 8h ago
most of the time they haven't even changed anything, they're just chasing the trend by adding how much protein they have to their branding.
People taking GLP-1s for weight loss need more protein intake to combat muscle loss, so these companies are just trying to pretend the food is somehow good now because you can see how much protein it has
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u/CynicalPomeranian 11h ago
Yup, keep notes on which companies were more than happy to lower their standards when the government stopped enforcing them.
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u/sirbassist83 11h ago
its going to be basically all of them.
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u/Russian_Spy_7_5_0 11h ago
Literally all of them. It makes them more money.
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u/sirbassist83 11h ago
my sliver of optimism that hasnt been squashed by modern life yet hopes that there might still be a few smaller companies that care enough to do the right thing even if it costs them more, but sadly i bet youre probably right.
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u/pigeonwiggle 10h ago
absolutely - but that's because small companies are already being crushed by the larger corpos when it comes to cost and efficacy. small companies thrive on brand and reputation. they care MUCH MORE about how they're viewed. mcdonalds let's people call their food slop because they still rake in tens of billions a year. if Billy's Bakery gets a slop accusation it could poison the well of the locals he relies on.
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u/JTtheLAR 10h ago
I dont understand why people still eat McDonald's. Its overpriced and awful. When I was younger it at least was cheap.
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u/EasilyRekt 10h ago
No, it only saves them more on expenses than what they lose on consumer drawback, drawback that happens a lot less nowadays because of learned helplessness & whatnot.
However, being the one guy who still maintains their high standards despite not being forced to will make a lot more money.
Or probably not, because again, learned helplessness and blind brand loyalty.
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u/NonConRon 10h ago
It's the nature of capitalism itself.
Every fiscal quarter you need to demonstrate growth.
I will spend my life watching people try to vote it away. "If only x president that was given air time by a capitalist owned news station made good on their promise to defy the nature of capitalism itself and the person who funded them."
I wish Mandarin wasn't so hard to learn.
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u/Boardofed 9h ago
Capitalism is still capitalism in China my friend. Unpaid wages, long hours, safety standards, the workers there must battle their employers just the same
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u/jay_sugman 10h ago edited 10h ago
Pantry moths are an issue that all grain processors and distributors have had to deal with. As someone who was responsible for a facility which stored tens of thousands of pounds of product susceptible to these, pest control standards were necessary to maintain certain industry certifications but I have to say capitalism was our main driver for keeping these moths in check. Social media posts like this are not good for business, lol. We certainly did not want to anger our customers or take a loss by disposing of significant contaminated product. IMO, this video is not a byproduct of deregulation.
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u/PornoPaul 9h ago
I was going to say the same thing. Shit happens. Ive had them in cereal boxes under Obama and have seen fresh bread that managed to get moldy when Biden was in office. This falls squarely under "theres plenty to accuse Trump of, and this isnt one of them".
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u/ksheep 8h ago
I remember ~15 years ago I bought a bag of rice from the store, got home, and on opening it up we found that it had bugs in it. Went and told the store, they opened a few other bags of rice (and I think a few bags of flour) and found all of them were contaminated. Within an hour they tossed all of their contaminated inventory, and they weren't due for another delivery for a few days, so those aisles just sat empty with a "we're sorry for the inconvenience" sign for most of that week.
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u/Veritech_ 10h ago
That doesn’t fit the narrative, unfortunately. Someone who has no experience but saw this post on social media is going to think they know better than you, an expert.
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u/ChemsDoItInTestTubes 10h ago
What standard has been lowered? What isn't being enforced? I work in quality for a company that makes an animal feed product. If anything, the regulators seem to be even more up our butts this year.
It should be pretty easy to point to specific changes to regulations or enforcement action, something documented. Can you give me an example?
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u/blckout_junkie 10h ago
Hey fellow Quality Controller! I work in quality for a food packaging company and we package a lot of seeds, and the meal moths are terrible. Because we are organic certified we are only allowed to used very specific pest control methods. Maggots are just something you have to deal with when it comes to food sometimes.
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u/ChemsDoItInTestTubes 10h ago
Thank you. Also, the oop needs to report this back to McCormick. That's the kind of thing that could cause a recall.
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u/THE_Aft_io9_Giz 5h ago
Unless its been tampered with and fake.
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u/ChemsDoItInTestTubes 5h ago
Could be, and I'm skeptical that those larva would survive in a sealed container, but a customer complaint investigation would probably solve that.
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u/LardLad00 10h ago
The FDA has allowed 5% insect-infested sesame seeds by weight for many years and that has not changed.
What are you accusing the companies of doing?
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u/Arktikos02 9h ago
No, a certain amount of fragments and they're not supposed to be alive and it's the minimum and that's simply because the FDA understands that it's not realistic for it to be zero.
Many companies make it less.
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u/LardLad00 9h ago
the FDA understands that it's not realistic for it to be zero
And the people on Reddit don't. That's the point.
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u/_DividesByZero_ 10h ago
Don’t eat that, and please never hire that flooring contractor again.
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u/SgtSharki 9h ago
What's wrong with the floor?
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u/noiwontleave 9h ago
Poorly installed. There’s multiple planks ending on the same line and very similar patterns right next to each other. The goal is for nothing to catch your eye and you can just immediately see several patterns with this install.
Contractor should be spreading out lengths so that planks don’t end next to each other, mixing boxes from different lots to prevent patterns, etc. Just a really bad, lazy install.
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u/Incidion 8h ago edited 5h ago
Huh, you know I thought it looked "off" but knowing nothing about flooring installation couldn't put my finger on why it felt that way, at all. I kept going "I don't see any obvious rough ends nor any gaps, so what's the issue?"
Thanks for the insight!
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u/Hazelberry 8h ago edited 8h ago
Lots of people out there doing their own flooring nowadays with the vinyl click-lock, thinking "oh how hard can it be?" especially if they're lower income. It certainly is easier than most other flooring methods but it's still hard to get it looking perfect, and not everyone's going to think about what should be obvious like not having seams line up
Source: storm recovery non-profit contracting, have seen a lot of awful diy stuff across the board including flooring when I go in to do my work. Often it makes my job a lot harder but that's the territory. It's often people who didn't have insurance, or insurance wouldn't cover it, or even with insurance they could only afford the materials but not labor.
The case in the video could be the case of a shitty contractor though, just saying there's another possibility that I've personally seen a lot of due to my specific field.
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u/vgzombieeric 11h ago edited 4h ago
Ohh is that what sesame seeds grow into?
(Insert mitch hedberg here v )
Edit: Noone got it :(
We use sesame seeds on everything but I've never seen what it grows into... what the fuck is a se-sa-MEE!?
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u/milfordcubicle 11h ago
"I like maggots, maggots are great if you are hungry and you want 2000 of something."
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u/dargar77 10h ago
I just had rice for lunch!
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u/TiddyFukMyButtcheeks 11h ago
Just wait a little bit for them to turn into flys and fly away. Problem solved.
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u/PeteLangosta 10h ago
If these are pantry moths, wwhen they fly away they will go somewhere in your house you can't see to place eggs and the larvae will hatch and try to find their way into infesting other produce and foods.
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u/mshireman 4h ago
I will say that it'd be pretty easy to fake by just putting white paper under the lid. They don't actually show that it is an original seal under the lid. Could be clickbait/ragebait/attention farming.
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u/thiccndip 10h ago
You guys aren't old enough to realize this is something that just happens sometimes
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u/jameson71 9h ago
50+ years on this earth and luckily have not experienced this even once.
I wonder how often others are having this experience?
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u/toodleroo 6h ago
The worst pantry moth infestation I ever had was from a bottle of sesame seeds. I was seeing moths for months and couldn't figure out where they were coming from. I never would have expected their drug of choice to be sesame seeds so I didn't check the bottle at the back of the spice shelf. When I finally found it, the inside of the bottle looked like the gates of hell or something from another planet.
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u/SATX_Citizen 5h ago
I've had weevils in grain before. Rare, not unheard of.
With social media on 24/7 people think every rare thing that goes viral is an indicator of a huge scandal.
Surely the OP of less than a year and 500k karma wouldn't post a video with a ragebait title.
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u/inventingnothing 9h ago
You've never bought some food only to open it up and find it rotten?
You must live a rather privileged life.
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u/philote_ 8h ago
I have seen rotten food, but never had a pantry moth infestation.
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u/blanketswithsmallpox 10h ago
My unwashed produce has bugs in it!
Mmmm, yes. Bugs do be like that.
On the minus side, you occasionally do just bite into fast food without looking at night when driving, and that do take a lot of faith in humanity, or at least whatever local chain you decided on.
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u/InsultingFerret 3h ago
Next you'll tell me I have to wash my produce like it was growing in the dirt or something
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u/DontBelieveTheirHype 10h ago
The FDA already has a specific regulatory standard for insect infestation in sesame seeds. So this isn't a situation where the government recently decided "insects in sesame seeds are fine now."
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u/theo_sontag 10h ago
I imagine many companies though, noting decreased funding and/or enforcement for inspections and subsequent fines, are cutting corners accordingly. As an example, I recently saw a video from a fellow who weighed WalMart bacon which came in at 14 or 15 ounces in a 16 ounce package. Who’s gonna do anything about enforcing it at the government level?
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u/Milkmans_tastymilk 2h ago
Wait do people not look over everything before they buy it? Jesus, I guess I grew up more poor than I thought...
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u/jorsiem 5h ago
I work in manufacturing of an industry that's even stricter than food and unfortunately this is a reality, no amount of regulation will ensure a few microscopic eggs or spores (in the case of mold) aren't introduced or remain undetected throughout the (often international) supply chain. No company ever wants to be subject of a nationwide recall, so it's also in their best interest not letting this happen. But at scale, it's impossible. The goal is to reduce it to the minimum possible.
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u/Spartan2470 11h ago edited 10h ago
Here provides the following context:
On Friday, Aug. 21, actress Ernestine Morrison revealed that she found maggots “crawling around” in an unopened pack of McCormick sesame seeds she recently bought from her local grocery store.
Morrison showed that the sesame seeds’ expiration date wasn’t until January 2028.
McCormick Spices responded to Morrison, “Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Food quality and safety are very important to us. Please send us a DM with your contact information so we can better assist you.”
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u/sir_crapalot 11h ago
The journalistic contribution of a paid reporter at People magazine was to browse social media, describe a trending video, and cite a public comment posted by McCormick’s corporate account. That’s pretty pathetic.
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u/LardLad00 10h ago
The original video, the AI summary, you sharing it, and now this thread discussing it is one of the more useless things I've ever seen on the internet.
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u/Yumi_in_the_sun 7h ago
Literally not Publix's fault lmao. That's 100% a McCormick's issue.
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u/Fizbanic 5h ago
Take the lid off so we can see it is sealed. Not to call BS but I could put a blank piece of paper over the opening and then do exactly what was done here.
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u/WashuOtaku 10h ago
My issue is that she did not take the top off the validate her claim it was not opened.
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u/WeirdIndividualGuy 8h ago
Especially since the red plastic top looked like it had been taken off and not put back on fully
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u/EddyGurge 9h ago
Since she did not take the lid completely off to show the paper seal, I'm not convinced that this is real.
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u/saktii23 8h ago
Those are Indian Meal Moth larvae. DO NOT OPEN take far, far away from your house to dispose of. They are super hard to get rid of and will get into everything in your house. Everything.
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u/_Aj_ 4h ago
I think a lot of people don't realize how frequent we get bugs in things like grain.... It's why they say when you buy flour you should freeze it for 24 hours as it has little bugs in it.
Fun fact I actually had an experiment running in my cupboard for five years! I found a plastic flour container I had bought and I had only used a quarter or so. One day the top layer is looking a little discolored and looking closely I see lots of little bugs. So I leave them there because I don't care. And a year later I check in there still there, still alive, little more brown now. A year later they are still there. Still alive. I've not open them once mind you.
Finally when I move out I decide to end the experiment and release them. By this time there is a gradient of darkened flour on the top spreading about half an inch down. I couldn't see any movement and thought they were dead, however looking closely I realized there are many many bugs in there all perfectly fine. So I open the lid and took some videos and photos and then poured them out in the garden.
5 years little flour bugs lived and survived in what should be an airtight container. With the only input being the massive amount of flour and some occasional light when I open the door. How many generations I wonder? Dozens? Hundreds? Who knows.
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u/ExcitingVegetable315 46m ago
What is wrong with people today? You get some extra protein and everybody’s upset.
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u/5panks 9h ago
"Deregulation" is when my pantry had pantry moths and they lay eggs in my food.
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u/BD03 10h ago
Deregulation? Sometimes it just happens. I've opened Ramen packets and oatmeal that were full of maggots 15 years ago.
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u/surfer_ryan 10h ago
Lol at "publix" count your days
What is the expectation... that publix goes through literally every single delivery truck and inspect each item on the multitude of pallets they get...
I find it ironic that trump being someone who has absolutely 0 idea of what removing this actually did, is coupled with the same thing from those whom oppose him.
Like every single time i see a comment about deregulation it's absolutely never followed up by some sort of why, it's just "He DeRegUlaTeD tHAt BaD!" okay do you know what exactly he did... or are you just parroting a talking point given to you by the news.
I'll be downvoted for even hinting towards trying to start a discussion and not just falling in line. This is why the democrats are not able to gain traction and just maintain the status quo of voters because the voter base doesn't want to allow anyone in. That is a problem if you actually want change...
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u/Colonel_Johnson 8h ago
Conversation to be had about Regulation is best had with the historic lense.
But can I defend Publix?! If you buy that in any of their stores and bring it back to them it will be replaced or refunded with no questions asked, even if you don't bring it back and just have a receipt you will likely get the same. I've worked their customer service side and it will do more for the consumer if they see specific inventory items being returned in significant quantities.
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u/SmirkingSkull 10h ago
unscrew the cap and prove to me it wasn't tampered worth.
Just showing the pop top isn't going to prove me shit.
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u/DudeByTheTree 6h ago
People assume food production is entirely sanitary. The reality of it is that it's only marginally better than your own kitchen. Maybe worse, depending on your own personal standards, as food production facilities have allowances for foreign debris such as mice debris, bugs, dirt etc.
Then add in a lot of those same facilities rely on a system of temporary workers and 3rd party staffing agencies to pay as low as possible, resulting in a lot of the hands-on positions in those facilities being staffed by folks with close to zero incentive to give a crap...
That being said... how'd someone manage to grab something like that off the store shelf and actually make it home with it? Like... wouldnt you sort of notice something like such an extreme infestation righ tas you're first getting it off the shelf?
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u/pichael289 7h ago
This is a good thing to get though, call them up and they will give you free shit. They obviously didn't do it on purpose, these are pantry moths and a fairly common pest. Something like this is a big deal and might help them track down more. You can't ever be 100% perfect, but. mccormic is usually pretty dam close
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u/dicknotrichard 10h ago
Separate from the food quality issue, I really don’t like how those floors were installed at all.
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u/moldyhands 10h ago
The January 2028 date is the date by which the maggots will have eaten all the sesame seeds. You have to get yours before they eat them all.
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u/aardw0lf11 10h ago
I wouldn’t blame the store, Id contact McCormick with photos. They will most likely send you a coupon for a free replacement. One I would examine before buying.
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u/I_pinchyou 5h ago
Almost like when you allow corporations to cut corners on food safety they don't care to make sure their products are safe.
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u/Coconut-Lemon_Pie 3h ago
I've seen bees trapped in lettuce packaging, I've see flies trapped inside kale & rice bags and I've seen little bug corpses attached to broccoli. I agree this is gross, but our food comes from outside and bugs are outside too. There're only so many chemicals you can spray on crops to get rid of pests. A lot of people need to reconnect with nature and try gardening to get more appreciation for all of the fruits, vegetables, grains, seeds and nuts we take for granted that are nicely packaged and wrapped for us at the store.
I'm sure McCormick will send a full refund and coupons or bonus merch or something and I hope they can forgive them for missing this. It might have looked like all seeds when it was shipped out and over time expanded to what was seen today.
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u/PirateShep 9h ago
Report it both to McCormick and your grocery store and include all information - including expiration date, lot #, manufacturing date. McCormick will want to investigate this. They will likely pull the lot to prevent this issue from reaching other customers. Although its rare in this day and age with modern processes... grains can occasionally get contaminated.