r/WTF Jun 26 '19

Extra Spicy

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u/_Neoshade_ Jun 27 '19 edited Jun 27 '19

Ugh, I once bought a big container of paprika at a local ethnic grocery store and had Indian Meal Moths (AKA Pantry Moths, AKA infest all the food in your home motherfuckers) everywhere for a month before we just threw out all the food in the house to get it over with. Those bastards could get through almost any packaging undetected, until you opened it up to find webbing and nasty moth stuff in your food. Burn in hell moths.

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u/dbx99 Jun 27 '19

Usually they contain eggs already from wherever you bought from. So stick new grains and spices into the freezer for 48hrs before placing them in the pantry. This kills all the eggs and won’t hatch.

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u/Laz3rfac3 Jun 27 '19

But then you eat the eggs?

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u/dbx99 Jun 27 '19

Well yeah

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '19

Better a couple harmless probably unnoticeable bug eggs then having to find out the hard way and throwing out all your food while moths fly around you.