The other day, I was preparing our weekly favorite, black beans and rice. As I poured the rice into the saucepan, I noticed a bunch of black things floating on top of the water. Doing the backstroke, more precisely. Bugs! Dangit! I know that grains inherently are bug-infested and I normally keep opened bags in the freezer, but this was a brand new bag of Harris Teeter organic brown rice. So as I do with everything in life, I ask almighty Google what to do about buggy rice. The bottom line is, bugs float and rice sinks so just scoop out the drowned carcasses and continue cooking. I'm sorry, but someone has mistaken me for Bear Grylls. I cannot knowingly eat something that has bugs in it. If I am blissfully unaware, that's one thing, but I saw those little suckers swimming around in what would have been my dinner. So...bye bye rice. Back to the Teeter you will go.
I should mention that I am not a big fan of bugs. Ok, it's probably more like a borderline phobia. In the grand hierarchy of bug hatred, cockroaches top the charts, followed by those creepy camel crickets, regular crickets, flying beetles, regular spiders, mosquitoes, and down the line to general creepy-crawlies. [Butterflies, ladybugs, and bees are exempt from my irrational prejudice, as long as they don't land on me.]
In the grand scheme of things, these little rice buggers are at the bottom of my list but they are still bugs so I hate them. Plus they are in my food so that bumps them up a notch. Ick. I feel all itchy now just thinking about them.
Am I overreacting? What would you do? Eat it or pitch it?
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