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If you like ketchup, then I've got a story for you.But it sure is disgusting imagining that you may drink a jellified mouse and not even know it.
THAT'S where my real fear comes in. ;O;
My university botany professor used to work at a tomato processing plant part-time, and he told me that they have dump trucks full of tomatoes that come in and unload them onto conveyor belts. They get washed with a spray of water as they go through, but it's impossible to hand-scrub them all. Inevitably there are always tons of tomato worms and mice hidden among the tomatoes, as well as their droppings. They have people standing at the conveyor belts whose job is to pick through the tomatoes as they pass through and remove any worms and mice they find before the tomatoes are dropped into a giant vat that crushes them into juice to be mixed with sugar and other stuff and eventually turned into ketchup.
Although they do get a lot of the tomato worms and mice out, my professor told me that it's just not possible to find them all, and it's not uncommon for some of the critters to slip past the workers and into the mixing vats. So any given serving of ketchup does contain trace amounts of worms, mice and feces. Of course, the cooking process destroys anything pathogenic, so it's safe for consumption. And don't even get me started on processed meats.
Just sayin'.
Worms in a soda thread?
Now I'm reminded of Slurm in Futurama.

