Halfway through the dinner (a nice winter-y beefy stew for a slightly wintery evening) that the boy had lovingly cooked, I noticed it.
A weta, curled up in foetal position, was quietly lying in my stew.
The boy, who is greatly disquieted by all bugs but especially wetas, was more distressed than I was.
I told myself it was just as well that it wasn't half a weta that I found in my dinner.
We still haven't figured out how on earth in got there.
Merry Christmas!
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Merry Christmas! Do those bugs fly? If so that could be how it got in there, or carried in on clothing, etc.
Aren't wetas huge?
Like a small bird.
EOW! At least it's not a flying ant. there are probably loads of them in our food at the moment and we'd be none the wiser.
I had to look up a weta -- so, a giant brown ugly cricket? Yuck! I don't know that I would continue eating, even if I made it.
Merry Christmas!
pbs: It might've been crawling on the ceiling above the stove and just fell in, but really - who knows?
nigel: Giant wetas are huge. Weta are just big.
donnasoowho: it's probably better if you don't know. The extra protein is probably beneficial.
aprilbapryll: Wasn't the link to the wikipedia link useful? Anyway, so now you have an idea of what I found in my dinner. It definitely stopped both of us from eating the rest of our food!
Yes a whole is better than a half.
Food and bugs YUCK!
Hope your christmas was very merry
We used to have a resident weta that lived in a crack near our doorbell. When our visitors rang it the weta would give them a hell of a fright when it popped out to say hello. It got evicted by a huge bush spider a while back and we haven't seen it since. The boy's cooking must be *that* good if your one tried to eat from the pot :-P
angela: yeah our Christmas was great,thanks.
desiree: well, our weta was more shy but greedier!
i confess - the weta was an xmas gift from suki the cat; she's brought me two as well, altho she didn't manage to deliver mine so thoughtfully into a cooked meal, just left the poor things lying dead on the floor (same place she leaves the cicadas, moths, butterflies & flies). she says she's working on a mouse for dave's birthday.
helen: your wetas weren't delivered inside your food because Suki knows you're a vegetarian :-)
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