If a fly landed on your food would you still eat it?

I woud eat it, it is protein. I have eaten grasshoppers and crickets, when I was in Thailand, so a fly is not a big deal, They are best deep friend with some fried ants on the side.

In other countries people won't even notice or care, is just in this country people get grossed out by the smallest things

NO WAY. It's not bad for your health, but it is a little...well, it's not the best. Every time a fly lands, it vomits, so you would basically be eating your food with a mixture of fly vomit. You wouldn't want to eat that, would you? You never no what that fly ate, or been... Like cow/dog/animal waster, otherwise as, poo. Or maybe even in the sewer. And that is what a fly eats, and having it vomit on your food when it lands, that would be gross. This is a self-opinion choice. If you feel comfortable eating it, than eat it. If you don't and feel "queasy" that it gives you shivers, than throw it away and get a new one. Or you can scoop out the part the fly landed on and eat the rest that is still "clean". Still, just to waste all that food 'cause a fly landed on it, than scoop out the part and eat the clean parts. Still, its your own personal choice. Me, if that happened, I would scoop it out and then eat it. If it's a small portion, I would throw it away. Hope that helped.

Flies On Food

Never thought about it until my ex-boss flipped out when a fly landed on his food... he's right though, flies do land on poop, and then step on your food... it's like touching poop and then touching your food! I would throw out the part the fly landed on, not the entire meal.

I would totally eat it! You guys are crazy. Haven't you ever been to a picnic? I eat outside as often as I can because here in Canada you gotta make the most of good weather and if I threw out everything a fly touched, I'd never get to eat lol (maybe an exaggeration..., but still)

Your food is already FULL of insect parts, assuming you eat any vegetables or grains, or products made with vegetables or grains; it is impossible to harvest wheat, rice, corn, etc. without also harvesting lots of bugs.

Flour, for instance, typically contains an average of 75 or more insect fragments per 50 grams, along with "1 or more rodent hairs per 50 grams" per the FDA "food defect action level" (AOAC 972.32)

The only way to avoid this would be to use so much insecticide and rat poison that the flour would harm people!

Unless it's a giant fly (like bird sized), then it's perfectly fine to eat. I'm not sure about roaches, but I think it's the same.

Yes. i might not have even seen it if it hadn't landed on my food, and it would be much easier to catch if it was right in front of me.

I would NOT eat it because,

say if it lands on a carrot,

then i would not eat THAT carrot,

if it landed on mashed potatoes then

i would not eat any because there simply,

hard to tell which one the fly landed on.

It wouldn't kill you if you ate it, but its very

filthy, if you think about it. It is very gross,

they are very very dirty insects! Hope i helped,

it probably is. for me? it depends on how long it stayed there. i would most likely just not eat the part that it landed on