Just try not to swallow the fly. I've heard if it gets inside you, the only way to get rid of it is to swallow a spider
I don't know why she swallowed the fly...
Perhaps she'll die
good source of proteine
Bro that cracked me up. Thanks so much
Do they offer spi-daw-zuh-torries?
That depends on what score the judges gives the fly.
Below 5, drink away, he was holding his team back.
5-7, still no big loss, but showing improvement, so if you can remove the fly, he might perform better next time.
8-9, his team will take a big hit if you drink him, you should immadiately rescue him.
10, it is your duty to not only save him, and for the next 17 days you are responsible for acting as his bodyguard
Lol ... I was born and raised in northern Ontario. I'm indigenous and I've spent a lot of time in the northern wilderness which has lots and lots of swamp land and in the summer hosts billions of biting insects.
My parents were born in the bush so life out there was normal for us.
I remember spending summers out camping in July with clouds of black flies, mosquitoes, deer flies, midges and sand flies.... when we drank a cup of tea by the fire, you first had to skim off the drowning insects before taking a sip.
I think one fly in your wine is OK
Just asking questions, just asking questions ;) Horseflies were the worst! I feel like I lost a part of me when they'd bite
Which is why when you meet many old timer Indigenous person in northern Ontario, they're dressed in long pants and long sleeved clothing in the summer. The only time I wear tshirts or shorts is if there is a strong wind or I'm planning on jumping in the water some time soon. In the evening and especially at night, I'll cover up every inch of exposed skin.
It always amazes me when I have my southern friends visit me, sit around a fire at dusk in tank tops and shorts and complain about the bugs ... then slather on tons of insect repellent and complain about the chemicals they put on.
... all while I skim off the bugs from my drink and take a sip.
It’s safe and it’s ok to do so. Whether it’s socially acceptable depends on whether you sing the “Shoo Fly! Don’t bother me!” song as a fun little kid’s song or if you do the whole 1860’s minstrel show version.
Was gonna say...
For what it's worth, here's a study.
Do fruit flies carry any diseases? Fruit flies do not carry infectious agents on the inside of their bodies. They are not disease vectors. However, they can carry bacteria on the outside of their bodies and transmit them by contact with fruits or vegetables, which can cause disease when consumed.
Is it safe to eat food that has been touched by fruit flies? No, it is not safe. If food was touched by fruit flies, there may be bacteria that cause disease. The appropriate strategy is to remove the damaged area of the food or to dispose of it.
Can fruit flies be harmful to humans? Fruit flies are not harmful to humans. They do not bite or sting. They also don't have venom. However, when fruit flies wound ripe fruit or vegetables to lay eggs, bacteria can enter the food, and when humans consume it, they can get a disease.
What happens if you eat a fruit fly? There is no scientific evidence of diseases caused by eating a fruit fly. Also, there is no scientific evidence that eating the fruit fly's eggs can cause disease.
So this just told me that eating fruit flies will give you a disease, followed by a statement that there's no evidence that eating fruit flies will give you a disease
studying with ChatGPT be like
Just wash your flies before consumption.
It's the trouble with researching and reading around questions like these because you'll get a lot answers like this one that seem more sensible than others and even provide some pretty plausible sounding reasoning behind their conclusions but then proceed to either directly contradict themselves, or simply leave an obvious implicit contradiction unaddressed.
The issue I think is, if we take what's said as true (no telling if it is, but again, sounds pretty reasonabland plausible) it can't tell you much about the real likelihood that it will actually cause you real problems in real life. It seems entirely reasonable to believe that fruit flies may carry bacteria on the surface of their bodies and that that bacteria could be harmful and so reasonable for the author to include and thus not be giving dangerous advice just saying everything is safe don't worry about it. But it's also kind of useless what are the odds the particular bacteria is going to be harmful vs something your body can easily dispatch? How much bacteria would you need to ingest for it to be dangerous? Is there enough of it on one fruitfly to be problematic? If so, what about the surfaces of different foods? What about liquids? Including wine? What are the relative odds of all of these factors aligning just right to make you sick?
If you replace fruitfly in that text with just fly, I expect that would likely also be true. If you asked people can you eat cake that's had a fly on it you'll get a gamut of responses from people saying of course it's fine they do it all the time to people saying it'll definitely make you sick to a more nuanced response like this one, but I bring up the case of flies in particular because the fact is the odds are very good that you eat food a fly has been on all the time because they land on it and then fly away without any noticing. Sometimes people eat the food and get sick and the mechanism for how that happened might be exactly as described, but then again most of the time you eat a slice of cake from a display case and you're fine despite it likely having had many visitors on its surface during its time there.
Despite its seemingly contradictory way in which it's written, I think this is probably consistent, it provides a mechanism how a fruit fly could make you sick then goes on to say there's no evidence that fruit flies do make you sick, which is not surprising because attributing a case where someone got sick from ingesting bacteria to a fruit fly is going to be pretty difficult when there's so many mechanisms by which that could happen to you.
Frankly without providing some additional context to nail down how likely the proposed mechanism is to actually cause disease and in what specific circumstances that type of information is truthful yet misleading. Honestly, I'd drink it, but I can't honestly say I have any solid evidence that's definitely safe, only that it just seems so unlikely that it could represent a serious threat, whilst being capable of happening so easily yet not seeming to represent a major public health concern. It seems like if it really was that dangerous, human cohabitation in areas with any appreciable fruit fly population would be untenable.
Probably fine... you might want to skip it if the fruit flies all died shortly after drinking it though.
Such a great trick 🍷🪦(You ever seen Nathan Fielder's housefly friend/funeral? Top shelf stuff)
Edit: ur joking right?!
Takes a lot more than that to keep me from my wine.
Oh sure! After all, wine not?
Get out!!
Sour grapes
Depends, if you drink my glass of wine with my fruit fly in it we have issues.
We'll bugchase togezza 🐞
If the fruit fly lived then the wine is safe to drink. If not, the wine may be poisoned.
I have no idea where they came from, I have no idea where they're going lol
Thats a good question tho. Where the heck do these things come from if you have zero fruit (or laying around etc)? Same thing with maggots when someone dies
Edit: i totaly missed your oblique meaning here lol. Smartass aha
Depends if your vegan or not.
Only if you get the fly to spit out what it drank. Can't let it get away with it!
Right, unacceptable! Wine is not crumbz, harumph 😤
Eww, backwash.
It is not even that, it is simple mathematical truth - if it does not spit out, then you drink ( a glass of wine - volume of what the fly drunk), and not a glass of wine.
I'd chase it with a shot of vodka to disinfect your system for a good measure
I stay away from the harder stuff lol. Sweet o' you to ask tho
As long as you aren't vegan
Lol, this post's never gonna end ;)
Financially; yes
Morally; also yes
I'm intrigued by this moral angle you've introduced, continue :)
I mean from a risk assessment angle how sick could a single gnat carcass make a person? People eat 1-2 pounds of insects/larvae on average over the course of a year, personally I aim for 3. Add to that the alcoholic nature of most wines and I'd say the risk is negligible.
So really the only two dilemmas I can sus out would be financial and moral.
Discarding the wine is an absolute waste of resources.
Morally, that fly died before it got into the wine OR it flew in as a sober decision to get plastered before its very short lifespan concluded naturally. Commendable.
Easy decision, drink all the gnat wine you can.
Only if you're a social drinker.
Sure. It just means you got a drinking buddy!
K this is like my fave joke answer. Look up Nathan Fielder housefly
I won't tell if you don't...
Well when you put it like that...
I mean, if you're ok with double dipping, then go wild!
Lord knows I've never not not been...
It's safe. It's not ok.
George Carlin would say you pretty much have to.
Good thing I waited 😋
