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twinsmake5
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Joined: May 23, 2007
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Location: Texas
Birthday: Mar 08
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Thu May 01, 2008 11:51 am |
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I'm ready to give up. The cakes, 12x18, two layers each is due tomorrow night - for free, I might add. One is in the freezer, just mixed the last layer now and found the stupid bug. Why, oh why, oh why? The mix is mixed and in the bowl - do I bake it? ugh- it's 7 eggs, two mixes, two pudding mixes, and two more expensive teaspoons of lemon extract - I had no idea the tiny bottle was $4. It's so tempting to bake it anyway.
Yes - throw it out - I don't want to ruin my reputation and I already realize how very quickly that could happen. I just got lucky to see it - he's kinda big and looks like I only found 1/2 of him.
Check your mixes, flour, sugar, etc. BEFORE you put anything in the bowl. I purchased the goods at the brand new HEB in our area. You never know. |
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costumeczar
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Joined: Oct 18, 2007
Posts: 647
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Thu May 01, 2008 12:39 pm |
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The last time the health inspector was at my house I was talking to him about insects, and I said that the only time I'd ever found bugs in anything it was in a bag of coconut that I hadn't opened before, so they came from the store or the factory. His comment was "you've been lucky if you've only found them in one thing so far!"  |
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Beckalita
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Joined: Mar 13, 2006
Posts: 367
Location: North Miami, FL
Birthday: Oct 03
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Fri May 02, 2008 7:37 am |
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I had an disgusting incident recently when opening a box of Duncan Hines cake mix.... I saw small black wiggling bugs inside the bag of white mix!!! I showed it to DH and he saw that there was a small section of the bag that hadn't been sealed properly, thus allowing grain weevils to get into the mix. I was mortified and later thought how I never would have noticed them if it had been a chocolate mix!!!! Now I am paranoid and check carefully when opening the boxes or mixing the batter.... |
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Auryn
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Joined: Jun 08, 2007
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Location: south FL
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Fri May 02, 2008 11:01 am |
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im so sorry
that sucks
especially so many ingredients
i know it doesnt help now but I've learned from indybebi to always sift everything that goes into the mixing bowl |
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JenniferMI
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Joined: Nov 12, 2006
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Location: Manistee, Michigan
Birthday: Dec 22
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Sat May 03, 2008 12:10 pm |
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Oh, that is TERRIBLE! You did the right thing.... nothing is worth ruining your reputation!
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butterflywings
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Joined: Feb 17, 2008
Posts: 686
Location: In the middle of Nascar-ville, NC :D
Birthday: Feb 20
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Sat May 03, 2008 7:23 pm |
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ick.... glad you caught it. sorry about the waste of ingredients. |
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janebrophy
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Joined: Apr 19, 2007
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Location: Ontario Canada
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Sun May 04, 2008 8:15 am |
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I once made a really expensive cake, and just at the end of mixing, realized there were a bunch of little legs in it! I had mixed in a fly! I was about to throw it out, but my Mother in law, who can't throw out anything, said, just pick them out, I'll eat it! OK, WHATEVER YOU SAY! Now I always get to think and smile about the time my MIL ate a fly!   |
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Denise
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Joined: Jul 11, 2004
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Location: Nederland, Texas
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Sun May 04, 2008 2:31 pm |
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OHHHHH that is too bad! Sorry that happened but better you found it instead of the customer! |
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Kitagrl
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Joined: Jun 16, 2005
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Location: NE Philly suburbs
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Wed May 07, 2008 10:12 pm |
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The Dept of Ag guy here says they can't shut people down for bugs....only unsanitary conditions that can breed food spoilage or disease. Pretty scary when you think about it. |
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MessyBaker
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Thu May 15, 2008 9:51 am |
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tracycakes
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Location: North Little Rock, Arkansas
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Thu May 15, 2008 2:02 pm |
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Yuck! At least YOU saw him and not the customer. I've only come across bugs once and it wasn't cake. I was a teenager helping out at Thanksgiving. I got the sage out to put in the cornbread for dressing. I was measuring it out and it was WIGGLING!! There were some kind of bugs on the sage!!! Try to find an open grocery store on Thanksgiving in the south in the early 80's! I did succeed though and the dressing was great - it had fresh sage.  |
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missmeg
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Location: Seacoast, NH
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Thu May 22, 2008 12:54 pm |
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| Auryn wrote: | | i know it doesnt help now but I've learned from indybebi to always sift everything that goes into the mixing bowl |
Ain't that the truth  . On the plus side, I've found that sifting everything makes for higher cakes with fewer air holes after baking. |
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cakebaker1957
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Wed May 28, 2008 12:16 pm |
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Thats why i try to sift my cake mixes, hopefully if there in there i can find them. |
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sassycleo
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Location: Va
Birthday: Oct 26
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Wed May 28, 2008 12:29 pm |
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OMG Jane, that is toooo funny.
I love for that to happen to my MIL, however she's a souther country lady and honestly it probably woudn't phase her a bit - ewww that just made me shudder - sorry gang very bug a phobe here!! |
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sweetcravings
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Joined: Apr 25, 2007
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Location: ontario, canada
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Wed May 28, 2008 12:31 pm |
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OMG..i would freak! I never even thought to look in the mixes. I will be sifting them from now on. When i was younger i made my sister and i both a bowl of oatmeal...while eating the last few bites of mine i looked down and what i saw horrified me. There was a bunch of bugs cooked into the oatmeal. It must've been in the bag and i never noticed it when pouring it out. I immediately threw the bowl down and was horrified. My sis had finished hers. We went to look at the bag of instant oats and there they were...a zillion little bugs. We couldn't believe we had eaten it. To this day i always check my oatmeal very carefully before using it. Now we didn't die from eating the bugs but it sure did gross us out. I can't imagine something like that in the cake mixes. bleck. We can laugh about it now, but man it really made us feel sick to our stomachs at the time. I'm sure a paying customer would be horrified if they were to find bugs in their cake. Lesson for the day...always sift your mixes. Thanks for the heads up. Sorry you had to experience this, and the wasted ingredients. I too would be so upset. Sending hugs your way. |
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