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Rosalie B.
 
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"Doug Kanter" wrote:

"Vito" wrote in message
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Sorry to tell y'all this but Ms Rosalie's right: almost everything we
eat contains insect and/or rodent parts and droppings.


There are actually printed guides for "permissible levels of insect parts"
for food products. Candy is especially interesting, for obvious reasons.
Anyone who thinks Hershey can cook up sugar and chocolate all day and not
attract ants is a complete idiot.

My GF grew up in Yauco, in SW Puerto Rico. Her housing development was built
20 years ago on top of old sugar cane plantations. Nice house, nice
neighborhood, but the ants never left. You can wipe down the entire kitchen
with Lysol or bleach, walk away, and 20 minutes later, there'll be ants on
the counter, looking for whatever it is they're looking for. They're tiny,
and they wipe up nicely with a damp paper towel.

It bothered me on the first visit, but it was obvious that her mother was as
obsessive about a clean kitchen as I am, and everywhere I went, people had
the same problem. The standard comment was "Of course...everyone has them".

I think we worry too much about some bugs.

Yes I agree. When we lived in Key West we had three kinds of ants -
sweets ants who would be all over the counter the day after we sliced
a watermelon there, fat or meat eating ants, and crazy ants. The
crazy ants appeared mostly in the bathroom, and they ran around like
crazy - never appeared to be going anywhere in particular.

When we lived in Pensacola the ants took up residence in the shower
head. Since my husband took 'Navy showers', he would inevitably get
sprayed with ants when he took his morning shower. I guess eventually
the ants moved elsewhere, or else my husband learned to run the shower
for a couple of seconds before he got into it.

Ants are very clean and I don't mind them much as long as they don't
bite me. I don't like fire ants.

grandma Rosalie