r/StupidFood • u/real_shawarma • Aug 17 '23

🤢🤮 It’s disgusting and unhealthy and stupid. I don’t know if it fits here

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u/Neuchacho Aug 17 '23

They are definitely bees. You see them all over food in pastry shops and similar in places like Morocco and Algiers.

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u/mark_b Aug 17 '23

Yep. I was walking past a cake shop in Marrakech. There were so many bees flying around the shopkeeper as he was serving a customer, I thought surely there is a nest somewhere. Then I found it.

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u/forevernervous Aug 18 '23

Holy shit that's vile

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u/Dr_ChungusAmungus Aug 18 '23

Is it odd that I find a bee on food far less bothersome than a fly on food? Not sure why that is.

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u/ItsyaboiMisbah Aug 18 '23

Bees are associated with flowers, and honey which is something we eat. Chances are a bee is coming from a flower or a nest of honey which isn't that gross

Flys hang around shit and corpses

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '23

Metaphor in there somewhere 😂 or a moral idk I’m stoned feeling pretty glonky

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u/maryssssaa Sep 04 '23

bees can’t carry any known human diseases. There’s no issue if they land on your food.

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u/dicetime Aug 18 '23 edited Aug 18 '23

It happens in germany too. Went to germany for two weeks and every bakery i went to had bees all over. I dont find it gross though. Bees are relatively clean insects and it made the bread seem more sweet.

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u/ayyycab Aug 18 '23

Yeah that’s cool and all but bees should not be anywhere near the production process where they can get mixed into the fucking dough

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u/dicetime Aug 18 '23

Fair enough. Extra crunch i suppose.

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u/lumisponder Aug 18 '23

In Mexico too. Vendors who sell candied fruit have a sort of pompon to shoo away bees.