Swallowed fly, but didn't die

[deanE]

Swallowed a fly a couple of weeks ago, which left me with worse cough I have had since school days. Managed to spit fly out but its not the fly that does the damage, its what it was sitting on a few minutes before you swallow it. Result 10 days out of saddle.

 

[MossCommuter]

Managed to spit fly out

Why on Earth did you do that? Everyone knows you're supposed to swallow a spider!

 

[briantrumpet]

It's just as well slugs don't fly, or it might have been worse.

Come to think of it, slugs do fly .... from my garden into the neighbour's.

 

[Intelligenthamster]

Slugs and snails are garden vermin that destroy my French marigolds. But occasionally while smashing 'em to oblivion with my trowel I have wondered why some people are quite happy to eat snails but everyone agrees slugs are disgusting?

After all, a slug is just a snail that didn't get its mortgage before the credit crunch.

 

[ianrauk]

Slugs and snails are garden vermin that destroy my French marigolds. But occasionally while smashing 'em to oblivion with my trowel I have wondered why some people are quite happy to eat snails but everyone agrees slugs are disgusting?

After all, a slug is just a snail that didn't get its mortgage before the credit crunch.

On one of his programmes, Hugh Fearnly-whathisface tried cooking slugs in a few recipes. Even he couldn't make them taste good enough to eat.

 

[Diggs]

I took the shell off a snail once, to see if it would go faster. It just made it a bit more sluggish.

 

[CopperCyclist]

On one of his programmes, Hugh Fearnly-whathisface tried cooking slugs in a few recipes. Even he couldn't make them taste good enough to eat.

IMHO, you can't make snails taste nice either - though my wife would disagree.

 

[ianrauk]

IMHO, you can't make snails taste nice either - though my wife would disagree.

I would disagree also.
Have had some lovely tasting snails for lunch over the years.

 

[gary in derby]

Slugs are a good fishing bait for chub. If that's any help.

Gary

 

[JamieRegan]

We get a ridiculous amount of slugs in our garden and the wife hates them. She blames me whenever they come out. It's hilarious.

"I thought you were getting rid of them?"

"What do you want me to do?"

"Get rid of them!"

"How? I get rid of 50 and the next week there're another 50"

"I don't care what you do. Just do it"

"Ok".

A month later

"I thought you were ......"

 

[ianrauk]

We get a ridiculous amount of slugs in our garden and the wife hates them. She blames me whenever they come out. It's hilarious.

"I thought you were getting rid of them?"

"What do you want me to do?"

"Get rid of them!"

"How? I get rid of 50 and the next week there're another 50"

"I don't care what you do. Just do it"

"Ok".

A month later

"I thought you were ......"

Lol... does your missus know my missus per chance.....

 

[headcoat]

I trod on a snail getting my bike out the other morning and found myself saying "sorry"

 

[DiddlyDodds]

It's just as well slugs don't fly, or it might have been worse.

Come to think of it, slugs do fly .... from my garden into the neighbour's.

Many years ago i left a carton of skimmed milk out on the work top overnight by mistake, the next day i made a cup of tea and there was a strange sort of taste but didnt think anything of it and just left the tea to go cold , i made a new one later and the same taste, so i tipped the milk carton up to see if the milk looked off, and some thing blocked the hole , a slim black object like a little finger, i thought what the hell is that , looking closer it was a slug !!!!!!!

After i stopped being sick i threw it away and ever since whenever i get milk from my local shop the owner still refers to it as "slug milk" and laughs.

 

[Fiona N]

We get a ridiculous amount of slugs in our garden and the wife hates them. She blames me whenever they come out. It's hilarious.

"I thought you were getting rid of them?"

"What do you want me to do?"

"Get rid of them!"

"How? I get rid of 50 and the next week there're another 50"

"I don't care what you do. Just do it"

"Ok".

A month later

"I thought you were ......"

You just need some nematodes - kill off the slugs in the soil. Works just well enough to remove the problem without leaving an empty ecological niche to attract the snails into

 

[Peteaud]

I took the shell off a snail once, to see if it would go faster. It just made it a bit more sluggish.

Thats bad

It was probably shell shocked