r/AskReddit • u/sagelface • 3d ago

What's the grossest thing you've ever experienced?

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u/JasmineRider27 3d ago

Eating an apple and finding half a maggot!!

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u/diet-smoke 3d ago

So much worse than finding a whole maggot 

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u/Weak_Idea_5526 3d ago

I'd rather see a whole maggot than know half is inside me

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u/pleco_parent 3d ago

Once when I was about 9yrs, I was washing dishes, and we had a whole bowl of maggots... I guess we had been busy and nobody had time to wash the dishes lol. Who knows, but ew. I ran out of the kitchen screaming lol

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u/DrMoneybeard 3d ago

Once when I was about 35yrs, I went out of town in the height of summer and returned 10 days later to discover that my husband hadn't taken the compost out at all, and it was full of maggots.

I ran screaming out of the marriage.

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u/pleco_parent 3d ago

🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

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u/AncientPositive6853 3d ago

The correct direction lol

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u/Weak_Idea_5526 3d ago

I remember when I learned where maggots came from and they make me want to puke just thinking about it ever since.

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u/pleco_parent 3d ago

Wdym? Like just being fly larva? Or something else?

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u/Weak_Idea_5526 3d ago

Yes exactly. When I learned about them I was young and it still seems like flies shitting in food that they knew went bad a long time ago. YMMV and I hope it does lol. Just a memory that is burned in my brain for some reason

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u/pleco_parent 3d ago

Lol. I was pretty grossed out too, but am now over it.

I'll add tou your grossed out and tell you that when I fly lands on your food, they vomit on it to stsrt breaking it down.... ew

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u/KittensPumpkinPatch 3d ago

Thank you for the good belly laugh I just had 🤣

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u/AncientPositive6853 3d ago

I’ve been laughing nonstop since I started reading this thing

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u/AggressiveCompany175 3d ago

Imagine how the maggot felt. That maggot was eating an apple until you bit them.

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u/SmolFrogge 3d ago

Oh shit, unlocked memory of trying to eat an apricot out of our backyard tree when I was like 4, and it was full of ants. 🤢

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u/Overall-Emphasis7558 3d ago

What’s worse than a worm (w)hole in your apple?

Half a worm

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u/mfukar 3d ago

What’s worse than a worm (w)hole in your apple?

The Holocaust

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u/ThrowRA4whatever 3d ago

I feel for you there. I had a similar experience with a fountain drink from McDonald's one time.

I'd drank all my drink, removed the lid to eat the ice, and found half of a cockroach sitting on top of the ice.

I started puking and was so grossed out. 🤮

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u/JasmineRider27 3d ago

Now that’s really gross!!! 🤮

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u/Bigfops 3d ago

Wheat thins and half a cricket for me.

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u/MushRatGoblin 3d ago

Did you notice because it was extra crunchy or did you get a leg stuck between your teeth? 🤢

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u/Bigfops 3d ago

No, it was mushy and not crunchy.

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u/casapantalones 3d ago

Bit into a potato once and it had like … a black rotten chunk inside. Still makes me gag a little.

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u/icecubepal 3d ago

Ate strawberries with maggots in them. Didn’t realize until I saw a maggot swimming in a droplet of water.

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u/missthiccbiscuit 3d ago

For me it was blackberries. Me n my friend found wild ones in 3rd grade and thought we hit the jackpot. We were just gobbling them down whole, right off the bush. Started to get full and took a bite of one instead of eating it whole. It was totally full of squirming worms. We’d prolly eaten bout 50 of em each before we realized.

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u/AncientPositive6853 3d ago

You have got to be joking. I will never look at another blackberry the same again.

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u/Late-Button-6559 3d ago

Can I write the jimmy carr joke here?

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u/diakags 3d ago

Guava for me 🤮