November 19, 2003
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Earlier today I got up and went through my morning ritual of making coffee.
As I held the grinder in my hands, pressing down on that little button that makes the thing go, I thought to myself, "Is this ground fine enough? Or is it too coarse?" I answered with, "It'll do fine."
I put the grounds in the French press, added the boiling water, and so forth.
Fast forward to me sitting here at the computer, taking a sip of coffee, and having something stick to my teeth. I wiped it off with my finger, and looked at it, and there it was: A roach leg. Fully articulated.
So naturally I had to toss it out and make some more coffee.
But the lesson here is: No, I didn't grind it fine enough.
Comments (4)
are you sure the leg wasn't in your cup already? *shiver*
Part of the ritual is to clean the cup before I use it. Not out of any OCD type need, but simply because it's been sitting there with coffee in it since yesterday.
You know, you read about the FDA, etc allowing such-and-such ratio of bug parts and all manner of nastiness to make it's crawly way into our foods.... but you bank on not getting your lifetime supply of bug parts in a lump sum.
I'm so gald this happened to you, not me.
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