I wonder if Planaria will eat soggy bread.

Dave, the hushpuppies, crappie and onion rings sound awesome!
jim_6b

THAT WAS MEAN!! ewwwwwwwwwwwwwhhhhhhhhhhhh! I HATE worms. I made myself watch it trying to figure out how NOT to get them in my compost pile. Had to stop when it's "gastric tube" started going in and out. BARF~you got me good!

magnum, you goon, are you feeling silly this morning? (:^])

teequilt, my sincere apologies. I, myself, couldn't view the video. So, it was really bad, huh?

luckygal, I apologize to you, too. Birds LOVE! crusts!

And Jim, that's all they eat. You won't see them until the bread has swollen into a thick, wheaty, puff of loose-structured sog. (Again, I apologize for the visual.) That's when the planarians show up.

Of course there are other reasons, besides planarians, not to put bread in one's compost. When we all promised to spread the good word, we signed that "Do not gross out potential newcomers to the world of composting" pledge. That's why we don't leave stinking buckets of fermenting feedstock on our counters in case uninitiated, potential, composters come by, and that's why we all pledged to keep bready things out of the compost and in the landfill where they belong. You know, so we don't gross people out and discourage composting.

What's wrong with bread in compost? It does stick to my collection container -- are there other problems?

Crappie and hushpuppies! Spring is in the air. Yum!

as far as I know absolutely nothing. Except it can get pretty nasty when wet if there aren't enough browns.

10. Bread

I rest my case...

Blutranes

You got me annpat. I thought hell froze over (and that's why we got snow yesterday, although it was 7C the day before).
Otis.

No need to apologize. I thought the little cross-eyed thing was kind of cute.
Just think, if we all had protrusable muscular ferrigs or whatever those things were called, we would have to sit with our backsides to the table when we ate.
jim_6b

Otis, Otis, Otis. (Head shaking) Really? Really? You thought I would go all to heck like that? To the point where I'd put breadstuff in my compost? Oh Otis, I can't believe that you thought so little of me!
I'm crushed.

I'm sorry, I was wrong. I watched the video again. They are actually protruding from the other side of the worm.
I'll go away now.
jim_6b

annpat: please answer quickly....I refuse to watch that video again BUT DOES THAT PLANARIA THING REALLY END UP IN COMPOST FROM BREAD (loud, shrill, high pitched scream...can you hear it?) I'll deal with dead critters, "real" worms, bugs of all sorts, but those things were HORRID~I can just see them secretly clinging to my manure fork and quickly climbing up the tines toward me, waiting to attach to my cheeks while I'm sleeping! HHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPP! Tell me it isn't so...but only if that's true. Where did those plenaria things come from...I need to know so I don't go there.

"BUT DOES THAT PLANARIA THING REALLY END UP IN COMPOST FROM BREAD "

No. Annpat doesn't like sog so she uses any means necessary to discourage it.

Here is a link that might be useful: Wikipedia article on planarian

bpgreen: thanks for the kind reply. I read the first two lines and will never go into a lake again ! I think my fear of little critters stems from taking a job as a school nurse before I knew what head lice were! HORRID JOB to search and find them...also got pinworms once from a little ankle biter. ICK!!!! Thanks for the reassurance. I did put some wheat rolls into the pile...and I think of this thread every time I see them!

"I did put some wheat rolls into the pile"

Sshh. Don't say that out loud. It might make Annpat sick.

MIGHT make Annpat sick? MIGHT make Annpat sick?
teequilt, I don't know. I have read at least one person say that planarians are attracted to damp (and/or wet) bread, cereal, doughnuts, bagels, cupcakes, English muffins, and other materials that get soggy and/or puff up when meeting liquids. I don't know. I just know that I, myself, can't take chances when it comes to planarians.

I'm truly sorry that the video upset you. I should have warned everyone not to watch it.

I adding pretzels today.

Hey, annpat, don't feel TOO bad...I'm being overdramatic to be funny :-) However, you have won be over. "On my honor, I will try, to do my duty, to annpat and my compost pile, and NEVER ADD BREAD, so as to avoid planarium (or whatever that thing is) forever and ever, Amen"

(One down, two hundred and 38 to go.)

teequilt, you're a very fine example for belinda and the others. (I liked your pledge very much.)

""One down, two hundred and 38 to go.""

Oh, oh! I thought there were only two dozens or so.

Otis.

I do my best not to mention that I put that B* stuff in my pile daily.

oooops! That one sorta slipped out, sorry Ann.

I wonder what would happen if some Friendship Bread starter was put in a compost pile.
Would it continue to grow?
Someone at work gave me a zip-lock bag of it about 10 years ago and I followed the directions and made some. The bread is good but having to deal with the starter in the bags was making me sick. It's fun at first but the stuff kept growing and growing and growing. I remember having at least 15 bags of it on my kitchen counter. I could not bake enough bread or give enough of the starter away to keep up with it's growth. The stuff was alive and evil!
jim_6b

See?! Now, the stories come out.

Et tu, rj?

Actually, I must confess I've torn up bread crumbs and thrown them over the fence(away from my dog) for birds. I know they say not to, but I want to attract birds to eat bugs and their getting whole grains, not just white bread. I remember it more than not recently.

I've got some more stories if your interested.
jim_6b

I haven't heard of Friendship Bread for many years until my daughter gave me a bag on Friday...now YOU mention it, jim6b. IT'S STILL ALIVE after all these years! I do remember trying to make it and give it away...like an obsession, or something. But it did taste good. I promise when I get tired of making it this time, it WON'T go into my compost pile...but now I am also frightened at the thought of it going into my septic system...imagine what it would do in THERE!!???!?!!?!

Maybe you could share it with some people here on this thread.
Anyone interetsed?
jim_6b

So let me get this straight. Saliva from every person who ever licked the spoon while making this stuff---some of it 20 years old---is what you're offering to share with us?

I gotta pass. No offense.

I wonder what would happen if some Friendship Bread starter was put in a compost pile.

LOL!
Friendship bread is scary and I would never put it in a compost pile!

>See?! Now, the stories come out.When will the haiku and the limericks come out? What rhymes with Planarian?

A first spring downpour.
Annpat complains: Ach, now the
buns will be soggy.

Sure, I'll share, but thanks annpat, I never thought of it that way. Maybe that's why it ferments so well. ICK!

Pale Planeria
Spies Little Debbie® cupcake
Slime o'er stale frosting

Here is a link that might be useful: Source of inspiration, haiku-wise

A Composter stood scratching his head

Decided to compost some bread

Did throw in a loaf

When he tried to smell that "fresh forest" smell

A Planaria crawled up his nose and started sticking that slimy nose thingy all around in his brain looking for signs of intelligence in his head

The composter should of done like the lovely, sweet, kind, wonderful, charming, innocent, sensitive, and hot handed Annpat saidÂ

Blutranes

Well, I started laughing when I saw Paul's entry, then snorting---predictable---when I saw Dave's, but Blutranes, what is wrong with your head?! I'm still laughing out loud with your ridiculous "started sticking that slimy nose thingy all around in his brain..."

I hope there will be more offerings per Paul's suggestion. The first three are gems.

Blutranes, you made me snort pop out my nose. Hopefully it blew out all Planaria with it!

To the tune of the Beverly Hillbillies:

Come listen to a story
Compost A to Z*
Learn the reason you should never add bread
Cause then one day, you'll be considered rude
As up through the ground comes an ugly old brood
Planaria, that is; flat worms, bad to see

*As my
Canadian friends know, that's pronounced Zed

For those of you who do compost bread, how do you keep it from becoming rock hard when it dries out before it decomposes?

bpgreen! I doubt anyone can top that. (But someone please try.)

Yes, the 'Z' did stop me cold for a minute. I bet Paul never skipped a beat.

Wow, I can't believe that bpgreen is trying to get people to say in public that they put bread in their compost. (Remember, this is the internet, and things said on the internet can never be taken back and remain out there for anybody to see. Be careful before you say anything that could be humiliating later.)

The next thing you know Ann Pat is on your case
"keep the bread out" or she'll be in your face

There's nothing more disgusting than a 'naria in your pile
so keep the flour out, and she'll be happy for a while.

AnnPat that is; classy chick, very shy.

I'm getting sensitive that perhaps some of you are being sarcastic. I am very shy, La La Lloyd! I do try to hide it though, under a thick veil of obnoxiousness.

And Blutranes calling me sweet, kind, innocent and sensitive! like it wasn't true!! I just parted with $62 dollars at the vet for the hen who I'm letting recover on the headboard in my bedroom. If that isn't kind, I don't know what is!

I've got to quit responding to my own thread before someone calls me narcissistic.

Not I. There was absolutely no sarcasm intended at all. I added the classy "chick" post in acknowledgment of your love of all things poultry. I thought I was being clever.

Believe me or not but I actually have a certain degree of admiration towards you. I fear we are somewhat similar in our shyness including the use of humor as our defense mechanism. (although it may only be humorous in our own minds).

I'll trump your chicken with $1000 vet bill to get 8, count 'em, eight stray kittens and their mother 'fixed' and vaccinated. (although the vet did give us a volume discount!)

And because it's your thread, I feel no guilt in hijacking it. (not that I feel much guilt at the best of times)

Lloyd

(Lloyd must be smitten, protesting that much)

Haiku

Little Debbie: browns
and greens. Except icing curl:
eternal, mefinks.

Limerick

There once was a little Planarian
A culinary barbarian
Spotting some bread
A soggy green blob of it reclining naked of carbons atop a compost bed
He wished he was vegetarian*

*"In nature, planaria feed off segmented worms or dead fish."
-wikianswers

"Might only be humorous in our own minds?"
WHAT?!!

The reason you put in the classy chick part is because you needed a final line----that is, if you were did your entry to the Beverly Hillbillies melody. I can top your $1000 for nine cats story...no, I actually can't.

I KNEW!!! Paul would come up with some brilliant! rhymes for planarian. I thought he was going to use 'sanitarium'.

I don't understand how some people can love gardening and even composting but are freaked out by little harmless critters. A world suddenly without crawlers and slitherers would collapse in a month.

Me, too. I, myself, have no problem with Planaria. It's bread in the compost that bothers me. Other people do seem to get a little freaked out by planaria, I've noticed.

Example of humor in my own mind:

(remember this is a small town and most people know of me)

Went into the bank the other day, walked up to the instant teller machine and proclaimed I was ready to play my favorite numbers in my favorite lottery machine. Told everyone I've been playing the same numbers in this lottery machine since 1996 and have never failed to win a hundred dollars!

Only the teller at the counter laughed, everyone else didn't get it. They looked at me like I was deranged, which I guess I sorta am.

Smitten?? Protesting?? I'm apoplectic!!

Oh well, off to work I go....

Lloyd

Annpat said:

"And Blutranes calling me sweet, kind, innocent and sensitive! like it wasn't true!!"

Who said it wasnÂt true? Point out the Planarian kisser if you donÂt mind. When words about Annpat are spoken by Blutranes those words remain true until no humus is left on earth.

Oh! I forgot, this is your "April Fool" thread; you were just trying to fool me again. Ha Ha Ha; boy did you get me that time Annpat! Do the deed again next year and you will possess bragging rightsÂ

Blutranes

Blutranes! What a friend you have become! I don't want you to feel bad when I snooker you again next year at this time. I bet I can use the same thread title, and still get you.

Llloyd, if I'd been there, I'd have tried playing your number after you left.

I have finally put it to the test now but MY BREAD doesn't/didn't get soggy, it just crumbled. I'm using 100% rye bread.
Can I put it on my CP w/o getting my head smacked???
Otis.