I remember my kid brother getting an inchworm in his salad of homegrown lettuce. The guy (now 42) still doesnt like veggies!

BTW. hey, they're protein, right?
:)

LOL....Doris took the words right out of my mouth about the protein! And I would add,there could be worse things,like a fly, for starters! Just block it out....lol....:D

oooh yuck... I just had dinner too...

I had a similar experience with broccoli here. I think they're called cabbage moth larvae, and eventually turn into a white butterfly (I think). We grew all this beautiful broccoli growing here the first year we moved to Northern California. A friend warned me that you have to put Bt out for the caterpillars, but I hate spraying anything, and didn't do it. Anyway, I picked some, anticipating some delicious fresh broccoli, put it in the steamer, and when I though it was about ready, I looked in and it was COMPLETELY covered in cooked little green caterpillars.

Aside from being a bit grossed out, I was mortified because I had offered to take some to a friend's place to cook for dinner, imagine if I had! LOL

I think we can grow it here in the winter when the little moths/butterflies are not out laying eggs on every cole crop in sight or ever invented.

--Ron

LOL Ron! That would have been a disaster and I bet you wouldn't be asked to bring anything to dinner anymore...lol...

You're right, I probably would have been limited to bringing only wine in the future!

--Ron

Can't you drive them out if you soak the broccoli in saltwater before cooking it?

I suppose you could do that, spartangardener, but I don't think I could bring myself to eat broccoli that had had literally hundreds of caterpillars come out of it.

--Ron

I am with Ron! I dont think seeing that would leave me tempted to eat it...lol..now if someone else was to drive them out first, and I had no clue,it would be fine!:)

Well, "worms are not those that we eat but those that eat us" LOL. Just put broccoli in salted water, rinse it and tell yourself that it it's organic.

To prevent "disaster" next year cover you broccoli with cover cloth in the garden. After one time long ago letting aphid to appear in our salad I always make sure to put all veggies in salted water for a while.

Salted water? You folks are the best! I assume it does not affect the taste of veggies much. If I can get a stalk with only a caterpiller or three on it (off it), I will keep eating. If the entire army of caterpillars is still creeping around in there, I'm calling it quits. By the way, the heebie jeebies are only striking once every day or two now. Mostly, I'm just laughing. Thanks for laughing with me.