flies

I can’t tolerate to see flies around and nobody does something about them. Especially those in the food business. Somebody ought to educate them about their distant insect cousin. A few days ago, I walked past this tomyam stall, who deposited a wealth of crustacian creatures (prawns, crabs, etc) on a table - as an optional ingredient for the tomyam soup.

I can see a lot of flies all over them … and the owner was just sitting around reading his newspaper. I mean, he could have installed a spinning fly “intimidator” (i don’t know what they call that spinning fling-a-ling doohickey that was usually used to scare off flies) to prevent those flies from swarming around those prawns.

As we know, flies have serious hygiene problems. They are dirtier than my ex-boss Rob (that’s. very. bad). They feed on carcasses, offals, innards, turds and other filthy stuffs … and then, they’ll walk all over our clean food … and feed on them as well. Sometimes, they even lay eggs onto them … for which if it was left for long enough, it will be spawned into little maggots.

Imagine the filth that we’re exposed to. If that doesn’t trigger any gross feel … try digging this — you know how flies digest their food ? They spit out their digestive liquid onto their food … and suck them back in liquid form through a dick like tube on their mouth.

It’s like an encounter of someone barfing out the contents of their stomach onto half the piece of your cake. When half of that cake turns into some putrefied liquid, that guy would suck in the half and left the other half for you to consume. Also imagine that guy’s face to look like a fly. It’s as bad as that.

Hence, it’s totally considerate to think that the tomyam guy ought to be hung and shot.

Man … I still can’t get over the word “considerate”.