Insect Infiltration

Dear Market Pantry-

Someone once told me that its good luck for a ladybug to land on you.  Is it also good luck if you bring home a ladybug in a bag of randomly-selected Market Pantry frozen spinach?  Probably not.

Because if you waited until the last minute to make your spinach dip, which I did, it means Target is closed and you can't go exchange your contaminated spinach.  So, it means you go to another supermarket where you have to buy another bag of frozen spinach.  And this time, you strain it without looking because you are tired and you don't want to know what you might find in this bag of frozen spinach.  While you're focused on not-looking, you realize that you're missing the edge of the sink and dripping spinach water down the cabinet and on to the floor.  You sop up the spinach water with paper towels, and dump the half-strained spinach into the sour-cream-soup-mix dip.  You're tired and trying really hard not to think about the bugs that you probably eat everyday without noticing.  You decide to go to bed and get up early in the morning to clean the kitchen. Which you do.  Except now there's a colony of ants that have moved in.  They thought spinach juice on the floor was an open invitation to bring all their family and friends over.  It wasn't.  So now you spend an hour cleaning up wasted spinach, spinach dip, spinach juice, 10,000 ants, and one frozen ladybug. 

Dad used to remind me that "Some days, you're the bug, and some days, you're the windshield."  But that's really leaving out a whole category of people.  Some days, you're the frozen ladybug.  Some days, you're Market Pantry and you get people to buy contaminated food.  And some days, you're the sorry customer who buys the contaminated food, but is lucky enough to find the frozen insect before serving the spinach dip to co-workers at the annual Halloween luncheon. 

All in all, I'm pretty sure it is bad luck to find a ladybug in your food.  But at least I wasn't the ladybug. There's always that. 

Sincerely,

SEE