So How Many Legs Did YOUR Breakfast Have?

I fixed my family biscuits for breakfast yesterday morning--the yummy, fluffy, frozen Pillsbury kind you just pop right in the oven.  When they came out of the oven I slathered 'em up good with butter and honey, and we all dove right in.  After we had all eaten every last bite of the first round, and I was serving up the second serving, I happened to notice a black speck in the honey I just spread.  I took a closer look.

It was an ant. 

I looked in the honey container.  It was full of ants.  Dead ones.  Their little ant carcasses floating in the globby mess I had just served my children for breakfast. 

Oh, well, it's protein, right?

Comments

[dcrmom]

GAH!!! That's, well, highly disturbing, lol. I guess they survived? Yummm... biscuits.

[peach]

Ack!! Not exactly the way I'd recommend sneaking protein in their diet. I've got a couple ant-free recipes posted at my site today. Maybe you'd like to try them : )

[Michelle-This One's for the Girls]

EWWWWWWW!!! I would have totally freaked. But then, you probably already knew that about me.

[mimi2six]

Well....if you and your family were stranded on a desert island, they'd be a welcome treat! I'm sure we all ingest stuff from our packaged food that we'd rather not think about!!! Almost enough to make me want to plant a garden.....almost!

[Bryans]

I hope you did not point it out to the kids!!! That'll be therapy for YEARS ;-)..........

[Shannon in Surprise, Arizona]

Oh gross...........

[Pass the Torch]

I'm glad I'm not the only one that's ever fed her kids insects by accident;)

[peach]

Told my kids about this and all they could say was: (cue the Pink Panther music) "Dead ant, dead ant, dead ant, dead ant, dead ant, da da da da, da, da, da, dead ant!)

We're having those fluffy biscuits ourselves this morning -- minus the ants!

[lrlwreath]

I would tell myself "Ok time to strip the cabinets and get some clorox" =))) yewwwww...

[peach]

Maybe the Dryer household should apply for Fear Factor!

[Heather]

Mine were in the Maple syrup. Not that store brand sugar water. The REAL maple syrup from our relatives' sugar maple trees.

ICK.

[Rabbit]

Mmmmmm. Crunchy! :D

[Antique Mommy]

Just gett'em ready for when they are on Survivor or Fear Factor.

[Tammy]

OK...pusing my cereal away as I type...YUCK and double YUCK!

Last winter we had carpenter ants both upstairs and in our livingroom...I had never experienced anything like it but before we called the expensive exterminator, the girls and I prayed and they disapeared!
Luckily, they never attached our kitchen...Ahh!

[Calla Lilly]

If the honey wasn't crunchy, maybe you didn't get any ants??? I think a good kitchen scrubbing is in order. I hate when stuff like that happens, but it happens to us all.

[Rach]

I LOVE how real you are! ;) Too funny!

[Elle]

It only happens to the best of us. Plus, I've always said chocolate *and now honey* on anything can make it good. Sweet yummy!

[MamaDuck]

Oh gee, making me shiver over here. Off to check my honey jar....

[Brenda]

I'm just wondering what killed the ants. Not to alarm you or anything.

[Nikkie]

Oh my, that is disgusting and hilarious all at once! A little protien never hurt anyone!

[chilihead]

ROFL, wiping tears from my eyes.

[Tsh]

That happens to us all the time here in Texas. We get them mostly in our cereal, but it makes total sense they'd be in honey. I wonder why that's never happened to us... Better go check.

[keri]

i'm sure it's considered a delicacy in some countries! rather than chocolate covered ants...honey covered ants. nice!!

[Kristine]

I used to make a protein drink with this powder stuff and soy milk and carry it to work where I'd drink at it once I got things going. One morning went to take a drink and got a mouthful of those tiny ants. EW YUCK! When I got home, I opened the container, which was sealed with a plastic lid (like on coffee cans) and found a ton of ants that had died in the powder. EW, ew, ew!!

[annab]

Well, honey is supposed to be antimicrobial and antifungal...so I guess it might be anti-ant too! :) Just think, if your kids were bears, they'd have loved it!

[mckay]

this reminds me a bit of the time in college when i was at a friend's house watching tv. he was munching around on a huge bulk bag of m&m's. he offered me some and i looked into the bag there were tons of ants. he had a hissy fit and ran to wash his mouth out. i'm amazed he didn't feel them crawling on his arm. it must've been a real good tv show...

p.s. kudos to you for not freaking out. we gotta take things in stride ;0)

[mopsy]

I like your outlook---it's a little unplanned protein.

I'm sure everyone has eaten the iffy and most of us don't even realize it!

[Lei]

*shudder*

You are very optimistic! Lol!

[flipflopmamma]

Well, chocolate covered ants? Honey covered ants...same difference right? LOL!

[Randi]

Girl, you know how to grow those kids up strong, don't you? Thanks for the recipe idea! ;)

[Charlsie Swadley]

Oh my goodness, I thought this story was going to end with a cockroach, I am glad it did not! And hey it won't hurt them so you might as well laugh about it, and give those of us that read your blog something to laugh about too!!!

[veronica]

I heard this food traveler on the radio who seeks unusual foods all over the world. One of his favorites was an Indonesian meal of ants on fish. He said they tasted like lemon pepper.

See? You were just being daringly gourmet.

[Leslie]

That is funny! I had a syrup bottle full of dead ants once-- but I saw it before I served it LOL. I decided then and there that the best way to kill millions of ants was to leave your syrup open a little. They drowned in bliss :)

[chris]

Oh I love the title of this post!

[Tess]

well, better luck next time, eh? :)

[Rebecca]

Gross. Did you contact Pillsbury? They're great at replacing stuff.

[Melanie]

I had the same thing. Ants in the syrup too. They came in for water. Terminix came to the rescue!!

[momrn2]

That happened to me once in college. I was studying away and grabbed a bag of cookies sitting nearby. I was munching away when I noticed they tasted a bit different. I looked, and they were covered in ants. Only, they were alive and crawling! Literally tossed my cookies in more ways than one.

[mom2fur]

mmmmmm! Crunchy! (sorry, couldn't resist. Yes, I think it's gross.)

[MJ Shore]

In some countries ants are a delicacy! and what doesn't kill them will make them stronger! I had my brother-in-law visiting us once and served him mini wheats for breakfast.. it wasn't until he had taken a few bites that he discovered weavils in it, that was years ago.. he visited for the weekend with his family not long ago.. and he took us out to breakfast!!

[Deb]

I'm visiting your blog for the first time although I've seen your blog name around tons of places. Why hadn't I come before now? Amanda over at Following an Unknown Path linked to you today, so here I am.

I enjoyed your interesting story and will enjoy reading more on your blog. Thanks!

[Tina]

When I first started reading this post, I was thinking I have biscuits, I have honey. Good idea. By the time I finished reading it, I had completely lost my appetite.

Since I need to lose some weight, I'm going to bookmark this post and read it everytime I get hungry. Will that work?

[Robin]

I really came to read everyone's comments since that is so gross. My mom sprinkled her deviled eggs with paprika once only to find a bazillion little black bugs in it. We decided not to eat them. Blech!