[Bringbackthedraft]

I have found many little black bugs in pasta over the years. Not a problem, throw some oregano in the tomato sauce, you’ll never notice them, and you wont care, especially if you got the sauce done right. Everything tastes great in in tomato sauce.

[Nepeta]

I have found many little black bugs in pasta over the years. Not a problem, throw some oregano in the tomato sauce, you’ll never notice them, and you wont care, especially if you got the sauce done right. Everything tastes great in in tomato sauce.

Decades ago I worked in a lab at a major food company that packaged a full line of herbs, spices, seasonings, etc. There are still a few products--yellow ones--that are sold under that label.

Pre-purchase samples of herbs were checked for insect parts. Mexican-grown oregano was so full of insect parts that the joke was you could get your protein needs met using such oregano.

It was rarely purchased by the company...which really did reject substandard materials...