Posted on 03/20/2009 12:27:54 AM PDT by Dallas59
TULSA, Okla. — One of the most deadly spiders in the world has been found in the produce section of a Tulsa grocery store. An employee of Whole Foods Market found the Brazilian Wandering Spider Sunday in bananas from Honduras and managed to catch it in a container.
The spider was given to University of Tulsa Animal Facilities director Terry Childs who said this type of spider kills more people than any other.
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I think I’d start wearing gloves!
I WAS going to aska the produce clerk to break the bananas up for me and check them in the store. Not sure after reading your post. Might have to switch to oatmeal for breakfast.
Build the wall.
Whole Foods has organic and “conventional” produce. This includes their bananas.
“I do not think that they selling any metallic or ceramic ones there”
Yes we have no inorganic bananas.
Pretty hairy for a Brazilian.
Time flies like an arrow. Fruitflies like a banana.
I have only one rule about spiders — they get squashed on sight, no matter what. Good spider, bad spider, foreign or domestic, it matters not.
Welcome to my web, said the spider to the papasmurf!
Are you talking about the spider pictured on post 36?
Ya. But I think the spider in post#6 will have to get things going first. After that who cares if I die.
Yikes! I eat bananas purchased in Tulsa. I guess I’m gonna have to watch it, pretty close... :-)
LOL, that's a pet peeve of mine too. This whole "organic" label for foods grown without pesticides and/or growth hormones is ridiculous. ALL food is "organic".
Are we getting closer to "Blade Runner" times or something? I guess even that would be "organic" since, although replicated, the animals and plants still (presumably) had organic molecules in them.
< /pet peeve rant >
They sell both kinds, I think. Whole Foods carries both organics and conventional produce.
For the record, if you feel the need to eat organic foods, bananas are one that you don't have to waste your time (or money) on. They are already pretty low in pesticides due to the peel being thick and hard, and due to the fact that you don't eat the peel.
Dr Weil's Foods You Don't Have to Buy Organic(^)
At the other end of the scale, here is his list of foods you should always buy organic:
You are completely accurate. And that is what the article Drudge links to says, as well.
But let’s not let anything like a few facts interfere with our Constitutionally- given right to crack wise, post spider photos, and mock elements of the situation according to our previously-decided beliefs!
If the Drudge said “The world’s deadliest spider is food at Whole Foods,” then it must be accepted as gospel! Actually reading the story or doing follow-up is merely showing a lack of faith in him!
I agree with you. The story that is linked to says that this spider was NOT the fearsome “banana spider”. But why let the totally contradictory FACT of this spider’s genus get in the way of some pleasant ridicule of Whole Foods employees, organic produce in general, and food inspectors.
Drudge uses his position as a trusted source to mislead his more gullible and hasty headline readers, it would appear.
Every time I am in the produce department at Sam's, I cringe when I see someone walk up to a big box melons or a crate of bananas and stick their hands/arms in without so much as a cursory glance at what might actually be in the box with the fruit. Granted, normally there is nothing else in the box ... but you really need to be aware that there could be.
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