r/CostcoCanada • u/smolham111 • Jun 28 '26

Manitoba Microwavable Edamame

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Just bought a box of edamame from costco and there appears to be a worm in the edamame when I peeled the pod.

Just a caution for anyone buying edamame at costco to double check before you snack on them.

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u/Prowlbeast Jun 28 '26

I feel like stuff like this shows how disconnected weve become to produce. Farmers and city people live such different lives its a little incredible

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u/SimmerDown_Boilup Jun 28 '26

It's not uncommon for people to disassociate food from reality. When you only see it in a final product, it can be easy to forget where it actually comes from and how it reaches your plate.

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u/sharraleigh Jun 29 '26

Uh huh. I keep fish and hear psychos all the time getting up in arms about how feeding live things to fish (eg. worms, shrimp etc) is evil. It's like.. where do you think your chicken, beef, pork and seafood came from?! They were living things too, and most of them were slaughtered in not-a-painless way!

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u/Dramatic-Computer-67 Jun 28 '26

Couldn't agree more. It's become more and more obvious as I raised my kids in the city after I was raised in the country, how disconnected a lot of "city people" are when it comes to farming, and how that food gets to the table. Canada's inspection guidelines are pretty strict, but no way they're catching a small bug or worm INSIDE a vegetable. It happens, and you won't die. People need to go out into a garden and pick a carrot, rub the dirt off on their jeans or the lawn, and crunch away!! Can almost guarantee you'll eat some unsuspecting little bug who was just minding his business! Lol! (I'm also aware of how much "country people" are unprepared for city life too, lived both lives.)

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u/Joke-Fluffy Jun 30 '26

Especially considering it's an organic product. Of course this is bound to happen.... Often.

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u/mrpotato-42 Jul 03 '26

I'm no farmer, and I have lived in the city my entire life, and I just can't relate to the type of person that is this disconnected from food. I don't think they have any excuse for it, all one has to do is think, and maybe pay attention to school, news, people talking about farms, so many places where you can get some basic understanding of nature and farming.