Another black widow-grapes story. IN MY TOWN.

[killercupcake]

Welp. No more grapes in the cupcake house.

[sequins]

I saw a story in dailymail about a house whose wall was filled with snakes. Between this and that, it's going to be easier to stay awake tonight, lol.

[Deleted]

No thank you!

[ProfessorArtNerd]

Jun 3, 2015 21:38:18 GMT -5 RexManningDay said:

Good thing I don't eat organic.

Off to google juvenile black widows so I know what they look like ...

No black widows, juvenile or otherwise, in this here bag of Doritos!

[thedutchgirl]

I was going to be most surprised you live in Albertville.

[anyastroud]

I'm never eating grapes again.

[Deleted]

Nooo. Not ok.

My h's cousin shared on fb that her friend found a scorpion in her bananas. The bananas had been sitting in her fruit bowl for a week. Fuuuck that.

[nahoku]

Target is awesome! Black widow spiders in their grapes - not so much!

[oliviapope]

The title gave me all the info I needed to know, yet I still opened this and found more horrifying information.
Target is supposed to be a happy place!

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Jun 3, 2015 21:53:05 GMT -5 peachy said:

Jun 3, 2015 21:48:17 GMT -5 @ygmg said:

Nooo. Not ok.

My h's cousin shared on fb that her friend found a scorpion in her bananas. The bananas had been sitting in her fruit bowl for a week. Fuuuck that.

I tried on a shirt at Maurices and felt something on my stomach, so I pulled the shirt off my skin and shook it a little...a live scorpion fell out.

Holy shit. That is terrible. I have the shivers just thinking about it.

Blah.

[julez]

Jun 3, 2015 21:38:25 GMT -5 toledo said:

And OK, not literally my town, but it's closer than I can deal with.

Yeah, I was going to call you out on that one, because you are way more awesome than ALBERTVILLE.  Psh. 

[steph196]

Ahh! This is frightening to me! We will be avoiding grapes for a little while.

[fuckyourcouch]

omg after this thread i am fucking done with produce and clothing

HELLO NUDIST CARNIVORE CAMP!

[EmilieMadison]

Jun 3, 2015 21:35:17 GMT -5 toledo said:

www.myfoxtwincities.com/story/29231485/minnesota-woman-finds-black-widow-spider-in-target-grapes

ALBERTVILLE, Minn. (KMSP) -
On Monday night, Kelly Steinke of Albertville found a juvenile black widow spider in her bag of grapes from Target, even after washing them with vinegar and baking soda. The grapes were purchased this past weekend in Monticello. 

“I called Target to let them know so they can alert their grape supplier,” she posted on her Facebook page. 

There has been recent attention brought to spiders being found in bags of grapes. Last week, a woman from Michigan was hospitalized after she reached in for a grape and was bitten by an adult black widow.

"Target is being very helpful and said they would refund me for all the produce in my fridge that I had just bought," she said. "I use the Red Card, so they were able to confirm which store, and confirm the produce I had just bought to replace it. So Target is awesome! Just need to watch your produce that is from Mexico and Organic, mainly grapes and bananas seem to attract Black Widows."

Black widows are found throughout the U.S. mostly in the South and West. They are usually in barns, sheds, stone walls, fences, woodpiles, porch furniture, and other outdoor structures.

Symptoms of a black widow bite may include nausea, profuse perspiration, tremors, labored breathing, restlessness, increased blood pressure and fever.

I have those symptoms just reading about this. OMG.

[runforrest]

Thanks to the first story I heard about this a while back, I inspect my grapes with my iPhone flashlight before I buy them. And I separate each banana just in case something is hiding.

[nsl]

Good thing I only regularly consume grapes in wine form.

[dowagercountess]

Jun 3, 2015 21:48:17 GMT -5 @ygmg said:

Nooo. Not ok.

My h's cousin shared on fb that her friend found a scorpion in her bananas. The bananas had been sitting in her fruit bowl for a week. Fuuuck that.

You find scorpions all over the place here. It would be more likely that it crawled in the bowl from the house. 

[DaisyCakes]

I saw this article pop up in my Facebook feed....WHILE I WAS EATING GRAPES!

[isabel]

Dude. I literally just bought a bag of grapes. Fuck. My skin is crawling.

Eta: they're organic too! Should I just haul my fridge outside and burn it? The thought of spiders in my fridge is freaking me out.

[kellykapowski]

Jun 3, 2015 22:20:57 GMT -5 nsl said:

Good thing I only regularly consume grapes in wine form.

You're totally consuming spiders, then.

[sofamonkey]

You know what would help? Washing them & then coating them in a dusting of jello powder.

[pumpkin]

My skin is crawling and there goes my good night's sleep

[cookies]

So.... Are we really supposed to be washing our produce with vinegar and baking soda?

[jreeds]

From now on my grapes are automatically going in my freezer as soon as I get home. Freeze the little suckers out!

[compassrose]

Jun 3, 2015 21:53:05 GMT -5 peachy said:

Jun 3, 2015 21:48:17 GMT -5 @ygmg said:

Nooo. Not ok.

My h's cousin shared on fb that her friend found a scorpion in her bananas. The bananas had been sitting in her fruit bowl for a week. Fuuuck that.

I tried on a shirt at Maurices and felt something on my stomach, so I pulled the shirt off my skin and shook it a little...a live scorpion fell out.

I found one in my bed once when I lived in Costa Rica.

[jeaniebueller]

Jun 3, 2015 21:53:05 GMT -5 peachy said:

Jun 3, 2015 21:48:17 GMT -5 @ygmg said:

Nooo. Not ok.

My h's cousin shared on fb that her friend found a scorpion in her bananas. The bananas had been sitting in her fruit bowl for a week. Fuuuck that.

I tried on a shirt at Maurices and felt something on my stomach, so I pulled the shirt off my skin and shook it a little...a live scorpion fell out.

I hate everything

[Deleted]

Jun 3, 2015 23:07:49 GMT -5 dowagercountess said:

Jun 3, 2015 21:48:17 GMT -5 @ygmg said:

Nooo. Not ok.

My h's cousin shared on fb that her friend found a scorpion in her bananas. The bananas had been sitting in her fruit bowl for a week. Fuuuck that.

You find scorpions all over the place here. It would be more likely that it crawled in the bowl from the house. 

Oh god, that is freaky. Yeah, we don't have scopious around here. Rattlesnakes and black widows, for sure.

H wants to move to Australia for 2 years and I'm like "dude. Everything wants to kill us over there!"

[malibu]

::crosses Albertville Target off places to stop for produce::

I have grapes in my fridge at home. Now I'm going to have to go home and inspect them. Pretty sure they're from Target. Vadnais Heights one, but Target nonetheless.

::::SHUDDERS VIOLENTLY::::

[Deleted]

Why did I click on that link?

Why did I let DH put grapes (I don't even like them) into our grocery cart?

Why are they still sitting in my fridge?

Why, world, why?

[kirra]

Jun 3, 2015 23:11:32 GMT -5 isabel said:

Dude. I literally just bought a bag of grapes. Fuck. My skin is crawling.

Eta: they're organic too! Should I just haul my fridge outside and burn it? The thought of spiders in my fridge is freaking me out.

I would put on some thick cleaning gloves and either inspect them carefully or take them outside and throw them away.

I hate black widows and brown recluses, but it's almost certain I have at least one brown recluse in my apt (they almost never bother you, but still freak me out) and I've seen black widows outside, and there used to be one on the outside of my window (I had pest control remove it).

I don't think I could deal with scorpions. I grew up knowing poisonous spiders are everywhere. The joys of the south. Scorpions freak me out (one problem my area doesn't have).