TIFU by using soy sauce

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yinniferdurmyd 8277 S x 4 2021-09-13 09:13:56

This just happened and I am still trying to cope with it.

So I love soy sauce. I add it to almost everything as seasoning - eggs, noodles, veggies - you name it. Today was no different. I made myself some ramen noodles with veggies, poured some good ol‘ soy sauce over it and was munching happily on it. It was delicious. Life was good.

Now the soy sauce I use has a small opening and when you want to use it, you just tilt it and it pours out. You can unscrew the top off for refilling it with soy sauce if you ever run out though. I always thought that was very handy, no annoying cap opening or anything like that. Until today.

It‘s still pretty hot where I live and there‘s fruit flies everywhere. You leave your food uncovered for one minute and there is a whole damn invasion of them on it. Now as I was chomping down my food, I suddenly see a movement inside the soy sauce bottle - one of these annoying fuckers actually managed to squeeze through the tiny opening and is now flying around in there.

Now that‘s obviously disgusting. No one wants flies in their food - I had to get it out of the bottle so it wouldn‘t land in my next dish. So I quickly grab a cup and a sieve to get it out. I open up the bottle and pour the sauce into the cup through the sieve - the fucker lands in the sieve but something else lands in it as well - I first thought it was just old soy sauce that somehow clumped together. Oh how wrong I was.

I take a closer look and I‘m realizing... It‘s a huge pile of dead fruit flies. I‘m not kidding, it was like the amount of two tablespoons, and the bottle was pretty small. I gagged and immediately drained the whole soy sauce. I am utterly disgusted and now have to live with the fact that I‘ve been eating fruit flies for a good amount of time. I wonder if I can ever use soy sauce normally again.

TL;DR: Soy sauce enthusiast aka me sees fruit fly flying around inside the bottle of soy sauce. I decided to pour the sauce through a sieve to get the fucker out, then I realized there‘s been a huge pile of dead fruit flies soaking inside the soy sauce I‘ve been using. Now I’m mentally scarred from ever using soy sauce again.

EDIT: Wow this blew up! Thanks for all the awards, that‘s very nice of you! There‘s a shit load of comments so I can‘t reply to everyone who commented :( But I still appreciate it so much! I will now keep my soy sauce in the fridge or just use foil to cover it up lol.

EDIT 2: Yes thank you, I will keep my soy sauce in the fridge from now on. Also, why does everyone think I‘m a dude? I‘m a woman lol.

Delusional_Soziopath 1859 2h52m

If the next soy sauce you buy tastes a bit odd...Just add fruit flies for the old known taste

yinniferdurmyd 669 3h18m

Lol maybe that‘s why I liked that brand so much

TehPiyoNoob 213 9h5m

If you ever get over your trauma and continue using soy sauce, I think many of us would like to know if you feel the taste is as you remembered or you would have preferred flies soy sauce

tungstencoil 18 16h24m

If you're a fan, I recommend that you try 'Healthy Boy' soy sauce from Thailand. Wouldn't have thought there's much difference in everyday soy sauce, but an exchange student from Thailand corrected me. I've been quite grateful.

different_produce384 2 1d9h20m

doubling down on this, healthy boy mushroom soy sauce is life changing

watermelon_101_ 1535 S 6m

That's soy disgusting

yinniferdurmyd 262 1h44m
ishkobob -17 4h28m
Billthefattest 28 5h15m


Edit: Damn it's an actual subreddit.

Andromeda0G 70 1h1m

Shut up and take my upvote

FordShelbyGTreeFiddy 16 4h5m

An Australian wrote this, didn't they?

TahoeLT -2 4h15m

I think that's "soar disgusting".

themage78 6 4h54m

I soy what you did there.

Stevephon 6 5h52m

Beta soyboy

indomitablescot 3 5h17m

Hi disgusting soy dad.

qwerko 1 9h0m

Yo soy disgusted

_Apatosaurus_ 0 3h57m

Soy disgusted

doge260 1412 18m

At least it seems to be a good way to kill the flies and add some protein to your soy sauce

(This is my most updooted comment and it was a shit post)

(This is my most liked comment and it was a shit post)

RedoRoy 581 49m

Just close your eyes and tell yourself it’s Sesame seeds.

NhylX 118 3h40m

It's umami!

CentralAdmin 17 5h27m

Umami so gross a ball of fruit flies couldn't fix the taste

TheReynMaker 109 1h36m

Congrats you actually managed to mildly grosz out someone subbed to mmc.

tulipinacup 19 4h16m

What's mmc?

CannedNoodlez 18 4h18m

Make My Coffin

ishkobob 10 4h22m

Is that people actually dying? Fuck, those subs just shouldn't exist.

isweariwilldoit 18 4h48m

Most of them don’t anymore

TheStudentPilotToBe 15 5h0m

Well you have your opinion. I for one watch some of the videos every now and then to realize that life isn't something that's handed out. You live once and the time you have left is so precious. It's taught me to be a more careful and safer person around the mildest things. Again you have your opinions but your opinion means nothing at the end of the day to anyone but yourself.

Snuvvy_D 4 5h41m

Guess its cool that you get something out of it, but recording someone dying, then posting that video online to share is super fucked up

beachcola 1 5h52m

A lot of those videos are from security cameras inside factories or outside of buildings, depicting accidents that can happen. Because of subs like these, I’m more careful around my pool, less likely to pick a physical fight with someone, I drive safer, I always wear a helmet while biking and I don’t bike along the state road anymore, etc.

Yes, I know we should be doing those things anyways but most people don’t. My friends and family go sans seatbelt and helmet, without a reminder from me of why we need them

ishkobob 2 8h54m

I could be wrong, but I'm willing to bet most people searching online to watch people die don't do it with the purpose of learning safety lessons.

Stevephon -2 5h51m


Thrawn89 1 5h12m

Naw, some opinions are garbage.

Stevephon -2 5h50m

Yeah - yours

Thrawn89 6 6h2m

no u


Seriously though, good to know you tolerate everyone's opinion, including racism, sexism, homophobia, pedophilia, slavery, and genocide.

Natural_Interest_77 8 3h28m

Damn, remember sesame seeds?!?

Elon_Muskmelon 8 5h10m

What happened? All the buns are blank.

BlacktoseIntolerant 2 6h48m

Our buns have no seeds.

ggr1m 7 4h25m

Reality can be whatever you want it to be

MonkeyWithAPun 3 5h6m

...with wings

dandansm 1 5h56m

I gagged and laughed at this. Ugh!

yinniferdurmyd 81 1h46m

Oh yeah soy sauce infused fruit flies truly represent my daily protein requirement!

Duck_Giblets 22 3h28m

If it doesn't you need to try harder.

Could leave the cap off?

NorwegianCollusion 10 5h9m

Of course, if you know about it, having a near empty bottle of Kikkoman around on the bench is a good way to just completely suck the local area dry of fruit flies, but I wouldn't recommend putting it on your food afterwards

Twitch84 29 5h40m

Hey! Don't kikkoman while he's down.

yinniferdurmyd 7 6h15m

Oh my god... r/angryupvote

pablank 1 5h23m

What if now soy sauce without fruit flies tastes like shit to him because it just tastes 1000x better with them in it lol

DumeDoom 1 5h45m

yeah a lil bit extra protein!

sthlmsoul 1 7h10m

It's like soy sauce and fish sauce mixed together. But with fruit flies.

Ok_Climate6209 893 51m

We had this problem in summer in the pub with our spirit bottles - cling film around the lid to stop them getting in! Use the same bit of cling film each time to save on waste

yinniferdurmyd 457 1h48m

That‘s a good idea, I‘ll definitely do that from now on - if I ever manage to use soy sauce again that is lol

jackiblu25 149 5h33m

Honestly, I'd just spare my sanity and get the bottle with a snap top. I am a fellow soy sauce lover and as often as I get the urge to straight up drink it (I refrain from doing so) I don't think I could cope with this kind of mental anguish. Edit-word

jil3000 30 6h11m

Be honest: did you one time try drinking it?

nascar_apocalypse 25 7h56m

I have tried this before, I love soy sauce but it was not pleasant lol

lsd-is-a-solid 9 8h29m

The trick is a few drops at a time

Lussekatt1 8 10h53m

A few small sips, especially something like a tamari style soy sauce can be pretty good?

jackiblu25 2 12h51m

Thanks for the idea!

Pie_Head 24 9h37m

Tried drinking it, wasn't getting my fix. Moved on to straight injections. My blood looks like ink now, but it's a small price to pay.

lmdavis1991 1 11h56m

I mean it would work and it would taste pretty good. It would certainly wreak havoc on your veins but being a recovering iv drug user it’s amazing you can taste what you shoot. At least to me.

SoTjWasLike 2 1d8h1m

Bleh. Flashbacks. This man speaks truth thoyfh

AundilTheBard 7 11h31m

I have a couple times, im fairly impulsive and for some fucking reason I can never remember how bad it was the last time

jackiblu25 3 11h42m

Lol I haven't, I swear! 👀

BloodSpades 2 12h36m

I can’t remember what I was drinking but it was in a dark glass bottle that I stupidly put next to the soy sauce. Well, I wasn’t really paying attention and grabbed the wrong bottle. Yeah.... Lesson fucking learned. Bleaaaahhh

failed_asian 19 7h30m

I actually have refilled my bottle that has the snap top with the Kikkoman bottle with the 2 holes because I'm grossed out by the idea of keeping my soy sauce unsealed, but sometimes that bottle is the only one available at the store.

Really_McNamington 8 11h22m

The last two-hole bottle like that I bought had a plastic disc inside that you had to remove to pour, but it was quite easy to just stick that back in. Maybe they've changed, I buy it in the big 1litre bottles now and just use the old refilled two hole for table servings.

EEextraordinaire 2 13h41m

Where I live kikkoman also comes in screw top bottles

Kumaabear 2 19h39m

Me too, is this not a thing in some places?

SacredSpirit123 3 13h27m

Don’t drink it, that’s a horrible idea. You’ll get sodium poisoning, and that can send you into a coma, or even kill you.

jackiblu25 2 1d3h50m

Hey, it's okay, I'm not out here drinking soy sauce, promise

guten_morgan 89 3h16m

I use tape. That way I can lift it like a little flap and put it back in place when I’m done. When it seems like it’s losing its stickiness I replace it, but it usually takes a while until that needs to happen (but I also don’t use soy sauce as often as it seems you do)

Invincible_Overlord 69 4h56m

If this is the Kikoman type of bottle, when it first arrives, there's a white translucent, sunken-sort-of cap between the sauce and the normal cap. Keep that thing to seal it tight?

We usually store ours in the fridge.

Also, soy sauce is expensive, so we bought a 1.7l jug of soy sauce from Costco, and we keep that in a shaded cool place to keep refilling our flask. Just another tip.

Source: We use so much soy sauce it goes on our salads.

SuperSodori 44 5h19m

This - if in doubt just stick it in the fridge.

Demonwolfmaster 39 6h55m

Go to any Asian market you will get better quality soy sauce and more for the price at a normal store.

redline314 6 7h30m

This being downvoted is humorous

_tyjsph_ 1 7h32m

i mean not everyone can just up and run to an asian market. hell, most of us probably can't just up and run to an asian market.

redline314 9 7h34m

In that case this persons comment is totally invalid and useless. /s

Demonwolfmaster 5 7h39m

My nearest one is an hour away but I spend 5 bucks on a bottle that lasts me a good 7 to 8 months so I mean

Ben_zyl 1 8h6m

I'd settle down to a fast walk within the first mile or so but I could certainly fast walk to the nearest one in twenty minutes or so.

JHTLP 8 6h21m

I just bought the 2l bottle since it's shelf stable and I used so many of the small glass bottles. The big one comes with a lid that fully closes.

I_P_L 1 7h51m


Is it? Even in Australia I can get a 1L bottle for about $4. It costs more to buy olive oil.

IAmLaureline 1 8h39m

I buy by the litre too.

Nick_dM_P 46 3h21m

Do you use the Kikkoman bottle with the two holes in the bottle cap or something? I'm having difficulty understanding how flies could get inside the bottle otherwise.

yinniferdurmyd 25 3h23m

Yes, exactly that one.

ishkobob 11 4h32m

It's been a while since I got that bottle, so I forget. But can't you twist it to close both holes or something?

PandaBeaarAmy 10 5h4m

Nope. Wide open, unless one clogs up with dried soy sauce.

sivasuki 59 5h25m

Or a clump of dead fruit flies.

yinniferdurmyd 8 6h3m

One of them was clogged up... I didn‘t want to know if it was dry soy sauce or dead fruit flies I just threw it away

NerdsTookAllTheNames 4 10h45m

I found that I can stick a toothpick through both holes. Easy to remove and you keep everything out.

ishkobob 1 8h51m

seems like a bad design. it should be designed to twist and close it off or something.

TheHeavySoldier 1 5h4m

When you get one of those bottles, there's a little plastic cap that's plugged into the bottle when you unscrew the top.

I always put that back when I'm done using the soy sauce. Might be an option? A bit more work, though.

LMR0509 38 5h43m

You can just store it in the fridge. Also, find the source of the fruit flies. It can be a plant, fruit, potatoes, etc. To kill them set out bowls of apple cider vinegar and a little dish soap mixed together. They love the fermented smell of the vinegar but they get trapped and drown in the dish soap.

adrnired 9 9h4m

this! It's worked for me so many times before. An unfinished glass of rose or red wine works like a charm too.

secondary_outrage 3 18h29m

Ok I have a funny story about this. My dad was living alone after my mom passed, and I went to visit him. There were fruit flies EVERYWHERE. It was disgusting.

So I asked him about it, and he said he learned this "trick" on the internet to kill them. But, he didn't read the whole article, and did not add dish soap.

He had literally set up fruit fly breeding grounds all over his house. 😂😂😂

BloodSpades 1 12h40m

Yogurt (Activia in particular), beer and bananas. They REALLY love those too and you can shove them into a plastic bottle to draw them in. Then quickly cap it and toss.

Crafty-Koshka 34 4h37m

Or leave it in the fridge and problem solved

1biggeek 1 11h18m

Soy sauce is not meant to be refrigerated.

klawk223 1 12h41m

Well that's not true... It doesn't need to be refrigerated but refrigerating it prolongs it's shelf life/flavor

1biggeek 1 13h1m

Actually what I said is true. It is not MEANT to be refrigerated. Sure, you CAN refrigerate it. You can refrigerate tomatoes too but their not meant to be.

AY_YO_WHOA -9 5h4m

Eww cold soy just gonna chill your dish then

Crafty-Koshka 11 5h9m

How much are you pouring on that it actually affects the temperature that much

MrGrieves- 12 5h40m

Just keep it in the fridge instead of leaving it out and you can continue to use that same style bottle lol.

Or do you prefer your sauce warm?

yinniferdurmyd 52 6h4m

I prefer it warm and with dead fruit flies obviously

cheekybeing 1 8h1m

My parents always uses tinfoil! So tinfoil it!

Lucky_Forever 20 3h50m

Jon Taffer enters the room

soumac 3 7h43m

Seething with an unholy Flinstone menace.

Lucky_Forever 4 7h54m

and then proceeds to dump and/or break on the floor every bottle containing fluid of any kind - booze, soy sauce, lime juice, pepto bismol, urine, etc, etc...

purpledonut7 16 5h19m

Yeah. It’s a huge hassle. That’s a good idea. I use the smallest water balloons over the tops of our spirit bottles at my bar, they’re cheap at dollar store. I call them my liquor condoms. Gotta stay safe and wrap up!

Bladed-Rhino-Beetle 1 8h45m

Maybe post a warning somewhere just in case someone has a latex allergy

purpledonut7 1 8h56m

I have one, actually. Mild exposure is not anaphylactic. Long term exposure causes irritation.

purpledonut7 1 8h57m

And this is my personal bar at my house. I have an inside bar/ concert stage/ pool table on my property.

Bladed-Rhino-Beetle 2 9h2m

Oops, carry on then!

purpledonut7 2 9h21m

It does cause my hands a little irritation! But that’s after prolonged exposure. I’d probably have to sit and play with the balloons to really cause anything noticeable. But those little water balloons really work at keeping the buggers out of the bottles! Speaking of latex, I am so glad hospitals switched over years ago and do not use those gloves anymore! I have a nickel allergy as well. That’s always fun for my belly button from my jeans 🤦‍♀️.

mrpel22 9 6h25m
Ok_Climate6209 5 7h13m

Ah ace they're mandatory! I've never seen caps like that! I'm UK based, and working for a pub franchise we had caps that I can't find a reference for - while it's not mandatory to specifically have caps, open bottles do need to be covered, so in other pubs we also used to keep the lids to replace the pourers overnight. Not a fun job sorting them all at the end of night though haha

ResonatingFlatulence 5 6h16m

I see golf tees used sometimes. I always wonder how well they work

slighdiggity 3 8h28m

Plastic shot cups work great for that too.

Aquatic-Vocation 2 6h0m

We always had that issue with beer taps.

Ok_Climate6209 2 6h1m

We'd cling film them too at the end of the night after a quick dunk in soapy water!

catdogwoman 1 6h57m

Golf tees work well, too!

JackPoe 1 8h49m

We use little plastic golfing tees and put them in the spigot.

essaymyass 1 9h26m

I am neurotic about reusing little things. I probably don't 100%of the time, but I make "plans" in my head to reuse something and when those plans get thwarted, I feel it. Anyway, it uses up my bandwidth operating this way. I'm just happy to meet another afflicted with the same tendencies. Hugs.

JarlBallin420 446 2h2m

Gordon Ramsay enters op's kitchen on this episode of Kitchen Nightmares

yinniferdurmyd 279 2h10m


JarlBallin420 164 G 2h14m

It was made yesterday 😭

yinniferdurmyd 145 2h28m

Wow. Fuck me. What a shame!

aliksong 56 5h17m

Yes chef sorry chef

tehdark45 30 6h2m

You idiot sandwich

Junejanator 32 5h8m

Look! LOOOK! Its filthyyyyyy.

yinniferdurmyd 16 6h4m


super_nova_91 8 16h7m

It's raw!!! You idiot

r3dditor12 17 6h29m


Orngog 14 8h5m

i don't know chef

ijkaytlin 7 15h55m

This is my favorite part of the episodes. Something is clearly moldy / slimy - “when was this made?!” “YESTERDAY!”

automatvapen 13 9h5m

puts a slice of bread on each side of your head WHAT ARE YOU?!

aliksong 2 21h36m

An idiot sandwich!!!!

Ivanbratatat 261 1h1m

Be happy that there were only fruit flies. These fuckers are annoying but they aren't dangerous or disease spreading. and guys.. put your fucking soy sauce in the fridge !

yinniferdurmyd 67 1h47m

Oh trust me that lesson was learned today

SpuukBoi 62 3h43m

Wait you didn't put it in the fridge? No wonder. I was trying to figure out how that many flies got into the fridge and was worried about all the other food lol

yinniferdurmyd 26 3h53m

I didn‘t know you were supposed to keep it in the fridge

thatdlguy 75 3h57m

You don't have to, it's salty enough it won't spoil. Just make sure to put the lid back on the bottle

SpuukBoi 16 3h55m

That's completely fair. That's just how it was done in my house growing up, so I've never known any other way.

Rockonfoo 1 7h30m

Salt is a preservative if you’re ever debating if something needs to be refrigerated or not

Pickles and whatnot are another one that don’t really need to be but usually are out of habit

SpuukBoi 1 7h32m

TIL. My dad and I are weirdos and we like to eat pickles frozen so they're always in the freezer anyway 😂

angrynutrients 8 5h16m

I mean ive never put soy in the fridge and I havent had this issue before.

A cool dark place tends to suffice as it doesnt really go off very quickly due to its alcohol and sodium content

surlygoat 1 6h14m

There is alcohol in soy sauce?

Edit: well I be damned

Guerr0 18 2h47m

Does it need to go in the fridge? Or does it simply help/extend it?

ebai4556 35 2h51m


bane5454 74 3h3m

It is listed on every bottle that you should put it in the fridge, but there’s no real adverse effects for not doing so… until, that is, a mob of fruit flies decide that it looks like a fun place to die lol

ebai4556 26 3h7m

Ah it’s actually not, just double-checked my bottle

bane5454 28 3h11m

I guess it depends on the bottle, every bottle I’ve ever bought with the exception of some fancier stuff I got says please refrigerate after opening. Same goes for liquid aminos. I think it actually has to do with the sauce slowly losing flavor, and if the whole bottle only lasts a few months, you really won’t notice a difference if you just leave it out.

General_lee12 9 3h22m

Soy sauce is basically flavored salt water. It's used to preserve stuff. It will not degrade or lose flavor sitting out. It won't even collect fruit flies so long as the lid is on properly.

bane5454 60 3h35m


Straight from Kikkoman’s website (the same company i have in my fridge rn), refrigeration slows the oxidation process, resulting in a slower aging process for your soy sauce. Soy sauce does eventually lose flavor as it goes through oxidation, and refrigeration slows the process. Most people wouldn’t even notice if they go through soy sauce quickly enough though, as, like you mentioned it is a preservative for some foods and will last quite a while without any need for refrigeration.

Prospero424 5 9h2m

This answer needs to be more visible, because it's exactly right. Soy sauce will not really "go bad" (in that it could harm you or ruin your meal) under normal circumstances, but oxidation WILL cause the flavor to change for the worse, and more quickly than many people would think.

If you use a good, quality soy sauce and especially if you use it on more delicate food items like sushi, it's important that it stay sealed and refrigerated when not in use.

That being said, I do leave my cheaper soy sauce that I buy in bulk in the cabinet or even on the counter because it mostly just goes in marinades and the like where you'd never be able to tell and it has a high turnover rate so never sits there for long.

InsightfoolMonkey 1 7h30m

Quite a while is a year or more. I'd say that's definitely a long time.

Sure cold can slow the oxidation process but not being in a fridge will not make the soy sauce perceptibly different for basically anyone.


Soy sauce MOSTLY does not need to be refrigerated. Not all soy sauce is made the same.

malexj93 1 4h26m

On the other hand, there is this comment, so maybe the fridge isn't the solution.

bane5454 3 4h30m

Excuse me while I go meticulously check foodstuffs for the next hour :(

Also, Keurig. Idk if you have one or have ever used one, but when I worked at my last job, they had one in the warehouse.. one day I went to go fill it up with more water and noticed the reservoir smelt swampy almost.. turns out there were like 15 bugs dead inside the reservoir, and the whole thing was coated in a slime of sorts. When we did a descaling, more bug parts were coming out of the water. I don’t trust those machines still to this day.

JohnnyDarkside 1 6h7m

I think that depends on brand if it says that, and even then might be just CYA. It's basically liquid salt so I don't see it going rotten.

shuranumitu 1 4h51m

Im pretty sure soy sauce is a fermented product, which means that it naturally keeps fermenting, until you stop or slow down the process by cooling it. It doesn't go bad in room temperature, I guess it just gets more intense and deep in flavour.

drht 6 5h47m

Seconding fridge, helps keep the flavor/aroma fresh for longer. Unless you go thru the bottle super fast.

AY_YO_WHOA 3 5h1m

No soy sauce doesn’t need to go in the fridge, just PUT A FUCKIN CAP ON IT lol

lgh16 256 S 5m

I’m imagining a hamburger patty composed of fruit flies and I hate it

introskeptic7 84 45m

They're already marinated, just needs a few more seasoning

purple52 36 3h29m
SpicyThunder335 39 3h53m

It's much more fun to watch it than to read about them

ishkobob 21 4h26m

What in the actual fuck?

Well, I know what's for dinner next saturday. I should be able to catch enough fruit flies in my kitchen by then.

TvojeMarmelada 10 4h41m

Or to see Europeans reaction to its taste https://youtu.be/cYiH_kERGhw

prevengeance 3 9h2m

That was cool and all, but the whole video was really interesting. Thanks for that!

TvojeMarmelada 2 9h6m

I'm really happy you liked this video! Peter is an awesome Slovak YouTuber, if you liked this video you might like his other channel, PPPeter, as well!

Patsboem 6 3h56m

This is awesome!

DeeHawk 2 3h45m

Endorsed by Bear Grylls. Perfect link!

yinniferdurmyd 13 1h46m


MistressLyda 7 3h28m

Black fly burgers was/is sort of a thing.

MjrGrangerDanger 10 4h22m

My kitten would fight you for the flies. You can hear them crunch in her mouth when she catches them and eats them.

leeman27534 -8 3h12m

wouldn't work good, there's not enough actual density to the fruit flies sticking together to be a 'patty'

ground deer meat kinda has a similar issue, we add pig fat to get it to consistently stick together more for a burger shape to be possible, otherwise it'd just fall apart.

SpicyThunder335 16 3h55m
Massis87 1 4h50m

dammit you beat me to it :-)

leeman27534 -5 4h2m

lol, the funny thing is, i just said later in this that they couldn't make a patty well, but squashing them into a paste and making that into a patty could work good.

so yes. it's like the difference of assuming dry sand could make a solid, congealed patty instead of 'sand lumped together', and wet sand mucked together, that CAN make a good solid patty shape that'll hold up.

BigZmultiverse 9 4h52m

Say it with me.

“I was wrong”

leeman27534 0 7h4m

eh, sure, i was wrong.

but i did imply fruit flies don't stick together in a patty, not 'you can't ever have it work out that way no matter what'.

BigZmultiverse 2 7h18m

Squashing patty ingredients is kinda a given though. That’s how patties work.

KenaiKanine 6 3h24m

So you're saying we need to add pig fat to the flies?

leeman27534 1 3h35m

no, it'd be better to move to a different medium altogether, it's just not good for this sort of thing. deer meat's still pretty well, meaty, it just can't hold together well. fruit flies aren't really meaty, it's like having a thousand dessert sprinkles that have little less than a tiny speck, and assuming it'd clump together cohesively well. nah. otherwise it might as well be dry sand with fat attempting to hold it together, that's more like a jello mold than a burger patty.

maybe maggots liquefied and reconstituted into like chicken nugget or patty shapes. that pink/brown slime that tastes of protein, sure, but of no animal you're familiar with. that sort of thing could work, maybe, just pressed into a fluid.

NearbyNose 2 3h47m

Aaaaand now I’m getting sick at 8 on a Monday, great start to the week.

leeman27534 1 3h59m

aaaaand roll bender laugh

SpaceYeku 185 2h17m

Feel ya, went to drink milk from the carton when I was a kid. The carton was sitting there, opened on the kitchen counter. First sip, mouthful of flies. I don't even know how they got there, but there were so many or them...

SmilingJackTalkBeans 95 3h40m

Probably some fly managed to get in at some point and lay eggs, which then hatched into dozens of maggots, wriggling around and munching down on that delicious milk, shitting and growing eventually over the course of a few days into a happy swarm of flies.

ishkobob 45 4h33m

I didn't think that story could get any worse. Thanks for that.

Lotus_Lavender 9 4h26m

Thanks now I wanna barf and Im at school…

AlienBearAttack 3 5h10m

i hate you

yinniferdurmyd 86 2h30m

Oh my god 🤮🤮🤮

InsightfoolMonkey 14 7h26m

You drank from an open carton of milk sitting out on the counter for God knows how long without even checking it. I know you were a kid but damn boy. You werent very smart lol

SpaceYeku 2 7h34m

I don't think it was there for long, we always drunk a lot of milk in my family, but yeah, that taught me a lesson ahah

a_dev_has_no_name 2 6h56m

Karma for drinking straight from the carton ya savage

PinkSlipstitch 1 13h17m

Your momma decided to teach you a lesson about drinking straight out of the jug! Hopefully you learned it!

socialreddituser 56 29m

omg i would vomit

yinniferdurmyd 27 1h46m

I was too horrified to react lol so I just gagged

Rita11219 43 26m

Good one dude, have a gift.

yinniferdurmyd 18 1h46m


desertdungarees 27 3h51m

You realize you discovered a fruit fly trap? Think of how much worse your fruitfly sitch would br without your shoyu?

Try adding a couple tablespoons of red wine to a bowl with a couple ounces of water and a squirt of dish soap. Mix well, then cover with Saran wrap. Poke three or four good openings in the Saran wrap. In a few days you'll have harvested all the fruit flies what exist everywhere.

More effective than soy sauce.

ishkobob 19 4h39m

I try this. They just hang out around the saran wrap. A few get stuck in the liquid. and a bunch crawl in and out of the holes.

I ended up taking another piece of saran wrap and quickly trapping all the ones on top under that piece. Then I squished them all between the 2 poeces of saran wrap. zpoked a few more holes. Next day, same thing.

After several days of doing this, I finally got smart. Instead of feeding them, I killed the bastards by dumping baking soda and vinegar down my drain. A few days later, they were basically all gone because I killed the eggs in the drain.

That was a month ago. They're starting to get bad again, so I'll do it again -- maybe ting now that I think about it.

But yeah, that bowl of bait doesn't really work. You'll catch some, but you won't catch them all or kill tge eggs. So in a few days, more will just hatch anyway. Gotta kill the source.

Jokapo 4 17h34m

Pest Control checking in, and yes, the Saran wrap trick hardly works. A restaurant I used to service kept doing this instead of addressing the conditions I'd point out; grout lines full of water and debris, dried up juice/beer/soda syrup under machines or on any surface, standing water under dishwashers or in a cabinet under a sink, cups left out overnight. Basically, those suckers love moisture and don't need much to feed and breed.

I'd recommend something like this for cleaning drains. Bio Foam is what most pest control companies use to clean restaurant drains, definitely check under appliances for sources.

HasegawaMADAO 2 11h4m

Pouring boiling water also works for killing eggs in a drain.

ishkobob 1 12h23m

I've heard that and tried it, but didn't seem to notice a difference. But I only tried it once with about 6 quarts of boiling water. Maybe I should have done it a few times or with more water. I don't know.

ThomasTheGameEngine 34 1h27m

Thanks, I'm gonna make sure to put an extra seal on my soy sauce bottles from now on...

MacabreManatee 26 2h37m

My GF always insists on keeping the plastic cap, so I have to screw it open to use it every time, which I deemed like a waste of time. Doesn’t seem such a waste anymore

Edit: to clarify, there are two caps. The top (screwable) cap with two holes to pour out of and the plastic cap below it that blocks the whole bottle.

ebai4556 57 2h52m

You leave sauces without a cap??? Bruv everyone has to unscrew bottles when they use em

General_lee12 16 3h22m

That's just how bottles work!

SmilingJackTalkBeans 13 4h4m

You don't just keep your sauces in a puddle on the counter?

Junejanator 2 8h10m

No, I just have a ranch section of the floor and a buffalo one out on the balcony

ishkobob 1 4h42m


PinkSlipstitch 1 13h18m

Just buy the damn flip cap soy sauce bottles.

yinniferdurmyd 14 1h48m

I took one for the team

sorryglam 31 2h14m

Is soy sauce supposed to go in the fridge (if you use it “quickly” and don’t just use it once a year or something)? I’m just curious about how it’s “supposed to be”/traditionally stored. My mom used soy sauce in a lot of dishes she made when I was growing up, and we had one of those soy sauce things OP mentioned. I thought that was a pretty standard way of storing soy sauce when you use it frequently, but now I’m horrified and want to go to my parents house to check on their soy sauce. If only I could google this

Edit: I googled it and the first several results are contradictory so… I’ve learned nothing. Does anybody actually know?


Is soy sauce supposed to go in the fridge? I’m just curious about how it’s “supposed to be”/traditionally stored. My mom used soy sauce in a lot of dishes she made when I was growing up, and we had one of those soy sauce things OP mentioned. I thought that was a pretty standard way of storing soy sauce when you use it frequently, but now I’m horrified and want to go check my parents soy sauce at their house. If only I could google this

General_lee12 26 3h24m

Soy sauce is a few thousand years older than refrigerators

ringo24601 7 7h5m

Cold storage for food has been a thing for a really long time. People would store food in underground rooms, or make the rooms out of special materials. In fact, during the Western han dynasty ~2000 years ago, they had ice cellars call Lingyin (or ling yin? I've seen it multiple ways) for cool foods.

General_lee12 4 7h10m

A. Majority of these rooms were designed to keep things under the spoiling temp (~65°F) and not at all to modern refrigeration or freezer temperatures

B. These were limited and used by the rich. Normal people did not have access to keep their own families food cold

C. Fermented foods were founded and used primarily as a non-food preservation mechanism. Salt also was. Soy sauce is a fermented brine. It actually can be used to preserve other things.

ringo24601 5 8h1m

I never claimed differently...?

A.)I never said they were freezers- I said "cold storage".

B.)I never said everyone had access- I said they were "a thing".

C.)I never said soy sauce was kept in them- I was replying to a comment about the age of refrigerators with information of how preserving food via temperature management is as old as soy sauce.

That's all I was saying. Have a good one.

sorryglam 4 3h41m

Exactly! That’s why I was like “fridge”?

yinniferdurmyd 11 2h29m

Idk how you‘re supposed to store it, but I would either store it in the fridge or put foil over it. At least that‘s what I‘m gonna do now because I never want to have that experience again lol

fgilio 7 6h7m

Just store it in the fridge, there's no con and you'll no longer have to deal with fruit flies 🤮

sorryglam 3 2h47m

Yes, good call. I’m sorry this happened to you!

Like others have said, it’s gross for sure but it’s not like it’s something that can/has actually hurt you! (as far as I know anyway; I don’t even know how to store soy sauce) 🤗

Hulihutu 6 4h34m

OP didn’t use a lid, that’s the problem

sorryglam 1 4h38m

I got it 👌 thank you

fgilio 6 6h6m

A lot of soy sauce bottles tell you to store it in the fridge. But even if that wasn't the case... storing it in the fridge doesn't affect the flavor, makes it last longer (it has an expiration date) and will prevent any disgusting accident with flies 🤮

sorryglam 1 8h39m

This is tru

bjorneylol 3 8h1m

A lot of them say to store in the fridge.

The flavor changes over time due to oxidation, and the fridge slows this process down, but unless you are comparing a 5 year old bottle to a fresh one literally side by side, you probably won't notice a difference (and even then you might not)

sorryglam 1 8h38m

Makes sense. Thank you :)

scJazz 27 1h17m

Put it in fridge!

StoneDeaf 0 4h31m

Yes at least. Having the soy outside quietly fermenting is nasty af. Come on op, stop being a slob.

FoxFilth 6 4h47m

this isn’t about being a slob lmao, soy sauce can be left out it doesn’t need to be refrigerated and it won’t spoil, but yes if you have a fruit fly issue then it’s a good idea to store it in the fridge.

First-Of-His-Name 2 5h0m

Soy sauce is made by fermenting soy beans.... either way it isn't necessary to refrigerate it. The only issue here is not having a bottle with a seal

AY_YO_WHOA 2 5h5m

That’s not how it works

mtnjenny 17 1h41m

I'm nearly gagging just reading this!

yinniferdurmyd 9 1h48m

Take this as a warning to seal your soy sauce or put it in the fridge lol

Pantssassin 1 6h29m

I would suggest getting a squeeze bottle like these that way you can easily cap and still have a narrow opening to make it easier to pour https://www.amazon.com/s?k=squeeze+bottles+for+cooking

xadiant 15 2h23m

My soy sauce was invaded by ants. I don't know if they used it as a suicide method or something else but ugh it never is "one" fly or ant.

Fenderman420 15 3h6m

This reminds me of the time I was working on a family owned tour boat. We had a full bar and all of our bottles had those metal spouts on top, for pouring drinks. One day while I’m bar tending, I notice something small floating in some raspberry vodka. Went through all of the bottles in the bar, (around 14-16 bottles ranging from full to a quarter left) and ALL of them had fruit flies in them. We dumped out all those bottles and threw them away. Thankfully, it was a small company so accounting wasn’t too great. We just tossed $1,000+ of alcohol and never said a word to anyone.

yinniferdurmyd 6 3h21m

I don‘t even want to imagine all the restaurants and bars that use bottles with small openings... We all probably had one or two fruit flies in our meals or drinks lol

semicoloured 13 3h48m

When I lived in a dorm we used to have roaches everywhere. One time I boiled water for my tea (the pot was full so I kinda turned it on without looking inside). And as I'm sipping my tea while watching some show, I realize something is wrong.

So overnight this bastards not only laid an egg inside our teapot, it hatched and my tea was infested with little sad boiled roach babies.

No scars were gained though, I just cleaned the pot and made myself a new cup tea, cause life is short and roaches won't win over my love for food.

PygmeePony 12 2h6m

Extra protein.

Thekhandoit 11 3h27m

Done similar before.

In college I had a cheapie Mr. Coffee and used it to make coffee every morning. Once on a off day I made a full pot to enjoy over a couple of hours and took a sip of the first cup only to think it tasted off. I opened up the top, and looked down into the water reservoir, only to see 3-4 fully steamed cockroaches adding some flavor to my morning brew.

I now only use pour overs and French presses with an electric kettle I can see into.

hb0nes 7 3h49m

omg you tasted them after only one sip?
It's insanely gross but you got away okay there, buddy

TopcatFCD 11 4h28m

I had a coffee machine in my small gallery. Just one of those pod type ones. My water was off once and I went and got water from an outside tap near by.

I juat filled a jug and topped up the water each time. I started getting belly ache and after a week I suspected it was the water ( unusual in Scottish Highlands as the waters always pure). I turned the machine around and to my horror there was a huge spider along with small spiders in the water tank!

No idea if this was what gave me belly ache but that machine was burned with holy fire from the emperor himself after that.

Agatsumare 10 38m

Where. Do. You. Live.

yinniferdurmyd 13 1h47m

Central Europe lol.

BeBa420 10 2h34m

Lol check out a movie called “John dies at the end”, it’s about a supernatural drug called soy sauce

When I read the title I immediately thought “this should be good”

GameShill 4 2h45m

Shitload approves of this message.

BardicKnowledgeBomb 2 6h34m

Had to scroll too far to find this reference

Silkensword 9 7h21m

reminds me of that one time i poured out an energy drink that had been out for a couple hours cause it was "stale" and tasted just a bit weird and 13 entire wasps fell into my sink. i've had a phobia of wasps ever since

Lussekatt1 8 11h14m

My mom all my childhood and to this day always tells anyone she sees drinking soda or beer out of a can in the summer, that they have to get a glass, or be prepared for a ER visit for wasp sting in the throat.

Bass-GSD 8 3h43m

This is why you never use a sauce or condiment without some kind of closing lid. A screw-on cap is best, but it must have a top that closes fully.

domeauxnique 8 6h3m

I’m shocked you still wanted to save the soy sauce after even seeing just one

NolinNa 7 3h59m

I can empathize. When I was a kid I came home from school and was making myself an Eggo waffle. It was curved awkwardly so when I put it into the toaster it got burnt on the parts closest to the element. Meh, no biggy. So I start pouring my Aunt Jemima’s all over it and some burnt bits look like they’re flaking off (awesome!). So here I am, a happy little kid marching to the table to get ready for my after school snack and quality tv programming. I chopping up my eggo, nearly put it in my mouth, but looked down and saw that all the burnt bits were in fact a bunch of dead aunts...

I can tell you I’m still not over the trauma 22 years later. Still haven’t had waffles or Aunt Jemima’s since. I’d be absolute devastated if this happened to soya sauce... hopefully you recover from this faster than me.

pet_sitter_123 6 10h55m

Sorry about your aunties!

BronchialChunk 7 5h21m

Man, I had something similar happen with red wine. I once was happily watching netflix and go to take the last swig from my glass. Throw it back and feel something land on my tongue. 'Crap, a fly' I thought. When I spit it out onto my hand, it was a FUCKING SPIDER.

leeman27534 6 3h10m

lol, yeah, we've got this bottle of kid shampoo that's not used anymore, because the cap got left off and it's a see through blue, and there's about 40 dead fruit flies in that fucking thing.

tbh almost a little impressive.

yinniferdurmyd 1 3h22m


leeman27534 3 3h26m

's a good way of getting rid of them.

it's basically the same idea of a little bit of soap and vinegar in water as a home made fly trap - have a surface of a fluid they're attracted to not be as sort of resistant to tiny little bug legs as water tension normally is, or sticky enough, so they just fall in.

ishkobob 2 4h45m

That won't get rid of them. You'll kill some, but not all. And you'll never kill the eggs.

To fix your fruit fly problem, dump a bunch of baking soda and vinegar down your drain. Just google "how to get rid of drain flies" for the correct ratio.

nexttothemoon 6 6h8m

FDA sets limits for how much contamination is allowed in food products... for example...

75 or more insect fragments per 50 grams of flour

20 or more maggots of any size per 100 grams of drained mushrooms or 15 grams of dried mushrooms

4.5 rodent hairs or more per 225 grams of macaroni and noodle products

That last one is funny to me... I picture them sitting there to come up with those guidelines over a plate of pasta...

"4 rat hairs are ok... 4.5 rat hairs are pushing the limit... but damn that extra 1/2 a rat hair just pushes it over the limit into unacceptability... no amount of Ragu mushroom pasta sauce with 19 maggots can cover up the taste of those 5 rat hairs." :)

qwerty11111122 6 6h25m

Soy Sauce is a fermented food, and fruit flies love that shit. I had a fruit fly infestation a while ago because they smelled it when I opened my sourdough starter for the first time in a long time and then realized that my house had a nice fruit basket and trash can full of food.

I've also used sourdough as the bait for a fruit fly trap (bottle filled with sourdough, water and soap with a funnel opening. The fruit flies go in, can't find their way out easily and slip into the water and drown)

gwenixia 3 9m

Gah! I died

ryanmononoke 3 1h59m

Well, that is fruit fly infused soy sauce for you. I recommend you to patent and sell it.

yinniferdurmyd 1 2h2m

I mean it‘s basically liquid, organic protein so bit might actually sell lol

dead_PROcrastinator 3 2h57m

I was expecting maggots.

yinniferdurmyd 2 3h18m

Fruit flies are bad enough trust me

hb0nes 2 3h51m

especially cause they're all clumped up, gross mate.

I could handle 1 or 2, but not a clump for some reason.

dead_PROcrastinator 1 4h34m

Not arguing, but maggots would be considerably worse...

ThatRedheadMom 3 2h59m

Holy hell, I will be checking the bottle in my home and any in restaurants for the rest of my life, thanks to this post.

yinniferdurmyd 3 3h19m

Yeah the brand I use is super popular here in restaurants and all that. I will never use that brand of soy sauce again

ThatRedheadMom 2 3h21m

That really sucks

beammeup__scotty 3 4h2m

I saw this type of thing happen with a bottle of hair gel. I had to point it out to the guy it belonged to and he was like "Huh, weird."

I would've had a MUCH more visceral reaction haha

ninixgame 3 4h4m

And that kids is why you put soy sauce in the fridge, even though it doesn't spoil

First-Of-His-Name 3 5h0m

Put it in the fridge....or buy a bottle with a lid.


Did this with vinegar a few days ago, disgusting things.

JetAmoeba 3 4h10m

Have you had Ponzu sauce before?

demoralising 3 4h21m

That's not good. I remember a colleague I knew telling me about a time he worked in an engineering workshop in the 80s. There was a power cut meaning the machines weren't working, so they decided to give the workshop a thorough cleaning just to pass the time. In the kitchen there was a large stainless steel container they used to hold hot water for tea/coffee etc. My friend decided to give it a good clean and polish so got a step ladder and took the lid off it only to find the skeletal body of a large rat that had obviously been in there, gradually eroding over some time...

Duffmani 3 4h22m

Hey, just add soy sauce to a coconut and you can have the time of your life!

michaelHIJINX 1 4h31m

Bravo, just when I thought I couldn't get a more disgusting image in my head.

Sigh... grabs coconut

I_Only_Post_NEAT 3 5h26m

The restaurant I work at dump out our soy sauce and clean the bottle twice a day for this exact reason lol. You'll be fine though, physically. Mentally? Iunno good luck bud

raindancemaggieee 3 7h52m

Welllll if u had jst thrown the bottle away after seeing the 1st initial fly inside you would've saved yourself from seeing the rest of them lol

HoodieGalore 3 8h9m

I just started watching clips of this show called Bar Rescue and let me tell you about fruit flies in bottles.

Fucking nightmare fuel. I hate those little fucks so bad.

dynastyem 3 8h36m

This actually made me want to barf lol Kudos to you for being so positive and wanting to use soy sauce again. I would literally never touch it again aha

Slight_Web4760 3 9h22m

Oh my good. Screw this. I remember I went to a restaurant about 4-5 years ago and I grabbed the glass ketchup bottle. My dad was like “oh hey I didn’t know they used raisins in ketchup?”…. We look at the so called raisins and they were freaking flies. I nearly puked and we got up and left, as well as all the surrounding tables near us. Years later I won’t use ketchup unless it’s those little fast food packets. Traumatizing as hell.

Ivyflowers 3 9h36m

Nope, nope, nope! I can’t even finish reading this. 🤢

Count_Von_Roo 3 10h18m

Oh god. I actually gagged reading this because it brought up a buried memory.

I was spending the afternoon with my family on their patio. Hot humid summer day. Drinking wine. My mom and sister went inside for refreshments. I noticed a bottle of red wine on the floor in the corner. It had a good 1/2 a glass left in it.

”I’ll just finish this straight from the bottle,” I thought.

Took a generous swig, titled my head back…

Only for a 1/2 cup of wine-soaked flies to reach my lips

There was no wine left in that bottle. It was only trapped soggy flies

Technical_Ostrich842 3 10h55m

Worked retail, found an improperly sealed bottle of apple cider vinegar that was 90% fruit flies.

Yokai_Alchemist 3 12h33m

Wait so am i the only one that puts my soy sauce in the fridge?

flamingolegs727 3 12h35m

No I do too.

samuelma 2 2h56m

Ohhh buddy. i know your pain. I had a bottle of sweet kepac manis with a similar issue. Not sure what they did or how their decomposing managed to create some kinda fermentation but i got it out to use one day, tipped it up and the whole turned into a thick foam. Was gross so i strained it. Boom. 3 wasps

yinniferdurmyd 1 3h18m

Ewwwww wasps are even worse I think 🤮

anorangeandwhitecat 2 3h1m

If anyone here has problems with fruit flies:

Small bowl, but with enough room for deep liquid. Plastic wrap. Knife or scissors. Apple cider vinegar.

Pour about two inches of apple cider vinegar in small bowl. Tightly wrap the plastic wrap over the top. Poke three small holes in top in triangle formation with sharp tool. Set on kitchen counter where fruit flies gather. Repeat and make more as necessary.

ishkobob 5 4h49m

I keep seeing this, and it's not a very good idea. You'll trap and kill some, but not all. And you'll never kill the eggs. To get rid of a fruit fly problem, best way is to dump baking soda and vinegar into your sink drain (assuming that's the source). Just google "how to get rid of drain flies" for the correct amounts.

Source: I do this once a month, and I hardly ever see the bastards anymore.

anorangeandwhitecat 3 4h51m

Ah, interesting. That’s the way my mom taught me to do it, and when my boyfriend’s mom didn’t take out her compost soon enough, she had a bunch of them flying around her house. I don’t think there were eggs yet as they likely were thrown out with the trash, but I will keep that in mind though. Thank you!

ishkobob 3 4h53m

You're welcome! Good luck.

Note: you'll still have some flying around, but it won't be nearly as bad. If it's not getting better a few days after the first time, try again. It does work -- as long as that's the main source. They basically live and thrive off food and whatever gunk is in your sink drain and pipes, so most likely that's where they are coming from.

anorangeandwhitecat 1 4h54m

Makes sense. My method is good for those flying around, and yours would get rid of eggs I guess.

They also had a garbage disposal so I think it’s safe to assume some came from there as well

AgoraiosBum 2 5h20m

I prefer to use a paper cone on top of a mason jar of vinegar (with a small opening in the bottom) - I used the cup and poked holes and the cone, and the cone option bagged a lot more flies.

ArltheCrazy 2 3h9m

Clearly you aren’t familiar with the way soy sauce is made! Just extra seasoning!

jarrodh25 2 3h22m

I'd say less fruit flies, more fruit fly infused soy sauce haha.

Johnyysmith 2 3h36m

I guess this has been good for the stimulation of your antibodies. So all good

JoeT17854 2 3h42m

At least they were dead fruit flies. A roommate of mine had them go into her crackers once and ended up eating crackers with maggots.

Yrrebbor 2 3h44m

It’s supposed to go in the refrigerator after opening.

PmMeIrises 2 3h48m

We've got fruit flies recently. I've put out bowls of soy sauce and soap mixed together, fruit, rotten fruit. Literally 0 flies caught.

That sucks so much dude.

Lokoschade 2 3h49m

As a kid I made myself some fresh orange juice and wanted it to be really fancy with an decorative orange slice, some ice and a straw. The straws we had were really old and were laying in the the drawer for quite a while, but I didn't think much of it. So I happily sat down in front of the tv, expecting to enjoy my orange juice. I took a sip. There was a big piece of 'pulp'. When I bit on it, it was crunchy, definitely not pulp. Spat it out. It was an earwig.

I couldn't drink orange juice for quite a while after that, though I've overcome that. But still to this day I have to look through opaque straws to make sure they are clean.

grimkit 2 3h53m

The same thing happened to my dad, except it was maple syrup and ants. My mom, not dad, noticed, he'd already eaten a plate of pancakes with the syrup. The entire inside of the bottle was coated with sticky dead ants.

ColdBeing 2 3h54m

I had a similar experience but with wine. When I was younger, I would drink my parent's alcohol, unbeknownst to them of course. I can't remember if I ever put the cork back in. I thought I did. Anyways, after a few days I decided to pour myself some.

Mind you, this is in the basement and it's dark. I always keep it dark. Anyways, as I poured my cup. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary. I had a sudden urge to turn on the light, nothing related to the wine. As I got back to the cup, I noticed huge piles of dead fruit flies in my cup just from the bottle I poured. I'm so glad I turned on the light when I did...

stedun 2 3h57m

Adds the the umami flavor.

a_Joke9 2 4h11m

Just keep the soy sauce in the fridge

Hviterev 2 4h12m

Keep the sauce in a fridge genius...

RevolutionaryLab3057 2 4h15m

Close your lids and put your stuff away when you’re done, you lazy bum

rcklssmagnolia 2 4h18m

Once I poured the last of the whisky into a shot and after I drank it I saw a good bunch of fruit flies. I checked the bottle and there were a ton left in the bottom. I knew I had drank more than a few. I wanted to throw them up, but I had already been drinking too much and knew that would be the end. So I kept them down. Protein I guess.

March_Garraty 2 4h22m

This thread is making me nervous about the state of soy sauce containers left on tables in restaurants.

JacobMaverick 2 4h26m


MrMekanik 2 4h37m

When I was about 5, I took a sip from a can of lemonade I left out the night before and was greeted by a mouthful of ants. Good times

shuranumitu 2 4h46m

Oh god I had a similar experience once. I was cleaning out our kitchen, and found an old bottle of soy sauce (probably similar to yours, you just tilt it to get the sauce out). I wanted to see if it was still good, so I poured out a little bit into a small bowl, and it was chunky. At first I thought maybe it's the sugar in it that had somehow crystalized or something. Upon closer inspection I realized that it wasn't sugar, it was flies. I grabbed the bottle and to my horror the whole thing was just filled with tons of these little fruit flies. I still gag at just the thought of it.

vanillazilla 2 4h50m

I had something similar once when I was 6. My mom made me french toast and poured syrup on top, then I noticed a little black flake on the plate where the syrup ran off. I said "Mom, why is there pepper in here".

"That's odd" she said, and then I continued eating, but stopped when I noticed another black flake, and saw that it was distinctly in the shape of an ant.

My mom went and grabbed the bottle of syrup and held it up to the light and all you could see was a literal cloud of dead ants inside.

MedeaRene 2 4h50m

Ugh, bugs getting into food is so annoying. Though I've eaten roasted crickets and mealworms before so I know bugs aren't the worst thing ever.

I've had sachets of instant cream of wheat before where I had gone to get a bowl and just before I poured in my milk, I spotted movement. As I looked closer I noticed it was teeming with what I assume were flour mites.

I threw out the sachets and the bowl but I did eat a bowl the previous morning unaware. Tasted no different, all I got was extra protein.

gbo1148 2 4h56m

Have you ever tried liquid aminos? I can’t get enough umami in my life.

D3nnis_a_8astard_Man 2 4h57m

Had the same thing happen with my cold brew coffee. I've been straining it ever since.

untalmau 2 4h58m

2 things: exactly that, almost happened me with an apple vinegar bottle (but I noticed the dead fruit flies inside -hopefully- before I used that bottle again). And second: they don't sell kidneys at Walmart, soy sauce is a big deal of salt..

furlonium1 2 5h1m

Hey OP, I was at a house party years and years ago. I was in the basement and the host had a big bottle of Captain Morgan spiced rum off to the side. The cap was off of it and I didn't pay it any mind and just took a few swigs of it straight from the bottle.

It wasn't until maybe 3:00 swigs later I noticed the bottom quarter inch of this bottle was full of fruit flies.

I feel you

Bird-The-Word 2 5h6m

I'm still scarred from a box of cheese-its.

Tiny child playing in his room, finds a box. Sweet, sits there and starts eating cheese-its, life is good. Feel a little tickle on my hand, look down, an ant. Squish it and continue munching. Another ant, wtf? Glance at box. Ants... everywhere ants. Oh God how did I not see all the ants. I was ant covered cheesey nightmares.

Govinda74 2 5h6m

Interesting. My grandad always referred to soy sauce as "bug juice", which is unnervingly appropriate for this story.

NorwegianCollusion 2 5h8m

This exact same thing happened to me once, I have yet to buy that style Kikkoman bottle (the 150ml) again. I'm good with the 500ml plastic bottle with a cap, thanks. Also, keeping it in the fridge helps a ton with this.

NuteIla 2 5h13m

We've probably all had soy sauce infused will all sorts of bugs. Most asian places I go to with soy sauce have a similar type of container

the314159man 2 5h15m

If you only knew how authentic soy sauce was made, you'd have to be a hardcore believer to ever eat that shit again.

BeerMeka 2 5h16m

Hey OP, it's just proteins! :D

Lord_Stahlregen 2 5h17m

Congratulations! You made Fruit Fly tsukudani. Don't worry, the high sodium content of the soy sauce should keep the Flies from spoiling, so they were probably still good to eat. Technically.

darkfred 1 7h11m

STILL good to eat...

GoddessOfFilth 2 5h20m

We had an ant (tiny ants) problem at my bfs old trailer. Cleaned up, got rid of them. But not before they climbed into my box of cereal and couldn't get out and died. Finished about 80% of my bowl of cereal before I saw them floating in the milk. 🤢🤢🤢

tesyaa 2 5h22m

It’s good to know what bait to use next time I make homemade fruit fly traps

tesyaa 1 5h24m

Btw I store my small bottle of soy sauce in the fridge even though it doesn’t need refrigeration, otherwise I’d probably be in the same situation. I buy the quart bottles at Costco for refilling but those are capped.

lostachilles 2 5h23m

Might think twice about hating on those pesky lids/bottle tops for your next sauce container, huh?

wholymac 2 5h24m

I've drank a whole bottle of wine just to realize there's those nasty things floating in it. I guess at that point all you can do is hope that they stewed nicely and their juices mixed well with your body. It's the thought of this that made me sick to my stomach, but I was fine.

lhopitalified 2 5h26m

If you haven't seen them, the oil/vinegar bottles designed for easy pouring and an automatically closing cap are nice. I'm a fan of this one that looks like a chicken - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08139Y8G8

Mitski 2 5h29m

I used to work in a bar that made me strain the fruit flies out of the booze and pour it back in the bottles at the beginning of every shift… load the ice tub, stock the beer, strain the fruit flies, cut up the lemons and limes…

Pepsi_Cola64 2 5h30m

I was drinking my boba tea at home and went to take out the last sip. A lump came into my mouth and I played around with it with my tongue, thinking it was a poppable boba. No, a house fly had flown down the straw and gotten stuck in there

BigDirtii 2 5h30m

Something similar happened to me.

I was at a restaurant I used to frequent every Friday for a dinner date with the wife. I would always order a Jim and Coke. I noticed a fly in my drink and didn’t think anything of it.

Next week I come back and again, a fly in my drink. I brought it up to the waitress after I had downed close to half my drink. “Oh I’m sorry, I’ll get you another one”

Yet again another fly in my drink.

Turns out they didn’t keep the cap on the bottle, and there were a bunch of dead flies in the bottle of Jim Beam.

psykick32 2 5h37m

I think I have a pretty strong stomach...

But that second to last paragraph, I almost lost it. Jesus dude.

sheshere313187 2 5h38m

I literally am reading this as I eat Breakfast. No soy here but I did just gag and now I can’t finish. Can’t imagine how disgusted you felt.

abetternamethanthat 2 5h40m

This might have ruined soy sauce for me

dsheroh 2 5h50m

Back around 1992 or 93, I was renting a single room in a house near my college campus, so I didn't have a proper kitchen or cupboards. Had microwave in my room, as well as a beer fridge for milk and such, and pretty much lived on what I could make with those. And so, for quite a while, my typical breakfast was oatmeal with brown sugar.

Until one day when I made my oatmeal, poured milk on it, and took a spoonful. Just as I was about to pop it in my mouth, I saw something black appear in the bowl. An ant had floated to the surface of the milk.

Look at my spoon. There are at least a dozen ants crawling all over it.

Turns out there was an entire thriving ant colony inside the bag of brown sugar.

I'm just glad I noticed the (first) one in the milk before actually eating any. And it was a good few years after that before I ate oatmeal again.

tenderpoettech 2 5h51m

Lmaoooo I’m sorry

OSRS_Socks 2 5h59m

OP I had a horrible fruit fly problem at my old apartment in college. My roommates were pretty messy and lazy. They left dishes in the sinks (sometimes just soaking in dish water), left the trash by the door and even if they put the dishes in the washer they never ran it so I did all the cleaning. I would clean 2 hours a day after going to class, working and doing all my school work because I hated how much fruit flies we had. It was basically a swarm of them whenever you made your food and if you didn't eat it right away! It was disgusting. I one time decided to get on to them about the messy and how they need to clean up and one looked at me dead in the eye and said "Those aren't fruit flies because we don't have fruit. Fruit flies require fruit to be around so stop batching." I just dropped it after that. I could argue with a guy who thought fruit flies only come from fruit.

GreenTweezers 2 6h0m

I worked for a seafood restaurant where we would have to regularly drain the malt vinegar of "matter" and to make it clearer. The "matter"... dead fruit flies.

cheekybokiki 2 6h4m

On the other hand if you have a fruit fly problem leave out a few bottles of soy sauce as an environmentally friendly pesticide.

Hongxiquan 2 6h5m

most soy sauces have a thing on them that says "refrigerate after opening" as well or at least the ones I buy do.

de-tails 2 6h12m

Now I am scared to use the soy sauce at restaurants.

Also, I will always use a proper lid or keep in the fridge.


Agahawe 2 6h12m

What can I say, soy sauce attracts saucy boys

freshgrilled 2 6h16m

You know what they like even more than soy sauce? Wine. Add a composter in the back yard to the mix and you start to get so many fruit flies floating in your wine every time you look away for just a minute that you get to the point where you get comfortable judging the flavor and aroma that the fruit flies add to a glass.

mav3r1ck92691 2 6h24m

So the real question here is do you still enjoy normal soy sauce without the extra "flavor" or is it just not the same without the fruit flies?

digteddy 2 6h30m

I feel nauseous thx

Zer0ji 2 6h33m

I noticed the same thing once, but just a handful of flies, immediately drained the bottle and I'm only buying closed caps since!

EagleEye06 2 6h38m

I had the same thing happened to me when I was little. My mom said to eat cereal and I wasn't having it so I cried for pancakes. She made my older brother name them for me since I was only like 4. So he made them, I put syrup and ate. Then my brother showed me the bottle was full of ants.. I don't remember seeing them in my food but I wasn't paying attention either. He prolly knew cuz he was a jerk to me all the time when I was little, and just decided to not tell me until I was done.

neonstruck 2 6h39m

My family and I had swarms of fruit flies this summer, and I found a trick to get rid of them. You pour one part dish soap and one part apple cider vinegar in a jar (don’t mix! it should be in layers), and leave it uncovered in the most infested spaces. You don’t need much, just 1/6 of a cup each in a regular jar should be ok. Those poor bastards are gonna drown in it and I’m always a bit sorry for them, but it was the only way for me to live peacefully.

Idk if you still have the problem since you managed to accidentally create a fruit fly trap of your own, but I still recommend it lol

EmmaRisby 2 6h44m

Ohhhh flies are awful, for me they're worst with vinegar. When I notice a lot of them like in summer I just leave open my bottle of apple cider vinegar and they all jump in.

D1G17AL 2 6h50m

The capped bottles don't seem so annoying now do they?

yinniferdurmyd 2 15h50m

Nooo they don‘t lol

reddita51 2 7h7m

Lids are a fantastic invention

A_Fellow_Weeb 2 7h17m

I had a similar fear with eggs a while back, like the hallucinatory idea that I would open an egg and find a partially grown chicken inside. It's terrifying to think that it could just fall out onto the pan and I couldn't do anything about it. Really spooky.

Iwantmyteslanow 2 8h1m

If you're using store bought that won't happen at all, roosters don't make an egg company money, if it's from a home flock where a rooster is present it can but only if the keeper let's a hen sit for a while on them

Vness374 2 7h21m

Meh…extra protein

thefunkygibbon 2 7h33m

Glad I read the tldr only... Not sure I could stomach the full tifu

Tanagara 2 7h41m

Why did I read this while eating??!

Powerful_Yoghurt_480 2 7h49m

I moved all my soy sauce into old siracha bottles with the green lid that you have to screw to open and close. I've also repurposed those old siracha bottles to store oil for cooking and fish sauce!!!! OP once you've come back to soy sauce... maybe try using one of those bottles?

Maddprofessor 2 7h52m

I had a similar problem with a cup of coffee that I left sitting around and drank the cold coffee late in the afternoon only to discover too late that there were multiple fruit flies in it.

panrophantic 2 8h0m

This happened at my parents house with a wine vinegar decanter they kept on the dining room table. Lmao

BillyRay_Valentine 2 8h2m

Ok maybe I can make you feel better....or worse....

The School District had a coffee maker everyone loved. It made the best coffee it was one of those huge stainless steel deluxe versions. One day it stops working and no one wants to toss it they just want it to work again.

The maintenance guy takes it away cracks it open and there on the inside where you dump the water are the hollowed-out carapaces of what I was told were hundreds of the smaller german cockroaches.

That wonderful coffee was because it was filtered through the decayed bodies of cockroaches.... This took years until there were so many of them that the water getting heated up and boiling out the insides could no longer filter....shutter. He told us it was like soft paste of broken down roach parts and the whole ones that had died more recently were at the top. He laughed and said, "Those teachers were drinking roach bio-filtered coffee for years". He never told me if he put it back into operation.


The maintenance guy takes it away cracks it open and there on the inside where you dump the water are the hollowed-out carapaces of what I was told are hundreds of the smaller german cockroaches.

That wonderful coffee was because it was filtered through the decayed bodies of cockroaches.... This took years until there was so many of them that the water getting heated up and boiling out the insides could no longer filter....shutter.

yinniferdurmyd 2 16h4m

If that‘s what made the coffee taste so good maybe it was the fruit flies in my soy sauce that made me love soy sauce lol

wolfgang784 2 8h5m

If you put out a container of water with a teeeny bit of honey or maple syrup mixed in and dish soap on top, it'll kill em by the dozens. Once theres a fuckton in you gotta start over tho otherwise they stop going in.

WhoAreYouWhoAreWe 2 8h11m

I took my friend out for her 21st and bought her first drink. She wanted a Manhattan but the bartender said she couldn’t make her one in good confidence because the vermouth was full on flies 😂

VioletMarzka 2 8h16m

I can't drink mountain dew anymore because of something similar. I spent the night at a friend's place and took a sip of my drink in the middle of the night and just tasted SPICY. I spit it back in the can to realize it was 25% soda and 60% ants. I fucking lost it lmao. Good luck with your soy sauce phobia, mine happened 8 years ago and the sight of mountain dew makes the inside of my tongue itch.

adrnired 2 9h3m

Fruit flies are the bane of my existence. I accidentally left a bowl of oatmeal out in my rush to leave for my vacation a couple of weeks ago. Came home to a full-on colony, larvae and all. I deep-cleaned my kitchen and refuse to let anything sit for over an hour now.

SyntheticAffliction 2 9h21m

Literal soyboy

RexIsAMiiCostume 2 9h25m

Extra protein :)

MiCoHEART 2 9h46m

This happened to me with balsamic vinegar, it’s dreadful.

M2704 2 9h58m

Soylent green. For fruitflies.

Dark_Reaper115 2 11h2m

So... I take it that you don't like your soy sauce crunchy?

flymm 2 11h11m

I keep my soy sauce closed and refrigerated.

Splinterthemaster 2 11h28m

Just store it in the fridge and it'll never happen again.

bashful_scone 2 11h34m

Oh no not the kikkoman bottle?? Now I need to go check mine but I’m afraid to.

yinniferdurmyd 2 16h1m

Spare yourself and just throw it out lol

thigh-highz 2 11h39m

Thank you for validating my fear haha I keep mine covered with a sandwich baggie and a hair tie!

mirandajnm 2 11h47m

Keep the bottle in the fridge.

shinji257 2 11h58m

I left an open can of root beer on the counter top one night. Went to take a drink of it the next day and 3 ear wigs went right into my mouth. They were still alive as well. I spit them out onto the floor. It was the weirdest feeling ever.

Cebas7 2 12h4m

Be careful, Soy sauce has too much sodium on it, you can get stones in your kidneys and fruit flies aswell for this case

beewee673 2 12h33m

Yooo this happened to a friend of mine. She used her toaster every weekday to make toast, and one day it started smelling awful. She assumed the toaster was just old and full of crumbs, so she kept using it. 2 months later, she made toast while her husband was home and he noticed the smell. He showed her the crumb tray that you can pull out from the back bottom side of the toaster, and low and behold, a mouse had gotten in and wedged itself in it. It was burnt to a crisp.

Edit: she’s also vegetarian.

AdolpfOliverNipples0 2 12h35m

That is nasty!!

flamingolegs727 2 12h37m

Lids!!!! Or at least put it in the fridge!! Fruit flies love sweet things!!! OK no noodles for me for a while...thanks for that eww gross!

MrMota 2 12h38m

Yum salty and crunchy!

drpastorpanda 2 12h41m

That's just what happens when MSG grows up

coffeeblood126 2 12h43m

Friendly reminder to also clean out your keurigs with vinegar, the water trays, your espresso machines etc. Found some fly eggs in the tray the other day... 🤢

random8002 2 12h52m

thats gonna be a "bruh" from me dowg

ali-n 2 13h39m

We just keep ours in the fridge along with all the other condiments (ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, worcestershire, etc.)

mommastang 2 14h22m

I worked at a Joey’s fish and chip restaurant and every Sunday am, it was the opening shift responsibility to do this: pour all malt vinegars through a sieve that held an industrial size coffee filter. That way you’d catch all the fruit flies. Then you’d pour the same malt vinegar back into the glass containers and they’d be good for another week.

Quality act, that place.

yinniferdurmyd 2 15h58m

Got me thinking about all the places I was most likely unknowingly eating flies at ewww

Msorr33 2 20h37m

Free protein

Semengine 2 1d11h12m

One time I had a nice glass bubbler that had some cool colors on it and was not transparent that I kept out in the garage to smoke the reefer. I, too, noticed one summer day that it was not functioning like it should, seemed like it was clogged a bit. I was just thinking ok probably a bunch of resin in it, could use a cleaning. Omg dude 😵😵 I had to jam some pipe cleaner in this hole, and you couldn't see what was actually like inside of the bowl, and all of the sudden... flies. So many dead flies, I was so freaked out. I was gagging cleaning it, and just when I thought ight, that's the last of them! There would be more. I basically smoked dead flies and I'm not really sure that that was the right strain. Also I think that was one of the last times I used that bubbler and I stopped leaving my weed paraphernalia out in the garage 😬🙃

Silly_Lavishness6236 2 1d11h54m

Lol omfg damn. I do not envy you.

oliviamcdonaldd 1 1h19m

I love soy sauce too. Apparently so do fruit flies

yinniferdurmyd 2 1h49m

Soy sauce aka fruit fly trap I guess

Hycree 1 2h12m

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeek and I just had noodles and some soy sauce myself...

Thrillhouse74 1 2h49m

Soy vey

Onion5253 1 3h4m

Now is the time to buy a sealable spy sauce bottle

yinniferdurmyd 1 3h20m

Definitely lol

Teripid 1 3h8m

"Do you have any soy sauce that isn't vegan?"

Fit-Analysis6602 1 3h17m

You are still alive! YAY!!! A little bit of extra protein never hurt anyone! Lol. You’re still alive- so no foul… that is funny. Thanks for a giggle this morning…😋

yinniferdurmyd 3 3h23m

You‘re welcome, I had to laugh to after the initial gag lol

skittlescruff11 1 3h18m

You can just put the bottle in the fridge you know..

swirlingcircles 1 3h24m

The flies were having saucy time inside your sauce.

Arkady2009 1 3h42m

Thank you for making me gag, OP.

NorthernStockNoob 1 3h42m

You seem to have survived it just fine.

Typingdude3 1 3h43m

You'll ingest more bug parts at your average outdoor picnic or barbeque at the park. Some people actually coat insects in chocolate and eat them.

opticorange 1 3h43m


Yodan 1 3h46m

Can you buy silver screens for smoking and cut / place one under the cap to fit? They couldn't crawl through them then.

GavinSnowe 1 3h47m

In the bar rescue show, it is always a big issue with the liquor bottles too.

JeanBlancmange 1 3h48m

Keep it in the fridge mate

onzie9 1 3h54m

Your story reminded me so much of my similar FU from a while back.

StinkingDischarge 1 3h56m

I've been looking for something to use the bait fly traps, soy sauce sounds better than shit or rotting meat.

squirtalert96 1 3h56m

i dont see the fuck up? Its literally free protein /s

Ok_Beautiful2252 1 4h1m


MaievSekashi 1 4h13m

Well, at least you know how to kill fruit flies in your house now.

Arvidex 1 4h15m

Flies are probably actually not that bad for you. It’s not a pleasant thought, but if you where used to it, it would probably be no big deal.

adam_demamps_wingman 2 4h21m

Mowing the yard in August in Arizona can add a lot of protein to your diet.

bdonvr 1 8h3m

I think a lot of Arizonians don't even have anything to mow in their lawn

a_random_dino 1 4h16m

at least the soy sauce has more protein now

shafdaddy 1 4h19m

Next time get the pulp-free soy sauce.

HealthyChard9731 1 4h20m

Thanks! Now I know how to trap them

heftylefty44 1 4h22m

Soy sauce... sneaky, sneaky, soy sauce

wobblysauce 1 4h24m

That is the perfect umami flavor.

ooppoo0 1 4h33m

My grandpa used to tell me soy sauce was made from crushed bugs. I guess he was right

guitarmanSteve 1 4h40m

Soy sauce has to be refrigerated once opened.. How are flies getting inside the fridge?

Source: professional fine dining chef for over a decade with culinary school training and food safety certificates.

FoxFilth 1 4h43m

annnnd i’m off to go check my soy sauce lol

rekt555 1 4h44m

No nonononono worst nightmare situation

FewerActually 1 4h49m

Bud, you gotta get a sealed container. Your experience has almost turned me off of soy sauce :-(

When you recover, though, might I recommend you try soy sauce on your popcorn? A gentle spattering makes a tasty savoury treat!

btw_sky_and_earth 1 4h53m

I use a syrup pouring jar for soy sauce. The ones they use at pancake places that has a spring loaded slide opening.

clouddevourer 1 4h54m

Well, at least you discovered that soy sauce bottles are good fruit fly traps! Just pour In some water with apple cider vinegar and the tiniest bit of dishwashing liquid.

kfrostborne 1 4h56m

Well I need to go check my soy sauce now

Untun 1 5h1m

Dont you store the sitt in the fridge? Wouldnt it last longer and avoid this problem with flies?

KassOusSlay 1 5h2m

Lol exact same thing happened to me. Never leaving the soy sauce uncapped ever again

PinkTaco6969 1 5h4m


Headmuck 1 5h5m

I think in the EU fruit flies are actually an officially licensed food. The amount of salt in the soy sauce should have conserved them, the same way it conserves itself. Probably nothing unhealthy about the whole thing. Since fruitflies eat fruit, the chance of any health problems are maybe even lower than eating regular meat even if it is fresh

MonkeyWithAPun 1 5h5m

Good soup

Bo0mBo0m877 1 5h7m

A really easy fruit fly trap I didn't think would work is apple cider vinegar and a drop of dish soap. ACV attracts them and the soap messes with the surface tension so they sink.

Whenever those bastards come around that trap does the trick.

burt_flaxton 1 5h8m

Damn... am I even going to be able to have soy sauce again...

SteveWax022 1 5h11m

Maybe that's why it tasted so good

T-Mc-27 1 5h19m
sploittastic 1 5h19m

Do you not keep the bottle in the refrigerator? But yeah those fruit flies are so annoying, all of our windows have screens but somehow when we open a bottle of wine they seem to appear out of nowhere.

Maskedxangel 1 5h21m

Do you not put your open soy sauce bottle in the fridge? Am I the weirdo who does this?

SteelBox5 1 5h23m

Are you using it to season your food? Soy sauce and it’s different types are for flavor and color and usually not seasoning. That’s what salt, fish sauce, etc are for. You might need to reset your salt palette by cutting your intake for a week or two. Or just keep chugging out I dunno.

anthercanum 1 5h24m

Easy fruit fly trap:

Open container/drinking glass Add some vinegar Add two-three drops of dish soap to break the surface tension Cover the top with cling wrap and put a hair tie or rubber band around the mouth to pull taunt Poke holes in the wrap with a fork or a tooth pick

The fruit flies go through the holes looking for the vinegar and then can’t get out. When they land on the vinegar they sink in and drown. A bottle of wine that’s too old to drink with a bit of wine still in the bottom works great to.

Or soy sauce lol

sunnyspiders 1 5h26m

I have a little rubber band and piece of plastic we call the soy sauce shower cap.

Make one!

a06220 1 5h26m

You have created a new dish: Soy-fermented flies

Feeling-Nectarine466 1 5h32m

Oh please help me 🤮🤮🤮

anteris 1 5h33m

A bit of apple cider vinegar and a little soap on top, kills those fucks good

snoopunit 1 5h34m

use the dish soap and apple cider vinegar concoction. works wonders every year for me.

fman27 1 5h35m

next time get a bottle with a cap on it.

El-cid-98 1 5h37m

Sounds like maybe fruit flies make a delicious condiment.

Nuggzulla 1 5h41m

Extra seasoning achieved

DumeDoom 1 5h45m

good soup

ebonwulf60 1 5h47m

Did you also know that there is an acceptable amount of dead insect carcasses allowed in chocolate bars? Sometimes you just don't want to know.

maali74 1 5h52m

It's fiiiiine, it's just a little extra protein.

Westwood_Shadow 1 5h55m

omg that's a nightmare of mine

ComprehensiveTooth2 1 5h55m

Just use a normal bottle like normal people! Damn!!!

It is so disgusting to me if anything is left open like that. Even a little tiny hole. If it's open to the air it either needs to be closed up or it needs to go to the fridge.

My soy sauce bottle is literally like a 500ml plastic water bottle. Cap screws on nice and tight.

Herbsman200 1 5h56m

You can skip the protein bar today

Paulutot 1 5h58m

Extra proteins and natural flavorings, if you knew of all the bugs and stuff that you eat every day you would probably be shocked. Just be mentally strong and get over it. Its not a big deal man

Iwantmyteslanow 1 8h6m

Yeah, a few bugs is not too dangerous

Ayzak 1 6h3m

Free protein

SkyFallingUp 1 6h8m

What if you kept the soy sauce in the fridge to keep it safe?

drewts86 1 6h11m

Easy fruit fly trap. Cover the bottom of a jar or bottle with apple cider vinegar, then add a couple drops of dish soap.

Explanation: the fruit flies are attracted to the apple cider vinegar and normally they would be able to land on the surface of the vinegar due to surface tension, except the soap breaks the surface tension if the liquid

Baskhuu 1 6h20m

We eat approximately 50 grams (0.1 pound) of bug without knowing every month. Either you accept it or google every food that contains bug and never eat it.

Iwantmyteslanow 1 8h3m

I think lol eat the bugs

Peterman82 1 6h36m

My parents always called it bug juice. Makes sense now.

ShadowGwyrrd 1 6h38m

Brb, gotta check on my soy sauce bottle.

jbomble 1 6h40m

we had that problem b/c we had toddlers who love fruit, and our garage got insane. i got this and took a gamble, but it largely worked. that and the bug-a-salt.


bcb77 1 6h42m

Hey, you didn’t get sick from it, so no big deal. Plus people eat bugs all over the world. Just keep the lid on tight in the future.

sadbelgianwaffle 1 6h45m

oh my god

ILoveRealTeachers 1 6h51m

I have one of those bottles that has a second lid in the screw top that covers that small opening. But the hole is too small, I'm surprised a fly even got in that, or maybe our bottles here have smaller holes.

NerfherdersWoman 1 6h52m

MMMMHHH extra protein no charge it's a lagnaippe!

a_dev_has_no_name 1 6h56m

smh... I knew soy boys were sneaking in protein somewhere

el_morte 1 6h57m


roasted-like-pork 1 7h0m

If it is high quality soy sauce you have to keep it in the fridge, because the salt inside is not enough to keep it from turning bad.

KaramelKatze 1 7h5m

Welp. This just made me make soy sauce eggs… because my soy sauce bottle seals.

I feel for you though. I really do.

DavidRooboxALT 1 7h12m

That's traumatizing.

machinezed 1 7h31m

If you have a fruit fly problem take apple cider vinegar put some in bowl cellophane over the top and poke holes in it with a toothpick. Empty it out every couple of days as it will fill up and hopefully after a week the fruit flies will be gone.

wasteland44 1 7h33m

One thing I haven't seen mentioned is you don't have to live with fruit flies. If you wash your fruit when you get it and/or keep in the fridge. Never leave food out. Put waste straight to outside compost etc.

As a trap put vinegar in a glass and cover with plastic wrap. Put a hole in the center. If you use a dark vinegar you might not think it is working but when you pour it out you can see hundreds of dead flies.

JustinSamu 1 7h39m
AceAteMyCake 1 7h57m

Oh no.....I am a soy sauce maniac and have the exact bottle you do. I also happen to have a fruit fly problem going on at the moment. Brb gonna go strain my beloved soy sauce...

thomasbrakeline 1 8h1m

They don't eat much. Protein too!

AggressiveOsmosis 1 8h2m

I am truly deeply sorry, this would scar me. Lol

JimmyTheDog 1 8h8m

Leave a Sacrificial bottle out for them. Let them into the trap bottle, just don't confuse them...

MascarponeBR 1 8h10m

Today you learned you should use soy sauce with a proper lid

lowgear1 1 8h12m

Next Stop-SURVIVOR!!!

aguy123abc 1 8h13m

It's probably for the better. You're going to die at a young age of a heart attack or something consuming that much soy sauce. Ironically enough those flies might have potentially saved your life if it caused you let up on the soy sauce.

IAmLaureline 1 8h38m

I keep mine in the fridge. I always wondered why the bottle said to do this. Now I know.

LavendarAmy 1 8h46m

Even one is disgusting enough to throw it all awayy

fortalameda1 1 8h50m

This happened to me when my partner left out the balsamic 🤮

Oreo-and-Fly 1 8h55m

Normally put soy sauce in a cupboard.

And always finish the bottle before refilling.

Elibrius 1 8h58m

Trading the huge inconvenience of unscrewing a cap for eating dead fruit flies, worth lol

-Sybylle- 1 9h18m

OK..So I wasn't alone obviously thinking "Man...Don't they sell fridges in your country?"

I mean, once it's opened, be it sauce, canned food, pickles... All you can do is slow the oxygen intake (cap, sealed container, aluminium or plastic cover) and lower the temperature.
This also solves the bug issues ^^

sustainablelove 1 9h20m

I keep it in the fridge. (& Now I feel completely nauseated thinking about poor you and the fruit fly discovery.)

nebenbaum 1 9h37m

Yeah, they do that with the Kikkoman bottles.

chickypoo13 1 9h50m

Lol this reminds me off a time my family was vacationing in destin florida and the ants were awful. My sister went to eat a devils snack cookie and after putting it in her mouth she spit it out because it was completely covered in ants

TH3_F1R3STAR 1 9h57m

Flys just extra protein my dude

Agreeable_Mango_1288 1 10h3m

Extra protein.

anrii 1 10h4m

The last 3 times I've went to use soy sauce it was fish sauce. Fish sauce on pork belly is not nice

anrii 1 10h4m


Maxerocks 1 10h33m

Had this happen with my tea, except it wasn’t flies but a spider... never again

Jackson3rg 1 11h0m

Protip, the next time you're at the store skip soy sauce and try tamari. Basically the same as soy but it's gluten free, contains less sodium, and has a nice savory meaty flavor to it.

Secure-Acanthisitta1 1 11h30m

If that happend to me I dont think I would be that disgusted tbh. I mean poop and pee is a different thing tho

jimbob91577 1 11h50m

Ahhh a fellow soy sauce connisseur - tell me which brand is your goto/favorite? My personal favorite is: https://images.app.goo.gl/mC2LTpWXtkNXFmWr6

yinniferdurmyd 2 15h52m

Well it USED to be Kikkoman

CosmoVibe 1 11h56m

Honestly, I'd rather FIND a pile of fruit flies in my soy sauce than drink a beer and find a horsefly in my mouth.


Karlskiii 1 12h1m

Enjoy the extra protein

Onecrappieday 1 12h7m

If you have fruit flies, you need to clean your damn house

tokixjam 1 12h19m

I have such a fear of accidentally consuming flies, I never let any food sit with any openings. shudder

idfk____e 1 12h33m

Fruit fly juice

Just_Somewhere_8917 0 2h55m

Fun Fact I Learned to Trap Fruit Flies: Put out some Apple Vinegar, all the Little Flies will gather & fall into vinegar. Keep filling it till they are no longer any to be seen……Sometimes they come home with you from Grocery Store🙄

ishkobob 1 4h49m

