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The Case of the Caramel Corn Larva

November 26, 2010 By Dana White | 6 Comments

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I don’t wear brown shoes very often.

In fact, I must not wear them at all.  I didn’t even remember that I had some.

So while looking through my closet for something to wear with my new brown skirt, I was overly excited to see that I do have brown shoes.

So excited that I completely forgot about the news-show-story I saw 10 years ago about a woman who didn’t check the inside of her shoe and was bitten by a Black Widow Spider.

I put my foot in the shoe . . . and there was something IN IT!!!!

So I did what any self-respecting woman would do.  I screamed.

Bloody murder.

My loving and heroic husband called from the next room to see what in the world was wrong.  I held the shoe as far away from my body as I could and took it to him, screaming again as something fell out of it.  I had barely glanced inside the shoe and was certain that there was a large, light-colored larva in it.  HUGE.

He looked inside (a little nervously) and said . . . that it looked like caramel corn.

It was caramel corn.

The picture is of the shoe after he dumped the caramel-corn-larva in the trash.  He refused to taste it to be sure it really was caramel corn.

Now, it’s a little embarrassing to find caramel corn inside a shoe that I didn’t remember I owned.  As in, I haven’t worn it in at least a year.  Which means that the caramel-corn-larva has been inside it, inside my closet . . . for a year.

I don’t have any idea how it got there.  I don’t eat caramel corn in my closet that I know of.

Unless I do it in my sleep.

The only clue I have is that the second thing to cause screaming, the thing that jumped/fell out of the shoe, was a sliver of wallpaper.

I’m guessing that the shoe used to be at the back door (in the room I painted last November) with all of the other shoes, in the hopes of being worn.  The caramel corn probably found its way into the shoe while there.  When I reorganized our shoes last JANUARY and put away the rarely worn ones, it ended up in my closet.

I honestly don’t know which is worse, larva or caramel corn.

Or which would make a better story.

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  1. Cherish says

    November 26, 2010 at 4:40 pm

    EWWW! I would have screamed too. I've found bugs in my shoes before, in frequently worn ones.

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  2. Becky says

    November 28, 2010 at 5:24 am

    so was is larva or caramel corn? I don't get it. I'd say in your case, either are excusable… you just had a bug man, right? maybe some little critter escaped to your shoe or if it was caramel corn…a 4 year old explains that!!

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  3. Nony the Slob says

    November 28, 2010 at 6:14 pm

    My husband says it was caramel corn. I was too afraid to look closely.

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  4. Mary @ Giving Up On Perfect says

    November 30, 2010 at 11:32 pm

    Oh my gosh, this CRACKED me UP!!!! (And I would have screamed, too!)

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  5. Julia says

    October 5, 2012 at 8:39 pm

    Hahahahaha! Thanks for a good chuckle. 😀 My husband is also used to me screaming bloody murder about stuff. 😉

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  6. Roberta says

    December 2, 2015 at 1:53 pm

    Caramel corn is ALWAYS better than larvae. In ANY situation.

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