Have we all gone a bit soft compared to yesterday’s Angler?

[BoldBear]

After reading another post on here I thought I’d ask a question:

You should see the food that Ive occasionally eaten when I’m out fishing. 

Ive eaten food after handling maggots several times; and handling lug worm and garden worms and slugs and other things like that and not felt ill.

I think I might have built up a resistance over the years as (so far) I haven’t suffered any ill affects, or I may have just been lucky.

And I remember when I was a lad; I accidentally ate some maggots when I had blindly placed a ham sandwich on the grass next to me after my float went under; I thought the sandwich was a bit gristly and after swallowing a few bites I noticed that my maggots had been spilt onto the grass and had crawled inside my sandwich. I wasn’t very happy about it and I started gagging a bit but I didn’t feel I’ll or anything.

It is a well known fact that  some anglers up in the midlands and the north used to place maggots under their tongues on a cold day to keep them wriggling.

Perhaps we are a little too careful and paranoid these days, and some people these days don’t seem to have the same resistance to germs and viruses that we used to have; because of this? What do others think, are we a bunch of pansies today?

Keith

Edited May 25, 2020 by BoldBear

[Martin56]

I've always thought that kids these days should get some muck under their nails (& even eat bogies)

It builds resistance in later life IMHO.

We've all done it!!

[chesters1]

Not only resistance kids are getting so sheltered they dont mix with adults outside the family so cannot judge the difference to what they say and what they mean .

I found out what kiddy fiddlers were by experience in the 50's lol now they do it from the comfort of their homes then get into trouble!

[Martin56]

May have wandered a bit off track there Dave??

We were talking about getting down & dirty - but not like that!!

Playing with Gas Tar on cobbled streets, poking earwigs from fence holes, making dens & starting grass fires!!

I used to go home smelling like Joan of Arc more times than enough!! I was about 7.

Edited May 25, 2020 by Martin56

[Martin56]

I've always instilled with my kids & grandkids that if a stranger offers you sweeties - Get some for me!!

[*Ant*]

I remember as kids my brother putting maggots in his mouth to warm them up and make them wriggle. We jumped him and poked and tickled him to make him swallow them.  He only did it the once. 

[corydoras]

14 hours ago, *Ant* said:

I remember as kids my brother putting maggots in his mouth to warm them up and make them wriggle. We jumped him and poked and tickled him to make him swallow them.  He only did it the once. 

Some men will take anything in their mouth.

[chesters1]

It was how it was done at the time ,if you braved ice in your rings you needed maggots in your mouth lol

I went on a club trip to a maggot farm in the 60's eye watering smell and disturbing seeing parts of animals moving by themselves !must be like a modern meat processing plant i guess.

Amusingly they all were given names! Maggot! Call one they all came

Once they came out of the shed they were very clean ,most probably the opposite of modern meat processing plants when theres no inspection going on

Edited May 26, 2020 by chesters1

[corydoras]

1 hour ago, chesters1 said:

It was how it was done at the time ,if you braved ice in your rings you needed maggots in your mouth lol

I went on a club trip to a maggot farm in the 60's eye watering smell and disturbing seeing parts of animals moving by themselves !must be like a modern meat processing plant i guess.

Amusingly they all were given names! Maggot! Call one they all came

Once they came out of the shed they were very clean ,most probably the opposite of modern meat processing plants when theres no inspection going on

You can gob maggots if you like, me not so much.

 

Tell me something did the mouth warmed maggot keep wriggling once they were in the cold water? Critical thinking is not strong in some.

Edited May 26, 2020 by corydoras

[Ken L]

Maggots in the mouth isn't nice (search for "oral myiasis" if you're brave enough) but it was the chrysoidine used to colour them back in the 70's and early 80's that was more likely to do you serious harm and it was common to see anglers eating their lunch with bright orange hands.