A very close call

Fruit is pretty much the best.  Especially while I've been pregnant, I've eaten fruit like I'm a Spider Monkey.  It comes in phases; there were some weeks when I ate four or five grapefruits, then pounds of blueberries, then entire watermelons.  Recently, it's been plums and peaches, and they've been glorious.  Until a few days ago.

Before I tell you what happened though, first you have to know that both Brad and Pippy do not share my fruit enthusiasm.  Pippy is very selective about the fruit she eats.  She never, ever eats fruit by just biting into it; she'll only eat fruit that either she has cut herself or that she has actually seen someone else cut.  I don't understand this, and she can't explain it, but that's how it is.  

Brad grew up with strawberry Poptarts as a main fruit source in his young life.  He doesn't really trust "food" that comes from "outside."  Case in point, there was a pear tree that grew in his backyard when he was little.  Not only did he and his brothers not recognize the fruit as edible, they used them as ammunition and hurled them as hard as they possibly could at each other.  

I once asked him if they ever ate a single pear from that tree and he said "No, we just said 'Get out of here weird things from this tree!' and then chunked them over the fence."  Perfect.

To this day he's suspicious of lots of food, saying that it all probably has bugs in it.

They are both clearly ridiculous.  Or so I thought.

Two days ago I was happily munching on a plum.  I didn't cut it up because that's silly.  As I took a big bite Brad said, "Why are you eating that plum like an animal?"

As he said it, part of the pit broke away, and there, inside the pit WAS A BUG!

OMG, OMG, OMG THERE WAS A BUG IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PLUM AND IT WAS ALIVE!

AHHHHH!

I have never even heard of this!  How could there be a bug inside a plum pit?  Just living there?  What does it drink?  How does it live?   

I'm not talking about a little bug either, it was almost as big as the whole pit.  It was like a worm bug, and I'm pretty sure it had fangs:

Okay, so that looks more like a longhorn vampire bug, but I wasn't really studying it as I was trying not to eat it.  Just know that it was terrifying.  

Immediately, I spit the plum out and thrust it at Brad without saying a word.  Then, I ran away and thought about not throwing up for a while. 

When I recovered, I found Brad hard at work Googling the bug (because in a crisis, Brad will get to the bottom of things!).  Apparently, it is a bug that lives in plums and eats the pit.  So there you go.

Honestly, I didn't really want to know much more, other than it wasn't poisonous and I wasn't going to die, so I can't tell you much else about the Plum Bugs.  Just...you know, watch out for them.

The whole experience has forced me to rethink my fruit philosophy.  Are Pippy and Brad right?  Should I cut up all my fruit from now on since apparently bugs in your fruit is a legitimate fear?  I don't know.  I just don't know what to believe anymore.  

Which is why I've been sticking to ice cream for the last two days.  Cherry Garcia.  All the fruit, none of the bugs.