When I was quite small, about 7, I was really enjoying my dinner, I'd recently cut one of my sprouts in half and eaten that, then had some more off my plate, went back to the sprout in question, and saw something black on the cut surface so prodded it about with my cutlery and let out a squawk. my mother looked to see what the problem was - yes, Jennifer certainly has got exactly half an earwig in half a sprout ......
I never ate another sprout for years and then would only eat them after chopping them up quite finely on my plate. I've had to explain why to numerous people over the years. It's only about the last 5 years I've stopped doing that!
