A Polish jalapeño pastry
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I'll never understand why people call wasps "bees". They are extremely different. It's like calling deer "horses". Why is this a thing?
Because I just glanced at the picture while hiding my phone from customers and thought they were bees
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Compared to (my impression of) north America I think there are some contributing factors:
- Less sprawl: Bakeries are usually in a town/neighborhood (which has more nature compared to the US, therefore also more insects) and not surrounded by a huge parking lot where no wasps would live. There are also many neigbouhring properties with different owners/occupants. So their nest might nor be on your property or even somewhere where you'd be able to locate it.
- (more) indipendent shops: I see waaaay less wasps in the baked good section in supermarkets here as well. Bakeries are usually not huge so it is just a short distance for the wasps to fly in a confinded space. Bakeries are also not usually airconditioned which would probably irritate wasps.
- conservation laws: Wasps are considerd a protected species in Germany and catching, harming or killing them without a proper reason can carry a fine of up to 5-65k€ depending on the kind of wasp and the state. In general wasp nests can only be moved by professional and licenced exterminators (and they only do it when necessary, like the nest being near a kindergarten or in an occupied builduing).
I think Europe and surrounding countries do a lot of shit right, but some things like protecting wasps and making melatonin prescription genuinely baffle me. What the fuck
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Fuck, I entered a bakery in Vienna once that was flooded with wasps everywhere. I asked about it and the person just went
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My kids screamed his head off two days ago. There's ants in the house. I'm like yeah whatever. I go to check it out. There were thousands of ants in the house. They came in through a little spot near the garage went all the way down one wall along another wall straight through the kitchen under the fridge to a single crunchy snack thing that fell onto the floor.
I'm not too worried about this fly or two or an and or two and I leave spiders alone If they've picked a nice quiet corner. But I can't have thousands of ants in my kitchen.
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I prefer desease free wasp food over pigeon and rat shit in my cooked food.
I guess in the end I eat both. I try to buy locally whenever possible, but I guess sugar is hard to source locally.
To be perfectly honest, local isn't any better as far as pests. There's never been a rat free grain or corn silo. Presumably you could get pretty close to clean if you refined the sugar out of beets, But they grow in the ground in the dirt with all the insects and pests...
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Africanised bees will be like that, but we don't really have them in europe as far as I know.
Wasps usually only get really stingy if you disturb their nest or come way too close to it.
You'll find wasps in almost any bakery in summer. Also in and around garbage cans.
You grab the pastry and they will usually fly away and settle onto the next one a bit later.
Wait, this is a common occourrence? It's normal to see wasps on pastries?
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I'll never understand why people call wasps "bees". They are extremely different. It's like calling deer "horses". Why is this a thing?
A bee is a type of wasp, is it not? I think techniclly ants are wasps too.
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As an American, I can say most Americans barely know Poland exists. They know the name and little else.
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Wait, this is a common occourrence? It's normal to see wasps on pastries?
Yes, if you leave them outside at summer. No wasps in bakeries or coffeeshops in Finland.
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Yes, if you leave them outside at summer. No wasps in bakeries or coffeeshops in Finland.
God I love the Finns. Finnish coffee sounds amazing too.
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Wait, this is a common occourrence? It's normal to see wasps on pastries?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I'm from germany, and it indeed is in summer, even in large cities. Wasps come in with the customers and wont leave.
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Can't say I'd be delighted about this, but they'll very quickly leave when the food's disturbed and wasps - like bees - don't leave behind diseases or eggs. The same cannot be said for flies - if those were flies I wouldn't touch anything in the shop.
And wasps will kill any fly that dares come close. Only thing they like more than sugar is protein.
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I'm from germany, and it indeed is in summer, even in large cities. Wasps come in with the customers and wont leave.
Do German wasps attack you unprovoked like ours do?
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My kids screamed his head off two days ago. There's ants in the house. I'm like yeah whatever. I go to check it out. There were thousands of ants in the house. They came in through a little spot near the garage went all the way down one wall along another wall straight through the kitchen under the fridge to a single crunchy snack thing that fell onto the floor.
I'm not too worried about this fly or two or an and or two and I leave spiders alone If they've picked a nice quiet corner. But I can't have thousands of ants in my kitchen.
Ants are gross.
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Africanised bees will be like that, but we don't really have them in europe as far as I know.
Wasps usually only get really stingy if you disturb their nest or come way too close to it.
You'll find wasps in almost any bakery in summer. Also in and around garbage cans.
You grab the pastry and they will usually fly away and settle onto the next one a bit later.
There seems to be a vast gulf here. American wasps will fukin attack you for fun. So you kill them first.
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Measured in kilotons
Mmm. I don't know much about ordinance, but that looks like a conventional line charge to me. I'm probably wrong.
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I think Europe and surrounding countries do a lot of shit right, but some things like protecting wasps and making melatonin prescription genuinely baffle me. What the fuck
Fuk wasps.
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Tell me your secret on how to get these things out of a building, it's already freaking hard in a house where the door doesn't open every 5 minutes.
Flies or wasps are also a completely different thing. The worst/only thing that can happen with wasps is that one doesn't move away when you take a bite and stings you.
Edit: yes I know mosquito nets etc will help against flies, but that generally doesn't help in a store (depending on the type of door even impossible). Plus once they open insects like to get in with the people at the same time and even if nothing opens they tend to find a way in a lot of buildings.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Tell me your secret
In the US, many stores with food (grocery stores, restaurants) have what’s essentially a crappy pressurized airlock. You go through one set of doors, above which is an outward-facing blower, into a small room with higher pressure, then through another set of doors. The airlock is also often filled with hidden bug zappers, but even without them, insects getting in would be drastically reduced.
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Tell me your secret
In the US, many stores with food (grocery stores, restaurants) have what’s essentially a crappy pressurized airlock. You go through one set of doors, above which is an outward-facing blower, into a small room with higher pressure, then through another set of doors. The airlock is also often filled with hidden bug zappers, but even without them, insects getting in would be drastically reduced.
Well yeah that works I guess, impossible to fit into old and often small buildings though so not an option for us.
Let alone at home!Thx for the response!
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It is Polish. No idea why the dude even went there, it is a Polish bakery with wasps on the food. Not uncommon to see over there with some places that are outside or keep doors open.
Um ... you aren't getting the joke?
It's a Polak joke. They are a bit out of style in the US. More of a 60's thing. But it was huge.
Are you pretending that this isn't happening?
