MUNGGO LIES? (LICE)

I love eating ginisang munggo with ampalaya leaves. Especially when you put chicharon baboy on it and the soup is not so thin and not so thick. My Aunt Baby who used to be a cook in a canteen usually cooks it with malunggay leaves and sayote. I so love to eat that i eat whatever my mom and aunt cook since they're the best when it comes to cooking.

So, imagine my surprise and disgust when i saw black little thingies on our munggo seeds. Yuucckks!!! It's so awful!!! Thought we were invaded by small aliens (so much for watching alien movies). They're like ticks, as in ticks (the one you see on your hairy pets eg.-dogs). I got hysterical when i saw them, and my mom said that those seeds are fresh harvest and needed to be sun dried first to eliminate the black eewwness creatures. So i overreacted, hyperventilated, almost hate the person who gave it to us when my mom finally said that she will do something about it.Then guess what my mom decided to have for dinner!!! (Yeah, what else?? Ginisang munggo!!!) Argghh...

I forced myself to eat, which normally doesn't happen when its eating time. I keep on imagining the lice (kuto ng munggo in tagalog) still alive and crawling on top of my rice. But i ate anyway. (I'm hungry ok!) I ate half a cup of rice and it took me long minutes to just check if there's lice on my soup. I usually take a second serving of dinner but not this time. Lost all my appetite! Next thing i know, mom still kept a bag of these seeds and will expose them to the sun the next day. Ahh, what a way to start the day tomorrow.

So for those of you who loves to eat munggo, check for crawling creatures first before you cook them. I know they will die under intense heat but would you rather eat without lice or with a dead lice.

BEWARE!!!!