As you're taking pop from a 12 pack in the fridge, you notice something brown rolling in the carton. No big deal. As you're removing the last can, the brown thing rolls forward and appears to be a petrified insect cocoon of some sort. What would you do?

Throw it away. I wouldn’t give it a second thought. After all, the stuff I drank was in cans and clearly not contaminated. And this was the last can.

I might think to myself “gee, they need better quality control at Dr. Pepper”, but that’s about all.

This would me a major ‘so what’ moment for me.

~ I’d call the cops! The only way a 12 pack of Diet Pepper would be in my fridge is if someone broke in and put it there!

I’d toss the carton and the cocoon. I’d drink the pop as usual and forget about it.*

*I am a responsible, middle aged, white, healthy male, employed and receiving a comfortable income. Others with different personal characteristics might try to milk the situation by calling the media hoping for a settlement.
They are more offensive than the insect cocoon.

It has all been said. Dr. Pepper is gross. A little cocoon would probably make it taste better.

Take a picture, post it on Facebook and tag my entomologist friend for identification. Present it to my son for analysis. Go to library and check out a book on insert bug name. Have son write a small report on information presented in the book. Scan the document and save in C:\Documents\Homeschool\Science

I would take out one of my two resident microscopes and get a better look it. Get 10 year old son involved and and figure out what insect it is. My kid likes American soda and I buy a can very rarely as a treat for him. It doesn’t even come in the boxes like what is described here. I don’t care about the soda. The science is what it’s about.

And it can’t be petrified, @ibstubro, just all dried out.

I probably would rinse the tops of the cans if I were going to drink directly from them.

Dang, now I wish I hadn’t done as @elbanditoroso and @LuckyGuy suggest and just thrown it out.

@Seek and @cazzie had a much more informative approach.

I was on the last can, @majorrich. Didn’t hurt me any. lol

@Dutchess_III synonyms of petrify are desiccate and dehydrate, but I appreciate you sticking to the question as asked.

OK. I stand corrected. And I did answer the question as asked. Wait! Did you find out if the bug could be recycled??

The question, as asked, is “What would you do?” It’s that little squiggly thing at the end that defines it.

How big is it? dime, quarter or larger size? shape? Pic?

Sorry, @ARE_you_kidding_me. Out with the trash.

The closest I can find is the dark brown one, second from right, but it appeared desiccated when I found it.

1¼ – ½”.

I wasn’t 100% it was dead, or I might have put it with the dehydrated frog I found outside the bathroom. lol

I’d take it as a sign that I shouldn’t be referring to soda as “pop.”

I’d take a pic of it with my phone.

Then I’d flush it down the toilet so it wouldn’t hatch in the house or yard.

Name the insect Fred and give it a proper burial. Make a toast with the diet Dr. Pepper.

looks like Caterpie; a Pokemon.

Here @ibstubro.

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@Dutchess_III

Well, twice now you’ve gotten on me for supposedly not answering the question as you asked it. My link was to show you that I did answer the question as you asked it, long time ago. It was my first response.

What would you do?, @Dutchess_III?

I was the third one to post. Above me @elbanditoroso and @LuckyGuy said they’d just throw it away and forget about it. Lucky Guy added his opinion that Dr. Pepper is just nasty.

I said, “It has all been said. Dr. Pepper is gross. A little cocoon would probably make it taste better.”

This meant I would just throw it away as well, and not worry about it. I also think Dr. Pepper is nasty.

Like Seek, I’d try to find out the insect that this was supposed to be.

and for me it would be beer, not pop

LOL!

I only showed the cocoon to one person, and they said, “I’d take it back to the store and demand they give me another one.”

Well geeze, it was the 11th or 12th can out of the box when I noticed the bug. Plus, the carton sat in the garage for an undetermined period of time. Once out of the store, the pop is not their responsibility. If I’d brought it home and some ginormous moth flew out of it, I couldn’t prove it did get there in the car home.

But if it was beer, @Symbeline, it would be in bottles at my house, so no possibility of bug juice on my mouth. ~

But if it was beer, @Symbeline, it would be in -bottles- in my tummy at my house, so no possibility of bug juice on my mouth. ~

Fixed right? :D

for some reason the strikeout shows in my preview but not the posted result. Must be too drunk. Damn cocoon juice.

Hm. So, the store actually sold those cocoons and they could give you another one? Ha ha! Gail Called, say “Hello!”

Too many – _ – @Symbeline.

It frustrates me that —- won’t make a whisper strikeout.

I tried taking the two _’s away. Just weird that it shows it working in the preview. Ah well, what are ye gonna do.

drink sum cocoonz, dats wut

Did two dashes – - work before, @ibstubro?

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If you mess up the dashes and underlines, it will preview but not post, @Symbeline.

Earlier today I tried to make a strike out in a whisper and it looked fine until I posted.

Like this here

Edit: Dammit, now it works.
Must have been some other combination.