【读新闻学英语】浪漫晚宴，用蛆纪念：还是你们悉尼比较会玩......

"Would you like flies with that?" could well be the question from the staff at a Sydney pub which has admitted it presented a customer with a steak served with a side of fly larvae. Stella Kim said she still feels ill recalling the incident; an anniversary dinner which turned into a maggot-infested meal.

“您想配着苍蝇吃这道菜吗？”估计只有悉尼这家餐厅的工作人员会问出这种问题。餐厅承认向顾客提供的牛排菜式上有苍蝇的幼卵。Stella Kim说回想起这件事她依然作呕，她的拍拖庆祝晚宴成了被蛆入侵的一顿饭。

larvae：幼虫；幼体

maggot：蛆

The Ranch Hotel, on Sydney's north shore, is now in panic control. While the pub insists it takes food safety "very seriously" it has admitted that the crawling larvae found its way into the meal.

悉尼北岸的Ranch酒店餐厅正在应对食客的恐慌。虽然餐厅声称对食物安全“无比重视”，但也承认蛆卵不知怎么爬进了饮食。

crawl：爬行；匍匐行进

Ms Kim visited the hotel last week with her partner Sushil Lamichhane to celebrate being together for 1000 days. Both ordered steaks but when they arrived, the unwanted garnish was immediately apparent on one of the dishes. "Maggots were crawling over and there was a lot of them. It was like a rotten carcass.” Video posted to Facebook showed the small white creatures slithering across the glistening meat.

金女士上周和伴侣Sushil Lamichhane来到这家餐厅庆祝他们在一起一千天。两人都点了牛扒，但等牛扒上来后其中一面上立刻出现不请自来的“调味品”。“蛆在上面爬来爬去，而且是很多，简直就像一块腐烂的尸体。”脸书视频显示这些白色小生物在油光的肉上不停蠕动。

garnish：装饰；装饰菜

carcass：尸体

slither：蜿蜒滑行

glistening：闪亮的；白花花的

The pub's statement said they served 262 steaks that day but just one was returned due to its unwanted ingredient. "Our investigation concluded that the incident was due to fly larva laid after the meal was cooked, as it is not possible for lava to survive the cooking process.  All our kitchen staff are experienced and accredited in food safety and The Ranch stands by its food safety record and processes."

餐厅发表声明说，他们当天烹制了262块牛排，只有一块出现意外的配料。“我们的调查结论是，这起事故是苍蝇在做好的菜上留下了卵，因为蛆虫是不可能在烹饪过程中存活的。我们的所有厨师都经验丰富而且获得过食品安全认证。Ranch一直严守食品安全记录和流程。”

ingredient：原料；成分

accredited：公认的；可信任的

The pub had reported itself to the local council and had apologised to Ms Kim. However, she is less than convinced by the explanation given. "If someone is [an] expert in biology and thermodynamics, please review the video so that they are educated on food handling.” Several of the pub's customers have also cast doubt on the pub's response. How could larvae be laid between when the steak was cooked and served?

餐厅已向市政汇报此事并且对Kim女士道歉。但Kim不接受餐厅给出的解释。“有生物学或热学专家的话，请看一下视频，教导一下餐厅怎么处理食品安全。”其他食客也对餐厅的答复表示质疑：牛排从煮熟到上菜过程，苍蝇怎么可能排下卵然后成蛆呢？

thermodynamics：热力学

cast doubt：对……产生怀疑

Asked if she would ever return to the Ranch hotel, Ms Kim has one answer: “Never".

被问到是否还会回Ranch餐厅用餐时，Kim女士只有一句回答：“绝不”。

（图片均来源于Facebook）

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