Thank you all for your input--especially the info about the maggots. Yes, it
is indeed maggot weather. I'll never forget living in Beirut before the civil
war damaged that lovely Levantine city and finding my steak, left in a sort of
pie safe, had "grown" maggots overnight. Ugh. The next month (I was living on
a tiny local reporters' salary) I found a second hand mini fridge.
zemedelec