The answer should almost always be no, and a study published in Scientific Reports gives more reasons why such a side dish is not good. You've heard the saying: "on it like flies on poop" (except some use another word equivalent to the word "poop")? Flies don't exactly hang out in the cleanest environments, unless you count excrement, garbage, and carcasses as clean environments. The study also raises the possibility that in the future scientists could use flies to monitor the pathogens in the environment. Yes, such testing can show how bacteria flies over time.

Source: Forbes November 25, 2017 16:18 UTC