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| Thread ID: 78991 | 2007-05-05 00:53:00 | Be afraid. Be very afraid... of your rice! | Greg (193) | PC World Chat |
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| 547156 | 2007-05-05 00:53:00 | We opened a brand new packet of Sun Rice brand medium grain brown rice. It had live weevils in it! :eek: | Greg (193) | ||
| 547157 | 2007-05-05 00:56:00 | Meat flavoured, eh ? PJ | Poppa John (284) | ||
| 547158 | 2007-05-05 01:13:00 | Active protein-plus rice, strictly for non-vegetarians. Do you have a permit for keeping livestock? Have you registered your weevils and checked their vaccinations are up-to-date? | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 547159 | 2007-05-05 01:21:00 | A little extra protein is good for you...wanna talk about oatmeal? Or beer? Or uncooked broccoli or asparagus? How about sushi? We call it bait here. The worms wriggle out of the dark "lines" in the fish..but that's just where the vermin live. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 547160 | 2007-05-05 01:26:00 | Weevils are common. Unless you keep stuff in your pantry in containers, you most likely have a colony. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 547161 | 2007-05-05 01:38:00 | It does happen from time to time. We have found weevils in 5kg bags of flour, and in wheatbran from "bulk buy" bins. The Chinese, that very evil unscrupulous empire, has found a new way of adding protein to foods, pet food and gluten, scrap melamine ground up into powder. Apparently it responds to tests for protein in a similar way to real protein. Numerous pets have died in the US, with reports from hundreds to thousands. This just one of many reports found by Google: pug.meetup.com |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 547162 | 2007-05-05 02:51:00 | In the Royal Navy sail powered ships fresh food was always in short supply. Instead of bread there was "biscuit", baked to be brick hard. Table manners in the wardroom included tapping the biscuit gently on the table. This caused the weevils to leave. The stories don't say what was done with them. Perhaps they were fed to the lower decks in their stew. Perhaps fresh weevils would have been preferable to the meat supplied by the lowest bidders, and "preserved" in brine. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 547163 | 2007-05-05 03:13:00 | We opened a brand new packet of Sun Rice brand medium grain brown rice. It had live weevils in it! :eek: Imported from...? :D |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 547164 | 2007-05-05 03:16:00 | In the Royal Navy sail powered ships fresh food was always in short supply . I am hoping that we are talking about the 'old' navy . . . at least not in the last few years :waughh: And as for the thread title- Greg should work for a tabloid newspaper with such an ingenuous intro, I was hoping for a story about killer fluffy rice :p |
Shortcircuit (1666) | ||
| 547165 | 2007-05-05 03:49:00 | Since the topic is rice and since I have a cycle race tomorrow morning, does anyone have a good rice risotto recipe, for carbo-loading purposes? | johcar (6283) | ||
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