Weevils - do you eat them or not?

[Hocus Eye.]

A few years ago I started to use an old bag of flour that had not been used for a long time because I had several different kinds of flour. When I looked at it it seemed to have lots of little dark holes in it. When I poured it into a bowl and added water the black hole floated to the top. I realised that these little dark holes were in fact tiny black creatures. They were weevils. The bag of flour found its way quite quickly into the waste bin.

What had me wondering is where they had come from. To be in the flour they must have grown from eggs that were laid in the flour at the flour mill or processing factory.

I have heard of ship's biscuits having weevils in them in the olden days - the golden days, and that sailors just got on and ate them weevils and all. I am too squeamish for that however, and will only be eating ships biscuits if there is a world shortage of Hobnobs and every other kind of biccy that is made.

Sufficient unto the day is the weevil thereof.

 

[alfajobrob]

So I just put some rice onto cook and realised there were some small brown things floating on top of the water. Then examined the rice container and realised that the small brown things were moving.

At first I thought I would eat the rice anyway - I'm not veggie and they're not going to kill me. But then I just couldn't eat it knowing there were bugs in it. Which is stupid because I'm sure I've eaten them 100s times before without knowing. But it was the knowing iyswim.

Would you eat them? Am I a pathetic girly wimp for not eating them given (according to wiki) they are a valuable source of vitamins for many people in countries where rice is a mainstay of the diet?

Are you starving are you adrift on a ship drinking piss

Thats the only time you should consider this stuff....