Creepy Crawlies In A Box Of Rice.

Tilly2 | 20:00 Thu 02nd Nov 2017 | Food & Drink

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Last night I made, for the first time ever, a Thai Green chicken curry. That was going well.

I took a previously opened box of Thai sticky rice from the cupboard and got out my scales to weigh the amount. When I poured the rice into the weighing pan, I noticed lots of little black flecks on the surface of the rice. Initially, I thought it may have been husks but I decided to leave it in the weighing pan for a while and see what happened. All the black specks disappeared. They had burrowed down under the surface!

Fortunately, I had some different, uncontaminated rice and cooked that.

The other box went in the bin!

I have just spent a delightful ten minutes researching rice and cereal pests. That was amusing.

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jno

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the face of true weevil

07:49 Fri 03rd Nov 2017

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Old_Geezer

Can happen :-( Wonder if they got into your box when you opened it, or, heaven forbid, were there all the time.

Maybe airtight Tupperware (or similar) is the way to go ?

Hopkirk

That's the protein

Old_Geezer

Probably all good protein anyway.

Jahulaye

Sooo... what were those creatures?

Tilly2

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It could have been a number of them, Jahulaye. I really don't know.

Tilly2

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All my other packets of rice are in a tupperware container. This was one that was tucked away, forgotten, at the back of the cupboard. I won't do that again. It was very disconcerting!

Jahulaye

Reminds me of a vampire movie when they’re eating rice and when he looks back at the box it’s wriggling maggots, ewwww

Tilly2

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The way they disappeared! It was like a magic trick.

Jahulaye