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17th November 2010, 12:51 AM
#11
weevils
while i was on the laptop i came across the mention of weevils it brings back of the time we was guests of the japs in one camp i was in the rice we got not did have weevils but a lot of other crawly things and also other things we use to try and pick these thing out but we got so hungry we use to look at another and eat i think it gave the rice a bit of flavour i dont eat rice now lou barron
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17th November 2010, 09:39 AM
#12
i once came across a part used tin of dried yeast from the back of a cupboard. when i opened it out came what i thought was a cloud of dust. it was alive!. so how did it survive in an airtight tin? and what was it?. alf

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17th November 2010, 12:23 PM
#13
Jim , sent you a few PM's but none seem to go out.
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18th November 2010, 04:56 AM
#14
Alf mate it might have been a cloud of talcum powder, the weevils wanted to smell nice just for you.


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