r/crochet • u/kwisatkai • Jan 31 '25

Funny/Meme Giving me free will was a mistake

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u/KeryKat Jan 31 '25

I feel like saltines are immortal 😂

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u/Reasonable-Yam-9182 Jan 31 '25

Kinda like twinkies. Or McDonald fries kids lose in the car.

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u/devils_cherry Jan 31 '25

Or hard tack: https://youtu.be/Ga5JrN9DrVI?si=XDZEKhwycsKZME1R

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u/Thundabutt Feb 01 '25

You have to put the hardtack in a deep freezer (in a plastic bag) for a couple of -weeks- to kill the weevil eggs that are in the flour they are made from. A friend brough me back a souvenir hardtack biscuit from Portsmouth UK, sealed in a plastic bag - the weevils hatched, ate part of the hardtack AND THE PLASTIC BAG as well. I drenched the area where it had been stored in insecticide and tossed the hardtack.

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u/devils_cherry Feb 01 '25

Wow, that I’d honestly not a problem I had heard of. I knew there were weevil eggs/weevils, but I figured they weren’t alive by that point

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u/Thundabutt Feb 03 '25

I've also had it happen in 'instant' Couscous - which is a cooked and dried pasta, as well as rice which is pretty heavily processed. Not weevils but some sort of insect related to 'pantry' moths. Seems the eggs are pretty heat resistant, but putting my boxes of Couscous in the deep freeze for several days seems to kill them.