On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 23:42:08 +0100, "Paul King"
wrote:

People don't generally realise this, but - the weevil egg is smaller than a
grain of flour, and therefore impossible to separate from the flour. We
therefore eat weevil eggs - albeit killed by the cooking process (bread,

Weevils and similar were considered good nutrition many years ago. I'm
sure the people who sailed on HMS Victory looked forward to their
ration of weevils.....

PoP