You gotta love em !

[Barney R]

I went shopping a couple of months ago with my girlfriend of about a year, we had just moved into a new house with cooking facilities and we were stocking the larder so to speak . She is very very thrifty ( I am sure she was born on the border between Scotland and Jerusalem ) and we argued over buying a large bag do rice as opposed to a smaller one . I tried to explain there is only two of us and we have to store it ect ect ( actually had to buy a large container to store it in and that was the same price as the rice but once something is in their heads there is no point in arguing )Anyhow long story short we get weevils in the rice and I point out the fact we should have got the 1 kg bag but she just looked at me and said " well if you ate more rice it would have been finished and there would not be any weevils " . You just gotta love em .

[soi41]

Why do some guys get all the excitement??

[A1Str8]

No disrespect but I am actually annoyed by their limited mental capacity to understand things. Maybe a 1kg bag and 1kg common sense would have solved the problem.

[thaibeachlovers]

So you refused to pay around 100 baht for a container to put the rice in?

Seems it's you that is the "thrifty" one .

My wife buys the big bags and stores them in a large styrofoam chilly bin, and we've never had wevils in the rice..

[tim armstrong]

No disrespect but I am actually annoyed by their limited mental capacity to understand things. Maybe a 1kg bag and 1kg common sense would have solved the problem.

Well yes, it is disrespectful. Most Thais who have never travelled O/S think that rice is essential to every meal. Maybe it's because they can afford it, and haven't really taken on too may other cuisines. If I ask them what they think farlang eat in their own countries - they usually say pizza, burgers, and chips, all from KFC and Macdonalds.

[addy77]

Kids Say the Darndest Things...

[Hedghog]

What!

Thais don't eat weevils.

[LaraC]

...that's one to keep for the grandkids, will probably pass down through generations upon generations. The rice that got weavles because to much was bought without knowledge of storing it correctly, and thus a blame game started. Oh whhat fun! If you have any more like that, ants in the sugar maybe? (ho ho ho) ..please pass it on. Thank you for sharing....

[Goompa]

Sift the freakin weevils out ! I do .

Go the Grinch on me , still good food

They float on the water anyway !

Don't matter a frig where you are born anyway

I love my wife , not " love em"

Poor choice of words OP

[namdocmai]

I try to convince my wife to buy everything in bulk, so big bottles of shampoo and soap and everything we need all the time in bulk. It is cheaper and we always have stock so don't have to go to the shop. Rice we keep in an airtight container on wheels, one of those with wings on the lid to close them airtight. If weavils are those brown insects then we wash them out ( we had them in the past).

If you choose to live together and have kitchen then you will need kitchenequipment of course. I thought to be smart to buy all Calphalon branded pans, what a bummer. Lifetime warranty my yeah right. Some had 10 years warranty and when the nonstick was not working no more i had big conversations with Calphalon but never even got a sorry sir, also not from the headquarter in the USA. So don't buy those mate, Tefal is fine.

We have a farang kitchen here, i love it but it sure wasnt cheap.

[Barney R]

Sift the freakin weevils out ! I do .

Go the Grinch on me , still good food

They float on the water anyway !

Don't matter a frig where you are born anyway

I love my wife , not " love em"

Poor choice of words OP

You pathetic ,boring ,excuse for a man I was just sharing an amusing incident and you being felt the need to impart your great wisdom on us and correct a tongue in cheek story . In future if you have nothing constructive to say don't bother

[Jasun]

I hope you've got a 'weevil clause' written into your prenup.

[sirineou]

Who cares about a little rice, happiness with your wife is the lesser of two weevils

eat more rice and everyone will be happy

[kikoman]

I always try to convince my family to store food in bulk, in case of any type of emergency you will not have to worry about the lack of food. As we live in the sticks during the floods a couple of years ago, when the major stores had empty shelf's, we never had to worry about food.

Now my wife has embraced the (at least 6 months of food) stored concept., and how to rotate the stock , use the oldest first.

Your wife's idea was a good one, but you do need to buy some proper storage food bins. and yes you can take the weevil out of rice, properly stored you would not get them, as we buy Rice in 50 kilo bags!

Cheers