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Unmasking the Bean Weevils

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I have been to a number of schools in my life time. Anyone who has been to schools in their early 2000 understands this concept better-I am not sure about those schooling today, they hardly know it perhaps-apart from learning it as one of the insects that attacks food. At our times in school, the mere presence of a weevil in bean soup was enough cause for a massive alarm and even a strike. The boys at one of my favourite college on a hill, never took chance, not any single bit! Each time some weevils made their way to the bean soup, they made it known to in charge; the Dinning prefect, food master and teacher on duty. The line of authority would summon the head chef to explain why the boys were having “weevil soup” instead of the usual bean soup. Fumbling, the head cook would only extend an apology and promise to improve on quality of beans, or storage, or storage materials and routine check-up of the beans stored. To us, badly prepared posho was not as worse as eating forced “animal