Till today, anytime I'm about to cook beans, I take my time to check properly to make sure there are no weevils on them. I can't imagine myself eating my beans and chewing together with bunches of weevils. I don't know how a lot of people are okay with that.
Take a look at the photo below; that's what people are eating for those that don't mind.
Way back at home, when I used to cater for my junior siblings as the eldest in the house when Mom and dad had gone to the farm, I would be given some money to prepare beans for me, my siblings and also keep a portion for my mom and dad to eat upon their return. You see, I've been a trusted chef since my childhood.
My mom would come back to meet a very small portion reserved for them, exactly the small portion like that of the size they use as sacrifice on a three-lane junction road.
"What's this? What happened to the beans? Didn't you buy according to the money I gave you?" I was so used to her usual question, and I dare not tell her that I threw away the ones containing weevils because my mom is hot-tempered. I would cook up a sweet lie and give it to her, which she usually accepted without doubt, which made me feel like I was winning, but little did I know that she was giving me a long rope to draw.
A day came, she was at home, no farm that day, and she gave me money to prepare beans as usual. I went and bought the beans, and in the process of picking, I threw away the ones containing weevils as my usual routine. Not only that, when I was about to put them in the pot, I poured the beans into a bowl containing water and sieved out the floating ones because those are the ones containing weevils too.
So, I filtered and threw away the floating ones, and it was just the remaining few that I cooked. I did all these things with confidence because it has been my normal way of cooking beans and also because my mom was not close by at all. The kitchen is not attached to the main building because it's a firewood kitchen. But I didn't know my mom was monitoring my acts with her microscopic eyes from the parlour.
Yo! When I was done cooking, she came by herself and put down the pot of beans from the fire and told me that my portion was not included in what I cooked.
"Why?" I asked.
She said I should go and eat the ones I threw away.
I was dumbfounded and was imagining how she knew about it. I thought it was a joke, but she didn't allow me to eat the beans.
The beans I had enough sweat and heavy smoke while preparing.
After they had finished eating, she came out with sweat soaked on her body with a hand fan blowing air to herself and gave me the warning of my life. She said the day I throw away the beans containing weevils again, she's going to beat me blue and black. Her simple beating is usually blue and black, so the beating type she referred to was something bigger than blue and black; maybe it's going to be pepper red and devilfish black.
Mehn, the warning reset my factory setting, but it was very hard for me to start eating beans with weevils. I can't do that; the imagination of eating weevilled beans was harmful to my mental health.
What should I do?
I found a remedy, which was keeping a needle close to me whenever I'm picking beans. I would be picking the beans one seed after the other, and I would use the needle to pull out weevils from them.
Guys, the time I take to pick beans is usually 1 to 2 hours. Oh yeah, anytime I want to cook beans, I will plan it and start the journey on time.
Till today, I can't eat beans with weevils.
If I go to the market and see that all the beans in the market contain weevils, even very minimal ones, I won't buy them.
You guys that eat this thing, how do you feel about chewing together beans and weevils in them??
According to some people, they said it's the weevils in beans that contains the protein in beans. Dead!
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Haha. Well that's how it should be done indeed. But you know, with all the food shortage in the world, I kinda agree with your mom. Don't waste food.
Not sure abt the nutritional value of those that have weevil in them tho. Lol.
Yeah, she was fair enough because she was the one that provided the money. I was only a teenager then and teenagers don't give a thought on where the money is coming from 😄
Please help me to make research and give me feedback. Plsssss 😄
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Hahaha, I see we are together in this table. I can't eat beans with weevils in them that's why it's hard for me to eat beans cooked by another person. I can't imagine myself chewing those weevils, no way.
Just like you said, if I see weevil in beans I don't buy.
This is me too. I can't just dare it.
Those ones cooked in restaurants, they don't remove weevils at all...do we want them to get loss? Lol😄
The worst part is that most of these weevils are alive. Imagine chewing weevils with their fluids inside.
Oh God!
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Exactly I wouldn't want them not to make gain from their food so I avoid it kpata kpata
Hahahah😄
Those people that ear anyhow beans are trying.
Thumbs up for them
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Are you among those that eat weevils on beans? Please say NO
I don’t even like beans😂😂😂
Oh!
I should have known this earlier.
You don't eat beans because you're watching your weight 😄
Kingsleyy 😂😂😂😂
Using needle to remove weevils from beans..?
I've got a party tonight and we are cooking 20 majors of beans for the party, I was thinking if you can come and help us pick weevils from the beans broo🥲🥲
Hahahah😄
I'm very sure they're not gonna remove those weevils. And you guys are eat it like that.
God abeg, I'm imagining the scenario already 😢
hahahahah, the beating she meant was death close kinda beating.
I had a good laugh. So you are the reason the beans have never been enough for everyone. The floating ones are beans too na why throw it away😆😆😆😆😆
Lol😄
Don't you removes these ones? They're the ones containing the evil weevils
Well, I hardly cook
Except rice and swallow
I cook beans too but if I’m asked to pick them, I would only remove the shaft
😂😂😂😂 chef chef, you need to switch from laundry business to fast food business.
True eating weevils is not ideal but what can some of us do. Most don't have a choice but to cook it that way because of food scarcity.
One woman once said to me that since she does not have crayfish, the weevils are representing
Please stopppppp it.
The thought is making my head to pull off.
God please help us oooo!
😂😂😂😂, sooory o
Fabulous #dreemerforlife
Do you know that sometimes you won't know until you are done eating? It's just that you were the one who picked, or else, how would you know?
This is why I don't eat beans anyhow especially from restaurants.
If I'm eating the one I wasn't the picked it at home, I'll be very observant, checking every seed to make sure I pick them off with spoon
Have you ever Cooked beans at odd times before like 10pm 😂😂😂
You will come to terms with weevil
Hahahaha😄
What would make someone to go cook beans at 10pm? I no go soak garri and sleep?
I'm seeing all of you that eat beans with weevils.
There's God
😀😀😀 Very funny tank God you found another option. I just have it in my mind that the weevils are meat😂😂 else I wouldn't even be eating it.
Whenever I burn food while cooking, the first thing is to eat small from the food I cooked before my mom sees it else no food for me
Weeetin be this??😄
I can't even imagine eating it not to talk of eating it practically.
I wish I knew this early
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Weldon chef,😂😂 I really hate those weevils
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Weevils in the beans mean you shouldn't eat it o boy you have money just put small hot water in bowl and put the beans in it like one minutes after that you will see many of them on top the water and use strainer to save the beans then cook it back ( please come and eat
Since I detests beans with weevils, I always make sure not to buy any containing weevils to avoid eating rubbish.
Please understand your mother, beans weevil na beans too 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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The description of mother's beating made me laugh.
Hmmm. Not all the beans have weevils have they? I mean buy the fresher ones.
But shey you know that no matter how careful you are, one must still enter pot?😅😂
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Same here. I had rather spend good 2hours picking out weevils than eating beans that I know is infected with weevils. I hate weevils and I will do anything within my power to make sure we don't cross paths 😂😂.
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