Bee - as the child of a school cook I'd have to disagree with your moral.. I would have starved to death aged 12 if I hadn't.

I think you have to quantify 'weird'. I like corned beef and jam sandwiches - that's corned beef with jam on, not 2 sorts of sandwich... which is weird. None of them will cause me any digestive discomfort (unless I eat them really fast and slumped over) or poison me, but are definately classed as weird.

You're right though, mould toxins are probably the culprit. The plague of the death of the firstborn in Egypt (Moses et al) has been put down to a similar sort of mould toxin that affected the wheat crop that had been horded against the plague of locusts. This wheat would in all likelihood, have been fed to the eldest child as the potential heir to preserve the bloodline.

It may be that the ingredients that this particular brand Krusteaze contains no inhibitors or preservatives so it is more likely to produce the toxin.

Make it fresh guys, make it fresh!!!

LTS