KILL EVERY Pantry Bug The 1950s Way For $1. SAFE For Food & Kids!

There is a small tin of pale powder on a shelf in an old pantry. Inside it is about one dollar of something anyone can mix in five minutes. The flour, the cornmeal, the rice, the beans have sat there all winter. Not one weevil has touched a grain. Not one moth has hatched in the corner. And somebody would rather you never knew that. Every time the bugs come back, somebody wins. The man who sells the spray wins. The company that makes the bug bomb wins. The exterminator with his clipboard and his ninety-dollar visit wins. Down the road, a young father just threw out his third bag of flour this month, bugs crawling through all of it. So he drove to the store and bought a nine-dollar can. Then he sprayed the very shelf where his children eat. They are counting on you reaching for a can. It used to cost almost nothing to stop these bugs cold. Your own great-grandmother knew how. Somebody made very sure that you forgot. My name is Wendell Mercer. I was raised by people who never called a company for anything. They kept a year of food on the shelf, and the bugs never got a bite of it. I have not bought a can of bug spray in forty years. Not one. I have not thrown out a bag of flour to bugs in just as long. And today I am going to tell you what they knew. I will show you why it still works, on any pantry in this country. So let me tell you what the trick was. It was one thing. One cheap thing. The old folks reached for a fine pale powder, and it is still sold today. It has a long name. It is called diatomaceous earth. I will just call it the powder. It cost almost nothing then, and it costs almost nothing now. A small bag runs a few dollars, sold near the canning jars or out on the garden shelf. One bag lasts for years. The little bit it takes to keep a whole pantry clean is worth about one dollar. One dollar. That was the price of a year with no bugs. But there is one word on that bag that matters more than the price. Food grade. The food-grade kind is the only kind that belongs in a kitchen. I will come back to why that matters.