Becca wrote:
> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>>
>> Most of my life I would barely eat ordinary plain rice except at
>> Chinese restaurants. I did like rice pilaf if it was loaded with
>> other things. However, in the past few years I find myself literally
>> craving plain white rice served with brown gravy. It's also one thing
>> David really likes, so we have it at least once every one to two weeks.
>>
>> I have always like a well made rice pudding, however.
>>
>
>
> My mother was born in Louisiana, so we ate a lot of rice. Noodles came
> in 2nd place and potatoes were 3rd. At school, they served rice almost
> every day for lunch My Aunt Reba would serve rice for breakfast; Rice,
> sprinkled with sugar, then you add milk. Needless to say, I love rice.
>
> Becca
>

My Mom was born in Oklahoma Territory but we still ate a lot of rice.
Dad would go to the rice warehouse about three miles from our house and
buy a 100 lb sack of rice. It was kept in the kitchen in a corner and a
one-cup measure sat in it all the time. Rice and gravy was a standard at
meal times.

Conversely, DW's family only ate rice as a breakfast cereal with milk
and sugar on it or as a rice pudding. I offered to cook a meal when we
were visiting once and went to the local supermarket and, for the first
time in my life, saw rice in one-lb packages. Ended up buying two lbs so
I could make the dish I wanted to have.

Sort of like the difference between Texas chili and that stuff the
people in Cincinnati, Ohio call chili.

Nowadays I only eat brown rice unless we are eating at an Oriental
restaurant where only white rice is served. Also true at Cajun
restaurants around here, white rice only.