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"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> On 3/1/2015 10:53 AM, cshenk wrote:
>> Julie Bove wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>>
>>> Has anyone tried this organic brand? I have no clue where I bought
>>> this bag and thankfully it was a small one.
>>>
>>> I took it out of the cupboard and immediately noticed two dark brown
>>> things inside that were about the same size and shape as the rice but
>>> not quite. At first I assumed that it was some stray grain of another
>>> kind or something. But now. I picked them out, put them on a white
>>> paper plate to view them better, then saw two more.
>>>
>>> I immediately ran to the computer and looked up images of mice turds.
>>> Which these may well be. I really can't say for sure. But I also
>>> noticed that the grains of rice didn't look very good. Some were
>>> more white than others and some appeared to be broken. So, into the
>>> Biobag it went because I didn't want to take any chances.
>>>
>>> The bag was totally sealed. No holes or anything. I must have been
>>> in a hurry when I picked it up. But I don't think I will be trying
>>> this brand again. Blech.

>>
>> Hi Julie,
>>
>> I can't speak to this particular brand but rice, flours and pastas can
>> very easily be infested. It's more of a problem in some areas than
>> others.

> (snippage)
>
> Yeah, Carol, and you keep feeding into her food and health phobias. Anyone
> who buys any rice or any grain or beans understands there may be some some
> foreign substance in it *before* it was packaged. The word "organic"
> doesn't mean much. We understand and we are not necessarily freaked out
> about it because we know about such things.
>
> Julie is just starting another useless "I can't/won't eat/don't like, it's
> going bad, about to expire, no one will eat it" thread. She's the Queen
> of that.


I didn't buy it because it said organic. I prefer to buy the Texmati rice
in a jug but only a few stores sell that. Obviously they didn't have that
at whatever store I was at when I bought this. I do remember being in some
store and telling Angela to pick up a bag of cheap white rice. I can't
remember any more particulars than that. I had another bag of white rice
that I just used up last night. It was a Mexican long grain.

I do know that there is a chance of foreign things being in things like rice
and dried beans. I had just never seen anything this obvious before and I
am surprised that I didn't notice it at the store but I was likely in a
hurry on the day that I bought it. And I can't remember where I bought it.
If I could remember I would take it back.