Bryan Simmons wrote:

> On Sunday, November 1, 2020 at 1:11:04 AM UTC-6,
> wrote:
> > "songbird" > wrote in message
> > ...
> > > making an old fashioned rice pudding
> > > (with raisins, eggs, sugar, milk, etc.) ?
> > >
> > > i don't want instant rice, but some other
> > > type, preferably not terribly expensive. i
> > > have access to a number of places that sell
> > > various rices so a list of preferences is
> > > fine too.
> > >
> > > as a kid Mom made some rice pudding and i've
> > > not been eating much rice the past several
> > > years but once in a while i have a fond
> > > memory of this dish so i was saying to Mom that
> > > the next time she feels like making something
> > > we could try this. it was either this or
> > > cream puffs (or perhaps both)...
> > >
> > > personally, i think i just really like nutmeg
> > > and this was the dish that made me really like
> > > it the most. otherwise i've always been a fan
> > > of sweets, custards and such.
> > >
> > > thanks!
> > Mom mom always bought Uncle Ben's. That's what my dad used to make
> > rice pudding. I don't like rice pudding but if I were to make it,
> > I'd buy a cheap bag of whatever I could find, as rice is slim
> > pickin's here now. I never use instant rice.
>
> Your family was a paradigm example of White trash.
>
> --Bryan

Uncle Bens, when not instant, is a perfectly average rice. Nothing
trashy about it.