I have a reason for not liking Minute Rice.
As a kid I never had real rice. My mother always used the Minute Rice. A weekly meal at our house was a box of Banquet Fried Chicken with Minute Rice with probably canned corn.
I remember sitting down to eat dinner one night and something about the Minute Rice caught my eye. It looked like it was moving on my plate or I was tripping. I asked my mother who had a mouth full of the rice at the moment if the rice was actually moving. She looked at the rice on her plate and all of a sudden the contents in her mouth spewed out. Bear Giles she was not.... The little black dots moving around were not black pepper. They were the eyes of the little critters that had been living in that box of rice. The 1 minute bath in boiling water surely didn't cook them.
To this day, over 40 years later, I can't get the image of the expression of my mother's face out of my mind. I so enjoy long cooking rice.
As a kid I never had real rice. My mother always used the Minute Rice. A weekly meal at our house was a box of Banquet Fried Chicken with Minute Rice with probably canned corn.
I remember sitting down to eat dinner one night and something about the Minute Rice caught my eye. It looked like it was moving on my plate or I was tripping. I asked my mother who had a mouth full of the rice at the moment if the rice was actually moving. She looked at the rice on her plate and all of a sudden the contents in her mouth spewed out. Bear Giles she was not.... The little black dots moving around were not black pepper. They were the eyes of the little critters that had been living in that box of rice. The 1 minute bath in boiling water surely didn't cook them.
To this day, over 40 years later, I can't get the image of the expression of my mother's face out of my mind. I so enjoy long cooking rice.
