Sunday, February 15, 2009

Like White On Rice

  I've recently started eating brown rice again and I've discovered a problem.  There is no way that brown rice and white rice can both be called rice.  They taste nothing like each other.  It's as non-sensical as callling a daikon (白萝卜) a white carrot (萝卜) .  As you can see, the Chinese already do this but that still doesn't excuse this problem with the rice.

  I don't care if they come from the same plant and one is a processed version of the other.  After all, pork changes it's name to ham and bacon as it gets processed.  I don't know who is getting the greater disservice, but I still maintain that they can't both be called rice. 

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4 Comments:

Blogger LB said...

Oh, but what about basmati rice or jasmine rice? They are very different too. =)

16 February, 2009 10:36  
Anonymous Dave said...

Don't hate. it's just a little husky.

16 February, 2009 13:10  
Blogger Joe said...

Hm. Growing up a daikon was just a luobo and a carrot was a hongluobo (a red daikon). Just as non-sensical.

19 February, 2009 15:13  
Blogger agoel said...

Hey, I'm not hating! I purposely didn't indicate which one I liked better. They're just so ... different.

24 February, 2009 11:33  

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