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Eric J in MN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-06-09 11:19 PM Original message |
'There were rocks in her rice.' - Why? |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-06-09 11:23 PM Response to Original message |
1. I've found pebbles in rice - |
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Eric J in MN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-06-09 11:25 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Where was this? Did you pick the rice? NT |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-06-09 11:36 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. Huh? |
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canetoad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-06-09 11:40 PM Response to Reply #3 |
10. I doubt that rocks would be collected during harvest |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 12:15 AM Response to Reply #10 |
17. I find rocks in beans all the time. |
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NoSheep (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 12:21 AM Response to Reply #17 |
22. One of my fondest memories of my grandmother was watching her prepare food. |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 12:27 AM Response to Reply #22 |
25. A salamander in your spring means the water is clean. |
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NoSheep (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 12:29 AM Response to Reply #25 |
26. Nice. |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 12:46 AM Response to Reply #26 |
34. They only live in the cleanest water. |
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comrade snarky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 03:24 AM Response to Reply #34 |
37. I've heard that |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 09:31 AM Response to Reply #37 |
42. There are always some form of animal life is spring water, you just don't see |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 10:19 AM Response to Reply #22 |
47. Yep..gotta soak the beans ( I do it over night) |
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Eric J in MN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-06-09 11:46 PM Response to Reply #1 |
12. Did you buy that rice in a US supermarket? NT |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 12:20 AM Response to Reply #12 |
19. I do buy it in USA supermarket and have found pebbles/small rocks in rice and beans |
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NoSheep (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 12:38 AM Response to Reply #19 |
31. Ooooh...I just saw that plain as day. |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 12:44 AM Response to Reply #31 |
33. Did some fast thinking and didn't tell my dinner guests |
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Maru Kitteh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 12:20 AM Response to Reply #12 |
20. I have found small pebbles and grains of sand in my rice bought in Nebraska |
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NoSheep (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 12:37 AM Response to Reply #12 |
30. Did you grow up in a silo? |
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Doremus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 09:36 AM Response to Reply #30 |
43. Obviously you've never cooked dried beans before. |
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NoSheep (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 10:05 AM Response to Reply #43 |
44. Who me? I think you replied to the wrong post. |
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Doremus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 10:15 AM Response to Reply #44 |
45. You're right --- so sorry. |
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NoSheep (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 10:17 AM Response to Reply #45 |
46. It's okay. I've done it too :-) |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 12:56 AM Response to Reply #12 |
36. Yes - |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 09:18 AM Response to Reply #1 |
40. Me too |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-06-09 11:24 PM Response to Original message |
2. Rocks will fill ya up....perhaps it is a food stretching technique? |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-06-09 11:27 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Quite possibly, although hard on the dental work |
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Eric J in MN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-06-09 11:36 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. What is the polishing process? NT |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 09:18 AM Response to Reply #7 |
41. The bran is abraded off the rice grain |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-06-09 11:39 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. If you don't have much in the way of teeth, ain't nothin' but a thing! nt |
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Art_from_Ark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 12:08 AM Response to Reply #5 |
15. On very rare occasions, even the Japanese rice I eat will have a pebble |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 09:17 AM Response to Reply #15 |
39. I've never found any in Calrose |
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scheming daemons (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 12:22 AM Response to Reply #2 |
23. OR... the N Koreans are a bunch of sadistic assholes |
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NoSheep (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 12:35 AM Response to Reply #23 |
29. They certainly are isolated. Homogeneous too. |
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daninthemoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-06-09 11:26 PM Response to Original message |
4. probably just not cleaned/processed enough. just from where it grew |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-06-09 11:32 PM Response to Original message |
6. they dont have the same food control we do i the u.s. you get whatcha get. bt |
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Politicalboi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 12:42 AM Response to Reply #6 |
32. Your right |
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IcyPeas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-06-09 11:44 PM Response to Original message |
11. I've had rocks (or "hard bits") |
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noamnety (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-06-09 11:48 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Yes - I've had it in lentils and other dried beans. |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 12:03 AM Response to Original message |
14. Sounds like they got served floor sweepings. |
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Blecht (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 12:11 AM Response to Original message |
16. A lot of farmers dry rice on the road |
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NoSheep (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 12:17 AM Response to Original message |
18. In Nepal, there were always small rocks in my food. Processed by hand labor. |
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scheming daemons (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 12:21 AM Response to Original message |
21. Why? Because the N Koreans are a bunch of sadistic fuckwits... that's why.... |
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NoSheep (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 12:31 AM Response to Reply #21 |
28. Ask the US too while you're at it! Children, for fuck's sake. |
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miyazaki (446 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 12:27 AM Response to Original message |
24. an item not even really worth mentioning. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 12:29 AM Response to Original message |
27. Yes, there is, when you do not clean it |
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Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 12:53 AM Response to Original message |
35. Like beans, it's a raw agricultural product. Even in the US we hve to pick over beans before cooking |
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Loudmxr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 04:26 AM Response to Original message |
38. Wow! Some of you need to spend a little time in 3rd world countries. |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 10:21 AM Response to Original message |
48. We carefully sift our Californian produced rice before cooking. |
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Blue Diadem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 10:44 AM Response to Original message |
49. Yes, rice will have rocks in it. Destoning is part of the milling process. |
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