Topic: Uncle Ben's for a person of colour?
Anonymous A started this discussion 6 years ago #88,430
I have this guy at work invited me over for dinner and I want to bring him a gift basket that I previously won. But he kind of has a very dark skin and I wonder if it would be a racist thing?Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 14 minutes later[^] [v] #1,011,466
Take him a fifth of whiskey if he is someone you respect...he will feel honored..
Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 17 minutes later, 31 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,011,473
I think Uncle Bens is a 00000ooooopppsWas going to bad mouth this product and then looked it up
"In the 1910s, the German-British scientist and chemist Erich Huzenlaub (1888–1964) and the British scientist and chemist Francis Heron Rogers invented a form of parboiling designed to retain more of the nutrients in rice, now known as the Huzenlaub Process. The process entailed vacuum drying the whole grain, then steaming, and finally vacuum drying and husking. Besides increasing rice's nutritional value, it also made it resistant to weevils and reduced cooking time."
The Engineer in me as well as a Cooking Geek said to self hummmmmm but what does it taste like - all that verbiage abouve sounds good but HOW does it TASTE?
Uncle Ben's Ready Rice
Rice is easy. Rice is cheap. Rice is quick. Rice is good.
Rice - I am not sure what compelled me to take this product off of the shelf for testing. I had low expectations, because a pound bag of long grain or brown rice is only about $2.00 and it's a snap to cook. You put rice and salt and water in a pan and 15 minutes later you have rice. Even easier, a rice cooker will do the work for you flawlessly every time and you can buy them for as little as about $20.00.
I guess the challenge, of whether $1.89 for a bag of instant rice that serves two would actually be any good, was just too much for me.
Uncle Ben's Ready my low expectations were met almost to perfection. Holding the package I envisioned gummy, slightly over cooked rice. I was intrigued that the Whole Grain Brown and Original Long Grain had no added salt. The Long Grain and Wild variety and the Roasted Chicken Flavored, I figured, would have that salty fake chicken bouillon cube taste.
Exactly! The brown and long grain were gummy and slightly overcooked, truly tasting of cardboard (not that I eat cardboard all that often). One taster suggested we add salt. Using 1/4 teaspoon (enough to make it about 300 mg per serving) simply made these taste like salty cardboard. The other two were also as expected. Gummy, overcooked, salty, fake flavored rice.
Rice is so easy, so cheap, so quick and so good that you don't have to eat products like these.
Rice is easy. Rice is cheap. Rice is quick. Rice is good.
Rice - I am not sure what compelled me to take this product off of the shelf for testing. I had low expectations, because a pound bag of long grain or brown rice is only about $2.00 and it's a snap to cook. You put rice and salt and water in a pan and 15 minutes later you have rice. Even easier, a rice cooker will do the work for you flawlessly every time and you can buy them for as little as about $20.00.
I guess the challenge, of whether $1.89 for a bag of instant rice that serves two would actually be any good, was just too much for me.
Uncle Ben's Ready my low expectations were met almost to perfection. Holding the package I envisioned gummy, slightly over cooked rice. I was intrigued that the Whole Grain Brown and Original Long Grain had no added salt. The Long Grain and Wild variety and the Roasted Chicken Flavored, I figured, would have that salty fake chicken bouillon cube taste.
Exactly! The brown and long grain were gummy and slightly overcooked, truly tasting of cardboard (not that I eat cardboard all that often). One taster suggested we add salt. Using 1/4 teaspoon (enough to make it about 300 mg per serving) simply made these taste like salty cardboard. The other two were also as expected. Gummy, overcooked, salty, fake flavored rice.
Rice is so easy, so cheap, so quick and so good that you don't have to eat products like these.
Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 18 minutes later, 49 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,011,478
Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 1 minute later, 51 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,011,480
@1,011,466 (B)
Not everyone is a slovenly drunk, unlike you.
@OP
Nothing racist about gift baskets. If he gets offended, he wasn't really your friend to begin with.
Not everyone is a slovenly drunk, unlike you.
@OP
Nothing racist about gift baskets. If he gets offended, he wasn't really your friend to begin with.
Dave from Russia !ZYIggdNQgg joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 5 minutes later, 57 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,011,482
I miss Uncle Ben's. Russia only has Cousin Vlad's, which is mostly dog food and plastic.
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Meta !Sober//iZs joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 1 hour later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,011,513
Can't forget the Aunt Jemima ?
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