"Bob Terwilliger" wrote in message
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The UnInmate wrote:

It appears that fried rice existed in traditional Serbian cooking long
before Oriental influences made it famous worldwide.

A woman preparing the traditional fusion dish stuffed peppers sauteed
some
chopped onion in oil, then added a cup of dry washed rice with chopped
garlic and continued to sautee the mixture for some time before adding
other ingredients, including ground beef and water.

She said she starting using this technique before she'd even heard of
China. "It's what I learned as a little girl back in the village."

In that anecdote, where is the evidence that the Serbs made fried rice
before the Chinese?

Don't think they did. Serbia's been around for about 1400 years and China
much longer. :-) That doesn't necessarily say who was using fried rice
first, but it kinda follows China had more chance to do it. Which is partly
why the original post didn't even mention who used it first.

Is the woman several thousand years old?

If you meant that question seriously, who typed it for you?

And doesn't the
writer know that fried rice starts off with COOKED rice?

The anecdote did get one thing wrong: Meat is added and fried without any
water, the peppers stuffed and placed in a roasing pan, and then the pan
half-filled with a tomato-based sauce that helps finish cooking the rice. So
this rice is fried without prior cooking, then cooked, instead of the other
way around. Am I to understand that the other way around is somehow the
"proper" way to fry rice?


It appears that someone lacks both culinary knowledge and logical skills.

It appears that "someone"...no, I won't use that kind of cheap preschool
dodge even if you did use it and thought it would accomplish anything. It
appears that YOU are screaming because nursey needs to change your diaper.

To the rest of you: I am sorry I wasn't more clear about what I found
fascinating in this observation. It was the fact that traditional cuisine
outside the Far East did cook rice by frying it before the *west* discovered
fried rice. And if the term "fried rice" is proprietary, the Government of
China is free to sue me if they think they can collect damages.