The UnInmate wrote:

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?

Yes, you are to understand exactly that. The method you described isn't
fried rice. It's the first step in risotto or pilaf.

Moreover, you've given us no reason to believe that the Serbians did their
pre-cooking technique before the Romans (who became the Italians), the
Phoenicians (who became the Lebanese and part of the Tunisians), or the
Persians (who became the Iranians) -- all of whom pan-cooked grains before
cooking through in liquid.


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.

I said "someone" because I wasn't sure whether you were the originator of
the anecdote, or whether the conclusions you stated were your own or someone
else's. You've gone on to make your ignorance and lack of cognitive ability
abundantly obvious, so thanks for clearing that up.

Specifically:

Your ignorance is shown in the fact that you thought you were describing
fried rice. You've gone on to confirm that you don't really know what fried
rice is. That's what I meant by "lacks culinary knowledge." I don't know why
you're so defensive about it; this newsgroup exists in part to provide
culinary knowledge to the culinarily ignorant. You just shouldn't have been
so PROUDLY ignorant.

Your lack of cognitive ability is shown in the fact that you thought that
the existence of a woman who learned the pilaf method in her Serbian
childhood indicates that the "Serbian" method pre-dates the worldwide
knowledge of Chinese fried rice. You wrote, "It appears that fried rice
existed in traditional Serbian cooking long before Oriental influences made
it famous worldwide." Then you provided the anecdote as if it constituted
some kind of proof -- though it clearly doesn't. Therefore, you failed to
properly think the logic and the timeline through, which is what I meant by
"lacks logical skills." While you're obviously hurt by my pointing out the
stupidity of what you wrote, there's really nothing you can do about it at
this point: You wrote it, and it was stupid. Just try to do better in future
posts.

Bob