"crymad" wrote in message

This whole brown vs. white rice thing has been bothering me.

I don't understand why that has to be "versus". I appreciate different sorts
of rice, for different dishes, different days and even seasons.

Any of you brown rice eaters
have any additional information that this comparison overlooks?

That's just a personnal observation. If I eat a several dish meal, with rice
as a side, there's no difference. But if I make a meal of only rice (or with
small side items), I eat twice the amount of white rice than of brown rice
to feel well, and I feel hungry sooner with the white one. Idem for bread,
pasta, potatoes, the "modern ones" are quicker to swallow and forget.
That difference counts for me as the 2 only diets I know when my clothes
become too tight are changing of laundry powder or a period of BLM ("Bouffe
La Moitie", Eat Half ).

Also in this season, Japanese white rice is very good as it's new and
fragrant. In a few months, it won't be that pleasant. So I'll be glad to
have brown rice, red rice, sticky rice and maybe if I can make a trip or
stopover I'll buy Thai fragrant rice, or black sticky rice, or basmati, or
arborio, or...

In addition, the important is the pleasure you have to eat it. I like myself
too much to force me
to eat stuff I don't like. If I were you and I didn't appreciate brown rice,
I wouldn't even look for reasons to eat some.

Kuri