On 2012-12-16 16:18:59 +0000, Gary said:

>> With your bits of different brown rice I'd feed it all to the birds
>> and buy a package of new... brown rice has a short shelf life anyway,
>> unless refrigerated/frozen it goes rancid in less than a year... most
>> folks who eat brown rice don't notice the rancidity...
>
> Good info, Sheldon. I've got some brown rice about that old. I'll feed the
> birds with it.

If you can't taste the difference, what bother?

I thought that "rancid" was a reference of oil and the oil within a
product going south. I didn't know that brown rice had oil in it.