dsi1 wrote:

> On Monday, December 14, 2020 at 4:40:40 PM UTC-10, cshenk wrote:
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On Monday, December 14, 2020 at 3:14:05 PM UTC-6, Cindy Hamilton
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Perhaps Julie was trying to warn us about Blue Ribbon Rice. At
> > > > any rate, rice is so inexpensive I don't worry about buying the
> > > > rock-bottom cheapest stuff. Riceland or Mahatma for me.
> > > >
> > > > Cindy Hamilton
> > > >
> > > When have you ever read a post from Julie that she hasn't screwed
> > > up a dish, it doesn't taste right, it didn't cook up correctly, I
> > > don't like that, I can't eat that, that is not available here, we
> > > had to wait in line for a year for a table, I can't get my mail?
> > >
> > > Riceland and Mahatma works for me, too. Even the stuff from
> > > Dollar Tree cooks up perfect every time.
> > I'm a self admitted rice snob. I like the better stuff.
> My mother-in-law liked the higher class rice. I could never tell the
> difference between her high class rice and my off-the-rack rice. My
> wife could.

Some have no difference, some do. One of my little guilty pleasures
was the Justco rice dispensors. They lined the wall near the checkouts
and there was a section that was all local grown. There was some sort
of tax writeoff if you also grew rice so it was common to see little
rice patches in the more rural sections. It might be only a 3m x 3m
plot but often it was more like double that.

It had a name that was translated to me as something like 'wild home
rice' because there was no attempt to keep cross fertilization down
among neighbors. There were often a few chickens running about as well.
For the rice, it would vary in sizes within the same batch with most
being a medium grain. Price was about 1$ a cup for raw but it was fun.