Rice or cheese?

[blue_lotus13]

A couple weeks ago, a bunch of us were sitting around in the staff room at Chapters. We began a conversation about food, and ended up talking about rice, and cheese. For some reason, we began talking about the importance of good rice. Followers of my journal may remember that I take rice very seriously. I do not consider minute rice to be real food, in the same way that I do not consider processed cheese to be real cheese. The participants of the discussion were of various ethnicities, although there were a large number of people of Chinese ancestry present.

Several issues were raised-

1. Why does cheese seem to be so popular with women? Is the love of cheese a female thing? A man named Irving noted that he had never seen any men freak out about cheese.

2. Myself, and a woman of Caucasian ancestry, stressed the importance of properly cooked rice, as did many of the others of full Asian descent. A woman of Italian descent noted that rice was not important to her, and that cheese was the most important.

[Poll #410617]

Comments

[zoje-george.livejournal.com]

I grew up in America's Dairyland: Wisconsin. Love of cheese and all dairy is bred in the bone there. Did you know that up until 1967 the sale of oleo/margarine was illegal in the state of Wisconsin? Processed cheese wasn't too welcome either, at least not until Reagan's recession in the 80s. Yeah, that's how serious they are about their dairy.

As for rice, there is just no substitute for good rice.

[kickarse.livejournal.com]

I also think that women tend to be more vocal about their food loves, maybe because they have more issues with food? I have known several guys who were crazy about cheese though, including one that started a cheese club.

While I do appreciate a good rice, I didn't grow up eating much rice so I wouldn't call it important to me. And I can't go a day without cheese.

[kickarse.livejournal.com]

My icon reminded me, you may appreciate Ginsyari-San, he is a grain of rice!

[elf-chick.livejournal.com]

(psst, kickarse, how do you put a pic within a post? i can't even figure out how to do it in my journal...)

[kickarse.livejournal.com]

(psst, elfchick! it's, for example,

img src="http://www.photobucket.com/kickarse/blythe.jpg"

except with these <> around it.)

[kickarse.livejournal.com]

yeah, that picture doesn't exist, but hopefully you get my drift. If you actually use photobucket, they write the little line of code for you automatically, you just cut and paste it.

[elf-chick.livejournal.com]

yay! thank you! i've been trying to figure that out forever and never could express myself well enough to say what i meant, apparently!

*now back to the cheeeeese!!*

[elf-chick.livejournal.com]

both allow for so much variety...

at the moment i'm learning toward rice since i bought some brown today to make with slivered almonds...i also have yummy recipes for baked ginger rice and orange cashew rice, which i was looking at earlier...

i still put both though :)

[jangrl.livejournal.com]

consider the attachment of memory to food, i think it's easier for those of asian descent (like me) to be attached to rice because it's part of almost every meal growing up. i mean i didn't really consume cheese regularly until i moved in with w 3 years ago, and when i moved away and turned lactose intolerant i wasn't too upset about not having cheese anymore, although once you're forced to do without you realize how much of the american diet consists of dairy, especially cheese. which goes back to the idea of food and memory - those who grew up with good experience with cheese will probably like it more than rice, and vice versa.

hope i make sense.

jangrl

[blue-lotus.livejournal.com]

You totally make sense! That's what I think too, and that's why I included the ethnicities of people in my initial post.

[suhl.livejournal.com]

There was a guy on the radio this morning more addicted to cheese than me. I didn't think it was possible.