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NoSheep Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 10:17 AM
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46. It's okay. I've done it too :-)
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  -'There were rocks in her rice.' - Why? Eric J in MN  Aug-06-09 11:19 PM   #0 
  - I've found pebbles in rice -  Tangerine LaBamba   Aug-06-09 11:23 PM   #1 
  - Where was this? Did you pick the rice? NT  Eric J in MN   Aug-06-09 11:25 PM   #3 
  - Huh?  Tangerine LaBamba   Aug-06-09 11:36 PM   #8 
  - I doubt that rocks would be collected during harvest  canetoad   Aug-06-09 11:40 PM   #10 
     - I find rocks in beans all the time.  alfredo   Aug-07-09 12:15 AM   #17 
        - One of my fondest memories of my grandmother was watching her prepare food.  NoSheep   Aug-07-09 12:21 AM   #22 
           - A salamander in your spring means the water is clean.  alfredo   Aug-07-09 12:27 AM   #25 
           - Nice.  NoSheep   Aug-07-09 12:29 AM   #26 
              - They only live in the cleanest water.  alfredo   Aug-07-09 12:46 AM   #34 
                 - I've heard that  comrade snarky   Aug-07-09 03:24 AM   #37 
                    - There are always some form of animal life is spring water, you just don't see  alfredo   Aug-07-09 09:31 AM   #42 
           - Yep..gotta soak the beans ( I do it over night)  SoCalDem   Aug-07-09 10:19 AM   #47 
  - Did you buy that rice in a US supermarket? NT  Eric J in MN   Aug-06-09 11:46 PM   #12 
  - I do buy it in USA supermarket and have found pebbles/small rocks in rice and beans  uppityperson   Aug-07-09 12:20 AM   #19 
  - Ooooh...I just saw that plain as day.  NoSheep   Aug-07-09 12:38 AM   #31 
     - Did some fast thinking and didn't tell my dinner guests  uppityperson   Aug-07-09 12:44 AM   #33 
  - I have found small pebbles and grains of sand in my rice bought in Nebraska  Maru Kitteh   Aug-07-09 12:20 AM   #20 
  - Did you grow up in a silo?  NoSheep   Aug-07-09 12:37 AM   #30 
  - Obviously you've never cooked dried beans before.  Doremus   Aug-07-09 09:36 AM   #43 
     - Who me? I think you replied to the wrong post.  NoSheep   Aug-07-09 10:05 AM   #44 
        - You're right --- so sorry.  Doremus   Aug-07-09 10:15 AM   #45 
           - It's okay. I've done it too :-)  NoSheep   Aug-07-09 10:17 AM   #46 
  - Yes -  Tangerine LaBamba   Aug-07-09 12:56 AM   #36 
  - Me too  JVS   Aug-07-09 09:18 AM   #40 
  - Rocks will fill ya up....perhaps it is a food stretching technique?  MADem   Aug-06-09 11:24 PM   #2 
  - Quite possibly, although hard on the dental work  Warpy   Aug-06-09 11:27 PM   #5 
  - What is the polishing process? NT  Eric J in MN   Aug-06-09 11:36 PM   #7 
  - The bran is abraded off the rice grain  Warpy   Aug-07-09 09:18 AM   #41 
  - If you don't have much in the way of teeth, ain't nothin' but a thing! nt  MADem   Aug-06-09 11:39 PM   #9 
  - On very rare occasions, even the Japanese rice I eat will have a pebble  Art_from_Ark   Aug-07-09 12:08 AM   #15 
     - I've never found any in Calrose  Warpy   Aug-07-09 09:17 AM   #39 
  - OR... the N Koreans are a bunch of sadistic assholes  scheming daemons   Aug-07-09 12:22 AM   #23 
     - They certainly are isolated. Homogeneous too.  NoSheep   Aug-07-09 12:35 AM   #29 
  - probably just not cleaned/processed enough. just from where it grew  daninthemoon   Aug-06-09 11:26 PM   #4 
  - they dont have the same food control we do i the u.s. you get whatcha get. bt  seabeyond   Aug-06-09 11:32 PM   #6 
  - Your right  Politicalboi   Aug-07-09 12:42 AM   #32 
  - I've had rocks (or "hard bits")  IcyPeas   Aug-06-09 11:44 PM   #11 
  - Yes - I've had it in lentils and other dried beans.  noamnety   Aug-06-09 11:48 PM   #13 
  - Sounds like they got served floor sweepings.  kestrel91316   Aug-07-09 12:03 AM   #14 
  - A lot of farmers dry rice on the road  Blecht   Aug-07-09 12:11 AM   #16 
  - In Nepal, there were always small rocks in my food. Processed by hand labor.  NoSheep   Aug-07-09 12:17 AM   #18 
  - Why? Because the N Koreans are a bunch of sadistic fuckwits... that's why....  scheming daemons   Aug-07-09 12:21 AM   #21 
  - Ask the US too while you're at it! Children, for fuck's sake.  NoSheep   Aug-07-09 12:31 AM   #28 
  - an item not even really worth mentioning.  miyazaki   Aug-07-09 12:27 AM   #24 
  - Yes, there is, when you do not clean it  nadinbrzezinski   Aug-07-09 12:29 AM   #27 
  - Like beans, it's a raw agricultural product. Even in the US we hve to pick over beans before cooking  Hekate   Aug-07-09 12:53 AM   #35 
  - Wow! Some of you need to spend a little time in 3rd world countries.  Loudmxr   Aug-07-09 04:26 AM   #38 
  - We carefully sift our Californian produced rice before cooking.  Romulox   Aug-07-09 10:21 AM   #48 
  - Yes, rice will have rocks in it. Destoning is part of the milling process.  Blue Diadem   Aug-07-09 10:44 AM   #49 
 

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