Rice - maybe for seniors !
Rice - maybe for seniors !I had a conversation today about how I've never been a great rice eater (this is even more profound now as I have succombed to Dentures!!).
However, I adore Rice Pudding. After some thought on the matter, I decided the reasoning behind this could be that back in the 50's when I was a wee strap of a lad, Rice was seen as a Dessert rather than main meal. Main Meal rice seemed to appear with Chinese Restaurants taking off in the 60's. Those who can go back that far, am I right do you think and do you have similar tastes ? Thanks Richard New Member? Get more from the Forum and join in 'Members Chat' - you're very welcome
Definitely, I was born just before the end of 1959 so grew up in the 60s. Rice was for pudding, and my lot still love it.
We really only started having rice with food at home (other than take-aways) a few years ago. And I still cannot eat rissoto, it seems to be savoury rice pudding - yuck If we go out for a meal with David's dad and one of us has curry and rice he cannot understand that its a proper meal - is that all you're having? he will ask. Wot no spuds and veg I was a 60's child, and never remember having rice at home, other than in a rice pudding - I am pretty sure my Mum would never have even dreamt of serving it as part of a main meal. My dad was the old fashioned meat and veg type!!
Thinking about it, it was probably mid eighties before I even tried a chinese meal with rice. Even now I prefer fried rice to boiled rice.
What a bizarre thread but how true. In my early life rice was indeed only found in puddings, the same was pretty much true of macaroni; although macaroni cheese had been invented by that time. We only really had rice as part of a main when my dad started trying to cook curries during the late seventies when the world suddenly seemed to open up (vesta ready meals were invented about that time although I have never to this day tasted one). Dad’s curry was on the whole a stew into which he added tons of curry powder, they tended to be meat and two veg boiled into submission and napalm hot. He used to make a huge vat and freeze tray of it so that we could have our taste buds systematically destroyed weekly over the winter months. I will add in his defence that he did try very hard to get the authentic taste but just didn’t know what that was. Eventually he discovered a proper recipe and the heat came down and flavour went up which was good. I still tend to have naan bread with curry or fried rice from a take away.
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Kateg, I used to have semolina and chocolate haystacks..Yumm
How did they make the haystacks????/ We ate tons of rice pud as kids, rice as an accompaniment to a curry only happened in the adult world. My dad still wont touch the stuff unless its smothered in creamy milk and sugar, topped with nutmeg. Those were the days.... Looove chucks!
I know Giant Haystacks.
Semolina - awaesome, especially with top of the milk or cream on top. I liked the skin as well !
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Chocolate hatstacks - um, I guess they were made from maybe crushed biscuits or cornflakes and some kind of melted chocolate. They were conical shape about an inch or so high and were crunchy. Yum, yum.
Think we must be all a similar age, with simialr age dads who wouldn't dream of eating rice other than a pud
i was born 1969 ..so really grew up through the 70,s and we only ate rice as a pudding, mum and dad were typically meat and veg people and even today mum won,t touch a curry or chinese.
We loved rice pudding at our primary school with a dollop of hot strawberry jam in the middle...yum! Also we had (like your haystacks) chocolate footballs with chocolate sauce , also chocolate sponge with mint green custard ..yep it was bizzare but delicious....oh memories!! tina xx mum to five lovely children, nine gorgeous girls, two adorable cats a bouncey border collie pup and a patient loving hubby xxxxx
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