1. Why does Tesco "Easy Cook" Basmati rice take 15 minutes to cook, yet their regular Basmati only takes 12 minutes?
2. What is "Easy Cook" rice? The other stuff isn't labelled as "Difficult Cook". It's ****ing rice.Â
Dunno, but my sister once burned peas whilst boiling them. I'm not sure we ever got that pan clean again.
Maybe there is a need for "Easy Cook" peas.
2. What is "Easy Cook" rice?
It's for making non-sticky rice. It also tastes awful.
- for sticky rice use the cheapest own brand long grain rice
- for pliau use basmati
- for risotto use arborio
3. why does it taste funny?
This has always puzzled me, when someone appears in court the reporter tells us what they were wearing?
What is the point?Â
Also why do reporters shout to Cabinet Ministers when they walk into Downing Street ? It's not like they are going to blurt out what they really think on camera a la Trump ?
That is an allowed rounding error >4KCal / 100ml can be rounded down to be claimed to be zero. So an standard UK can can have up to 13.2 KCal per can and be said to be zero.
That is an allowed rounding error >4KCal / 100ml can be rounded down to be claimed to be zero. So an standard UK can can have up to 13.2 KCal per can and be said to be zero.
Tic Tacs have been pulling this stunt for years. They're loaded with sugar but are so small that they can advertise as sugar free.
(or so I read once)
1. Why does Tesco "Easy Cook" Basmati rice take 15 minutes to cook, yet their regular Basmati only takes 12 minutes?
"Easy cook" rice is intended to be drowned in a pan of water then drained and rinsed of all it's flavor afterwards.
Normal rice is intended to be soaked and rinsed first, then cooked in the correct amount of water.
I'm going to add getting rid of Keir Starmer.
The Venn diagram of people who say they want him out, won't vote for Labour again whilst he's there, etc and Reform voters is an almost perfect circle. Do Labour really think they'll get them back if they give the job to Rayner, Reeves, Phillips or Burnham?
I don't especially like Starmer, but getting rid of him now just hands all power to the Reform PR machine and RW media.
Let him carry on another couple of years with his legislatively progressive but economically right-ish agenda that was apparently palatable enough to win a massive majority only a couple of years ago. Then have a coronation for a new leader and call a GE with a proper socialist manifesto once Trump is out of office and the economy can recover to fund it.
Dunno, but my sister once burned peas whilst boiling them. I'm not sure we ever got that pan clean again.
my sister boiled an egg so long it exploded and left scars in the aluminium pot.
That periodically I cannot remember how to spell the word 'if'. It's been happening since I was a small child at school. It takes me several moments to work it out again.
Oh, and quantum physics, but that's both obvious and not obvious at the same time.
People obsessed with what others are doing.
Like, the homophobic. "Well, I don't like the 'act,' it's unnatural!" Well, so what, this affects you how exactly? It's not about to become mandatory. I'd bet half of them would think it was Christmas if their wives offered them a go round the back too, the f'kn hypocrites.
People who pile on as soon as they discover you don't eat meat. At the risk of repeating myself, so what, this affects you how exactly? You have your steak and chips, I'll have my vegetable madras, we're both good.
It makes absolutely no sense to me, I don't get it.
I don't especially like Starmer, but getting rid of him now just hands all power to the Reform PR machine and RW media.
This. The Labour MPs trying to unseat him must be especially stupid, even for politicians. Unfortunate, unlike pretty much every other occupation, there is nothing in the process for appointing an MP that selects for competence, intelligence, ability, integrity or indeed any other desirable qualities. So in the main we get venal idiots.
People who pile on as soon as they discover you don't eat meat. At the risk of repeating myself, so what, this affects you how exactly? You have your steak and chips, I'll have my vegetable madras, we're both good.
A more eloquent friend surmised that people don't like vegetarians because it forces them to rationalize why they do something that in any other context they would oppose. "I'd love to have the mental strength you possess to be able to enjoy meat, but unfortunately it just fills me with revulsion at the though of the dead animal however tasty it is". Much like the homophobic "it's a choice" implies it was only their apparent strength of character keeping them from making that same choice?Â
The expression, "you can't have your cake and eat it", of course you can have cake and then eat it. Now I know the expression was originally "You can't eat your cake and have it" which makes sense, so why did it get switched round just because it flowed better ?
A more eloquent friend surmised that people don't like vegetarians because it forces them to rationalize why they do something that in any other context they would oppose.Â
My own theory is that the notion of "preachy vegans" is so ingrained that people expect a sermon and immediately go on the defensive. "Get the first punch in," as it were.
I've seen this countless times. "Oh, I could never be vegetarian!" Well... 🤷♂️ and? Good for you, I didn't ask you to.
The scenario your friend describes is likely valid also, but is probably a considerably longer conversation!
My life.
Energy drink, drinkers.
Dislike the lot of them.Â
Particularly as vast majority of roadside litter is energy drinks.
The scenario your friend describes is likely valid also, but is probably a considerably longer conversation!
I think that's the nub of why it made sense when they said it, it explains why people get so immediately upset and defensive even if all you've done is order the depressing chain-pub microwaved mushroom risotto. They've instantly had the argument with their own internal preachy vegan and it's upset them.Â
Lots of the arguments used to promote 'isms' (rac-ism, sex-ism etc).
If you replace race/sex (or whichever it is) with people who are 5'2" and repeat the argument it is just as (in)valid.Â
 - "They take our jobs"
 - "They don't look like us"
 - "They are different"
So remind me again what your argument with the 'they' actually is?
this existence.Â
A more eloquent friend surmised that people don't like vegetarians because it forces them to rationalize why they do something that in any other context they would oppose.Â
Also applies to ordering a non-alcoholic drink at a pub I find. Often results in someone telling you why them having the drink they've just ordered is fine because of x/y/z or that it's the only drink they've had that week etc. despite the fact you haven't voiced any concern or issue with the fact that they're having a glass of wine.
I'm not sure if that is Sky News that makes no sense generally or the specific news article that doesn't 😉Â
and...
Menus that have separate sections for vegetarian and omnivore food. Why can't it just be 'A Menu' with the food choices mixed up? I'm sure more folks would try vegetarian options if it was just listed as 'food' rather than 'vegetarian food'.
Patriotism, i.e. the notion of being proud of a place, or thinking it's somehow special, simply because you were born there. Am I proud to have brown hair? Not really, it just happened. Am I proud to be 6'1"? Again, no, I had nothing to do with it. So why should I, or anyone, feel patriotic about being English/British/{insert nationality here}?
Also applies to ordering a non-alcoholic drink at a pub I find. Often results in someone telling you why them having the drink they've just ordered is fine because of x/y/z or that it's the only drink they've had that week etc. despite the fact you haven't voiced any concern or issue with the fact that they're having a glass of wine.
A very good point.
It's rare these days because we all grew up, but peer pressure on non-drinkers used to be immense. I've ordered soft drinks before now and felt compelled to add "... I'm driving" to explain myself, despite there being no need to do so.
It's a very similar scenario. "But why?" "Oh, just have one." "You might like it." Etc etc. One of my friends has never drunk alcohol, ever, to my knowledge; I don't know but I suspect his dad is/was a drunk of the "not a good one" variety, so going to pubs with mates when we were of clubbing age must've been a trauma twice over for him.
this existence.Â
What about your previous & next ones?
My previous one must have been bloody awful given what I got this time around.
Am I proud to have brown hair? Not really, it just happened. Am I proud to be 6'1"? Again, no, I had nothing to do with it
All the short, balding men hate you right now.
All the short, balding men hate you right now.
Pfft, screw 'em, stupid little dwarfey chrome-domes.
which makes sense, so why did it get switched round just because it flowed better ?
Gluten intolerance.Â
Menus that have separate sections for vegetarian and omnivore food. Why can't it just be 'A Menu' with the food choices mixed up? I'm sure more folks would try vegetarian options if it was just listed as 'food' rather than 'vegetarian food'.
Cf. supermarkets.
If I want a pizza with veggie-friendly pepperoni then I have to go to the Orange Section of the fridge, but if I want a cheese & tomato (famed for its high meat content) it's in with all the other pizzas. If I'm having family pizza night then I want multiple pizzas, some all or none of which might be veggie. Makes no sense.
(seriously though, don't get me started on restaurant menus, this is the wrong thread!)
Again, no, I had nothing to do with it.
The weirdest bit about this... is that it's often the few people WHO DO CHOOSE, or want to choose, their nationality that are the targets of negativity in the name of patriotism. When the opposite should (and in some countries at some times has been) the case. "Welcome to this great country, so glad you want to be a part of it".
The weirdest bit about this... is that it's often the few people WHO DO CHOOSE, or want to choose, their nationality that are the targets of negativity in the name of patriotism. When the opposite should (and in some countries at some times has been) the case."Welcome to this great country, so glad you want to be a part of it".
Similar to my point in the current devolution thread.
Either you believe in equal opportunities for all, or you don't. There's doublethink when you want to believe that tuition should be free, but only if your parents (not you, because you can't at 18 legally leave home and live in Scotland for 3 years) live there, the people impacted by that policy have zero agency to do anything about it. Â
Somewhat ironically/predictably considering the point of the thread was seemingly to say that Scottish Nationalism wasn't the same as English Nationalism, this then lead to some slightly Reform-y comments about if it was free for all then they couldn't cope with the mass migration.
[the problem could be solved if you switched to a system that just said you mist be a taxpayer in Scotland for X years afterwards, which isn't a million miles off the English student loan system anyway apart from the unfairness in high earners getting out of the system early rather than paying the most]
PowerPoint.Â
Having children.
I mean now I've got them, I love them...buuuut
What if?
I mean I'd be very very rich for a start.
In time and money.
Why the volume slider on the I-player goes up to 11!
Yeah. I know the film and it made sense there. But not on the beeb iplayer
The McVegan or whatever is.
Why not just offer any protein choice in a prescribed accoutrements format?
Also why do reporters shout to Cabinet Ministers when they walk into Downing Street ?
To get a reaction for the camera. And for a bonus catch someone out who snarks back.
The thing about quantum (physics, mechanics, whatever) is that anyone who says they understand it doesn't understand quantum physics, mechanics whatever.
The McVegan or whatever is.
McPlant. It's one of the better McVegetarian "options" they've tried over the years.
But yes. Quite why I can't have a Big Mac with the protein swapped makes no sense to me, and it's the same in almost every other eatery.
(actually, that's not true, it's probably so they can bulk-prep 'standard' builds at busy times rather than making to order)
3. why does it taste funny?
From using honey to keep it on your fork? Or is sticky rice just a surfeit of starch?
