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Yes, it's true it's a lot easier to pick up sticky rice 
with chopsticks. I can't stand the rubbery taste of minute 
rice.
I like the taste of basmati rices. There's a brown one 
sold here as Texmati.--Sage

On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 15:49:36 EST
 Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:
> > >Every rice cooked the wrong way in my house can come 
> > out 
> > sticky.
>
> Fluffy rice that is as loose as a bowl of maggots is 
> apparently a western 
> thing.  Some say it was fabricated in the 50's in order 
> to sell parboiled rice 
> (like Minute Rice [I accidentally typed Manure Rice]) to 
> try to make every 
> disadvantage into an advantage.
>
> On several occasions oreintal relatives or friends have 
> cooked rice the 
> "right" way and it is either soupy or else very sticky 
> so that it can form balls.
>
> James
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