Where I grew up it was ALWAYS Potatoes served at meals.
NEVER rice except on holidays when it was served as rice pudding.
I suppose this is a regional preference, or due to which is most readily available in the area.
I am still more a potato fan than rice.
My wife and I have been married almost 50 years, and we still have this debate every night deciding on dinner. She is from Minnesota so she always votes potatoes while I’m originally from the Carolinas and always vote rice.
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Same here, my father wanted meat and potato's every meal.
Now it varies but 50% potato's, 30% rice, 20% pasta on an average around here.
Depends what's on sale.
That is close to the mix I grew up with. Potatoes were mashed, fries or smothered potatoes. Gumbo and rice and beans and rice were the mainstays with a few other combos thrown in. Pasta was spaghetti and meatballs, mac and cheese, stew and egg noodles and sometimes egg noodles and cheese.
Cheef I suspect your "regional preference" idea is pretty accurate, especially if you add in historical immigration tendencies that drove tastes in meal types and typical/preferred accompaniments. Colder climes tended toward spuds, temperate more toward rice, thus the ethnic pairings.
Put me in the rice category even though I'm Kansas borne and first generation Italian on one side which normally might predict otherwise. I do enjoy a wide variety of preparations of potato, my part Irish wife makes some good mashers, and I tend to cook browned/roasted dishes. But rice fits so many of the variety of proteins we prefer so probably out frequents spuds 4 to 1 at our joint.
Bkhuna NOW for a question? Is there really that big a difference between the rices?
We have one local Chinese place that makes the BEST white rice I have ever eaten. Plain white rice but almost a sweet flavor added to it. It is excellent.
I know there are big differences in grain size and texture but the flavor of the rice they serve is noticeably different.
Bkhuna yes my brother. I am lucky also my wife is hispanic and has an affinity for rice. Not that I am a rice snob but I am surprised at how many folks butcher rice when they cook it or try to pawn off/foist something like Minute Rice or Uncle Bens converted rice on you. Get A Rope...
I grew up in an Italian family. We ate lots of pasta. We also had potatoes and rice about 60/40. That carried over to my adult diet but we have cut way back on carbs so way less pasta these days. I like rice but my wife likes potatoes. We go 50/50.
A few moths back one of my friends and his daughter were over for dinner. We served bbq chicken and rice. The look on this Irishman's face was one of stunned disbelief. He never had white rice as a side dish. He was floored. Same with his daughter. It was completely alien to them. It was shocking to us that something as plain and simple as steamed rice would elicit such a reaction. We joked about it and they topped it with butter and ate it up but it was funny.
We do rice-potatoes-pasta in about a 4-2-1 ratio, varies. Not a heavy preference, just works out that way. I grew up with meat & potatoes, but married 49 years+ to an Air Force brat.
I grew up in Western Kansas so potatoes nearly every meal and almost no rice. Now living in Northern California it might not be 50-50 yet but it's getting closer.
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