Is your supermarket running out of rice?

RockGypsy

Freddie_Snowbits wrote: »

Basmati Rice, that is a complete nuance and a rip off. Good old long grain, far better and cheaper

Have to disagree basmati has a whole different taste,much better than long grain,cooks better too

hollydays

Basamati also swells up more.
Anyway,doesn't Basmati come from the Himalayas?

Widelats

Dunno where basmati comes from, i'm gonna check again tomorrow in Morrisons for some, i bought 2 kg of long grain and its crap.

withabix

hollydays wrote: »

Anyway,doesn't Basmati come from the Himalayas?

No, it comes from the Morrisons...when they have any!

Keep up now!!

globalds

Japanese rice is short grain ...We use pudding rice from Sainsburys if we can't get hold of any Japanese variety rice ( Koshihikari or Nishiki are common types)

If you eat with chopsticks the good thing about this type of rice is that it is a bit sticky and is easy to pick up.

hollydays

withabix wrote: »

No, it comes from the Morrisons...when they have any!

Keep up now!!

ooo..no need to have a paddy..:D

Anyway,DONT PANIC!The fabled basmati shortage does not exist (sneakily runs off to panic-buy 10 bags)

Sublime_2

My local shops have plenty, checked today, so no shortage for me.

hollydays

Widelats wrote: »

Dunno where basmati comes from, i'm gonna check again tomorrow in Morrisons for some, i bought 2 kg of long grain and its crap.

I thought in your original post you were saying it came from japan?

Widelats

hollydays wrote: »

I thought in your original post you were saying it came from japan?

It was the only thing i could blame for the shortage, honestly you should have seen morrisons shelves they were bare!! Nothing except brown or a few bags of long grain.

pogofish

Widelats wrote: »

i think maybe if its getting the same everywhere, is the nuclear contamination in Japan has affected rice fields, and no more raw rice is being produced - could be wrong, just want to know your views too, i really hope i can get my basmati by the end of the week.

Why are you blithering-on about nuke contamination when there is the far more immediate and serious issue of toxic heavy metal contamination in rice from many countries and a general denial or inactionon the problem from the governments concerned.

Search out the work of Prof A Meharg for more information.