I do believe it's possible for rice to expand in the bird's
stomach. However, most people don't have the patience to
raise a pot of water to rolling boil, and spend 9 to 11
minutes boiling the bird.

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"Kurt Ullman" wrote in message
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I think this is an outgrowth of the urban legend or
whatever that
lead to weddings using soap bubbles instead of rice throwing
because it
allegedly expanded in the birds causing them to explode. I
know that
after our wedding we had a bunch of problems with starlings
blowing up..
but that was probably more related to my sociopathic best
man and his
affinity for M-80s (grin). The Snopes stuff on this is at
http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/birdrice.asp

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