On Sunday, March 28, 2021 at 12:48:57 AM UTC-5, wrote:
On Sat, 27 Mar 2021 03:19:46 -0700 (PDT), "
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On Friday, March 26, 2021 at 1:32:41 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 02:36:14 -0700 (PDT), "
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On Friday, March 26, 2021 at 12:42:43 AM UTC-4, wrote:

My wife makes oatmeal in the microwave but that is just boiling water.

Are you talking about instant oatmeal?
I suppose. The stuff in the little envelope.

That is instant oatmeal, which is pre-cooked.

I don't really eat
oatmeal except in cookies and that is old style Quaker Oats blended.
The "instant" is still is a 2-3 minute thing so I assumed that was
what you were talking about.

No. The quick oats where the cylindrical box says "1 minute".
It requires a full minute of boiling to cook.

Same with rice. Instant might be OK in the MW. You just boil the water
and add the rice, let it sit.
Real rice takes 45 minutes to an hour simmering to cook, no matter how
you do it so I am not sure what the microwave buys you.

???? It takes 20 minutes. White rice. Brown does take longer.

Cindy Hamilton

My wife is a brown rice person. She thinks anything white is evil. She
was even Keto for a while.

I knew a guy who had a girlfriend who used to say "everything white is bad'

he wrote a really funny (and well written) poem performance piece about it

he published it in a chapbook but i do not recall whether he ever put it on line

one part of the poem had her debating white versus brown rice

wonder if the stuck container ship will have an impact on rice availability in usa. Apparently we are in for a shortage of coffee and toilet paper. again

I also knew someone who was a freight ship captain as his career, he was married to a friend of mine, but I never heard the expression €œcontainers€� from him..

He died of a heart attack about 5 years ago.

She really liked their marriage arrangement because the job is 6 months on the ship/then 6months home.
So they spent a lot of time apart which she liked..

also while I am here talking about poetry, was so sad to hear Mums da Schemer died this week (last time I saw him was a very long time ago before he became a celebrity)

If you ever watched Oz on HBO, he was in it

RIP Mums

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MuMs_da_Schemer