# Have you had white rice with a little sugar? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [February 19, 2021, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-had-white-rice-with-a-little-sugar/933306 "2021-02-19T19:03:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![sitchensis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sitchensis/32/4892_2.png) [@sitchensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sitchensis)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2021, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-had-white-rice-with-a-little-sugar/933306/21 "2021-02-19T23:05:06Z")
Not very often but every once in a while we’d have rice with milk and brown sugar for a hot breakfast. Same with millet and wheat/rye (?) berries. My mom would make a good sized pot of whatever she wanted to use up and we’d eat it for the week. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2021, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-had-white-rice-with-a-little-sugar/933306/22 "2021-02-19T23:06:15Z")
It was usually the rice leftover from dinner. I think it’s a southern thing. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2021, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-had-white-rice-with-a-little-sugar/933306/23 "2021-02-19T23:08:19Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > It was usually the rice leftover from dinner. I think it’s a southern thing Not in our house. Definitely not a southern thing. Mom made it specially for dessert. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2021, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-had-white-rice-with-a-little-sugar/933306/24 "2021-02-19T23:17:35Z")
I thought this was a Mexican thing. When I was a kid, I lived with a Mexican family for a while. “Mom” used to make it with cinnamon and sugar in the mornings. ---
**Author:** ![Tarataratara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Tarataratara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarataratara)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2021, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-had-white-rice-with-a-little-sugar/933306/25 "2021-02-19T23:18:34Z")
I will serve this for breakfast once in a blue moon. ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2021, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-had-white-rice-with-a-little-sugar/933306/26 "2021-02-19T23:19:14Z")
My mother used to eat rice this way every now and then. I tried it once but didn’t like it. Actual rice pudding is ok but plain white rice I prefer with a bit of salt. But then, I prefer savory oatmeal to sweet as well. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2021, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-had-white-rice-with-a-little-sugar/933306/27 "2021-02-19T23:42:17Z")
Other. Never had it, never desired it. But I’ve known people that had this through out their demented existence. ---
**Author:** ![Crane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crane/32/3495_2.png) [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2021, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-had-white-rice-with-a-little-sugar/933306/28 "2021-02-19T23:50:07Z")
Left over rice, milk, raisins and a little sugar - yum! ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2021, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-had-white-rice-with-a-little-sugar/933306/29 "2021-02-19T23:54:55Z")
This was actually one of those things that my mother served me when I was a kid-- a bowl of rice with sugar and a little milk. Really not that different from cereal like cornflakes with milk and sugar. I think I did a thread on this kind of “meal”-- things that constituted dinner (or breakfast) in your house that when you grew up and went out into the world, other people thought they were odd. Another one was a bowl of tomato soup with seashell noodles in it. Or plain seashell noodles with ketchup. Or “creamed beans” – stir a can of pork & beans into a roux with a little milk to make them creamy and serve over untoasted white grocery store bread (like Wonder Bread). Others have told me about cracker sandwiches, or onion and mustard sandwiches, or potato chip sandwiches. > [@Crane](#): > > Left over rice, milk, raisins and a little sugar - yum! That’s right next door to rice pudding. ---
**Author:** ![Crane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crane/32/3495_2.png) [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-had-white-rice-with-a-little-sugar/933306/30 "2021-02-20T00:00:44Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > things that constituted dinner (or breakfast) in your house I’m second generation Okie. Bread and milk for breakfast, bread and gravy for supper. I picked up the rice habit later. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-had-white-rice-with-a-little-sugar/933306/31 "2021-02-20T00:01:14Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > I’m Japanese-American and it feels like it lacks the reverence for rice I’m supposed to have. Can you expand on this? “reverence for rice”? ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-had-white-rice-with-a-little-sugar/933306/32 "2021-02-20T00:56:46Z")
> [@Crane](#): > > I’m second generation Okie. Bread and milk for breakfast, bread and gravy for supper. I picked up the rice habit later. Oh yeah. My dad used to eat bread or cornbread broken up into a bowl of buttermilk. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-had-white-rice-with-a-little-sugar/933306/33 "2021-02-20T01:09:56Z")
How about white rice with a lot of sugar. And chocolate. > **[Champorado](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champorado)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > > Champorado or tsampurado (from Spanish: champurrado) is a sweet chocolate rice porridge in Philippine cuisine. > It is traditionally made by boiling sticky rice with tablea (traditional tablets of pure ground roasted cocoa beans). It can be served hot or cold, usually for breakfast or merienda, with milk (or coconut milk) and sugar to taste. It is usually eaten as is, but a common pairing is with salted dried fish (daing or tuyo). Or how about glutinous rice wrapped in coconut leaves, steamed in coconut milk, then sprinkled with sugar. > **[Suman (food)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suman_(food))** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > > Suman or budbud is a rice cake originating in the Philippines. It is made from glutinous rice cooked in coconut milk, often wrapped in banana leaves, coconut leaves, or buli or buri palm (Corypha) leaves for steaming. It is usually eaten sprinkled with sugar or laden with latik. A widespread variant of suman uses cassava instead of glutinous rice. > There are numerous varieties of suman, with almost every town or locality having its speciality. ... ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-had-white-rice-with-a-little-sugar/933306/34 "2021-02-20T01:11:11Z")
I’ve had rice with cinnamon-sugar on it. > [@mandala](#): > > Indian-style kheer/payasam - rice pudding prepared of thickened milk, rice and sugar, with raisins and nuts - is a treat fit for the gods. This is a big favorite! With green cardamom and chopped pistachios, but no raisins in mine. ---
**Author:** ![Didi44](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47c2d/32.png) [@Didi44](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Didi44)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-had-white-rice-with-a-little-sugar/933306/35 "2021-02-20T04:11:56Z")
Define “rice”. Long grain, medium grain, short grain? While low starch long grain rice can be fairly bland, higher starch medium and short grain rice have a bit of sweetness to it, growing the longer you chew. When you get to short grain mochi rice, it’s sweet enough to eat alone, mashed or not. ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-had-white-rice-with-a-little-sugar/933306/36 "2021-02-20T04:35:00Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > Not for me, though. I’m Japanese-American and it feels like it lacks the reverence for rice I’m supposed to have. In my Australian Japanese-for-the-tourist industry book, it notes that Japanese tourists really really don’t understand rice pudding. It’s sweetened! And it include _milk_. Everything includes _milk_. You can’t get away from the _milk_, even for the sake of all that’s holy, in the _rice_. The book drew a comparison to serving potatoes with milk and sugar. I thought at the time that they weren’t familiar with the kind of thing Americans are willing to eat… As it happens, one of the college residences I lived in served unlimited (unsweetened) plain white rice. If you were a teenager, or a Hindu, or just didn’t like Western food – at least there was rice, and enough of it so that you didn’t go hungry. ---
**Author:** ![Didi44](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47c2d/32.png) [@Didi44](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Didi44)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-had-white-rice-with-a-little-sugar/933306/37 "2021-02-20T04:39:08Z")
Ha! I took a break for dinner and realized I bought some inari sushi [https://www.google.com/search?q=inari+sushi&rlz=1C1ASVC\_enUS940US940&oq=inari+sushi&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j46i131i433j0j0i457j0l6.4327j0j9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8](https://www.google.com/search?q=inari+sushi&rlz=1C1ASVC_enUS940US940&oq=inari+sushi&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j46i131i433j0j0i457j0l6.4327j0j9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8) Inari sushi is made with sushi rice that’s usually sweeter than that used in nigiri sushi, the type of sushi most people are familiar with. In addition, the sushi rice is stuffed into aburaage, deep fried tofu that split to form a pocket. The aburaage is simmered in a very light teriyaki type sauce broth. before being stuffed. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-had-white-rice-with-a-little-sugar/933306/38 "2021-02-20T04:41:30Z")
Part of it, I think, is the Shinto tradition that everything has intrinsic dignity and should be treated with respect. That respect turns into a kind of conformist expectation of what is proper that gets ingrained (no pun intended). It is all very traditionalistic, although the cultural impulse has some good – there’s a deep antipathy to waste. You eat every grain of rice in your bowl. You don’t throw away anything that can be mended or repurposed. The Japanese word"mottainai" (勿体無い) means literally something like “such a shame” and it’s a sigh of regret that something has finally passed beyond use and has to be disposed of. Respect for things includes some rigidity in what is a proper way to treat it, and to me rice is properly treated as steamed unseasoned white rice in the bowl. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-had-white-rice-with-a-little-sugar/933306/39 "2021-02-20T04:43:14Z")
Interesting, thanks. I learnt something. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-had-white-rice-with-a-little-sugar/933306/40 "2021-02-20T05:29:10Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > Respect for things includes some rigidity in what is a proper way to treat it, and to me rice is properly treated as steamed unseasoned white rice in the bowl. So sushi is right out? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-had-white-rice-with-a-little-sugar/933306.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-had-white-rice-with-a-little-sugar/933306.md?page=3)