# Which is Better: Rice or Beans? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 22, 2019, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-better-rice-or-beans/845213 "2019-12-22T01:21:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2019, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-better-rice-or-beans/845213/82 "2019-12-28T20:39:40Z")
[quote=“smithsb, post:11, topic:845213”] Beans, because better commercials. sfw [/QUOTE] Great Commercial, Could also work for BEANO. ---
**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2019, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-better-rice-or-beans/845213/83 "2019-12-29T04:08:44Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > What a weird-ass question. “Which is better: milk chocolate or she-crab soup?” My first reaction, too. And potatoes are omitted. I roll through many grains and legumes. One paradigm embraces the Americas triad: _maize_ corn, beans, and squashes, supplemented by many varieties of potatoes. Wild, jasmine, black, brown, and other rices come our way, bolstered by buckwheat groats, barley (source of our inches and shoe sizes), wheat and oat kernels, sorghum, etc. The commonality? All can be fermented. (Distilled pinto beans ==\> Old Fart.) I’ll backtrack to my San Francisco bicycle messenger days, early 1970s. Pay was low. Meals were basic. Breakfast: a pile of oatmeal with margarine & brown sugar. Lunch: a cheap jar of 3-bean salad from Dented Cans aka Canned Foods aka Grocery Outlet aka Gross-Out. Dinner: A can of Pepper Pot (spiced tripe) Campbell’s soup cooked with a cup of brown rice, washed down with a jug of cheap wine. During the day: gallons of free coffee at corporate mailrooms. Oats, coffee, beans, rice, wine. Every necessity. Which are better, beans or rice? Depends if you’re growing them in drought conditions. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2019, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-better-rice-or-beans/845213/84 "2019-12-29T09:30:51Z")
> [@BrickBat](#): > > Sure, I’ll assume you’re asking the question in good faith and not being deliberately quarrelsome. > > If I eat quantities, not necessarily large quantities, but a serving of low fiber starches by themselves, I feel bloated, distended, and generally out of sorts, regardless of how satisfying it may be to the taste. Same goes for red meat. IMO, the way some food makes you feel is one of the strongest pieces of evidence on which you can base the way you deal with it. Thank you for your reply. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2019, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-better-rice-or-beans/845213/85 "2019-12-29T13:55:57Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I like both, but if I had to choose, I’d go with rice. You can do more with 'em - more versatile and useful, I think. Versatile and useful? Sure. _More_ versatile and useful? Yeah, sure, try making a rice [meringue](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquafaba)… ---
**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2019, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-better-rice-or-beans/845213/86 "2019-12-29T19:21:05Z")
Anything is better than quinoa. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2019, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-better-rice-or-beans/845213/87 "2019-12-29T22:02:45Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > What a weird-ass question. “Which is better: milk chocolate or she-crab soup?” \ I’ve been agonizing over this question for days. But, I gotta go with \*\*“she-crab soup.” \*\* She-crab soup (both male and female) is very versatile: you can have it in a cup; you can have it in a bowl; you can have it in a cup or bowl with saltine crackers; you can have it in a cup or bowl with oyster crackers… What the hell can you do with chocolate? Chocolate’s a one-trick-pony. > [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Too many cats in Asia. I’m particularly frightened of tigers. > > They bite — they scratch — they make an awful fuss — it’s no use stroking them and saying “puss, puss, puss.” What?!? You don’t believe that old canard about tigers biting and scratching do you? That’s an old wives tale. In fact, the really big tigers get all lovey-dovey and kittenish when you tip-toe sneak up behind them and yell, _peek-a-BOO!_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-better-rice-or-beans/845213.md?page=4)