Rice or Potatoes?

[Dibbons]

Dad preferred potato, Mom preferred rice. I prefer potato, spouse (I am married to a female) prefers rice. I wonder if potatoes are a "macho" thing. How is it in your family?

 

[Bb70charger500]

Potato wife likes rice more

 

[polywideblock]

potatoes here, don't like rice at all

 

[GetX'd]

I’m married to an Asian lady - get my drift. I don’t eat rice all the time. Depends what’s for dinner. I just made a big pot of pea soup. No potatoes - added rice instead. So I’m 50/50...

 

[Dibbons]

I figured as much, any Asian influence would "stir the pot" so to speak.

Dated a lady from Thailand I met in a ballroom dance class in Los Angeles (the evening both our usual partners were no-shows). Very nice lady, even invited me to accompany her to Bangkok, but met my wife before that idea could be "consummated". Still have the tiny booklet "Thai for tourists" around here somewhere.

 

[Kern Dog]

A word of advice....Be careful using the work BANGKOK around sexually dominating women.

 

[493 Mike]

If you saw my family you could tell we like both!
Mike

 

[moparedtn]

Me = potato
Wife = rice
I never liked rice much (short of at the Chinese restaurant, of course) until I met my wife
a couple decades back. She's big on the stuff, so I've learned how to cook it a ton of ways
now....and I'm ok with it.

 

[Islandkent]

PEI=Potatoes
Ever hear of Bud the Spud?? That use to be me. lol
No not the singer! lol

 

[Road Rat]

I grew up in potato country, we would buy 2 100 lb. sacks of potatoes in the fall keep them in the cellar to eat all winter long. We would have rice 1-2 times a year, why I don’t know but it always ended up being eaten as kind of a poor mans dessert, cold rice with milk, sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon. Been living on the Gulf coast close to 40 years now and have found ourselves eating more rice than taters.

 

[f569]

I’m married to an Asian lady - get my drift. I don’t eat rice all the time. Depends what’s for dinner. I just made a big pot of pea soup. No potatoes - added rice instead. So I’m 50/50...

Me too, 50/50.
Not one of the discussed choices but try the skinniest egg noodles you can find (similar to angel hair pasta) in the pea soup.

 

[Dipstick]

No preference, I like variety so I'll eat rice, tater, or pasta.

 

[Don Frelier]

I'll pretty much eat anything with the word food in it. If I'm not hungry, sure sign I'm getting a cold or something.

 

[Wonder Woman]

As my man tells everyone.
Hey I'm a guy, if a women puts it in front of me I'll eat it.

 

[slepr1]

Equal for me but eat rice more often

 

[Cranky]

Depends on what I'm eating. Chicken and rice soup is ok but so is chicken stew with everything I can find to throw in it including potatoes but haven't thrown in any rice yet. May have to try that. Seafood gumbo and rice is nice. Not a huge eater of rice and usually ask for it to be put on the side instead of in my gumbo if out at a restaurant.....

 

[NJRR]

My wife makes a potato and rice dish combined. Slices the potatoes and fries them in the bottom of the pot. When they're browned, puts the rice on top and adds water, lets it finish cooking. It's amazing, best of both worlds !!!! It's a Persian dish she got from good friends of ours.

 

[Chargered]

I grew up on a traditional Iowa farm. It was meat and potatoes all the time growing up. I don't think my Mom even knew what rice was. Never had it until I moved away.

 

[chtampa]

Maybe it was more a skill than a preference at the time. Sticky potatoes were never really a problem.

 

[DeltaV]

Throw rice, not potatoes, at weddings.