|
Rice and wheat should never meet. Right?
WAT Yeah, people usually make fun of us because they say we eat everything with rice... but apparently there's some truth to this. One night, we were having dinner at Hiroyuki's when someone asked a guest if he didn't want some rice with his lasagna. The guest looked perplexed and even a bit repulsed by the offer asking if he'd really combine both meals. Puzzled and rather offended, Hiroyuki got up and asked everyone else at the table, 'Who the hell doesn't eat lasagna with rice?'. There was a clear division: if you had an unmixed Japanese background, you'd think it was okay; but, if your mother didn't have a Japanese background, you'd think we dirty Japs are all a bunch of heretics tainting the sacredness of the holy lasagna.
When a couple of friends told me that, I must've frowned so bizarrely that they busted out laughing at the face I made. I couldn't believe my ears. Rice... and lasagna? I had always taken it for granted: if you wanted to have beans, then you'd have rice; but, if you wanted wheat, that was it - you don't mix either rice or beans with pasta. And, if you do feel like having both, you don't put them on the same plate!
However, I found out that many friends of mine do actually mix rice and wheat. Mainly, those who had Japanese ancestry (though I could find some outliers among those who had a non-Japanese father), but also many of my friends without an Italian background and didn't take their pasta seriously... and would also, on their part, cook spaghetti in a very peculiar way. I just asked my fiancée, and she confirmed that she used to feel there was something missing in my family's Sunday lunch (when she would usually come over) because there was no rice. There was just spaghetti, frittata, gnocchi, or lasagna for the main course (and salad and other non-grainy things on the side) and that was it. No one ever minded, and she never complained because she noticed people outside her household rarely had these meals with rice, so she never said a word. I was flabbergasted. After all these years, who'd a thunk?
The question here is: Would you have pasta with rice? Or, for that matter, with beans? Would you (as my fiancée does) consider pasta to be the side dish? If you would, what's your family background?
___________________
Indiana Clones Upcoming Sets
[ I May Upload Something Someday ]
|
