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Revolutionary Rice
Posted by Lidian on August 14, 2008
As depressing and 1950s-suburban as a Richard Yates novel – it’s what’s for dinner on Revolutionary Road. In only 18 minutes (otherwise known as “pronto”) you too can have this tomato-laden mess on the table.
Soggy precooked rice, canned tomato sauce and a little ingenuity is all it takes. Well…maybe not so much ingenuity. You could probably skip that.
I do have a technical question though. A rhetorical question, because it is not like I want to actually make this stuff. However: if it is Minute Rice, how come it takes 18 minutes? According to my calculations it does not take 17 minutes to open a can.
Well, not unless you’ve been having the sort of cocktail hour that they have in Revolutionary Road, that is.
(P.S. I recommend this novel! It is an amazing book. But very depressing, of course. It is being made into a movie with, I think, Leo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in the main roles, and I am looking forward to seeing it.)
Erica said
Do you have a higher resolution image? I’d like (ok maybe that’s not the best word) to try making this but can’t read the ingredients.
Then again, considering the first ingredient I *can* read is “bacon drippings”, maybe this is just a bad idea
Kristie said
Yikes! I wouldn’t even serve that to my dog!
Elizabeth said
Looks like smashed brain!!
Emjoi said
My kids love this recipe… I think.
Steamed rice smothered in ketchup/tomato sauce.
But then they like anything covered in tomato sauce.
Classy kids, they are.
Alaia Williams said
Wow, that just looks terrible.
SinisterDan said
I used to work as a hospital porter and one of my departments was the Operating Suites.
You don’t want to know what that looks like (although smashed brain is pretty good).
Shay said
I make cheater Spanish rice in my rice cooker, using canned salsa
People eat it anyway…..
And I give great credit to the Minute Rice people who created and are marketing successfuly a completely useless product since the real thing cooks in 18-20 minutes anyway. Possibly because it’s so easy to cook rice badly and what they are offering not so much a timesaver as a guarantee.
Bill said
The food photographer needs a new profession. That picture looks like raw ground beef.
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