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To address an issue arising form another thread: Rice Pudding is actually the worst thing ever. I can't even be in the same room as the stuff, makes me wretch even thinking about it. So there you have it. Rice pudding is utter filth.

― Alex K (Alex K), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 09:36 (twenty-two years ago)

it's fantastic, especially when made with uht milk. With blackcurrant jam at the bottom. And I always used to fight for the skin. mmmmnnnn

― Vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 09:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Golden syrup to thread.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 09:41 (twenty-two years ago)

The jam is the worst bit... when it goes pink... and the skin, the skin... Je-sus no.

― Alex K (Alex K), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 09:42 (twenty-two years ago)

if you take care to stir often while cooking no skin will form

rice pudding w/ saffron is godlike

kheer to thread!!

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 09:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Rice pudding is grebt, but UHT milk shouldn't be put in anything ever.

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 09:46 (twenty-two years ago)

what is uht

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 09:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Ultra heat treatead aka long life milk. It tastes foul but lasts forever.

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 09:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I suspect that Rice Pudding is to Alex what QUICHE is to me. Uguuhughughgh quiche vom vom vom. BUT I LIKE EGGS, I do not see. My mother used to make really nice pudding. She would put nutmeg on the top woohoo I want some rice pudding

UHT = ultra heat treated!

Possibly. You know, it's the milk in little plastic cartons you get with a takeaway cuppa tea and McDs'n'ting.

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 09:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Food loathing is perhaps the most elementary and most archaic form of abjection. When the eyes see or the lips touch that skin on the surface of milk - harmless, thin as a sheet of cigarette paper, pitiful as a nail pairing - I experience a gagging sensation and, still farther down, spasms in the stomach, the belly; and all the organs shrivel up the body, provoke tears and bile, increase heartbeat, cause forehead and hands to perspire. Along with sight- clouding dizziness, nausea makes me balk at that milk cream, separates me from the mother and father who proffer it.

― JuliaK the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 09:53 (twenty-two years ago)

hi sarah!! i'll be in london next month!

rice pudding also good w/ cardamom

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 09:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Rice Pudding is to me what being sent to Stalingrad was to a German soldier in the winter of ‘42. I think it all stems from my junior school days when I was forced to eat the stuff before I could go out to play at lunch. They used to give me just a single filthy grain but even that was enough to cause my stomach to lurch like a drunken stalker. God, thinking about it now is causing me saliva rushes man, that stuff is truly fuckin evil.

― Alex K (Alex K), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 09:59 (twenty-two years ago)

DEVON KNOWS HOW THEY MAKE IT SO CREAMY

(Hi Geeta! We must go to the finest rice pudding joints when you visit. How come you are coming over? Grand altogether! I can even treat you to UHT milk but I am very sure that America is not lacking in the yukky white liquid).

I don't really like milk but I still like rice pudding.

Alex how are you with other forms of rice eg BASMATI?!

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 10:03 (twenty-two years ago)

For some reason I have never had any problems with any other rice I have come into contact with. Like I love proper Pilau and all the rest of it... And I like milk (tho not to drink on its own)...

― Alex K (Alex K), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 10:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Rice pudding is great especially with sultanas in and a nice nutmeggy skin on top. Make with cream milk or a mixture but I'm with RickyT on the UHT thing.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 10:09 (twenty-two years ago)

it's ok, i ate it for breakfast once when my parents were away. Not because they wouldn't let me if they were home, I just wanted to see what it was like in privacy first.

It was horrible, it made my stomach feel like a wet sponge.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 10:09 (twenty-two years ago)

How do you feel abt Risotto?

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 10:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Risotto is fine man.

― Alex K (Alex K), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 10:11 (twenty-two years ago)

rice pudding mings. I think Vicky was being nostalgic upthread about UHT milk. Well, I hope so anyway.

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 10:14 (twenty-two years ago)

It was great, seriously! It added something extra to it. My mum made it once because she was out of normal milk, and it was so yummy she always made it with UHT after that. Don't forget you're cooking it for ages, so it's not the same as in it's normal state.

― Vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 10:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh I've never had home-made rice pudding, I think the one I had was in a can.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 10:31 (twenty-two years ago)

The only way I like rice as a dessert is thai glutinous rice with cocnut milk and mango, which is numlicious

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 10:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I like the whole milk pudding thing - rice pudding, semolina, tapioca.. I get nostalgic for it once in a while, and grossed Chris out by buying a tin of semolina, and eating the whole can in one sitting. I wish I could get some round here, I've got a craving for it now....

― Vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 10:34 (twenty-two years ago)

COR wot about CONDENSED MILK eh?

Dude I am so going to make rice pudding except I have no idea how to make it out of a tin. I think my mum always made it from a tin. Ah, my generation is growing up thinking home cooked food and the taste of yer mams cooking comes straight from Cap'n Birdseye and crew. I get nostalgic for oven chips. And my cravings for a fishfinger sandwich are reaching imminent explosion levels.

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 10:35 (twenty-two years ago)

God I'm hungry. I wonder if M&S sells rice pudding. They must. They're M&S. I'm getting some!!

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 10:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't do it!

― Alex K (Alex K), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 10:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Ohh, Condensed milk, yes. either as a sauce for rice pudding or in the pudding itself.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 10:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I actually meant evaporated. Condesed milk is only good for two things, lemon crunch, and making nto fudge/toffee.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 10:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Condensed milk always puts me in mind of this fellow from the late 70s. Ooookaaaay?

http://tv.cream.org/TIS9.jpg

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 10:55 (twenty-two years ago)

evap and condensed, what's the blooming difference then?

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 10:58 (twenty-two years ago)

condensed is thick and gloopy and so so sweet and cream coloured, where evapourated is still quite runny, just tastes a little bit sweeter than normal milk

― Vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 11:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Evap is just milk with some of the water evaporated off.
Condensed has the whole wthing boiled off then condesed, its normally sweetened with loads of sugar.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 11:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Apparently, evaporated milk is 'fresh homogenized milk with 60% of its water removed by evaporation'. I would think condensed milk is similar but with added SUGAR, num.

I really want some rice pudding.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 11:04 (twenty-two years ago)

when i was in lebanon i had rice pudding flavoured with orange flower water. it was YUMMY.

― rener (rener), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 11:04 (twenty-two years ago)

And tins of Devon Rice Pudding (now with ring-pull tops) are the perfect no-utensil Glastonbury food.

I'll get me coat.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 11:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Argh - ruff in the jungle, dude.

― Alex K (Alex K), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 11:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 11:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Rice pudding ~ Marmite. You love it or you hate it.

― SittingPretty (sittingpretty), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 11:58 (twenty-two years ago)

rice pudding with marmite?!?!?!?!

that's it. this is where i draw the line. you brits have GONE TOO FAR!!

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 12:32 (twenty-two years ago)

(mark s to thread to mention that it tastes even better mixed with bovril)

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Rice pudding is fucking awesome, anyone who says otherwise is asking for me to dump a bowl of rice pudding on their head.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 12:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Fuckin try it girl.

― Alex K (Alex K), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 13:00 (twenty-two years ago)

it probably works well as a conditioner

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 13:00 (twenty-two years ago)

please no.

― Alex K (Alex K), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 13:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Seriously. I'll do it. I thought Carey throwing pieces of dead animals at her boyfriend was hysterical, you think rice pudding is beyond me? I think not.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Rice pudding w/ milk & butter & dates & pecans & topped w/ a sprinkling of ground clove served with honey biscottis & espresso on a lazy sunny Sunday morning on a back porch = HEAVEN.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 13:21 (twenty-two years ago)

ha, i don't know you well enough sista, but if anyone started messing with rice pudding around me, retribution would be swift and merciless.

― Alex K (Alex K), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 13:22 (twenty-two years ago)

NYC rice pudding FAP!

― Paul Eater (eater), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 13:30 (twenty-two years ago)

their banana rice pudding roXoRs my world

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)

haha at school i remember a v. hated senior getting seconds of rice pudding for the senior table and slipping and depositing the entire large bowl on his own head!!

geeta it is best with crumbled pork-scratching croutons

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Rice pudding is beyond classic! I love it. I'm sure I've recited my getting my hand trapped in a tin of rice pudding when I was a kid story.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

but I think right now, I want some treacle tart and custard.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)

mmmmm treacle tart, I've not had that for so long.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 13:37 (twenty-two years ago)

also at school we used sometimes to have this super-yucky stuff which was similar to RP in texture except instead of rice it was these quite large frogspawn-like gelatinous globes (like half an inch diameter, sometimes bigger)

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 13:38 (twenty-two years ago)

you mean like tapioca?

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)

mark went to hogwarts.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Semolina surely, mmm semolina.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 13:41 (twenty-two years ago)

that's what i was just thinking, jel!! tapioca mindmeld!!

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 13:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think there's anything that matches the disgusting at the eye to lovely in the mouth ratio of tapioca.

And now, over to Dan Perry's Head.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 13:42 (twenty-two years ago)

like GIANT tapioca i think

semolina is yellowy and smooth, ed

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 13:42 (twenty-two years ago)

If we don't have a rice pudding FAP, and also an 80s FAP, there will be some shit going down, caused by me.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

On second thoughts tapioca is quite correct and still delicious.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 13:44 (twenty-two years ago)

giant tapioca = BRAINS!!

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 13:44 (twenty-two years ago)

haha jel actually we were wrong -- mark didn't go to hogwarts, he went to the indiana-jones-temple-of-doom school

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 13:46 (twenty-two years ago)

see tapioca is quite wee usually, but these were the size of eyeballs nearly (possibly my traumatised memory is exaggerating, plus i wz littler then...)

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

that is fucked!! were you and/or the tapioca accelerating at the time?

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 13:56 (twenty-two years ago)

yes my school was hogwarts-in-space

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.foodstandards.gov.uk/multimedia/ pdfs/condensedmilk_guidance.pdf

See page 8 for the definitions of condensed milk. Evaporated milk can be used as aterm for higher fat condensed milk. Its all reduced water milk, either way.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

You are such a nerd, Ed.

I met one of your old skool chums the other day.

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 14:09 (twenty-two years ago)

giant tapioca is called BOBA:

http://www.mygourmetcafe.com/im/3bubbles.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Er... and relating that to rice pudding, I can confirm that we *weren't* eating rice pudding at the time. He's a lovely chap though.

I shall look up a rice pudding recipe. Perhaps one will be on the back of my pudding rice. I mean, what other "pudding" will you make with "rice" that aint "rice pudding"...

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)

NYC 80s FARP!

― Paul Eater (eater), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 14:39 (twenty-two years ago)

'Chums' er who might this be? initials MBM?

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)

That's the geezer! He's a lovely bloke who is more friends of friends but who I see around sometimes...

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Blimey, you went to school with MBM?

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)

He was a year or two above me, but we were friends. haven't spoken to him in a while, but sarah put him back in touch, even though I'm still using the same email addresss I was then. He can knock what I know about computers into a cocked hat.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

This is of course further proof that there are only 1000 people in the world and the rest are mere extras.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 15:30 (twenty-two years ago)

1000 = 7, extras = paste

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Geeta - no, rice pudding is similar to marmite, in the fact that you either love it or you hate it. I'm going to stop using symbols to shorten my sentences. It never bloody works.

― SittingPretty (sittingpretty), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)

We used to get this at school pretty often, and it wasn't popular. If I could dump loads and loads of strawberry jam in it I always found it pretty good.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't like any kind of pudding.

― rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I love rice pudding. Because of this thread, I just ate a big bowl of it for lunch. Now I feel all warm and affectionate towards my firm, like a little tail-wagging puppy, because they give me money to buy rice pudding and I really can't think much past that.

― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Wait...canned rice pudding? You mean you people aren't making it fresh? Now I think I understand.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

it's only available in cans!

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)

heathen

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

What are those rotten looking balls in the bottom of those tapioca cups? Squirrel testicles?

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe they went with the tail Carey found ealier this week.

― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 17:58 (twenty-two years ago)

THOSE AREN'T TAPIOCA CUPS THEY ARE BUBBLE DRINKS YOU FOOLS! BUBBLE DRINKS!

Erm, sorry.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 17:59 (twenty-two years ago)

what the fuck is that?

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 18:01 (twenty-two years ago)

BUBBLE DRINKS: C or D?

― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)

those are big bits of tapioca at the bottom of bubble drinks, though, aren't they?

it's a sweet and fruit-flavored drink, with big balls of tapioca at the bottom. hence the big straw. so you can suck up the... oh, forget it.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 18:03 (twenty-two years ago)

seven months pass...

home made = (usually) classic

Ambrosia = dud.

Ambrosia, wtf? What an ironically named food - what self-respecting deity would go near it? It would be a case of "my thunderbolts to the chef".

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 20 December 2003 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Mmmmmmmm, skin.

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 20 December 2003 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

i said home-made is usually classic. In my family, there is what is known as "Dad's rice pudding" which has attained almost mythic status. Somehow when my Dad made a rice pudding - for everyone's safety he is no longer allowed to - the result would be a stodgy lump. "I don't know what he does to it" my mother would exclaim.

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 20 December 2003 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

why is ambrosia the colour it is?

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 20 December 2003 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)

ambrosia is delicious, what are you talking about?? it's wot my fam eats for christmas breakfast every year

are you talking about the stuff w/marshmallow fluff? because i agree that's nasty. what we call ambrosia is just oranges w/no skin on the sections i.e. peeled, and then peeled again w/knife; plus grated coconut. c'est tout!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 05:11 (twenty-two years ago)

i have some things to say abt rice pud too, btw

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 05:19 (twenty-two years ago)

ambrosia, when i was a kid, was mandarin oranges, marshallows (but NEVER fluff) and coconut. i don't think i'd be opposed to eating it, but i'd never go out of my way to make it.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 05:22 (twenty-two years ago)

the food of the dogs

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 05:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Ambrosia is a brand which makes tinned rice pudding in the uk, and ambrosia it is not.

― Vicky (Vicky), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 08:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I just heard a story today from my mom about some gal in the family way back when, who'd just gotten married. She spent her first Christmas with her in-laws. On Christmas afternoon she called home and she was crying. "Oh dear, what's wrong, honey?" her mother asks. "Oh nothing mother, everything has just been wonderful!" "Well that's good to hear, honey." "But this morning, after the presents..." "Yes?" "I saw that their ambrosia had bananas in it! And then I just started crying, I miss you all terribly!!"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 02:30 (twenty-one years ago)

(My family is obviously from a generic romance novel ca. 1962.)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 02:45 (twenty-one years ago)

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