Arkansas Bans Cauliflower Rice

#21

Bangs head on keyboard

Definition 2
Rice: to force (cooked potatoes or other vegetables) through a sieve or ricer.

(Chris) #22

Bangs your head on keyboard once more

But you only cherry-picked half of the dictionary listing.

noun

a swamp grass which is widely cultivated as a source of food, especially in Asia.

#23

That does not disqualify the alternate definition.

(Chris) #24

No, it puts in context.

#25

This reminds me why here tomato is botanically a fruit, but legally a vegetable. Sometimes taxation purposes just supersede everything else.

(PJ) #26

OMG! Thatā€™s hilarious and perfect!

That cauliflower IDENTIFIES AS RICE you botanicalists!! :joy:

#27

Right. Which makes it ā€œriced cauliflowerā€, not ā€œcauliflower riceā€.

If a restaurant had a ā€œlemon riceā€ on their menu, would you expect it to be lemons run through a ricer?

#28

Iā€™m with you on the ā€œriced cauliflowerā€ being the correct, most clear term. No question. I canā€™t tell if they will allow that phrasing or banning any reference to ā€œriceā€ at all eventually. If that is the case, it seems a step too far. That is all I was trying to express. (Before my head was banged ā€œonce moreā€ for me on my keyboard. Geez.)

I certainly find it hard to believe the industry is being ā€œmalicious and nefariousā€ and causing a ā€œthreat ā€¦ to the public by [forcing] the unwitting consumption of cauliflower thatā€™s been riced.ā€

This quote cracks me up: ā€œOne wonders when the legislature will get around to protecting the public from the scourge of pineapplesā€”which, shockingly, are neither pine nor appleā€”or peanut butter, which is not a butter and is derived from legumes, not nuts. And what are hamburgers if not an obvious attempt by the beef industry to deceive consumers into thinking they are eating patties made of salted, cured pork?ā€

(Allan Misner) #29

And then there was the Federal declaration that pizza is a vegetable for school lunchesā€¦

#30

I always found the pizza is a vegetable thing terrible, and for similar reasons that the justification is that actually tomato paste in the pizza is a vegetable, which is what counted for it to fulfill the vegetable requirement, but Tomatoes are not a Fruti!.. culinarily and perhaps botanically.

In certain technical and biological terms, any and every plant that some animal can eat is a vegetable (or perhaps such part of a plant, whether human consumable or not). Soā€¦ all fruits are vegetables in one sense of the term, but not in the sense that is usually meaningful for the general public to consider when eating food.

That said: I believe the real political problem was with having a blanket vegetable requirement for school lunches at all, rather than letting local schools and/or parents decide what their kids eat, whatever they decide, like should be their responsibility.