erin mccann |Verified account

Most of the latter group were basically 'rice will kill you within five minutes of you cooking it, eat it fast and then destroy it!'

Most of the former were all 'huh? I never heard that' and secretly wondered if they were dirty. But THEN!

I did a little digging and found all the places warning you against eating leftover rice were UK- or AUS-based...

And the people advising against rice, I suspect, learned food prep from someone based in one of those

So it's 2015 and you have two camps who don't even know the other exists: 'what do you mean you (don't) eat leftover rice?''

We usually cook rice, eat, then put it away a few hours later. I was fascinated by people who treated rice as a breeding ground of disease.

Felt a bit like Plato's cave, imagining the fearers-of-rice as people who didn't know any other way to live

And of course now I wonder what other in-plain-sight truisms or fables we all cling to but don't talk about